In Which we reach 650 posts on The Divagation Store!

Good morning, my friend, reader of this post, and happy post of number #650! Another milestone reached in the Divagation Store, isn’t it grand? I am also very happy to have reached this point on the blog’s birthday month! How are you today, and how is the weather? The weather here is “freezing” , for tropical standards. It is almost 8AM, so well into the morning, and it still is at 24 celsius! And it will be at maximum in the house of 27 celsius. And as for my mood, I am okay, today. I had extra coffee and took my meds, as I ought to do. As for my Tuesday, I suppose it was okay, also. The net balance was around 0,5 to 1, that is okay. 

I spent the morning playing some Victoria 3, and though the game is good, it has major performance issues, starting around the end of 1890. This is due to the big number of calculations done in order to proceed with the game at this late point. Those get worse until it takes hours for you to complete a year, around 1920’s. It is not a graphics card issue, as we are not talking about the number of frames per second, this is an actual coding issue, and that is harder to solve. For the sake of this game’s survival, they better do that, somehow. They have worked on it continuously since the launch, they just need to keep at it, and tackle it harder. I truly hope they do. 

Any other game? A bit of Anno 1800. I don’t want to play EU4, it only brings me major frustration. And I don’t want to write about it, or I’ll feel like returning to it, which I don’t want to do, at least, not now. There is also… ah, the Dollhouse game The Sims 4. I have been avoiding talking about this bad title at all, as I don’t want to give EA or this game any of my attention. I spent well into a month boycotting it, only returning because I was in the mood for some interior designing. There is a new expansion, yea, another one, coming out soon. I hope to skip this one, and hopefully all the rest, as I skipped Island Living, for example. I still fail to understand why in the world I got the pack Eco Lifestyle, because the mechanics of that one are terrible, and the build mode products are terrible, the attires of it are terrible… well, I still play that game, but acknowledging it is a bad one. I thought about trying The Sims 3.

There is a game I want to try, besides Sims 3, but the graphics of this one, just like in Sims 3, feel wrong. I am talking about the game Espresso Tycoon, which is a cafe management game. God knows I love those, and haven’t had the chance to try one in a while… I… I guess I can still try it. I was going to say “I have enough games” but truth is I am sorta tired of most of them. I can’t just play the same games over and over and not expect a burn out. 

A picture I took on my grandma’s garden the other day, I posted it on Instagram, but it did not receive any likes so far, alas. Anyway, moving on…

Besides games, I hope to draw something today. I feel guilty of doing my guys over and over and everyone says they look the same, but.. that’s what I am on the mood to draw, currently. I keep on saying, and that is true, that this is a hobby. I do have ambiguous feelings, in the sense of I want to start good conversations through my drawings, I want my friends to like them, and so I try and do my best to do them in the most nice way possible, but I also want to do it for myself, and to just barf ideas out of my head, yes, the best way I can reproduce them, but not necessarily appealing to some friend. It is a hobby, it should be nice and cozy, without deadlines, without the pressure. Ah… I don’t like to rely on my mood, but also, there is nothing worse than forcing a trace on the paper. A joyless experience can absolutely crush my desire to do anything, sometimes for two days or so. 

I am sleepy and yet I don’t want to sleep, I won’t sleep. My eyes are feeling heavy, but I want the morning to be here for me, and I to do nice stuff besides napping. I won’t have another mug of coffee, either, or at least not now. And… well, I believe this is a nice point to wrap today’s post, the number 650! I shall return around the 31st to wrap up June. I could write an extra post during this space of time, but it relies on my mood for writing. My excellent friend, reader of this post, thank you once again, for being here! I wish you the best! Again, happy Wednesday, see you real real soon!