all made up with nowhere to go

1. I looked back through my posts about Maggie Stiefvater's books yesterday and I've mentioned the girl gang book quite a lot. I mean, not that I'm bitter about its no longer existing or anything ¬_¬

2. I'm on my third of three days in a row off work and everything feels wrong. I've had to keep checking it's Saturday, because it feels like Sunday, and if it's Sunday, then I should be at work, not sitting under a blanket writing this!

But it is Saturday, thank goodness.

3. My villagers are up to date in New Leaf! I keep tinkering with the idea of starting a Wild World town, but I don't know right now. I'm not sure I could keep up with two towns at once (although I guess I'm managing a town and a camp right now, so *shrug emoji*)

4. I've sort of haphazardly been doing Inktober and posting it on my twitter and once the month is over, I'll upload the pics to my sketchblog and link it so you can see what the heck I did!

5. Saw a post on twitter that asked if you could pick any game to make into a TV series, what would you choose? I said my gut reaction was Mass Effect, but thought a 2D animated Spryo series would be cool. I can even kind of imagine what I'd like it to look like, and now I can't stop thinking about it.

I also thought an animated Mass Effect series would be good, after some thought. And I can kind of see how I'd want that to look, too, and it irks me somewhat that I don't feel I could translate either thing to a fake screencap for the heck of it.

6. Still feels like Sunday, dagnamit.

So because it felt autumnal, and I was in the mood for an SMT game, I restarted Soul Hackers, even though I was going to do my New Game+ on Digital Devil Saga. I don't know why, brains are weird.

Anyway, I only got an hour into it when I first tried it, back in 2016. I got put off by Nemissa's voice, which is weird because LAURA BAILEY, and also the voice she uses is pretty close to Rise's voice, so IDK what 2016 me's problem was.

I'm ten or so hours in now, and I don't really know what to make of it? Everything is incredibly nineties, but it came out in 1997, so this does not surprise me in the slightest. I haven't run into problems with the demon loyalty system yet, but I can imagine that might cause problems in the future. Also most of my demons right now are, unintentionally, a neutral-chaos skew, but only because I only just started encountering law-aligned demons in the most recent dungeon. I may yet have to go on a mission to Collect All the Angels™ (because that's what I always do in SMT games, because why not).

The only thing that really frustrates me about this game is the lack of money (like, I should be able to afford decent equip upgrades and I can't!) and that magnetite is used up by just walking around with your demons, as well as for summoning and healing them. But I suppose the thing with the magnetite is only annoying because I've not encountered it before. I guess I will just have to keep making visits to the Sea Ark to grind for it!

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Talking of which, I think I might do Draw a Random Demon/Inktober this year but I might start in September instead and, as usual, put no pressure on myself to produce a drawing every day.

I mean, it's not like I don't have plenty of ink and things to experiment with, right? Though depending on when I'm working/how much work I'm doing depends on how much experimenting I might actually get to do, but we'll see when we get there.

IDK if any of you want to swap friend codes, but drop me a PM if you do?

I have downloaded the Persona Q theme for my 2DS, because I am ninety kinds of predictable. I really like that the themes have different music for them! I was kind of weirded out that there is music everywhere on the operating system (except the internet), but I think the different themes having music with them is a really nice touch.

OH AND! I have enough points from Miitomo to get a 15% discount on the download of Persona Q! It's about £18, so I can get it for ~15 if I apply the discount. I don't know right now because I am forever indecisive, but the deal's good till the new year, so I've got a while to make my mind up.

I bought a copy of Tomodachi Life (which I am enjoying, but I kind of wish I had used the money for a different game instead). I have also bought and downloaded Soul Hackers from the eshop, so at least I've got that to play.

I got really into playing Pokemon Picross, but it is the worst example of a freemium game, so I'm going to get another type of Picross game to play instead (although not now, because I think I've spent enough money on games for the time being). I mean, you can grind for the in-game currency, but it's really skewed towards getting you to buy it.

On the other hand, I am also really into playing Pokemon Shuffle, which is also freemium, but way less annoying than its stable mate.

I haven't played Nocturne for a while, but that's because I often can't get a lot done in the two hour or so slot I get to play it and often I have to shut it off without saving because I'm nowhere near a save point. So obviously that is fun. (I'll get to the end eventually. I already have a save there! But this playthrough is much better, I feel. Mainly because I've been fusing mana refill onto as many demons as possible :D if only Hitoshura could learn it, I'd be laughing).

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I had to miss going to the comics meet last Sunday, which I'm not happy about, but there's nothing I can do about it. Hopefully I can go next month.

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I've stopped doing inktober, btw, so I will post the next batch of draws maybe tomorrow. (They will get linked to, though). I missed a couple of days because of having the 2DS, and decided to skip them altogether instead of getting worried about missing them. Then I did a drawing that I was ok with, but not pleased with, so stopped after that.

And, to be honest, I'd already done a month's worth of ninety percent inked drawings before I missed a day, so really I've already kind of done it without even meaning to! It just crossed two months instead of lasting for one.

I have picked up my Nocturne replay because it's autumn, and because it's nearly a freaking year since I played it!

I was stopped at Kabukicho prison, which was further along than I thought, so that was good. But ever since I have been getting lost (I keep trying not to resort to a walkthrough but oh butternuts Atlus does love dungeons with parts where you fall through the floor. SIGHS).

I have been trying to get to Asakusa for TWO DAYS NOW. But! I'm saved just by the last oni, so hopefully that should be it!

Now if only my demons would stop changing diarama to less useful skills, I will be happy. THREE OF THEM HAVE DONE IT NOW.

(I have no actual healers in my group now. Hitoshura does not know a healing spell, though he does have a skill that restores a little bit of HP after every fight, so that's slightly useful. Thank heck for Life stones and the lady in the fountain, I guess).

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Talking of SMT hijinks, I decided one day I'm going to take one for the team and play the Demikids games. Because I hate myself.

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OH YEAH. WHO WANTS MY FIRST FIVE DAYS OF INKTOBER? Since all I am doing is talking about Megaten anyway?

( five pics of varying quality under here )