Painting/Reading/Gaming
I've been on a Bob Ross kick for the past couple of weeks. He is tranquil and I was able to get several DVDs from the library and just watch him paint happy little trees and happy little clouds. Zen. Yes. I have no desire to invest in oil paints, and acrylics aren't suitable for his techniques. (At least not the ones I own.) So I've been trying to duplicate the technique with digital paint. That doesn't work very well, but art practice is satisfying in it's own way.
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I've been reading a ton. Most notably a series starting with Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber, (probably misspelled that somewhere.) I read the first three books before stalling on the fourth and giving up on it. It's an interesting Sci-Fi series, but it just got so slow in the fourth book. Not enjoyable anymore at that point, so I'm not bothering with the rest of the series. I've also read a variety of Urban Fantasy, but nothing really stand out unfortunately. Been reading comics, too. I read Silk and Spider Gwen which are both ~issue #4. I'm worried about their storylines when the Secret Wars story forces them to all be on Battle World. (I understand if that statement doesn't make sense. It's a Marvel thing.) Reading the Dresden Files comic as well. It feels a little slow, but it's about halfway in its current arc.
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Playing the Star Realms card game with Tanya. It's a 2-player deck building game. In space. As the game goes on, you build your deck, so every game is different. It's fun. A little luck reliant, but good.
Also playing Atelier Escha and Logy. Not my favorite Atelier game, but it's not bad. So far I'm not thrilled with the Dusk series of Atelier. But I was introduced to the Arland series and it plays differently, so that's probably where my problems are coming from. Well, that and the horrible translation/editing. They had no QC. The same word is translated differently on the battlefield than it is in a cut scene. A later cut scene has it correct. A quest asks for an item that literally doesn't exist in the game. The item that you need is called something else. Sometimes item effects are described as the opposite of what they actually do.
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I've been reading a ton. Most notably a series starting with Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber, (probably misspelled that somewhere.) I read the first three books before stalling on the fourth and giving up on it. It's an interesting Sci-Fi series, but it just got so slow in the fourth book. Not enjoyable anymore at that point, so I'm not bothering with the rest of the series. I've also read a variety of Urban Fantasy, but nothing really stand out unfortunately. Been reading comics, too. I read Silk and Spider Gwen which are both ~issue #4. I'm worried about their storylines when the Secret Wars story forces them to all be on Battle World. (I understand if that statement doesn't make sense. It's a Marvel thing.) Reading the Dresden Files comic as well. It feels a little slow, but it's about halfway in its current arc.
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Playing the Star Realms card game with Tanya. It's a 2-player deck building game. In space. As the game goes on, you build your deck, so every game is different. It's fun. A little luck reliant, but good.
Also playing Atelier Escha and Logy. Not my favorite Atelier game, but it's not bad. So far I'm not thrilled with the Dusk series of Atelier. But I was introduced to the Arland series and it plays differently, so that's probably where my problems are coming from. Well, that and the horrible translation/editing. They had no QC. The same word is translated differently on the battlefield than it is in a cut scene. A later cut scene has it correct. A quest asks for an item that literally doesn't exist in the game. The item that you need is called something else. Sometimes item effects are described as the opposite of what they actually do.