07092020

I woke this morning from a beautiful dream. It was the rare kind of dream that, even though I longed to remain in it, I didn’t regret leaving it either. I saw all my old friends again. It was the last school trip we all went on together. When I woke I felt much better in general, at least for a little while.

I spent the day working on the exterior of the observatory. I made good progress today, although there’s still a bit of a ways to go on the second side of the building. I realised just now in writing that that the temporal scale of the game is pretty off when it comes to the spatial scaling of building, and particularly interiors. I think tomorrow I’ll spend some time adding a modifier that slightly slows down the passage of time when in large or windowless interiors (so ones that are separate world spaces, most likely; and the outpost). 

I also spent about an hour this afternoon cleaning out my phone, deleting a bunch of stuff and uninstalling a lot of apps I haven’t used in a while. Maybe it’s just a placebo effect at work but it actually does feel a bit more lightweight now, like it runs just a little cleaner. Even if it didn’t result in any actual technical improvements though, I still feel it was a good idea overall.