all made up with nowhere to go

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!