all made up with nowhere to go

Because I am caught up with the Manics albums, I decided it would be pertinent to go back and relisten to them (and skip any singles I don't like - looking at you, If You Tolerate This*). So now I have listened to Know Your Enemy twice, and I think it's growing on me. I do agree that the whole thing is a bit of a mess, but other than that, it's okay?

One day I will be able to afford the 2022 reissue, which is more in line with what the band wanted originally, and then we can see how I feel about that, too. But that's for when I have things like a paying job!

Also I will be getting a replacement copy of Lifeblood for no extra charge! \o/

I probably won't hold off my relistening till it arrives, as I only got the message from customer support yesterday, and I doubt it's going to arrive today. So until it does, it will have to be the skippy copy that gets listened to.

I was going to rip all the albums so I could put them on my phone, but it turns out that my old pc** straight up doesn't want to play ball (fair, I haven't used it in over a year), and so I may have to bite the bullet and get an external cd drive. Which is a bit of a PITA, but if that's what I have to do, then that's what I have to do.

(I'm going to have another wrangle with it this afternoon - trying to do so while tired and getting distracted by a stream, which is what happened the other day, was probably not the best idea!)

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I'm still writing! Although it's slow going, because I think I want to tear everything down and start from the ground up again.

But I'm writing! Feels weird, but good!

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*I don't know how, but I have heard that song so many times in the last twenty five years and not by my own choice, and I never liked it to start with. So apart from a cursory listen when I first listened to This is my Truth, to see if I'd changed my mind, I now don't have to listen to it ever again if I don't want to!

**This one didn't come with a cd drive, because obviously nobody wants to rip cds any more [/sarcasm]

Okay so it turns out that my current hyperfixation is the Manics. I mean, they are always a fixation, because they are one of my favourite bands, but they are definitely what's giving me the dopamine right now.

So last week, I listened to all the albums I own, which isn't difficult, because I only have the first four, as noted previously. And I skipped The Holy Bible because oooof*. (I did not skip the depressing tracks on Everything Must Go, though).

And then I was like, "I am old enough now that I should give the stuff I automatically dismissed as a youth a chance!" and I spent the remainder of my birthday money buying second-hand copies of every single album they've released since.

Dear friends, there are ten of them. TEN.

I knew all the titles but, somehow, had not added that up to ten in my brain.

Anyway, they're all on their way, except for The Ultra Vivid Lament, which was the only one I found new, but it was dirt cheap for some reason (it's only two years old!)

I am also not going to deny that I also did this in part because I want to hear the stuff that Nicky wrote about Richey. There's not a lot, but I want to hear it.

And then I have also been through some of the stuff I hoarded about them in said youth, and now I am rereading Everything (A Book About The Manic Street Preachers) by Simon Price, and finding it really easy going. Although. There's nothing in this book I don't know as I've already read it/I know the story anyway. So that's probably why I'm finding it so easy to get through. Also it's hitting the dopamine, because this is all I want at the moment.

Well, this and my comfort blanket story that I have been passionately writing since the approximate age of fourteen. The two things go hand in hand, because this story is some of the most self-indulgent id scratching stuff I ever wrote, and I'm not even going to pretend it's anything but that (and why should I).

I mean, like, if you looked at the entire thing, in all its versions, and you knew me really really well, you would immediately be able to see what I mean. And especially if you knew anything about the Manics at all because, ngl, took quite a bit of inspo from them, and I'm not even sorry about it.

So I've been thinking about it while I've had idle moments at work, because mostly I think about writing these days instead of actually doing it.

The story is about one person, but it's told from someone else's perspective, and that's how it's always been, ever since the early days. But. I was thinking about it and then I wondered why it couldn't actually be from the main character's perspective. There's absolutely nothing that says it can't, although I know to some degree why I never considered it before (found it too difficult; main character has some of my more unpleasant personality traits).

And I did some noodling about, and then yesterday I wrote three A4 sides from the main character's POV, and I think we're getting somewhere. (Well, his and his best friend's, because I considered that he also has an important role to play in the story). I'm also going to change the ending so it's more optimistic, and likely change the name of at least one of the characters because I'm not sure it works for her any more (I don't know that it ever did, tbh).

This is the first fiction I've written in five years.

Okay yeah, it isn't anything new, but that's not the point. The point is, I wrote something, I enjoyed it, and I'm probably going to do it again. I'm going to keep going till I get bored with it/distracted by something else.

