A couple of days ago, I got ripped off by a married woman who was flirting with me. She wanted me to light the four torches around the goddess statue in Kakariko Village. She promised a reward.
As the torches stuck out of the water, I lit them using four fire arrows. My reward? 20 rupees. Each fire arrow costs 20 rupees!
But that was a few days ago. Since then, I’ve found and purchased multiple bomb, fire, electric, and ice arrows. I have bonded with three horses: Seacookie, Apples, and Bonbon. I’ve only owned the game for two weeks, and already I’ve played 70 hours, courtesy of COVID.
Link can take selfies with the Camera Rune:
Maybe it’s not COVID, but I’ve been sick. It started a week ago, and the recovery has been painstakingly slow. I finished the pajama pants I started on back in December–before I got consumed with the baby quilt project for January’s quilting classes.
Llajamas:
Stylish enough to be worn at Walmart but better suited for lounging at home. They’re the Eastwood Pajamas by Thread Theory Designs. As a beginner at garment sewing, I did not find the printed instructions clear enough and relied heavily on the step-by-step photos on their sew-along blog posts. Even then, I found the waistband construction to be particularly confusing. In the end, Nic, who loaned me the pattern, suggested a better method.
My long-term sewing goal is to clone my favourite jeans so I don’t have to wait a decade for my preferred fit and rise to come back in style.
Back to gaming: I find it strange when people complain about the cost of video games. I got Breath of the Wild on sale for $55, but it’s originally $80. For 70+ hours of play, I think it’s a great value. I was also a child of the SNES era. I remember leafing through the Toys R’ Us catalogue to circle the games I wanted for my birthday and Christmas. Because of how expensive they were, I was lucky to get one or two games a year. In the years I owned my SNES console, I am sure I had fewer than eight games.
I found this on the SNES subreddit:
Yup, $95 for Doom and Batman Forever. This was in 1996, too. Adjusted for inflation, it’s about $170 in 2024 dollars!
I remember saving up my allowance for months to buy Mario Paint. Then when I finally had saved up enough, I dragged Mom to Toys R’ Us, and she told me I could not buy it because she’d already gotten it for my birthday, which was still a few months away (Mom was the kind of person to do her xmas shopping in the summer).“Can I have my birthday present early?”
“No.”
Shortly after that, I got sick. I remember laying on the couch, feeling miserable and irritated about not having Mario Paint for entertainment.
$55 for Breath of the Wild? What a steal!
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