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Quick re-cap in bullet points

Managed to beat down covid, quite fast this time: It only took a bit more than a week compared to the 1,5 months I had it first. A bit ridiculous to see a ‘big boss battle’ end up on the same level as a ‘random encounter’. Still, it was annoying as hell. Onto other stuff.
I promised myself I wouldn’t buy anything past like the 6th of December, as I know just how bad delivery times can be. Well, I managed to completely ignore my own advice, and now I have packages in whatever limbo, fighting for their survival. Coolbeans. That’s what I get for finding things actually on a discount and not on the bullshit ‘markup’ scam that a lot of stores tend to do nowadays.
Did some gamedev, working on Creepslore. I’m quite happy as I’ve managed to solve some un-ending problems I’ve been having with dialog boxes and the images contained in them, but figured out a blatantly simple way of handling it. Lot less painful than what I originally planned. Although now I’m also mad, because the game engine I’m using still sucks donkey dick when it comes to documentation, and half the forum posts I can find through google aren’t helping either. Now I have issues with sound, but I think I’m just going to circumvent this problem by doing things differently. I still don’t get why it’s so damn hard to do basic things like ‘continue this damn fucking sound while the scene switches to another one’. The supposed overcomplicated solution that’s recommended does not work and I cannot tell if it’s the engine crapping on itself or what, but it’s pissing me off. I can’t wait ‘till my friend finishes his custom game engine, I’ll switch over in a heartbeat. I’ve been losing too many braincells dealing with this crap.
I feel mentally drained, not in the ‘burnout’ way, simply just in the ‘I want to be a couch potato’ form. I think this is obvious to anyone reading this garbage of a post. I missed a week of work and my sleep schedule has gone astray. I’m lucky I don’t need too much sleep, otherwise I’d be honestly fucked. Sick days do this to me all the time, I hope I can get back to the groove easily. To be fair, Christmas is literally right around the corner, so I’ll get a bit of a proper holiday after being involuntarily bedridden.