I also thought about posting some snippets on here for y'all to see, though I am not writing with this intent. I mentioned just over a year ago, about just writing vignettes because that's how my brain works, and if I do any I like, I might share them here. Don't hold your breath, though, because I am making absolutely no promises.

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*That said, I put it in the stereo in order to listen to This is Yesterday "properly" (i.e. not on my phone), and almost ended up listening to the first half of it just because I was trying to identify which guitar riff I'd had stuck in my head several days previously. But then I didn't because, well, it's The Holy Bible. It's not a good time.

I have spent most of this week messing around with my gel plate! Which is good, because I have mentioned I wanted to use it more (although admittedly not recently). So I thought to myself, just get it out and do it! Stop tying yourself in knots about stuff and just do!

So I did!

And I went back and watched a few videos by the person who inspired me to get a plate in the first place. I'd stopped watching her videos back in January, and I was all, "this is your fault, so what are you up to these days?" and she randomly mentioned this other channel who does printing, and I thought I'd check them out, too.

So I also spent the entire week binge watching that channel! The guy who runs it also does collage, and his aesthetic is right up my street :D He also believes art should be accessible to everyone, so a lot of his printing tutorials involve using basic stuff to make something to print from - e.g. using masking tape and some plastic to simulate a lino cut, or paper layers and a glue stick to make a collagraph*.

And I think it's fascinating, and neat, and why t f doesn't art get taught like this in institutions?

Oh, right, because art isn't meant to be accessible [/sarcasm]

Anyway, if you also are interesting in printing and collage, and making art accessible, you can find this guy on youtube at Yeates Makes.

He's really given me some stuff to think about and use with my gel plate, which is awesome. Not that I don't like the techniques other people use (I do, or I wouldn't have bought the plate to start with), but I like also how it can be used to create similar styles of prints that would, traditionally, need a press, or way fancier equipment.

Of course, also now I am thinking about buying more acrylic paint when a) I cannot afford to and b) I still haven't used up most of what I already have. (But my cerulean blue is running out! Primarily because I use it a lot!)

Anyway, I'm making stuff and having fun, and it's all good. (here you can see some stamping I did yesterday on tissue paper with a circle stamp I made myself. It pleases me because it's so simple, but now I have several sheets of paper that I don't know what to do with! I'm sure something will occur to me eventually).

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In other news, I am reading Gideon the Ninth, and I am not sure I am the intended audience for it. I don't dislike it, but I can't say I love it, either. It's just...okay? This kind of makes me sad**, but also at least I didn't ask the library to buy this AND Harrow at the same time and then just not read Harrow.

Oh well, I shall at least finish it, and then just go back to not reading again, I guess!

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*I mean, to me, a collagraph is anything that's stuck, right? Because the "colla" bit is like the French word for glue (colle), so that makes sense (see also: collage). Except if you look up collagraph plate tutorials on the internet, they are complex and tedious, and involve many things your average person doesn't have. Like a printing press.

**I am fully spoilered up by my own decision, so I know what happens, and it sounds interesting, which is why it makes me sad that I'm not more into it.

I spent most of Friday and also yesterday catching up on Oxboxtra's racing games videos/streams that I'd (somehow) missed, and I regret nothing. I really enjoyed it. Racing games are, like, one of my favourite things. I don't know how or why, but they are.

I must admit that, while catching up on this stream of Gran Turismo 7, every time either Luke or Mike mentioned PP, I did do a little bit of an internal snigger, because I am a twelve year old boy. I assume, as someone else suspected in the chat, that it stands for Power Points, but the game does not tell you this as far as I know. GT5 certainly doesn't (more on that in a minute).

I am unsure how I missed this stream in the first place, as it was on a day when I wasn't working, and I'd enjoyed this Show of the Weekend, in which Mike decided he was going to teach Luke to drive properly in GT7, because Reasons*, which had been uploaded mere days before. No, I did not just sit and rewatch this, oh no, not me. I probably thought I'd catch it later and then just. didn't, for whatever reason.

ANYWAY.

So although I own some racing games myself, most of them are PSX/2 vintage. But when I was given the PS3, it came with a copy of Gran Turismo 5, and a very scratched copy of Grid Autosport. Anyway, I thought I'd try GT5, and it's okay? I had to wait 45 minutes for updates, and then half an hour for it to install to disk (allegedly to reduce loading times, but I'm not seeing a massive difference, tbh. But also it is a 12 year old game installed to an HDD, soooo, yeah...)

