all made up with nowhere to go

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.

I am nearly at the final dungeon in FFIV DS!

I had forgotten entirely about the expository cutscenes near the end! (I also can't remember if there was anything even like that in the original game. I don't think so, but I wouldn't like to say for sure as a) I can't remember the last time I even played the original, and b) I've been awake since 5:30am, so I am tired, and memory is not a working thing right now).

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There's been some hashtag lists flittering around twitter in the past week or so and, while I posted to the games one, I had enormous trouble with the TV series and films ones, so never added them.

None of these are in anything LIKE order of preference.

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I have been trying to update my instagram a bit more often, and I've been more successful at that than updating my wordpress (it's been nearly two months! Yikes. It's not like I don't have stuff to post, I do! I guess I've just been otherwise engaged).

Anyway, yeah. Art stuff! On social media! (If you're not into that sort of thing, it should be up on my WP blog eventually anyway).

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This is a bit disjointed, for which I apologise. As previously noted, I am dog tired, after been awake for sixteen hours on six hours' sleep. Thanks, brain.

# my new glasses are really light, and fit really well (and thus are comfortable). Apparently they suit me really well, so to say I was squinting at myself in a mirror when I chose them, I did a good job!

# I am stealing an idea off thebonesofferalletters and making a personal wiki certainly for the abominations story, but probably for the magical girl story as well (especially since a new character elbowed his way in last month). Possibly for the band story, too, if I could summon up the energy to go through the multitudinous notes for it (there is a folder full, plus whatever's on my computer, as this thing's been on the go since I was fifteen. It makes the notes for the abominations look miniscule in comparison).

While I was trawling through recs/articles/etc. I also saw that someone said it was a good idea for collating notes about anything you learn, so I might also put my music theory notes on one, as that may make them make more sense to me. Maybe.

(Someone did rec using Scrivener for this purpose, presumably as it has a notes section that's linked on the side with everything else, but that's not what it's for and that kind of irks me??)

And did you know you can download ALL OF WIKIPEDIA for accessing offline? (Well, I don't know if you still can, but you could as recently as 2013).

# I learnt how to delete kernels the other day, and that was weird and scary. I used Ubuntu Tweak to do it (noting this here for myself), because it displays all old kernels, but not your current one, so you can't break the OS accidentally (which is a thing that happens sometimes, and there is a fix for it).

# I also learnt how to do a magic trick in Audacity! I learnt how to record streaming music. And it was WAY simpler than I was expecting. Not that I have many applications for it, but it's a thing I didn't know how to do last week.

I also discovered Audacity can import audio from .vob files (what an Xbox dvd rips to) and, while I have an application for that (*cough*DA:I sound rips*cough*), I don't know how to do that yet (any of it) so it will have to wait.

(Though talking of DA:I, which we weren't exactly, I forgot how much I enjoyed listening to Ramon Tikaram's voice. Because even if the fandom have put me off the game, there's still that, and that's good). (Related: my brain is way happier now I don't go on tumblr so much).

# I think it's stupid that Instagram doesn't let you upload pictures from your desktop. Unless I'm being dumb and there's a hidden setting I haven't discovered.