all made up with nowhere to go

My X-Files boxset is here! \o/

I have so far watched up to Jersey Devil, which admittedly isn't that far considering I've had it for four days already. I've been watching it on my portable DVD player, which has a tiny screen, and therefore everything looks terrible unless the scene is well-lit. Most scenes in the X-Files aren't well-lit, so you can imagine how this is going.

I am also having that thing I had with Lost where everything is familiar and yet not at the same time. Like, for the most part I've been able to remember certain things about episodes, but not how we get there.

I thought I was going to want to write down reactions, or at least quotes, but so far I have not had the urge.

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In other news, I told my boss from my former voluntary job that I would go out to the Xmas meal with them this evening and I really don't want to! Partly because it will be in the same pub as last time, although it's the middle of the week this time, so hopefully people won't be as noisy/disruptive? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I just. I am not a fan of places with lots of people in them, let's be real (the older I get, the more baffled I am that I could deal with conventions, because now my brain would nope t f out of it).

But I also partly don't want to go because I just want to sit at home and not be around people because I get enough of that when I'm at work. (I am currently off work, which is why I want as little human interaction as possible, lol).

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Finally, I think I am really nearly at the end of P5R! It's about bloody time; I feel like I've been playing it forever.

I've got two Bluesky invites if anyone's interested? Let me know and I'll DM you one!

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I think I am going to have to change the way my ko-fi is run/set up, as it's become clear to me that I can't do it the way I wanted AND work as well. At least, not at the moment. And okay, I haven't been in work for most of the year, but I had other things demanding brain space, and I just couldn't keep up with the minimal demands I'd made of myself in order to run it.

I need to write a post about it over there, but I'm going to leave that for a couple of days yet. And it's not going to cause any problems, as my only sub had to unsub anyway, so I won't feel like I'm letting anyone down by changing it around.

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I got a new phone, as I was due an upgrade, and it's the least excited I've been about a phone upgrade ever. Added to which, I was sold a phone I didn't want, on a higher data amount than I would have liked, paying more than I wanted. Because the sales guy was insistent on me having a really good phone for my money, and a larger amount of data because apparently I had run over my limits several times - news to me, given I'm supposed to be informed when that happens, and I never have been.

Apparently the dude is unaware of what the words, "I cannot afford this right now," actually mean, because he's so focussed on hitting his sales targets.

This is probably me being a bit mean because I'm tired and far from enthused about the actual new phone but wehhhhh.

Anyway, I have a Google Pixel 7a, and oh boy their Android reskin is one of the fugliest things I've ever seen. And I don't like that I can't group the icons in the app menu together (or if I can, I haven't discovered how yet), because there's so much in there that I am straight up NEVER going to use.

EDIT: According to a post from last summer on reddit, apparently Google haven't added the ability to make folders in the app drawer, so it's not just me not being able to get to grips with my phone. *blows raspberry* [/edit]

I also don't like that it doesn't have a 3.5mm jack, so I had to buy a USB-C converter, and it also doesn't have a memory card slot! Admittedly, it has 128Gb of internal memory, but I've got so used to having my pics on a card as extra backup that this makes me feel wildly uncomfortable.

I dare say I'll get used to this, and 90% of it probably is just me being grumpy because I'm tired.

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Finally, I have Opinions about P5R, but they are game spanning ones, so I shall leave it until I have finished the game in its entirety (which is going to take some doing - I'm 45 hours in, nowhere near the fifth Palace yet, and there's the extra content on top of the original gameplay length).

I've got another Bluesky invite code if anyone needs or wants one!

Edit: it's gone, but I'm sure I'll have another one soon.

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It is hellishly hot here again, blergh. The temp topped out at 28°C yesterday, and it's not likely to cool down again until the start of next week.

...I mean, I'm mostly mad because it had been feeling really autumnal and I loved it and now it just feels like gack again. I am not amused.

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In other news, I am ~22ish hours into Persona 5 Royal!

Kasumi is not annoying me as much as she originally did, though I do roll my eyes at the way she's described as being special, and I get this "not like the other girls UwU " vibe from her, and that's kind of grating. But I find it funny how every time she shows up, I'm just like, "oh, okay," and yet every time Akechi is on screen, I hiss at him (I mean, I have valid reasons for doing so! I also just don't like him!)

Also I don't know if it's my imagination or not, but it feels really easy playing it? Like the vanilla version wasn't that difficult* (except for where it was - looking at you, third Palace), but there seem to be so many bells and whistles added (like the skills the Personae have to make things easier, for example), and especially with the Legacy DLC which basically has a bunch of gamebreaking items/Personae in it.

It feels easier to play, anyway.

I don't have much else to say about it at the moment, really. I'm just chugging along with it before I go to sleep each night.

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Other than that, I've not really been up to much, aside from the usual to-ing and fro-ing and all the rest of it which, as noted before is really boring to talk about, so I won't.

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*Certainly not by Atlus standards, anyway.

If you have at all guessed that I am having issues with getting cat litter delivered again, congratulations, you are correct! You don't win anything, but you do get to feel smug a f.

( cut for grr argh )

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I am almost at the end of FFXIII-2, which is good, because I really want to play P5R now. I thought about just giving up and changing the consoles over, but I am trying to finish games once I've started them, even if it's games I've played before. So. That's what I'm going to do!

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And I don't have anything else to say, so I shall finish this entry here.