I am going to have to remap the buttons so I can drive properly, however - accelerate and brake are mapped to x and square, which means I do what I used to in racing games all the time, which is have accelerate always on, which isn't good!** I actually like the way driving works in Saints Row the Third, which is that accelerate and brake are mapped to R2 and L2 respectively, meaning I learnt to drive "properly" in that, because I wasn't always hammering accelerate. So that's what I'll do. And then I might remap the gear shifts to x and square instead. I've been using automatic transmission cars, so it hasn't been an issue so far, but it will be eventually!

(I'm glad remapping buttons is a thing that exists now, even if I've never done it before, which I haven't. I talk about it, but for some reason I never have).

This doesn't mean I've ditched Ni no Kuni, btw. I've just temporarily been distracted by this other thing! Also it got it got me through a two day migraine that I think was caused by the multivitamins I started taking. Which is annoying, because now I have nearly two months' worth left that I can't do anything with. BUT ANYWAY.

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I don't have anything else to say, as the migraine took up the majority of my brain space over the last two days, and I haven't done anything remotely interesting since my last post!

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*It's not completely out of the blue - Mike got Jane into F1 via Drive to Survive, but I don't think her interest goes any deeper than that, whereas Luke has shown WAY more interest in what's going on in F1/cars in general.

**Also I kind of want to do some of the driving licences properly, which teenage me is screaming about, because I never learnt to play games properly, least of all racing ones.

I keep getting distracted! By all of the art ideas all at once, and then I end up playing video games instead, and then I feel bad.

To which note: I watched playthroughs of Undertale because I haven't played it yet, and I was really itching to play Deltarune. This is partly the fault of an artist I watch on youtube*, as I ended up watching his video theorising about who the villain is in Deltarune. Which, now I'm most of the way through chapter two of said game, I disagree with him (since you have to take specific actions for something he mentions to even occur), but I guess we'll see when the entire game is out! (If it ever is. I mean, I hope so, but also if Toby loses interest/can't finish it because of health reasons or whatever else, so be it).

So yeah. Undertale is an okay game! I probably would have enjoyed it better had I played it myself/closer to release date. Like. A lot of it has been so thoroughly referenced and over memed that I just. avoided it because of that, I guess! I do not think it is the greatest game ever made, but I do think it does some interesting things in interesting ways.

( LARGE spoilers )

And that's all I have to say about that!

And then, of course, Deltarune does a thing I absolutely LOVE in fiction, which is taking characters we already know, but putting them in entirely different situations. Which is, to digress slightly, why I think I love AUs so much, and why my two favourite episodes of Farscape are the ones they are (John Quixote and Unrealised Reality, before you ask. I mean, JQ is also one of my faves because it's Stark-centric, and Stark is my favourite character. And now I really am digressing)**.

I'm about halfway through chapter 2, I think? I don't know, since I'm avoiding spoilers (apart from that one video, lol). It took around three hours or so to play chapter 1, and I can't imagine 2 is much longer? Guess I'll find out this afternoon :D

I also started playing FFIV on my PS2, but haven't got too far with that (just met up with Yang), thanks to the aforementioned Undertale hole/feeling guilty about playing video games, although that's nowt fresh.

And that's pretty much all that's been happening with me for the past few days!

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*AND my current favourite streamer. He says people keep bugging him to play it, but he's reluctant to, because they'll want him to do certain things, and he (obviously) wants to play it the way he wants to play it. But he's had trouble with people backseating in the past, so I totally get where he's coming from.

**Also if we really digress, it's also why I think I love reincarnation stories, because it scratches a similar itch. And also why I started writing that story one time when I was in my early twenties that went nowhere but was along both of these lines. I still think about it a lot, even now. I'd still really like to write something like that one day (well, maybe not exactly, but with those sorts of themes).

Thanks to work I have a whole bunch of DVDs I will probably never watch! (You may think I'm joking, but I have a stack I bought in CEX in 2017 and I have not watched a single one of them yet).

But I finally have Monty Python and the Holy Grail! \o/ Which I probably will watch soonish because I think it's my favourite Python film (I love Arthurian myth, in case you didn't know, which you probably didn't because I don't mention it much, if ever). Although I doubt much of it has aged well, there's a bit I'm not looking forward to having to sit through, and let us not forget that some of the Pythons turned out to be colossal tools so YAY*.

I also have most of the Fast & Furious films, as I have a friend who adores them, so her enthusiasm has rubbed off on me over the years, and I thought I would give them a go.

