Free Write 17

I've been really into building things lately. That knife I was working on, now another, and a couple instruments. Going to take a blacksmithing class, finally, after entirely too long. I've never really considered my writing to be an artistic expression for me, because there's nothing visual about it, which I know is inaccurate but that's just how I think of it. It feels like building these things is my form of doing art, though. Which works out well, because it incorporates my constant desire to be doing something physical and doing things with my hands. I wish I had continued building instruments years ago - perhaps it is one of those things that is greater because I held off. Hard to say.

I miss playing Monster Hunter, especially with my friends. That game is just straight fun once you get into the mechanics of it and really start to understand it. It's probably one of the only things where I've actually experienced the feeling of improving upon every failure. Plus, even though every player fights the same monsters, the amount of variety between playstyles and how each weapon works means that it is incredibly rare for two players to have the same experience. I feel like there are very few games where that is true - even in a game like Dark Souls, which is theoretically built in the same way, everyone is going to spam the one good attack on their preferred weapon, and everyone is going to die repeatedly on their first playthrough. That isn't necessarily true in Monster Hunter.

Of course, I probably still won't pick it up again any time soon. Not because I don't want to play it or because it's bad, but just because there are so many other good games coming out that I want to play. Continuously playing Overwatch, and recently having started Dragon Quest 8 now that it's on 3DS. I played it originally years ago, back when it first came out on PS2. It was my first exposure to the Dragon Quest series - I just saw the word dragon, a sword, I was in. Good thing, too - I love that game. But I never beat it. Now, years later, after having lost my copy of it a very long time ago, I finally get to play it again. And it's a much better version of it, too, with added content and quality of life improvements. Moving slow, but I am loving this game all over again.

I'm also making an effort to try and actually decorate my room, which is something I've never really done before. I dunno, I guess I just never really felt like I needed to? I don't really know how to explain it. It's just not something that I've done. But I'm going to, and we'll see if that changes how I feel about anything. I kinda doubt it, but it's worth a shot. Who knows.