winter nobody likes you go away
So it snowed a lot in Chicago the past couple of days. Not nearly enough for me to stay home from work, naturally, but enough to have to get up an hour early yesterday to shovel, and to have to do the same tonight when I got home. ._. come on, weather, it's March, could we not? (Also, it seems unusually cruel to throw a "get up early and shovel snow!" on top of the fucking Monday after the time change, seriously.)
Regardless, it's been a productive few days.
celeloriel gave me a ton of amazing feedback on the novel and at least I have some idea what the hurdles are (they are large, but we eat the whale one bite at a time, and yes I am mixing my metaphors all over today, thank you.) I got started on incorporating some of what she said, and we'll see how I do with it.
I am not having a particularly good series of brain-function days right now; we're in the awkward part of the year where light has come back but it's still cold and I can't absorb enough sunlight yet to make up for the past few months, so I'm just vehemently cranky at everything and everyone. Also I don't want to do anything productive, which is...tricky.
While I'm complaining, I took the cats to the vet on Saturday and that cost me a chunk of money - they needed checkups and shots, and then the vet wanted to test Zelda's blood and urine for her renal disease, and it turns out she has a UTI, so I got to add the testing (and eventually, meds) for that....she's lucky she's cute. (This is a joke. I take good care of my cats, or try to do the best I can.)
In less complain-y news, I finally beat Bravely Second. I think I'm going to have to NG+ a couple of things - I'm missing one Cat Skill, and a couple of weapons, some of which were apparently missable steals (thanks, game), and I just have to do the very last optional boss fight, and then I'm all set! Fortunately NG+ in this game is not the worst, so I can probably take care of that pretty fast, if I decide to.
Overall I really liked the game, although the writing for the two romances was pretty cringe-inducing, and ugh Ringabel's cameo was so infuriating I just wanted to punch him into outer space. Alternis is approximately 5000% more awesome, why can't I just have him, JFC.
I really liked that the game pulled out a lot of things that were kind of side points to the previous game - the plague that caused the Grand Marshal's rebellion really stands out here - and focused on that. It made it really compelling and interesting to keep traveling with the same characters since we were focusing on something very different, and a different kind of threat than the first game (also makes the Eternia thing so much more rational, great galloping gods.)
I love the new job classes, although I'm a little bit frustrated at how drastically they outclass everything about the old ones. My endgame "fuck you and the horse you rode in on" party was Yew as Summoner/Time Mage, Edea Swordmaster/Fencer, Magnolia Ranger/Pirate, and Tiz Bishop/Astrologian. I did, gods help me, put in the time to grind every single job up to 11, and I sort of regret that, the same way I regret having done all the post game for 4 Heroes of Light - my completionism really made the game less fun in some ways, especially wanting to max out the bestiary. Which I've still not done and I suspect will rely on a lot of running around with Obliterate as my secondary skill.
I liked the recurring asterisk holders, although I could've done without the effort to make DeRosa less of a raging fucknozzle because really. Raging fucknozzle. What more is there to say about that douchecanoe? Nothing, that's what. But anyway.
super spoiler for end boss follows
The game is super melodramatic, and both funny and charming; I loved the twist that the end of the game put on the traditional "your friends give you power when the final boss has kicked your ass!" - pulling "I'm deleting your game!" is some fucking bullshit and so is the boss getting to have my fancy trick of Bravely Second, but I actually really enjoyed the window in the fourth wall for that, and how all the NPCs cheered me on--after I got over the heart attack, lol.
So yeah, I did that, and I played some of A Link to the Past - I'm in the first Dark World dungeon and I'm seriously considering walking away because I'm just deeply frustrated, to be honest. I'll see if, once I shake my brain back into gear, I approach it better--but over the weekend I knocked a couple games off my backlog that I know I'll never want to get around to and it felt pretty good, so I'm considering having a good, hard, unflinching look at said backlog and rampaging through it, getting rid of anything that I tried and then walked away from for boredom or frustration reasons. But I probably should not do that when I'm mega-cranky. (Either that or this is the BEST time to do it...)
