I went back and looked at my village in New Leaf. I have been exceedingly weird about doing so, as the last time I checked it was two days before mum was taken into hospital last July. I was also stupidly worried that all my villagers would have moved out, and my town would be covered in weeds.

As it happens, all my villagers are still there, even the one I don't like, and there was one singular weed in the entire place (I have the thing in place that keeps the weeds to a minimum, so that probably helped). PHEW. I mean, they were all like, "where the heck have you been?", but they were happy to see me back.

(I know they're just pixels, and I know they're not really my friends, but they make me happy. Also this probably the longest I've ever played a sim-type game as, while I get really into them for a while, eventually I get burnt out. Or something in the interface annoys me. Looking at you, Viva Pinata, you and your "help").

(Additionally: there is a copy of the Sims 3 at work (Xbox 360 version) and I'm kind of tempted to get it, because I loved the original Back In The Day™, but I know I'll probably play it for about a week and then stop. Then again, I liked Bustin' Out and The Urbz, so really, who knows????)

Also there was publisher sale on Xbox Live (as there almost always is), and I managed to get Gat Out of Hell for ~£3, which I think was a bargain. Downloading it is a trial, however, because my internet is Not Great. I think I might have to get the ethernet cable and hope connecting my 360 directly to the router makes a difference.

There is a Squeenix sale this week, but I don't think there's anything I want? I suppose I will have to look and see (I mean, if the FF games before XIII were available on the 360, I'd have a handful in a heartbeat, but they're not, so I won't/can't).

~

In other news, I rescued a French-English dictionary from 1887 from work. I'm sort of tempted to think it's the original printing, since it has no other copyright dates in indicating reprints, and it also doesn't look like a reprint. But it is in hella good nick if it is that old. A couple of pages have come away from the spine at the front and back, but that's not surprising, but the rest of the book is completely intact.

Not that I need another French dictionary, but I like old books. This is now possibly one of the oldest books I own.

I also got myself a copy of a War of the Worlds on vinyl! It's missing the booklet with the lyrics and the illustrations, but the discs themselves are in perfect condition. I haven't listened to it yet, but that's okay.

(I always coveted my dad's copy, but after he'd died, my brother said he wanted to keep it, which I thought was fair enough).

~

It turns out it is almost six years since I said I thought I was going off Neil Gaiman. This feeling has not diminished in this time, it's only become stronger.

I haven't read any of his recent books, nor have I felt enthusiasm for them. I'm fed up of hearing about stuff he's written that's being made into: a radio show! a tv series! a graphic novel adaptation!

I just don't care any more. So I stopped following him on twitter, and I wish I'd done it months/years ago.

(I know none of you care; this is more that I wanted to note it down for myself).

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Nov. 30th, 2015 09:56 pm
muladhara: (brb gaming)
I just beat Fable III. IT IS THE WORST GAME!

Not from the point of view that it is a bad game, because it's not. It's good. But it made me make agonising decisions which affect the lives of the pixel people and AUGH.

Though I forget how short these games are if you go straight through the plot and don't do that many sidequests. But actually I appreciate that! Longer games are OK, but there's a point where I hit maybe forty or fifty hours of gameplay and I get bored. That's possibly why I find it so hard to finish games sometimes (that said, I've beaten EIGHT games this year so far! I think that's a personal record). Anyway, yeah, I wasn't expecting to have finished it by now.

I did really badly at it (I tried to be good. It's not so easy). I'm going to replay again, eventually (because I want to save everyone. And try out alternative decisions).

here be spoilers! )

I enjoyed it though, would easily play again :)

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Mar. 14th, 2015 10:42 pm
muladhara: (dragon age)
So I never posted about the end of DA:I when I finished up Nikolai's game. Also some talking about Llew, because I'm weak and I started A NEW GAME BECAUSE OF COURSE I NEEDED TO DO THAT. (Mage boyfriend temptation too strong, man, TOO STRONG. I know I could've just rerun Nikolai, but elf son. I wanted to make an elf son).

spoilers, as per )

I think I might have a problem? Is there like a Bioware addicts anonymous because I've never done this with any game ever before in my life and I mean what even is this? I love Mass Effect to small squishy pieces but I can't and haven't played it three times in a row I don't understand.

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Jan. 20th, 2015 09:53 pm
muladhara: (ferelden boyfriend)
I spent two days in Dragon Age running around the Hinterlands, the Storm Coast, and Crestwood (which is a REALLY good place for getting power. I got about fifteen from four separate quests, three of which were interlinked).

spoilers )

Essentially, I have no idea what is going on, nor what is to come, and that's where I am right now.

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Jan. 17th, 2013 09:54 pm
muladhara: (brb gaming)
Scouring the internets for pictures of my Ferelden boyfriend.

I should be knitting my sock - it's probably a better use of my time, right?

Urgh. I really want someone to talk to about this (overattachment to NPCs, that is).

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Jan. 16th, 2013 11:01 pm
muladhara: (mass effect)
I am over halfway through my second sock! I have surprised myself.

I'm slightly over my self-set deadline for my current commission - but that's down to being laid up in bed with stomach cramps for four days running last week. The actual deadline is the end of the month but, as the customer wants to post the item onto its recipient, I thought it might be nice if she got it early so that it would get there for the intended time. I'm only a day over right now, and almost finished, so it's not too bad. Just annoying, really.

~*~

In other news, I finished Mass Effect 3 on Sunday. I cried, although not as much as I was expecting (I mean, I was outright sobbing by the time the credits finished, but I thought I've have been in floods by the time Shepard got where she was going, so to speak).

Also: listening to Vigil will actually make me lose my shit all over the place ;_;

Anyway, spoilers! )

And now I'm playing Awakening again. I've met Velanna, and I'm just about to acquire Sigrun. I am muddling my way through this the same way I muddled through Origins. Which is to say, badly. I've upset Anders more times than I can count, and managed to piss off practically everyone in Amaranthine.

Well, I guess my warden is Orlesian, so...(That's no excuse, right? The dialogue options often trip me up, though. That's the problem).

Oh, and: every time Nathaniel opens a chest for me (since he's my only rogue) and says, "Does this please you?" and I'm all, "OH NATE. You simply EXISTING is enough to please me." Sadly I can't actually tell him that *sigh*

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