Boredom is perhaps one of my most familiar feelings- and it's also one of the worst. I'm sitting in front of a perfectly good computer- fully functional- connected to the internet at a game-playable speed--- and I'm bored. I have the sequel to a good book which I've just finished reading, but I have left it lying on my bed after only a few chapters. My art book still has many unfilled pages, and I have the right sort of pencils and pens to draw whatever I want--- but I don't want to.
My 3DS? Well, I'm bored of Kingdom Hearts even though I must say it's a good game- and I just don't have enough will power to keep on grinding through Pokemon Black 2. Every single goddamn battle bores me, and makes me wish I could escape. I don't just mean trainer battles, either--- wild encounters with pokemon, too. I mean, I could spray some repel and stay out of the trainers' line of sight--- but then, why the fuck am I playing this game? For the story? Pokemon stories are horrible. If I wanted a story in a game, I'd just read a goddamn book. Sure, a good story always makes a game amazing (Devil Survivor 1 and 2, TWEWY etc.), but it's just not an expectation of mine. I play games because I want to mindlessly kill some monsters for a couple of hours- not because I care about what one character has to say about another.
Now I'm sort of playing with the corner of my Japanese textbook, pretending to study but really I'm just typing this blog post. I'm having great difficulty saying "160 yen" in Japanese, for some reason, and I feel a little self-conscious repeating "toire wa doko desuka" (where is the toilet) to myself. But hey, it's one of the most important phrases if I ever want to go to Japan, right? Though I assume they'd have English signs pointing to places...
You know, in my opinion, it's kind of pointless learning to say stuff like "my name is" and "how are you" when you start a new language. My list of "things that should be taught first" would include:
-Go fuck yourself
-Where is the toilet
-Please feed me
-I find you attractive
-I want to have sex with you
-----------and lastly but perhaps most importantly:
-I want a discount
Well, what could possibly go wrong, after you have the above terms under your belt? I'm sure there's an appropriate response for every situation in there somewhere...
And thus, my boredom is alleviated.
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