And I have the first three Underworld films as I decided to give them a chance since baby!me was an idiot, basically (although I was very tired of the "vampires versus werewolves" thing when the first film came out, because that was all supernatural fiction was at that point, so I'd just hit saturation).

And then finally, I have a boxset of the Indiana Jones films, so now I can watch The Last Crusade! \o/ Fun fact: I actually saw said boxset when I was buying that stack of DVDs back in 2017, but didn't buy it at the time and regretted it. But not enough to go looking for it, however.

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In case you were wondering about my sore neck, I solved the problem by spending most of the day in bed, playing NEO: TWEWY and not moving much.

I am enjoying the game, although I think right now it's more because I'm playing a TWEWY game on a big screen than it is the plot (which is mostly making me go, ehhhhhhh a lot, but then again, I'm not that far into it).

( everything else is spoilers! )

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The final thing I have to say is about books!

I finished reading The Last Vampire, and it ends on a cliffhanger, which is not much of a cliffhanger now, considering there are eight other books after this one. I don't know if I care enough to continue reading the series, but I haven't put them away again, so we'll see in the future.

I was going to reread Lords and Ladies afterwards, but I changed my mind and am now reading Equal Rites. There is a reason for this that basically boils down to: some TERFs said Terry Pratchett would've been on their side, had he still been alive, and Rhianna Pratchett tore them a new one by essentially saying evidently none of them had ever read her dad's work because that was patently untrue.

And then I also saw his official twitter account had posted a quote from Equal Rites:

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Which was obviously also in response to the situation.

And I thought, "I've never read this book, even though I've owned it for nearly thirty years, I should rectify that!" So that's what I'm doing.

(I also dug out Small Gods, as my mum bought me that at the same time as Equal Rites and, again, I've never read it, because I am the world's worst Discworld fan).

I am not very far into it, but I have already sniggered a fair bit, so it's safe to say I think I'll enjoy it.

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*Yesterday on my way home from work, I was trying to remember if Eric Idle was all right, as I can't remember him saying anything stupid lately (if at all). I'm pretty sure Michael Palin is, because he's the world's nicest person (Keanu Reeves aside), but John Cleese and Terry Gilliam can get in the bin.

I've gt four days off in a row now, and I have next to no idea what to do with myself (probably play P5, right? ;) ) but that's okay!

I do have a couple of things I said I'd do for work, namely making a sizing conversion chart for clothes and shoes (because I still don't have my head around European sizes for either, but also because it will be helpful for the volunteers when they are working with clothes). And I said I'd make a rota template since I am the most computer savvy between me and my boss, AND I'd been thinking about it anyway. I said to my boss it was because I've been watching too many planner videos on youtube, which is kiiiind of true*, but also I like making things like that as it is? I like grids and charts and shit, which is possibly another reason I should've done A Science Job.

Anyway, point is, that's not enough to fill four days, but I'm sure I'll think of something!

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In SMT news, I am EXTREMELY TEMPTED to buy the Nocturne remaster. I actually REALLY like the game, so I don't mind buying it new, although £45 feels like A LOT of money to me. I made the mistake of joining an SMT community on FB, however, and most of the recent posts have been complaining about how it's not worth the money, it's not a proper remaster, zomg you have to pay almost as much as the full game to get Dante**, it crashes all the time on PC, etc etc. Which is usual gamer complaints about everything but IDK, I'm just happy to be able to play it on my PS4 and have a Japanese voice track if I want it?

I will have to think about this some more.

Meanwhile, in P5, I have made it almost to the end of the third palace, and holy heckins it is SO MUCH easier when you're a good five levels or more above the demons there! Although I did still get smashed one time by an Oni using Rampage > critting > using Rampage again, but it was only the once, as opposed to multiple times. And none of the Angels' Hama hit, so YAY (which now makes me wonder if it's more levels based than it is chance, hmmmm).

I am only around 20 or so hours in, and it feels like everything has gone faster this time? Probably because I know what I'm doing, but also because the EXP bonus is active, which is why everyone is so many levels above what they "should" be, or were the first time.

I also rewatched Aoife's stream of Strikers (linked here) and holy heckins there's a LOT of spoilers my brain just straight up ignored! Which I'm glad about, because it would have ruined P5 for me. I can't remember what I was doing while watching it, but not paying too much attention is obviously one answer. I still do wish Sophia would put some longer pants on, though.

