1. I completely dropped the ball on the Post Once A Day meme, and missed my first day (I assumed the first of the month would be okay for posting except hahahahah no! Because tiredness and stress!) But I absolutely will get to answering the question in a moment!

(I still have spaces, btw, in case anyone has any burning questions they want to ask me? Or a topic to talk about! It doesn't have to be a question!)

2. Because of aforementioned tiredness and stress, I am still at the same place I was almost two weeks ago in Diablo III. I almost thought about quitting, but I'm so close to the end that I might as well see if I can dink the final boss on the head.

3. I saw a copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail at New Work (or possibly Old Work, now I am confused). I did not pick it up, and am regretting my decision. I like that film, because Arthurian Myth, but also there's bits that I straight up have never liked, which is what gives me pause about it (although I guess at least with DVD I can skip that easily??)

3b. I did finally manage to get a copy of The Bends on CD, though, after having only owned it on tape for twenty plus years.

4. There is still snow outside, and it snowed most of the day while I was at work. It didn't stick in town, but when I got off the bus at home, I was amazed how much had stuck (It was little over an inch, which isn't that impressive, I know, but I wasn't expecting it).

5. Time for that Post Once A Day answer!

[personal profile] forests_of_fire asked me: What is the most frustrating aspect of games? The most rewarding? The aspect that brings you the most joy?

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Dec. 16th, 2020 11:13 am
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I am feeling very wibbly wobbly for reasons I don't want to talk about until they are a little less wibbly wobbly. (getting there, just taking its time). I absolutely promise you, it is nothing to worry about, however!

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IN OTHER NEWS: I have tried out my Posca pens. I like them! (Although the white one has too big a nib for the reason I bought it, so I guess I will have to invest in a smaller tipped one. Or another brand entirely*).

I was expecting them to be stinky because most paint pens are (the gold Uni paint marker I got smells like my teenage years - i.e. when I used to use Pilot markers a lot and back before they thought about taking noxious substances out of them). But nope! Which really I should have expected, because they're just acrylic paint, and acrylic paint doesn't really smell.

I thought about making some black and white illustrations with them, but I'm not sure what of, yet. (I have at least one idea percolating, but that's all it's doing right now).

The other weird thing I recalled about Poscas, aside from remembering them from Way Back When™, is that when I first started seeing illustrations made with them, I was all, "ooooh, I don't know if I'd like using paint pens!" and feeling like it was a strange new medium I'd have to wrangle. But then later on, I remembered that my mum used to get me paint pens when I was a kid (probably also the source of xylene-smelling things). So although I didn't know how to use them in an artistic sense, I did know how to use them in a "this is shiny when you write with it!" sense.

Brains are weird, man.

*Weirdly, although Poscas are expensive, I can get them the cheapest of most paint markers? Weirdly? Like, Edding is a German brand (so coming from mainland Europe), and yet their paint markers are more expensive, even discounted, than Poscas, which are imported from Japan! I DON'T UNDERSTAND! (and this has next to nothing to do with price rises due to Brexit - they were already more expensive before all that nonsense).

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So as I noted in the last entry, I have been playing Diablo III! I picked it up on a whim, having been vaguely aware of the first two games, and wondering if I might like to play it (seeing some footage on Outside Xbox may have helped with this, as I think Jane is a fan).

I bought it from work, and it sat on my game shelf for almost a year. And then I watched Aoife and Zoe from Eurogamer do a Late to the Party of the PS4 version (I have the PS3 base game). And I was like, "you know what? my brain is very full at the moment, and this looks like it does not require much thought, let's play this!"

And so I took FFX-2 out of the PS3 (sorry, ladies), and put Diablo III in, and I've been playing it ever since.

I thought I'd hedge my bets and play as a barbarian, so I could just smash stuff, but I honestly think I'd have been fine as one of the magic using classes, given how OP the barbarian feels for most of what I've played.

