I think most of us do something besides. Personally I sit at my desktop computer and have something going. Either I watch something or I hear music. Currently I'm watching some guy called Crota Gaming who's casting Warcraft 3 professional games. It's a throwback for me to the times where I was a teenager playing a lot of WC3. The games is 10+ years old and still going strong and it's a great way for me to keep in touch with the game while not bothering to play it. Some times I also play Heroes Might and Magic 6 with my friend. It usually takes several minutes when he play so I can easily get some paint on while waiting. What do you do?
I used to listen to music, but over the past year have discovered audiobooks. Initially it was 40K stuff from Black Library, but that stuff is super expensive. Now I listen to sci-fi or fantasy audiobooks from Audible.com. Much more economical. I save tv/movies for assembling. I find I can pay more attention to the movie that way. I LOVE the Heroes of Might and Magic idea. Pink, do you know if they are going to release a HOMM app. I have some friends from back in the day that would re-kindle our HOMM III obsession.....
I don't know about an actual app,but HOMM3 have just been released in a remastered version on steam. If nothing else you can buy it cheap on GOG I believe, and use a third party software to play online. I've done it with my friend and it worked wonderfully. I can't remember if we used hamachi or gameranger.
Oh and the audio books is something I've been thinking about. A good way to get some "reading" done, which I otherwise don't feel compelled to because of also studying
I basically just paint. I usually paint in the evening when the kids are sleeping, and as my paint room i directly next to the room of my youngest daughter so I have to be a bit quiet, so no music or background tv. I won't hear it anyway when i am concentrated on painting.
Same here, I paint with my son until 9pm then carry on solo andit has to be quiet or I get distracted
I tend to listen to a playlist of music in theme with what i'm painting. With lizardmen, its all the Jurassic Park soundtracks
For my previous, most recent painting session, (these guys): ...I was listening to Thunder, Lightning, and a Monsoon/Deluge.
I like to paint in silence, most of the time...it gives my brain time to process and decompress. Sometimes I call friends on speakerphone and catch up on life while painting. But last summer, I took a class on the theology of the Old Testament. We had to read the entire Old Testament before the class, so I spent hours and hours listening to the Bible while painting. That was fantastic, so now I'm listening through the New Testament while painting. @pendrake: that is an awesome soundtrack to a painting session.
I usually turn on a sports game. Florida has two major baseball teams, two hockey teams (GO LIGHTNING!!!), three football teams, two basketball teams, and now a pro soccer team. Also loads of college teams in everything. So far this year, there's almost always been at least one on the tele. But if there's not, then music - sometimes a playlist, sometimes I just let iTunes wander, sometimes a particular album. And sometimes nothing at all! It's entirely mood-dependent. Actually, I haven't painted anything in a few weeks... I should get those ripperdactyls finished...
Our apartment is not that big, so usually when I paint, my girlfriend is watching TV, playing Wii U or listening to music, so that's all the background noise I need. We also play Heroes 3 together and when it's not my turn, I build. It's awesome, I love that game! Especially the random map generator. Haven't played the sixth, but Heroes 5's random map generator wasn't nearly as good in my opinion.
I usually have some Youtube videos playing on the background or then I have a stream from Twitch.tv on. BR Agrem
I can't count how many times I literally jumped out of my seat when the Alien showed up and killed me. It's the scariest game i've played all year...besides a 2000 point Lizardmen game V.S. Dwarves where my Slann miscast his first two spells in turn 1 and killed 18 out of 20 Temple Guard by magical feedback
The weird thing is I found a way to "cheat" the scaryness out of the game. What did mid-way through the game was find a save point and somewhat freely check out the environment. If the alien spottet me I'd quickly check out what I needed. This way I would know where to expect the alien and I'd know how to quickly go through the section. The scary was still scary as hell though :3