This week's hyperfocus: Yoshi's Crafted World! I say week, I've been cycling this and Animal Crossing since like the start of April.

(Q: Susan, didn't you say that you probably weren't going to buy this one?
A: *Howl's Moving Castle voice* My shining dishonesty will be the saving of me!)

It's cute! I've been playing it on mellow mode, because I'm ( Read more... )

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(Guess who remembered that they had a Shonen Jump subscription that gives you access to a huge chunk of Viz's backlist and used it to binge twelve volumes of manga in two days?)

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There's an official stream of The Phantom of the Opera for the next twenty-four hours or something, soI have now seen The Phantom of the Opera! I have SO MANY QUESTIONS!

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RIGHT, I have been pretty much stuffing my face with media that isn't books, so here is a quick runthrough of everything that I've been playing/watching/whatever to keep my mind off The World Outside.

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I was genuinely not expecting to get sucked into Dragon Quest Builders 2, but HERE I AM. Apparently, "here is a nice island, build some stuff on it, here's some suggestions of what you could make!" is about the right level of emotional investment for me right now, which I probably should have guessed from all of my friends being ambushed by Animal ( Read more... )

I'm sure Lex tried to explain the plot of the Heaven's Feel arc to me once while he was actually going through the visual novel of Fate/Stay Night, and this is why I'm convinced that Type-Moon means never having to say you're kidding. So OBVIOUSLY that's the one that gets an OVA to squidge all of the Weird Shit into, rather than a tv series. ... ( Read more... )

I impulse bought the FFVII remake five minutes after it was released because I refused to accept it was real until I was playing it. And now I've played the first chapter and I'm still not sure I trust that it's real?!

Spoilers through chapter one of the remake.

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Day six: I come bearing bullet points!

• The good news is that conditioning myself to take "sitting at my desk" as a sign to start doing useful things worked a treat! The bad news is that I've donated my desk to Lex for the duration because he's doing 9-5 office work, so I'm not being as productive as I hoped I'd be. ... I'd suggest that we just ( Read more... )

Day three of work from home! ... I did in fact get up before 6:30, because apparently this is apparently who I am now! Got up, tidied up a little bit, watched some Baccano with Mike, remembered to put the dishwasher on and forgot to put the laundry on. Today was going to be a day for writing reaction shots, and that's gone... Variably? Good at ( Read more... )