![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I'm still doing all of the things I said I'd do, vis a vis my personal goals. I don't have anything exciting to report, but I am doing stuff, so that's my progress report.
I'm still playing fucking Dark Souls. I guess I'm pretty miserable at it, because I'm 91 hours in and I'm just starting on the boss fight circuit. This shit is wicked difficult, but I think I'm doing one of the hardest ones first. I don't spend all that much time playing video games, so despite the large number of banked hours, that's literally every hour I've spent playing video games since December 26th. Don't get me wrong, though - I like the game. It's still fun, and I'm still enjoying my time with it, but right now it's a little like the meal that tastes really good, but it's too large and you're trying to finish the dessert which you know won't age well in your refrigerator so if you don't finish it now, you probably never will.
That analogy is a little clunky, but I guess I'm not really going back to fix it.
I'm still reading Foucault's Pendulum. My alternate read has moved over to D&D 3.0's version of Manual of the Planes. Pendulum probably should be done by now, but it's about 500+ pages and it's not really tough, but it's a little dense. When I get back from work, though, I'm physically tired, and at about 10 PM, my eyes start to get pretty heavy. On my days off, I'm pretty busy. So, the window of time that I can get into it is pretty small; I forgot how easily a full time job saps your energy. But, it's interesting and I'm still working on it. I'll talk more about it when it's finished. MotP is also interesting, from a gaming standpoint, because I've never gotten to play a D&D game that seriously hits the planes, and I've wanted to ever since I checked out the old 1st Ed. Manual of the Planes book from my local library as a kid. It's dry as hell and, in a lot of ways, it's not as engrossing as that first book was all that time ago, but it's still an interesting read.
I'm going to the zoo today to enjoy a friends birthday, so I hope your day is okay, too.
I'm still playing fucking Dark Souls. I guess I'm pretty miserable at it, because I'm 91 hours in and I'm just starting on the boss fight circuit. This shit is wicked difficult, but I think I'm doing one of the hardest ones first. I don't spend all that much time playing video games, so despite the large number of banked hours, that's literally every hour I've spent playing video games since December 26th. Don't get me wrong, though - I like the game. It's still fun, and I'm still enjoying my time with it, but right now it's a little like the meal that tastes really good, but it's too large and you're trying to finish the dessert which you know won't age well in your refrigerator so if you don't finish it now, you probably never will.
That analogy is a little clunky, but I guess I'm not really going back to fix it.
I'm still reading Foucault's Pendulum. My alternate read has moved over to D&D 3.0's version of Manual of the Planes. Pendulum probably should be done by now, but it's about 500+ pages and it's not really tough, but it's a little dense. When I get back from work, though, I'm physically tired, and at about 10 PM, my eyes start to get pretty heavy. On my days off, I'm pretty busy. So, the window of time that I can get into it is pretty small; I forgot how easily a full time job saps your energy. But, it's interesting and I'm still working on it. I'll talk more about it when it's finished. MotP is also interesting, from a gaming standpoint, because I've never gotten to play a D&D game that seriously hits the planes, and I've wanted to ever since I checked out the old 1st Ed. Manual of the Planes book from my local library as a kid. It's dry as hell and, in a lot of ways, it's not as engrossing as that first book was all that time ago, but it's still an interesting read.
I'm going to the zoo today to enjoy a friends birthday, so I hope your day is okay, too.
Tags: