What to say?
Work was work-like, I spent most of the day listening to music - mainly the January playlist, but also The Rose and, this evening after I decided I wasn't in the mood for TV, my original 2022 albums playlist, which has some absolute bangers on it, including pretty much all my top 10 (as yet still unconfirmed) list. Yes, I should be trying to complete my 2022 lists but it'll have to wait a little longer as I just need to chill out.
What I really want to do is play Hogwarts Legacy, the massive new open-world RPG game that was released on early access today (it's officially released on 10th Feb). I did pre-order it - and yes, I know I'm considered a traitor to a lot of the Harry Potter fandom for doing so - but sorry, while I fully support people's right to exist as whatever gender (or not) they best believe suits them regardless of how they were born and will always defend that right, I'm also a massive HP fan and have waited forever for a game like this to come along (and believe me, I've played them all, including the now sadly departed Wizards Unite, which I enjoyed more than Pokemon Go because of the wizarding element and the small thrill of various AR magical creatures appearing in my lounge).
However, the first problem was that Steam seemed to have an issue dealing with the number of people who had purchased the game and wasn't working, then it was but only slowly, so it took about 3 hours to download. I'm not really a gamer, so everything I play is on the PC (the last time I had a console it was a Super Nintendo back in the 1990s - I still have it somewhere in a cupboard along with Wolfenstein 3D - my favourite of the games) and I'm generally talking Hidden Object games that require me to point at stuff using the mouse.
The next problem was that despite seeing the requirements to be able to run the game, it never really occurred to me that my geriatric PC might not be able to cope with it. I'm not sure why I didn't think of it before. I mean, if I open too many browser windows it goes into a sulk and freezes up and stops my keyboard and mouse from working, so an amazing high-spec game is unlikely to run.
To be fair, I haven't actually tried it yet, I just downloaded it and then my PC froze everything that was open so I had to restart it, Then I realised the time and that I needed to get this entry written before I did anything else. It has also just occurred to me that maybe I need a controller of some sort, which I don't currently have either - so yeah, not really ready to play, even though I want to.
To be honest, I'm so bad at games that I probably won't be able to play it properly anyway. I think I was just going to wander around the castle and wizarding world and marvel at everything and talk to the characters; if I could manage to do anything within the game itself it would be a bonus.
Anyway, I'm going to end here because I need to get a drink - I've been on the Oolongs this evening (Adagio's Dancong Aria, which I really liked and T2's Oolong Chocolate Chai, which I reviewed in my tea blog back in 2017 and also really liked), although I shouldn't because they still have caffeine and sleep is hard enough to come by as it is without adding late-night caffeine to the mix. Maybe I'll have a hot chocolate or something to try to counteract it.
Before I go, Happy Birthday to Jay (Jinhwan) from iKON.
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