March Posting
I couldn't think of a title for this one.
It's time for blogging because I realized it's been long enough, which is how I time these posts.
March has been a really slow month, honestly. For some reason work has slowed down considerably, and that's a normal thing to happen when you freelance, but it makes me uneasy about the future because I'm used to getting work every month… I am a worrier sometimes. Although I'm trying to keep calm about it hoping that work will come soon enough, it's happened before anyway, every year since I've gone freelance in early 2022.
Still, I'm mostly relaxing with the free time I got. After Shin Megami Tensei V, I'm going through Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, which I swear it's going to be the last SMT game I play for a while, though that's the sixth time I say it's the last SMT game I'm playing and I've become exceedingly efficient at it. But this time, really, there isn't one specific game in the series that I really want to get to, Persona 2 was the last one. I'll take a break and maybe play some Final Fantasy or something.
And Persona 2 is great. I love the style of those early Persona games, love those characters, both the new cast and the returning ones, and the plot is as weird and complicated as Innocent Sin, which I love. Unfortunately it's still not a great game to play, as much as I hate saying it. You really gotta wonder why some decisions were made that make this game very awkward in parts, but at the same time, I've always admired how willing the team was to experiment and see what works. And complaints aside, it's not terrible to play. In fact, Eternal Punishment is better to play than its predecessor, since there's some semblance of challenge that Innocent Sin didn't have. Still, it can get a bit monotonous and this is the first time I had to stop and grind in one of these games due to a particularly hard boss, kind of unfairly hard, really. Grinding is a part of the game's nature, it's how you get new skills, so I try not to think about that aspect too much, it's just how the game is. Maybe that's the real Eternal Punishment. So, one day I will get to the "Hashino-era" Persona games, and I don't know if they'll be as charming as I found 1 and 2 to be, but surely they must've polished gameplay a bit, right?
The rest of my free time has been Saint Seiya, which is my current obsession. I am extremely enthralled by this show, way more than I could have ever predicted. Super fun, really intense and insane, so many GUYS that you like to see. Sanctuary Saga is a boss rush and not one of the bosses is uncool, all of them work as they need and Masami Kurumada is such a creative guy making up powers and all that stuff. There's definitely a reason why the Gold Saints all make such an impression on people even though they show up for three episodes at most, the drama is a constant and you always wants to see who's the next Guy and what he does. So much so I have three episodes left of Sanctuary as of today, cause I went super fast with this show. After that arc's done, I want to take a break, but so far I can say this has been stellar. It's also kind of closing a cycle, in a way, since Saint Seiya has had some kind of presence in my life since I was a kid. Yeah, I did watch a bunch of it, but not all of it, and things like "Camus fighting Hyoga with the Aurora Execution and the Absolute Zero" have been things I've heard about since I was really young, but I'd never actually seen the episode where it happens. Just a really amazing experience and much better than anticipated! At some point I thought I had to dampen expectations since people tend to shit on this show, but nah, it's a lot of fun. I feel like overexposure and annoying fans have lessened the fact that it's often really weird and insane and that it looks fantastic quite frequently, and not every show of this kind has the energy that Saint Seiya has.
Now I got back to reading Dune, which I plan to do very slowly, since it's a massive book. I'm 180 pages in and right now I'm starting to find it pretty cool (it's kind of a slow start and I had been warned it takes a while to get used to it). The first desert worm appearence is so good. I'm excited to see where it goes and how much it goes beyond what the movies show, cause it already has a lot more going on from page 1.
I did have a little more to say, but I think I'll just close it here. My life is pretty uneventful, and March has been particularly uneventful, so it figures I wouldn't have that much to say LOL and that's okay. One of my goals this year is trying to do more things, in general, even if it's just taking a stroll every few days and observing the city… Hopefully when it's less hot, I'm dying with the seasonal heat.
I'm also considering looking into therapy, something I thought about during one of my walks through the neighborhood, because I do have some issues I've dealt with for a couple years now, and I should probably talk to someone about them. I'm living well and I think I have a good life, but there's often something inside that's begging for further investigation, you know? I guess that's my current short-term goal, along with getting some better work. Honestly, I was tempted to just lay it all down here, but this is still a public site so I'll keep my mouth shut until I have a better grasp of it.
And end it here as well! I gotta say, this is just a small thing I do once in a while, always barely proofread, but I really appreciate every view the new posts get. So thanks everyone, have a nice week. Once again reminder I've got a Neospring account now, linked on the main page alongisde my email address, and these two should more or less make do as a replacement for a comment section as long as Bearblog doesn't have one (forever, I suspect). I'm not expecting to get anything, but I will answer or address whatever I might get in another blogpost. See ya!