And finally, I am half-assedly watching a Let's Play of Persona Q. I started with the P3 route, because they're my faves, and omg I hate the characterisation SO MUCH. Is this where Atlus decided they'd distil everyone down to one singular character trait, because it feels like it. I know it was like this in P4 Arena as well but it's a) several years since I played that and b) it didn't feel as annoying there? or maybe I just blanked that from my memory, who knows.

(Wait: Arena came out first, so maybe the characterisation just went downhill from there, IDK)

The chibi art is hecking cute, though!

The fact that I learnt that Junpei is voiced by a dickhead isn't, though. I decided to look the voice cast up, because I was interested to see if any of the P3 cast had been recast, and I saw that the P4 cast is the newer voices. And then I saw Junpei's voice actor and I was all, "Oh. You." Which. I like Junpei less than I used to, so it doesn't bother me as much as it might have in the past but blerghhhhhh. When will people stop being shitty? Oh. Right. Never.

(I am not one of these people who is any good at separating art from artist, and I never have been).

Anyway, the point got away from me a bit there. I'm not sure how much I like it, but I want to know what the story is without playing it myself. I could. It's still available on the e-shop, but I don't know how much I'd actually enjoy it, because dungeon crawler (although most SMT games are dungeon crawlers, so IDK what my problem is exactly).

In conclusion: I am almost always in an SMT mood anyway, but I feel like this is the biggest SMT mood I've had for a loooong time, and it feels AWESOME.

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*I don't even really like planner/bullet journal stuff, but because I watch two bullet journallers fairly consistently, youtube thinks I want to watch more, so sometimes I do for curiosity's sake. Also a lot of stationery haul videos are done by people who journal, so I get stuff recced because of that, too.

**I never wanted Dante in the first place, so that doesn't bother me. But I can see why it's annoying, given there's a £40 DLC pack for P5. Atlus are almost as bad as Bethesda wrt DLC prices.

Because I was so excite! about Persona 5 in my last entry, I forgot to link some stuff I've been meaning to link to for at least a week (although one of it is new since yesterday, but eh).

Anyway, you remember Johnny from Dicebreaker (formerly of Eurogamer)? Well, now he is just plain Johnny, since he left Dicebreaker back in March! He's set himself up doing both video game and TTRPG stuff, with a patreon! This is relevant because for his opening stream on his youtube channel, he streamed a game called Loop Hero!

I initially didn't watch it because I think Ellen was streaming Dark Souls (and we all know I am currently obsessed with DS, although who knows why. NOT ME). And then I was like, I've never even heard of this game, who cares. And then I thought, as I have done with several game streams of late, that I could watch it and switch it off if it was boring.

LET ME TELL YOU FOLKS: Loop Hero is not boring. It is my jam, in that it is set post-apocalypse, no-one knows wtf is going on (though they do eventually find out), and it has rogue-like elements. Oh, and the art is pixels, the soundtrack is chiptunes, and the titles for the music are all JJBA references.

I watched it in two sittings after work (it's a four hour stream), and it was the perfect thing to watch and not think about. Although I also want to play it for myself (but I don't have Windows, boooo).

And then, a little later, he was going to stream Outriders, which I didn't have the slightest bit of interest in. Except that it was a stuttery mess, and eventually crashed completely, so instead he streamed a town building game called Dorfromantik, which I also now want to play because the art is gorgeous and it looks like the most chill game ever. But my version of Linux is not up to date, boooo*.

(There is half an hour of Outriders in that stream before we get to the chill part, and, again, it's a four hour stream, jsyk).

So that's that.

Then yesterday, I watched Aoife stream 45 minutes of a game called Returnal (that was all she was allowed to stream for review purposes). It's about an astronaut called Selene**, who is stuck in a time loop while investigating a planet called Atropos. It's more interesting than I just made it sound. Also it has rogue-like elements, much like Loop Hero.

And, you guessed it, I probably want to play that as well, but alas, I do not have, nor can I afford a PS5, even if they were available to buy anywhere.

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Then, in Persona 5 news, I am up to the beginning of June (let's say 6/6 because I can't quite remember), which means I've done the second palace!

I don't know how I have managed to avoid most spoilers from this game, although I can only assume it's because I wasn't on tumblr post-release/no-one I know on twitter has played it. Or if they have, they didn't talk about it on there.

( spoilers, including a couple of large ones )

I also meant to say: I'm getting huge TWEWY vibes from this game as well! Particularly because you can hang about in Shibuya - I went and said hi to Hachiko last night, because I finally remembered he was there - and because it frequently shows Scramble Crossing. But also when Akira uses his Third Eye ability, because it makes me think of Neku reading people's minds.

