Oxford commas for liiiife~
My cat is the best little idiot, he’s stayed by my side this entire time. <3
Okay, I’m feeling a bit better today – at least enough to get this patch out the door and write up a blog post, even if I’m doing it from laptop in bed, next to my snoozing cat. Health stuff first! I started feeling a sinus infection coming on Wednesday that blew up into full-on misery by Thursday – I’m talking every swallow coming with a fan of daggers raking down the back of my throat, that sort of thing. I tried to tough it out and was still writing it off as a rare resurgence of the gnarly sinus infections I used to battle almost monthly. (Longtime fans will no doubt remember then constant “I’m sick” blogposts that used to crop up most frequently in the CoC1 days, especially in the fall/winter months.)
Well, my ass got kicked hard. I basically lost track of the days during the weekend. I couldn’t sleep more than 2-3 hours before I’d be woken up by the pain of swallowing. Most days I spent upwards of 3-4 hours soaking in my bathtub. The fucking humidifier even got busted out to turn the bedroom into a steamy jungle. I’m fortunate that Covid seemed content to lodge itself in the nose & throat rather than the lungs, so I wasn’t coughing that much. I could at least BREATHE. But I’d still wake up in the morning with saliva the consistency of Nickelodean slime. Fevers never really got above 100, but goddamn, if this is the version of Covid I got with multiple formulations of vaccine to prep with, I shudder at what sort of state I would be in without them having had the time to give my immune system some up-gunning and training.
Please get vaccinated folks. Don’t let the cult running the CDC these days dissuade you, Covid is the real shit.
I’m feeling so much better today. I didn’t wake up soaked in sweat like yesterday, barely got any random shivers, just some weird fatigue and my sense of smell partially deafened (which another friend anecdotally confirmed happened when he was almost recovered). I’m not sure how soon I’ll be back at the main battlestation at full force, but I’m at least able to chip into the workload again in a semi-regular capacity.
Praise to the macbook dev environment!
Now onto the actual TiTS stuff!
One NPC for the next bit of Main Story Quest has been completed and coded, pending playtest debugging by yours truly. He wasn’t able to be included in this patch because he comes after at least two other encounters that are various states of writing/approval/code – and in addition, the rooms he’s meant to live in haven’t been laid out yet. (Soon.)
Amusingly enough, the author of the aforementioned mystery NPC ALSO had another expansion project in the books that just got completed and is the headliner for this particular release. Nonesuch’s Carrie and Cora get a fun little romp into the wilds of New Texas at a local swimming hole. Look forward to cannonballs, fishing, and all sorts of jiggling, giggling fun!
0.9.139 Changelog:
- [Backer] Carrie and Cora can take you on a fun adventure into a wild part of New Texas. (Written by Nonesuch, coded by Leek) Accessing this scene seems to require the shower threesome, your Captain Steele to have a penis, and to have 100 credits onhand or some swimwear equipped.
- Added a new tile to the west of customs where caught fish can be sold. Note: New Texas law requires locally caught fish to be sold on planet or consumed before departure!
- Repeatable from the NPC’s interaction menu after the first time! (Though it has a cooldown…)
- [Public] Narc’s Quest! This one was a beefy lil dungeon that I’m quite happy with how it turned out. Good writing, good help from our own undercase donkey doing the first pass coding, and an ambitious yet compact premise!
- Fixes for Velika, courtesy of lowercase donkey.
- A lot of other small bugfixes courtesy of lowercase donkey.
- Lowercase donkey & Jacques00 reworked the “belly” stats in the Codex:
- The units should remain consistent as size rating and mLs are not the same units so they should not be interpreted as the same when printed.
- Re-introduced the Cumflation stats so they show the actual mLs.
- Size Rating category should correctly display all stats in size rating units.
- Minor edits to size stat names.
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glad to hear your feeling better Fen but please don’t push yourself too hard your health is critical
Like I said, my ass is laying in bed rn. Probably gonna go hit up another gigabath in a minute though.
godspeed porn warrior
Take it easy, friend, don’t overwork yourself. If you need a break, the game can wait. What really matters is your health.
Glad to hear your feeling better, take as much rest as you need.
So I was scrolling back up the page to go to downloads, and I re-read COVID as Corvid. Ah yes, sick with the bird.
Good news that your getting better. Also great that you apperantly got a support cat 🙂 Just remember to rest and not overwork yourself in this condition. Hope that now the recovery will speed up.
Hey gang, I’m a pharmacist and right now COVID vaccines because of CDC guidelines are only being given to people that are over the age of 65. It super sucks, but there’s a way around it. If you go into your pharmacy and say that you’re immunocompromised or you have another existing health condition (literally any including depression so it doesn’t just have to be respiratory) most pharmacies will give you the vaccination without second thought as long as it is covered by your insurance (which also sucks because insurance keeps telling me how to do my job 🙁 effectively they are practicing without a license). Just wanted to get this out there for those that are stonewalled at the pharmacy without any other workaround!
i desire more gabalani doms like una , gods be praised.
Also get well soon Fen and not for any particular reason like gabalani doms
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Fr though , wishing you a swift recovery
but RFK told me I’d get autism if I did a vaccine
Gotta drink more raw milk and eat more roadkill. The brainworms will protect you!
I thought it was gut worms from gas station egg salad sandwiches… or did Futurama lie to me?
RFK famously claimed to have a worm in his brain that ate part of it and then died.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/05/09/1250201358/rfk-jr-brain-parasitic-worm-tapeworm-kennedy
To be fair to your little idiot, sleeping with you is probably more to the cats enjoyment than out of concern for yours. At least if my own hairball is anything to base behavior off of.
Actually there was a study done on cats sleeping on or next to you that it can speed up healing and fighting off infections just from their purrs alone, plus Fens Kitty is being a good loyal bundle of love
Take care of yourself Big F.
Shame to see your country turning into mine…
First – as everybody else says, take care of yourself. Go easy, even when you think you have recovered, lest you relapse.
Second – On the New Texas swimming story, could there be a check that IF Steele has Nova equipped, and she has learned how to transform into swim-ware but is NOT currently in that setting, that we get a blurb like “Oh, you need swimware? Good thing your armor-and-fuckbuddy $Nova.Name() has you covered, literally.” and she changes automatically?
glad to hear you are doing better 🙂
and what a cute kitten :3
Don’t push yourself, also cat cuddles is some of the best medicine around.
Glad you’re starting to feel better, Fen. I hope you fully recover soon. Covid sucks. Also, thank you for paying the cat tax.
nice cat. 🙂
As much as I like uploading new content.
I hope you make a speedy recovery.
Take care and stay safe.
Glad to hear that you are feeling a little bit better :D. Rest up and don’t push yourself too hard
Pud cats are the best and give the best cuddles.