HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

Last night I had a dream about my little sister's dog, Sophie. Sophie: the half-pomeranian, half shih-tzu, the tiny black ball of fur with an underbite, like something from Henson's creature shop, who was a birthday gift to my sister a few months after my parents' divorce. Sophie, the old bag of hair who my brother once fed an entire sleeve of pepperonis to, who had a habit of sniffing between the oven and cabinets, around bookshelves, under couches, covering herself in dust bunnies. Sophie, who, one Christmas, hopped onto a chair twice her height and devoured the meringue off of a chocolate pie cooling on the table, who was unnaturally afraid of rainstorms, who watched my sister grow from a first-grader with a disproportionately large head into a woman in her mid-twenties. Sophie, who spent her last few years with my mother; Sophie, whose breath bubbled up like clouds of rot from her bloated stomach, who stroked out for an hour and then got up like nothing was wrong, as if she rebooted--but she never recognized me again. Sophie, who my mother put down about a year ago.

In my dream, Sophie ran up to me like she used to, stood on her hind legs, spun around in circles. I petted her head, traced circles behind her ear. She rolled onto her back, wanting me to scratch her belly, which I always found kind of gross--the way the skin is bare and soft--but I acquiesced like I always did. I scratched and scratched and scratched. She seemed really happy.

I got to the thread too late; all I wanted to do was explain to the guy that while liberals will shame you, at least the democratic platform doesn't have anti-pornography initiatives. Like, that guy can be as big of a creep as he wants, but for God's sake I'd rather him be a creepy democrat than a creepy republican.

Also, yeah, I don't think Sooz was out of line for calling him a creeper. In any other public arena besides the internet, if that guy would have brought up his masturbatory fantasies (even tame ones) he would have sucked the oxygen out of the room. I'm glad that he was allowed to voice that stuff, though; it's good to be able to say what you want--he just has no social grace and made that clear.

Yeah; there aren't many events there, and I wasn't seeing any lag. I'm almost positive it's the event that changes your bgm, though. That could really be better optimized.

@Malandy: The teleporter actually does give you direct access to the Reflecting Pond once you see the first scene there (or maybe it's right after you finish the Green Heart).

I'm a little surprised Sanctuary is getting lag considering how it's broken up; it's probably some crummy parallel process that I didn't optimize right.

That's something I've noticed that's on my to-do list, but thanks for bringing it to my attention! Also, I've been keeping up with your let's play, and you unintentionally brought another glitch to my attention. If you die on the sunflower fight and save afterwards, there's a weird glitch where you end up missing Punch Tanaka's introduction (and a fight with Dee Dee, Johnny Knives, and Big Enormous (if you don't take him out earlier)). So, I was heartbroken when you were talking about how much you liked Dee Dee and then you missed her fight! I do have this fixed in my current version, so that'll go up eventually.

Edit: Annnnnnd fixed it. That was a pretty simple fix. Thanks for reminding me about that!