But TWEWY is one of my favourite games, so, yanno.

As for characters I like, Ann is my favourite right now! I want to hug her and tell her it's going to be okay! I am lukewarm on Ryuji, which is surprising to me (usually I like characters like him). Yusuke, I'm currently finding irritating for reasons noted above, and I don't like Makoto.

Oh, and Akechi can do one. I haven't seen much of him, but I know how fandom feels about him, and that's enough to make me realise I probably won't like him.

And I think that's all I have to say about that right now!

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*I would like, eventually, to buy a new computer, and I'm in the process of figuring out if I can do it without feeling excessively guilty. I'm probably going to stick with Windows because, as much as I like Linux, I still don't feel I've got to grips with it after eight years.

**Her ship is called Helios, which made me groan out loud. Mind you, so did the name of the planet when I read it on Wikipedia.

Here's my unpopular Dark Souls opinion: the game isn't hard, it's gimmicky.

It plays pretty much like any other game, and it's the gimmicky nonsense that makes it "hard". Also that whole "oooh if you die versus even a normal enemy it's because you made a mistake!" makes me mad.

And it's not like I haven't played difficult games before. I like Megaten games, ffs! And they are difficult, or hard, but they feel WAY fairer than Dark Souls does. (Don't come at me with your "hard but fair" nonsense in defence. Because nope. I'm not having it).

(I honestly think the vocal part of the fandom being really shitty about the game to other people is what annoys me the most. Related: oh jeez am I glad I'm playing in offline mode).

Anyway, I beat the Taurus Demon and now I'm at the Bell Gargoyles and I must be doing okay, because I can get the first one down to half health a lot of the time. Then I die, because I forgot that what you need to do is circle strafe it in order to get hits in and kill it. (According to people online, the Bell Gargoyles are your test to see whether you're "good enough". Welp, me and my Scimitar +4 must be doing something right then :d )

I also got the Drake Sword, which is "cheating", if you believe some people online, but then again, I think breathing is cheating according to some sections of the fandom*. (I jest, but also: this has to be one of the most toxic fandoms I've ever poked my head into).

Relatedly, I started watching Aoife and Zoe on Eurogamer playing Dark Souls II, but it's possible that that might not continue as Eurogamer go off video views - anything that gets less than 10K views isn't considered productive, so is put aside. A good example of this is Ian's Demon's Souls playthrough, which I also started watching** - I'd been stacking up the videos so I could binge them and...there's only three on the channel because the third one (from two weeks ago) only has 8K views (at the time of writing). Luckily, Ian's decided to stream it on his personal channel, which he was doing last night, so at least I might get to see all of that?

(A second hand copy of Demon's Souls verges from "okay?" (£15) to "patently ridiculous" (nearly £1K) in price, and I don't have a PS5 or the money to play the remaster, so a Let's Play will have to suffice!)

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*Ugh, gods, I've just remembered the comments on Luke's Bloodborne streams where he'd said he'd done some farming and levelling offline, and they accused him of cheating! Like, how is doing an incredibly dull and boring to watch task cheating?? I...I don't understand! (I also don't think the person who said it was even joking, which...yuck).

**I said to lassarina in a comment on her most recent What Are You Playing Wednesday post that Dark Souls, at least, is my new obsession, and I was kind of joking, but also I think I am kind of not now! And it's all that Luke Westaway's fault! If he hadn't streamed Bloodborne, I wouldn't even be here!

Streams:

Jane and Andy's Xbox 360 Trade In Challenge

Jane Plays Two Point Hospital - Premature Mummification in Sweaty Palms

Luke Plays AC:NH - Museum Day and Stamp Rally

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Still fighting myself not to buy a miniature to paint. I looked up griffons yesterday, and discovered unicorn minis exist (because of course they do).

Okay, I caved and bought a unicorn and a set of two female elf sorcerers (there's a legit reason for this, believe it or not. Well, there is for the female elf, not so much for the unicorn). You never know, they might arrive in time for the next Dicebreaker paint stream!

I've not bought paints as I have some acrylics already because that used to be My Thing™ and I don't need to buy a set of paints for something I might never do again. I am going to have to buy a spray paint for a primer, though, and probably a matt varnish. But my figures are not here, yet, so that is a moot point (apparently you can paint on primer, but you'd probably need something like gesso, and I don't have any of that any more).

I'm kind of looking forward to this, but I'm also kind of nervous.