Done This Week
Apr. 12th, 2026 07:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scrubjayspeaksWell, I broke down and bought a Switch 2.
I hadn’t wanted to, frankly. One, I object to the way they’ve turned even physical cartridges into something that requires an internet connection and is therefore essentially leasing a game, rather than owning it. Two, game prices have gotten frankly absurd, and they should be punished for their hubris. And three, my main devotion to Nintendo is Pokémon, and Scarlet/Violet were undertested, unplayable messes. More importantly, they feel nothing whatsoever like a Pokémon game, because apparently, everything must be sacrificed on the altar of the Open World Design.
H O W E V E R
The reviews of Pokopia have been so good. It has been described as Pokémon meets Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, which is basically the single overlapping circle Venn diagram of all my interests. It’s crafting and gardening and Pokémon.
What did it, though, was that I had a truly laughable quantity of rewards points on my credit card. By trading them in for credit to my account, I paid for the game system entirely with what amounts to Monopoly money.
Listen, I’m not proud.
Do I seem to have the free time to play video games right now? Mostly no. Maybe this will be motivation enough to trim back on time watching videos or doomscrolling. Gotta go water grass patches for pokémon, dang it.
In non-video game news, we did a bunch of cleanup of junk around the outside of the house. There was a free event at the local dump, which is always nice. And I finally gave up on convincing my mum that yes, really, the e-waste recycling place I go to for work is open to the public, and I just took the stuff we’ve been stockpiling myself. *sigh* Nobody believes me when I say things.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 42.5 hours, which fails to capture the number of times I didn’t get my lunch break on time
Cooking: experimenting with pasta-and-beans dishes for the work week
Cleaning: took two bags plus more to the e-waste disposal site, took one truck load to the dump
Gardening: planted additional seeds (damn you, seeds that require overnight soaking!), garden club post
Reading: Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (despite seeing this recommended on a list of horror books involving fungus, I completely forgot fungus would be a thing and was delightfully surprised when it officially appeared, also, not to bury the lede, but fuuuuuuuuck that was good and upsetting and gooooood)
Watching: finished The X-Files season one
Listening: notes from inside by Adeem the Artist (ooooof, this one is heavy)
Playing: just started Pokopia
Aftermarket Parts: got in yet another fight with the pharmacy over filling my T prescription, resolved yet still infuriating
Clock Mouse: 105 minutes of planning work, plus 1924 words written
I hadn’t wanted to, frankly. One, I object to the way they’ve turned even physical cartridges into something that requires an internet connection and is therefore essentially leasing a game, rather than owning it. Two, game prices have gotten frankly absurd, and they should be punished for their hubris. And three, my main devotion to Nintendo is Pokémon, and Scarlet/Violet were undertested, unplayable messes. More importantly, they feel nothing whatsoever like a Pokémon game, because apparently, everything must be sacrificed on the altar of the Open World Design.
H O W E V E R
The reviews of Pokopia have been so good. It has been described as Pokémon meets Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, which is basically the single overlapping circle Venn diagram of all my interests. It’s crafting and gardening and Pokémon.
What did it, though, was that I had a truly laughable quantity of rewards points on my credit card. By trading them in for credit to my account, I paid for the game system entirely with what amounts to Monopoly money.
Listen, I’m not proud.
Do I seem to have the free time to play video games right now? Mostly no. Maybe this will be motivation enough to trim back on time watching videos or doomscrolling. Gotta go water grass patches for pokémon, dang it.
In non-video game news, we did a bunch of cleanup of junk around the outside of the house. There was a free event at the local dump, which is always nice. And I finally gave up on convincing my mum that yes, really, the e-waste recycling place I go to for work is open to the public, and I just took the stuff we’ve been stockpiling myself. *sigh* Nobody believes me when I say things.
Lewisia: 3 new pieces written
Day job: 42.5 hours, which fails to capture the number of times I didn’t get my lunch break on time
Cooking: experimenting with pasta-and-beans dishes for the work week
Cleaning: took two bags plus more to the e-waste disposal site, took one truck load to the dump
Gardening: planted additional seeds (damn you, seeds that require overnight soaking!), garden club post
Reading: Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (despite seeing this recommended on a list of horror books involving fungus, I completely forgot fungus would be a thing and was delightfully surprised when it officially appeared, also, not to bury the lede, but fuuuuuuuuck that was good and upsetting and gooooood)
Watching: finished The X-Files season one
Listening: notes from inside by Adeem the Artist (ooooof, this one is heavy)
Playing: just started Pokopia
Aftermarket Parts: got in yet another fight with the pharmacy over filling my T prescription, resolved yet still infuriating
Clock Mouse: 105 minutes of planning work, plus 1924 words written
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Date: 2026-04-12 09:17 pm (UTC)