Tomb Raider 1.
I’m replaying the remastered trilogy for the first time since I was a teenager. The level design is outstanding. Very clever re-use of the same areas, just at different heights.
It’s inspiration from side-scroller prince of persia (also played this obsessively as a young child) is palpable. The movement system is revolutionary.
And the enemy progression is hilarious. First you fight some bats, then you fight some wolves, then you fight motherfucking Velociraptors, then a goddamned T-Rex. And thats not even close to the weirdest enemy you’ll fight. Boss battles are evenly spaced until they aren’t. when you have two boss battles immediately one after the other.
And then eventiually, you get to the pulsating flesh caves…
Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I announce my alarm went off this morning and I arrived at work on time.
Unfortunately, with all the fiddling around, I’m not sure quite what I did to fix it. I think that maybe just uninstalling and reinstalling the clock app from Google play fixed the problem. Either that, or fully disabling my scheduled Do Not Disturb function.
EDIT: I spoke too soon. My alarms didn’t go off this morning. BUT I think I know why now.
It turns out that there were two apps called Clock. One that was cloned from my old phone, one that came with the new phone:
All my alarms were set up in my old clock. But when I’m giving permissions and exemptions in the battery manager, I reckon thats affecting the new app, which has no alarms. So the old clock app is still getting randomly killed in the night.
I’ve uninstalled the old clock app and set up alarms in the new clock app.
I reckon that will fix the problem tomorrow, but I’ll have to wait and see.
It’s a new phone I’ve had for a few weeks. I cloned my old phone to it. Never had this problem on my old phone, but it has never worked correctly on the new phone.
I’m reticent to factory reset it, that’s a drastic step to take just to fix the alarm.
I have other issues, like I’m not always getting all my SMS messages. But I’m pretty sure that’s unrelated.
The battery in my old phone looks like the Goodyear blimp, should I still proceed?