Okay. Off to FF14 - where I am now a level 60 bard and possessed of a shiny new relic Scholar weapon - to play with Sev for the night :D
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Regardless, it's been a productive few days.
celeloriel gave me a ton of amazing feedback on the novel and at least I have some idea what the hurdles are (they are large, but we eat the whale one bite at a time, and yes I am mixing my metaphors all over today, thank you.) I got started on incorporating some of what she said, and we'll see how I do with it.
I am not having a particularly good series of brain-function days right now; we're in the awkward part of the year where light has come back but it's still cold and I can't absorb enough sunlight yet to make up for the past few months, so I'm just vehemently cranky at everything and everyone. Also I don't want to do anything productive, which is...tricky.
While I'm complaining, I took the cats to the vet on Saturday and that cost me a chunk of money - they needed checkups and shots, and then the vet wanted to test Zelda's blood and urine for her renal disease, and it turns out she has a UTI, so I got to add the testing (and eventually, meds) for that....she's lucky she's cute. (This is a joke. I take good care of my cats, or try to do the best I can.)
In less complain-y news, I finally beat Bravely Second. I think I'm going to have to NG+ a couple of things - I'm missing one Cat Skill, and a couple of weapons, some of which were apparently missable steals (thanks, game), and I just have to do the very last optional boss fight, and then I'm all set! Fortunately NG+ in this game is not the worst, so I can probably take care of that pretty fast, if I decide to.
Overall I really liked the game, although the writing for the two romances was pretty cringe-inducing, and ugh Ringabel's cameo was so infuriating I just wanted to punch him into outer space. Alternis is approximately 5000% more awesome, why can't I just have him, JFC.
I really liked that the game pulled out a lot of things that were kind of side points to the previous game - the plague that caused the Grand Marshal's rebellion really stands out here - and focused on that. It made it really compelling and interesting to keep traveling with the same characters since we were focusing on something very different, and a different kind of threat than the first game (also makes the Eternia thing so much more rational, great galloping gods.)
I love the new job classes, although I'm a little bit frustrated at how drastically they outclass everything about the old ones. My endgame "fuck you and the horse you rode in on" party was Yew as Summoner/Time Mage, Edea Swordmaster/Fencer, Magnolia Ranger/Pirate, and Tiz Bishop/Astrologian. I did, gods help me, put in the time to grind every single job up to 11, and I sort of regret that, the same way I regret having done all the post game for 4 Heroes of Light - my completionism really made the game less fun in some ways, especially wanting to max out the bestiary. Which I've still not done and I suspect will rely on a lot of running around with Obliterate as my secondary skill.
I liked the recurring asterisk holders, although I could've done without the effort to make DeRosa less of a raging fucknozzle because really. Raging fucknozzle. What more is there to say about that douchecanoe? Nothing, that's what. But anyway.
super spoiler for end boss follows
The game is super melodramatic, and both funny and charming; I loved the twist that the end of the game put on the traditional "your friends give you power when the final boss has kicked your ass!" - pulling "I'm deleting your game!" is some fucking bullshit and so is the boss getting to have my fancy trick of Bravely Second, but I actually really enjoyed the window in the fourth wall for that, and how all the NPCs cheered me on--after I got over the heart attack, lol.
So yeah, I did that, and I played some of A Link to the Past - I'm in the first Dark World dungeon and I'm seriously considering walking away because I'm just deeply frustrated, to be honest. I'll see if, once I shake my brain back into gear, I approach it better--but over the weekend I knocked a couple games off my backlog that I know I'll never want to get around to and it felt pretty good, so I'm considering having a good, hard, unflinching look at said backlog and rampaging through it, getting rid of anything that I tried and then walked away from for boredom or frustration reasons. But I probably should not do that when I'm mega-cranky. (Either that or this is the BEST time to do it...)
Okay. Off to FF14 - where I am now a level 60 bard and possessed of a shiny new relic Scholar weapon - to play with Sev for the night :D
I've posted this at http://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/1175253.html and you may comment there or here. On Dreamwidth, this entry has
comments.