March Sadness

My shoes have been squeaking way too much lately. I try to walk on carpeted and metal surfaces but sometimes there's just no avoiding those smooth tiles. Something is up with the soles, which I can't be bothered to find out. It's not raining, and they don't appear to be wet. What a puzzle. I do worry that the squeaking will aggravate nearby people, but as it turns out the person who is likely aggravated the most is me, the nearby-est person of them all. 
[Speaking of nearby people, this girl sitting nearby just farted, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA]
 But let us cease this mincing of words. I know that you and I both long for those bygone halcyon days of 2013, when I would do crazy things like make 5 whole posts in a single day. I think what enabled this was that they were shorter than my average rant nowayears, and my standards were lower. Alas, perhaps we shall never see their like again in this world.

Dreams consigned to Oblivion

I thought I would post in February about this weird dream I had, but I never fleshed out the details in the draft and it's been so long that I've forgotten most of them. I wanted to leave something here at least before March ends, so instead this brief stint will be about THE ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION, which I recently started playing again. The faces are potato but the memes are terrific.

"Yes... you are the one from my dreams. Gods give me strength." --creepy old guy

I spent around three to five hours revising my character's appearance in Oblivion. Keep in mind, I wasn't creating one anew, figuring out who they were from scratch. No, I was modifying a character whose appearance I had already decided was "good enough" at some point in the past.
If you aren't familiar with it, Oblivion's infamous facial feature controls consist of a large array of sliders, many of which are connected to each other in arcane ways that are not immediately obvious. For example, moving the nose sellion width slider not only slightly affects the other physical aspect of the nose, but strongly determines how close together the eyes are. Add to that the fact that there's no button or feature to undo your most recent changes, and you get a fragile system where every time you go in to change things there is a high possibility that you'll end up looking even worse than before.
 
You may be asking, Why go through with this hassle? Why not just go to a modding website and download one of those premade faces instead?
For one, they're mostly weeb anime trash. Secondly, I value my character's "uniqueness". That's right, out of all the premades and save files out there, none of them will quite have the exact specifications of a face I, or anyone else creates themselves. Gotta be a special snowflake. I'm already using the Oblivion Character Ogrehaul Version 2 Mod, which greatly raises general attractiveness and reduces one's capability to create a true monstrositybeauty. 

I think this is somewhat related to the current buzz about Ass Erect: Androgynous? Maybe, I dunno what to say about that. Anyways, here's a screenshot of the aforementioned character:

I actually didn't realize my horse was in the shot. It just adds to the cinematic feel, doesn't it?

See anything wrong with this face? If you do, please keep it to yourself because I'd like to actually play the game rather than worry about my character conforming to societal standards of beauty. Also, that's a Spelldrinker Amulet currently equipped, it gives a great practical benefit of 20 points spell absorption and is totally not there just because it looks prettier than the five other necklaces in my inventory.

Please believe me.