My Zelda tier list

I (not so) recently1 finished Echoes of Wisdom and after a ramble about the Zelda games I’ve played and enjoyed, Star implied that I should do a tier list.

So, here we go, way too much effort put into telling the Internet my opinions on things: how I feel about every main series Zelda game so far2.

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I persevere

I’m 47 now.

Or rather, I’ve been 47 for the past two days. I didn’t really want to post about it on my actual birthday, partially because I was super busy that day with two VRChat gigs (following immediately after the previous day’s choir show), but partially because I spent the first half of the day super depressed, particularly over the state of the world, but also over a bunch of interpersonal conflicts I’ve been having which seem to rhyme with one another, and also learning that a good friend of mine is in a really bad situation right now.

And how so many people I feel close to are hurting.

And how of course I share a birthday with a fucking tyrant who was using his birthday as an excuse for a jingoistic military parade, and how completely reasonable it would be that most of my friends would be out protesting that, rather than coming to see me perform silly songs about mental health in VRChat.

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Superpositional mood

I’m simultaneously doing great and not-great.

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May is/was ME/CFS awareness month

I only just learned from eladnarra’s blog that May is ME/CFS awareness month, which I guess is fitting given that throughout all of May I’ve been getting painfully aware that I may have been developing it on top of everything else.

Basically, ever since I got COVID last June I’ve been especially prone to fatigue, vertigo, brain fog, shortness of breath, a persistent cough, and a whole bunch of other long COVID signs. The worst of it comes and goes, but this month has been particularly bad, especially on the fatigue front. And ME/CFS is a very common part of long COVID.

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Furality, and other upcoming musical engagements

Hey y'all, the Furality dealer’s den is open early this year, and this year it’s also free to the public. It’s a pretty incredible world and I’m glad to be a part of it!

If you visit the dealer’s den a all, please be sure to come by booth 816 at some point. During the show itself (June 5-8) there’s a chance you might find a certain critter playing piano nearby, as well.

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Doldrums

I got very little done this week and I’m feeling pretty bad about it.

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Some Comma 3X followup stuff

Some comments have happened on certain other sites from my last post about the Comma. Most of them are in the form of, “This person is insane/irresponsible/reckless for doing this.”

Some points:

  1. The vertigo attacks are triggered by anxiety, and only last a few seconds. Having the safety net of automatic steering (which is really just fancy lane centering) has cut down on my anxiety significantly, and I haven’t had a vertigo attack while driving ever since I installed the Comma 3X.
  2. If an attack were to last more than 1-2 seconds I would still pull over.
  3. I have over 30 years of driving experience and have never caused an accident. In fact the only time I’ve ever been in a car accident while driving was when someone rear-ended me at a stoplight. This was 30 years ago.
  4. I live in an area with a lot of Teslas, where it is almost certain that many people are using Tesla FSD. I am having the Comma do way less for me than what people — possibly several of the same people making comments questioning my safety — entrust Tesla FSD with. I would absolutely trust Comma’s training process far more than Tesla’s.
  5. I am disabled, basically unemployed (and what little work I do, I do it from home), and don’t have reliable access to transportation otherwise. Without the Comma unit I would be completely stuck at home or reliant on Lyft/Uber, which would get very expensive very fast and not allow me to do most of the things I actually need a car for. On days when I’m having worse anxiety/vestibular issues I still don’t drive, I take Lyft or put a trip off. I am still not driving all that much, and I have, so far, about one hour total of drive time with the Comma.
  6. I am taking on the full liability of using this device, and I am still in control of the braking and acceleration.
  7. Also, notably, even when I have had vertigo attacks while driving, I have never lost control of my vehicle. I just feel like I might, and having a supportive presence is the best thing to pull me out of an anxiety state.

Choose kindness and charity.