Last minute post

Just a few spare minutes on a Sunday evening, as my bath runs in the background, for a quick post/update and a few thoughts on the week.

Firstly, Diablo 3 is a little disappointing. I am not blown away by the single-player experience. Yes, its slick as snot, nicer visuals, nice audio and so on. But its a little, er, repetitive, isn't it? I mean, is this really what has gotten millions of people so excited about - endless running around fairly similar dungeons, mostly spamming two or three buttons? Its pretty easy too. I've just killed Belial and it was the first fight with enough difficulty to it that I needed to rejigger my abilities to win. And that's nearly halfway through the game. I don't know, its ok, I just struggle to see the immense attraction if running the same instances again and again, just to get loot to make those instances easier to run. But maybe it gets better in Act 3, maybe public games or higher difficulty levels will be fun.

All this is assuming of course you can actually play. it took nearly an hour to log in on launch say and two hours tonight.

So far, the best thing about playing Diablo is all the time it gives me for other hobbies. I've been working on painting 10 wraithguard I got on Ebay. This is also a little repetitive as the models are more or less identical, but at last at the end off it I'll have sine nice looking models I can use in games with other real live human beings.

I've also been doing a little research for a future article computing the mobile phone market with modern theology. Yes,I can see how you might think that's a stretch.Burr its actually a straightforward concept,I just want to duo a goods job getting background, quotes, links, and so on, so the finished piece will feel a little more professionally done than my usual writing.

And I started looking at what the internet had to say this evening about stimulating creativity. When you set yourself a goal of writing every say toy quickly realise you need a lore of good ideas too write about. One of the tips that came up again and again was exercising. Which its great as I started using The Biggest Loser Alimentary Workout for Xbox Kinect this week, on to of going stunning at least twice a week for the last month our two. It's pretty horrifying seeing your fat self bouncing up and down in screen as you work out, but that in itself is a pretty good motivator to keep going.

So that's all for now. The bath is run, the blog is written and I, for now, am done.