August goals
It's no secret I've been slacking off in posting here, so I've decided to co-op a productivity trick from an acquaintance and list a number of medium-term goals for the month. Maybe posting a to-do list in will spur me to make some progress.
1. Finish my synopsis of Vol. 2 of the 999 novel. I'm over halfway done; I had hoped to have had this finished by the end of July, but personal issues intervened. Shouldn't be long, though.
2. Post at least a couple more Retour play reports. The delay here was my camera getting busted, prohibiting me from taking those blurry screenshots that are so integral to the posts! I've cobbled together a fix, though, so there's nothing prohibiting me from resuming activities. Do you know that my posts are apparently one of the top sources on English-language Retour info in Google's search results? Good Lord.
3. Post the next entry in my Mystic Ark: Maboroshi Gekijou playthrough. It might very well be the last entry in that series, as the game hung up, and I can't progress - at least not via the emulator. The next step is to start from the beginning with the other character to see if I can work around the impasse that way. If that doesn't work, I have to start hitting up message boards and trying other emulators to try to resolve the problem. Not looking forward to that, as PS emulation is a briar patch, with tons of settings & add-ons with which to tinker. So you can see why I've been reluctant to go back to this game. I've actually had this post mostly done for a while, but I haven't yet dragged myself to put the finishing touches on it.
4. ...Uh... I actually had a #4 in mind, and I've forgotten what it was. This bodes well.
Oh, yeah, that's it: Finish either my NightCry review or Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia play report. Both are lengthy, and both are stuck at a bottleneck, preventing me from getting on to other games.
Here's hoping for progress!
1. Finish my synopsis of Vol. 2 of the 999 novel. I'm over halfway done; I had hoped to have had this finished by the end of July, but personal issues intervened. Shouldn't be long, though.
2. Post at least a couple more Retour play reports. The delay here was my camera getting busted, prohibiting me from taking those blurry screenshots that are so integral to the posts! I've cobbled together a fix, though, so there's nothing prohibiting me from resuming activities. Do you know that my posts are apparently one of the top sources on English-language Retour info in Google's search results? Good Lord.
3. Post the next entry in my Mystic Ark: Maboroshi Gekijou playthrough. It might very well be the last entry in that series, as the game hung up, and I can't progress - at least not via the emulator. The next step is to start from the beginning with the other character to see if I can work around the impasse that way. If that doesn't work, I have to start hitting up message boards and trying other emulators to try to resolve the problem. Not looking forward to that, as PS emulation is a briar patch, with tons of settings & add-ons with which to tinker. So you can see why I've been reluctant to go back to this game. I've actually had this post mostly done for a while, but I haven't yet dragged myself to put the finishing touches on it.
4. ...Uh... I actually had a #4 in mind, and I've forgotten what it was. This bodes well.
Oh, yeah, that's it: Finish either my NightCry review or Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia play report. Both are lengthy, and both are stuck at a bottleneck, preventing me from getting on to other games.
Here's hoping for progress!