all made up with nowhere to go

I finally finished watching that Earthbound LP I started watching back last year! And then I put on an LP of the GBA version of FFV, since lassarina had mentioned that it has a better translation than the PSX version (which is the only version I own).

It has been so long since I played (back before 2010!) that I can't really remember much of anything. So I can't even compare the translation differences, but knowing what the other ones are like (I've also got I, II, IV, and VI for PSX), I can see that this is an improvement.

I did consider getting a copy for myself, but I'd rather buy IV, and I can do art/creative stuff while watching someone else play.

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Anyway, I'm a day late on the Post Once A Day meme:

thenicochan asks: Who is your favorite FFXII character/ship?

CAPTAIN BASCH FON RONSENBERG OF DALMASCA.

*ahem*

Um, yeah. I've got nothing else on that, really. He is a combination of some tropes I like, and yeah, that's it.

As for ships, I don't really have any any more? I used to ship Basch and Penelo, and also Fran and Balthier, but I just don't now (I don't know why possibly lack of fandom involvement/I got old and boring).

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The end of the video game meme!

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# I think having reading glasses partially explains why I've been skimming my friends list and not commenting for months. Aside from mental tiredness (thus not really wanting to read long posts), I've found longer posts kind of hard to get through. Which would make sense if I was finding it a strain to read. Which I evidently was!

I'm going to have to go back to the optician, though, because the one arm digs into my head just behind my ear and it hurts like heck. So hopefully that can be sorted.

# Been doing some arts! Did a couple of Earthbound pics, as I am still watching the LP. I did one of them on coloured paper and then was like, "WHY DO I NOT DO THIS MORE OFTEN BC IT LOOKS AWESOME!", so I did, and I redid a demon from one of the SMT games that I did for Inktober the year before last.

I also want to know why they do not make sketchbooks with coloured pages (they probably do and I've just never seen them). Or like, pads of decent weight paper that is coloured (ditto, though I could just use pastel paper for that).

# Earthbound LP has not advanced very far. We have just gone into Dungeon Man's dungeon in Scaraba.

# I also have been attempting to transcribe music. I think I've done okay with the piece I've been working on (since it is super simple and gets stuck in my head all the time anyway). I'll have to find something else to work on next, I think.

# I think my Pocket Camp save is corrupted, or something. I submitted a help request via the app, and they suggested a data restore. So I did that. It took four fucking hours to download (I think this is a double combo of shitty internet, but also load on Nintendo's servers). That did not work. So I did an uninstall/reinstall. And then downloaded my save data again, which took almost four hours again. It still did not work.

So I have tried talking to one of the animals in the hopes that maybe that will jiggle the code to, IDK, fucking do something.

I'm really angry about this. It's been a week (or more now) since it bugged out and it hasn't fixed/been fixed. A bug I didn't even know about was sorted, though, so I guess that's okay! [/sarcasm]

Although from looking at stuff on the internet, it seems I'm not the only one who has had problems with the game, which doesn't make me feel better, but at least I know it's not just me.

I did not carry on with watching Resident Evil longplays. I instead opted for Earthbound, as this week's been somewhat stressy, and I wanted to watch something a bit more cheerful (I know EB is terrifying when you think about it, but the fight descriptors and the music and the sprites make me smile. SO). I am currently just before Saturn Valley.

Oh, and talking of games, I randomly found out last night that Miitomo is closing down? I haven't touched it in over a year, so if I hadn't seen someone I follow on twitter talking about it, I never would have known. I still have it installed on my phone because now and then I've thought about going back on it, but it just...didn't grab me after a while. I may as well delete it now, I guess, because there's no point keeping it (and I never made any more Miis besides myself, and I've already got one of me on my 2DS anyway, so I don't need to save it. I feel like I am rambling!)

Anyway, I guess the point is that I am not entirely sad to see it go, but I kind of am? *shrugs*

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I knitted a scarf while scaring myself with zombies! It was using the expensive cotton yarn I bought back last year (I wish I'd bought two skeins now, but it was expensive, so I couldn't justify it to myself).

I've done bits and bats of drawing, and am thinking about making a bunch of paintings of busts of people, because that's all I seem to be drawing right now (or wanting to draw, outside of making animal characters. Though I've lost steam on that, because I want a world for them to exist in before I make them, and I don't know about that yet).

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I've got an eye test on Monday, and I'm actually looking forward to it, because I think my eyes have been funky for about a year at this point. I'm hoping my eyesight has changed enough to get a new pair of glasses, because the ones I've got are doing my nut (the sides dig into my head when I have headphones on and gdi, it hurts us precious). Also I'd like slightly bigger lenses, as I don't feel I've been able to see so well on the edges of my vision. And it would be nice to be able to see well again.

Did someone say artdump? Sure, why not?

( +10 pics, mostly original art )

Comments and/or crits welcome! Also should I make tags for my original characters? There obviously aren't enough pictures of them at the moment and whatnot, but what do you think?