It's hot

Not outside, fortunately. We've had unseasonably cold weather and right now it's only 18°C out. But our air conditioning is broken and has been broken for two weeks. It was warmer yesterday, and when I got home it was 30°C, and apparently our apartment holds heat well because even though it dropped down to 20°C within an hour of me getting home and even though I opened all the windows, it was still 30°C inside when I went to bed. That made sleeping somewhat bothersome. It also made me more irritable than normal when playing through Baldur's Gate II last night.

I just got word while writing this post from management that they're working on it and should have a deadline for getting it fixed later today, which makes me happy. Even in Japan, we had a window unit and could retreat into the bedroom if things got really unbearable, but here opening the windows doesn't seem to help unless the different is really drastic, like a couple weeks ago when it was 10°C outside and we opened all the windows, and even then it took three or four hours to really cool the apartment.

It gives me a lot of appreciation for cultures with siestas and for Southern dueling culture, honestly. If I had to wear formal suits when it was this hot indoors and out, I'd be challenging people to duels at the slightest provocation too.

Edit: Just got word that a replacement aircon is scheduled to be installed on Monday, which isn't so bad. It's not supposed to get above 26°C other than Sunday, where it'll be 29°C which was still cooler than it was in our apartment yesterday. I think a visit to Lickity Split might be in order this weekend.

Dorchadas plays Baldur's Gate II, Part II: Escaping the Dungeon

First: After playing for about twenty minutes, I switched the resolution from 1920 x 1080 to 1440 x 900, which strikes a good balance between being a higher resolution than the original and making the environments look good while not making everything so huge that interaction becomes a pixel hunt. It does mean the screenshots here are a bit jumbled, however.

The game's intro doesn't have much to go on. In Baldur's Gate, you saved the Sword Coast from the attempt to plunge it into war, and then you got jumped in your sleep when you went off to do even more heroic deeds and taken away. Mr. Time For More Experiments shows up while you're in a cage and talks a lot about untapped power and potential and unleashing your abilities, but his experiments seem to be mostly just blasting you with fireballs and seeing what happens. Then a golem warns him that intruders have entered his base, he teleports away, there's some confusion, and Imoen shows up and lets Chiyo out of the cage.
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