11.24.2025

So there's this game, right? Baldur's Gate 3. Reckon there's a 1 and a 2 out there somewhere but it's really none of my business.

Never regularly indulged in video games myself until the pandemic hit and then my reasoning was: why the hell not. These days I enjoy the luxury of disappearing into another world for a few hours if I need to. Helps with the anxiety, keeps me out of real-world trouble for the most part.

Anyway it's a good game. Great storytelling, voice acting, elder brains, owlbears, et cetera. You can cast a spell called Tasha's Hideous Laughter if you want. You can have affairs with devils, demons, really just about anyone.

This is not a kid's game by the way. There's shitloads of nudity if you play it right.

Here's the premise (spoilers): in the beginning you're infected with a parasite that burrows into your brain. Kinda like the Ceti eels from Wrath of Khan only these go in through the eye instead of the ear.

Gradually you find out there are other folks with the same issue, only they're all controlled by a mysterious higher intelligence that makes them do evil and crazy things on its behalf.

Their whole purpose is to infect everyone else with the worms that live in their brains.