I am not used to playing a game with huge amounts of mobs in, so occasionally I get overwhelmed but, for the most part, it's smack stuff around and it dies.

I have a problem with this game, and it is exactly what you think it is: that the female barbarian is not wearing very many clothes until a certain point where you start picking up more pieces of armour. It's kind of annoying when the game informs you you picked up a brigandine, the picture is full armour, and you equip it, and it's a bikini top. That said, it does improve, and I also like that the female barbarian has a build that looks like she should be smashing an axe around.

I am currently in Act II (of four? I think?), and I like that you move locations (although it's a bit odd that certain characters up sticks with you, but eh). I have a theory about the emperor of Caldeum (not positive). I wish more crafting resources were available, but I think they may only turn up from breaking down unique items (I got my first unique sword yesterday, and it turned out to be worse damage than my currently equipped weapon).

Also OMG THE POP CULTURE REFERENCES AND PUNS. They're...they're a thing, is what they are. Also I think even the armour names are in on it to some degree, as I have Drake's Amulet equipped, which gives a bonus to treasure spawns(?) or finds or something, and I STG it's a reference to Uncharted (which I would not know about, were it not for Outside Xbox, as well. Thanks, Oxbox).

This game has also taught me that I've been pronouncing Belial wrong for the last eleven years, having never heard it voiced in an SMT game (it's Bel-isle, not Bee-lee-al, which is what I had been saying). Who says video games never teach you anything!
Two entries, in one day, what the heckie??

I thought I'd put the meme stuff separate from everything else, just to make it a bit smoother/less of a massive entry. I had been going to post the meme post earlier in the week, but then real life happened!

There is Some Stuff going on at work that I don't really want to talk about yet, except from my work friend, Katy, is leaving and I am really sad! But she's going to what is literally her dream job, for an actual living wage, and I am very pleased for her.

I had an interview this Friday just gone, for an extremely similar job to the one I'm already doing. It's almost four times as many hours as I'm doing right now, although the pay is the same. But more hours would be good! I don't know that I will get it, but the interview went all right, I thought, and it's all experience for the next one!

I bought a bunch of art supplies that I needed/didn't need which ended up including Too Many Gel Pens, but in my defence, some of them of were dirt cheap! I got seven Zebra gel pens for £1.78! That's a bargain! (this is the type I got, but I got a set of three, and a set of four, not a big multipack. Though I want a big multipack now, drat it).

I also finally got some gesso, for my canvases, and because I discovered a whole bunch of paintings that I don't like any more, so want to paint over. So I'm going to do that. And then paint stuff I do like on top of them! \o/

I have also bought my first Posca pens! Just in a basic black and white, for outlining stuff, or maybe doing monochrome pictures, we'll see. I really want one of the pastel multipacks, but I can't justify the price of them to myself (I know it's because they're imported, but blehhhhh).

I find it absolutely hilarious, in some ways, that Posca pens are the in thing with a lot of artists in the past few years, as I remember seeing them in stationery catalogues when I was younger, but not really knowing what they were for (not art, not back in the mid-nineties). And then when people started posting art with them on the internet, I was like, omg, those are still around???

I have also just bought myself an Animal Crossing jigsaw puzzle, as I saw one the other day while mooching around pre-interview, and I was like, "even though this is in a cheap place, I have already spent a lot of money, and cannot justify it to myself!" And then I went and bought it online this morning, because the chances of me getting back to that shop and it being in stock still are minimal. Anyway, it was this one, primarily because it has Beau on it, and I am a sucker. (Now I look at it again, I see all the animals on there are some of my fave villagers, so YAY).

I've been looking for a nice jigsaw to do since chatting a bit to [personal profile] honigfrosch about them, but most of the ones I've seen either at work or in shops have been downright twee, or just a subject I'm not interested in. Until now!

I think this is a long enough entry for now, and I don't think y'all really need to know about the table I got from work, or the roast chicken I cooked, so I shall end this here! (I did want to talk about Diablo III, but that can wait till later!)

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