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I was like “You look so comfortable!” as I walked past, and Corky’s head shot up as if to say he’s doing nothing wrong, lol.

Earlier it had been occupied by a pair of cozy goonie birds.

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The main reason that I’ll take a picture of dinner is to capture the dogs reaction.

And sometimes I get a few good snapshots.

To this I will also add that spinach, mushrooms, and Alfredo works better than anticipated.

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Not sure if I should describe them as still comfy, or more comfy, lol.

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Pretty sure that Willow, Misty, and even Corky are smarter than all of us. Or at least they’re smartly more comfortable than all of us, lol.

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Somehow in revisiting Resident Evil 2 (2019), I can’t help but think Claire’s route is better. Also that I missed the A-rank score by about 20 minutes.

Of the choice between Leon and Claire: you get largely the same story but many differences. Early portions mirror each other such as the gas station and the fire escape. Some are branching points like penetrating the watch room or the chief’s office. Things also take different paths towards the end with Leon getting embedded in the Umbrella mystery, and Claire in the quest to shave Sherry.

But somehow, I think the scene at the end of the sewer segment captures it best:

Leon’s time is mostly spent being a rookie man of mystery focused on Racoon City. And perhaps nearly getting eaten because he’s more interested in flirting with the pretty girls than fleeing zombies. At best it can lead to Umbrella being exposed but it’s all rather fleeting. But it’s more exploratory than passionate.

Claire’s a mission about Sherry. While there’s much less intrigue without Ada, I feel the focus on the Birkin family makes a far more personal connection. We all know that Racoon City is doomed, ‘cuz that’s just how these things go. Plus let’s be honest: the original game ended with a get to da choppa / nuclear kabluuy kind of end to the Spencer mansion. There’s no way you’re saving Racoon City, and no point in trying. But Sherry—that’s a difference you can make in how the disaster plays out.

There’s also how the two characters are introduced. Leon is driving into the city because things have gone dark, and he’s supposed to be starting work at the police station. Claire shows up headed there in search of her brother, one of the original game’s S.T.A.R.s team protagonists. You could say these kind of metrics largely keep rolling through how their stories diverge.

 So in the end, I reckon the question of which character’s story should you take, is the question: are you curious or do you care? Personally I feel that Claire’s route makes for a better game, and Leon’s for a better novelization.

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Odds are, if I was a decade younger, I’d sit on my arse and catch up on the video games before bed. But since the systematic approach to replacing my blood stream with pure filtered coffee doesn’t really scale, I think it’s time for z’s.

It’s quite possible that my rate of yawning is exceeding the glare rate of dogs accustomed to how early I doze off.

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Passing thought: we’ve increasingly lived in a world of long file names since the 1990s, yet out of convenience: we still tend to create three character file extensions whenever we pull new ones out of thin air.

One almost has to wonder if three is especially magical, or if humanity is that lazy. I would like to think it’s just enough bytes to convey the majority of information, and still appease every lazy git alive. Because no one likes file names, or file extensions the length of a sentence 😣.