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14th of October: Weird encounters, Silent Hill 1

My diary entries are getting sparser, but that's mostly because I'm writing more reviews than usual so the urge to write isn't as strong. And frankly, not a whole lot of stuff has been going on these past two-three weeks. I had some of the worst PMS bloat I ever experienced, so I Was basically chained to the toilet for a while, because every bowel movement felt like oncoming diarrhea... It wasn't, but the anxiety was there regardless lmao. My bowel issues aside, I had something really bizarre happen to me and my husband, when we were on a walk. We were walking near a local neighbourhood square and some event was going on so it was really loud, tons of people around. The square is surrounded by a couple of buildings - a residential building, one a big gym, and the third being a 2 floor small local mall full of defunct clothing stores, a few haircut places and a lot of lawyers and similar offices. Right in the middle of the mall is a big, brutalist building that looks completely out of place compared to the surrounding architecture. The building has some government offices in it but it also seems to have a residential function as well. The scene is set. My husband and I decide to walk into the mall and try to find the entrance to the building for shits and giggles. It's much warmer on the inside than on the outside, the air is really stiff. You can smell the a/c vent air combined with dust. Even though the mall is half open to the outside, you can barely hear the crowd at this point. We're walking around, whenever we take a turn everything looks the same. Finally we see a corner filled with boxes and old office chairs so we think we finally reached the end of this floor. As we take the hopefully last turn the passage abruptly transitions from "mall corridor" apparently mall corridors are called concourses, to "building stairway". The stairway was really dirty and unkempt and since it looked like the residential part, we didn't really want to wander inside and intrude. While we were still loitering around we heard a weird voice coming closer to us from the top of the stairwell. Lo and behold, it was a weird Michael Jackson impersonator with a horrible afro wig, singing and hee-heeing loudly descending upon us in a tight suffocating space. He jumped in front of us and he did a little dance number while repeating "I'm back". Needless to say, we were too stunned to speak. And honestly a bit scared too, because he seemed to have a few screws loose. We nodded enthusiastically with fear in our eyes, and he went further down the stairs once he finished his little dance number. Really interesting, right? Completely unrelated to this creepy experience (but seriously lmao), I had an itch to play something on my psp as I've been neglecting it for a while now. I remembered I had the first Silent Hill on it, that I gave up on at the beginning because the camera was annoying, even though I played 2 and 3 just fine? I was being dumb. I decided to give it another go, and I finished it in about 2 days. It's definitely shorter than the other two games, but it seems I got the bad ending. I was rushing a bit at the end and I missed a spot. Luckily I made a separate save around the time I fucked up so I'll go back and get the good ending. I know SH games are meant to be replayed and the game encourages it, but I don't like replaying horror games. Yesterday I got a strong desire to play Sims 4 again, I updated it, fixed some mods, downloaded a ton of cc, made my sim and built my house and then got completely annoyed ingame when my sim started checking her phone every 5 seconds. Seems I'll need a mod for that. And also a lot of the social interactions seem to be broken which ruins the fun too. My mods should be up to date. It's so tiring, I just want to play my little historical sim in her little witchy tiny house!!!