#Like I've played other gachas before too.. But never up to 100 days..

[the--firevenus]

A HUNDRED DAY LOGGED IN!!!!!... Damn that's crazy, how did I get here

[cr-another-kingdom]

Sugar Note Cookie

Made of low-fat sugar, and accidentally stirred in full-sugar sprinkles, Sugar Note Cookie was baked and showed the world his attempts at rock 'n roll! Of course, he's not perfect like any Cookie is, yet he yearns to be as good as Rockstar Cookie. Maybe he'll get inspiration with more sugar...

psst! theres more under the cut!

Quotes  ;

General

The show must go on.

Have you listened to Rockstar Cookie's newest album?

I will play this guitar, forevermore..

I prefer to listen to music most of the time.

Rock is my jam... and other music genres, I guess.

The names Sugar Note Cookie, uh, please don't forget it.

I'm still an up-and-coming musician...

My parents always told me I was musically talented.

One day I hope to meet Rockstar Cookie himself...!

Have you heard of this other musician lately? Parfait Cookie, I believe...

I don't see myself being as popular as other musicians.

Tired 

Bleeeh ...

Daily Gift

Here's a tune you'll like ...

Tap

Hello.

Do you want to hear a chord I just thought of?

Woo...!

Rockstar Cookie is my inspiration...

I want to be just as good as that Cookie...!

... ♪ ♫…

I want to run across the world to share my tunes... (Like hint)

Bright stage lights scare me... (Dislike hint)

Gift

Too sugary... but it's my favourite. (Given 100% Sugar Sprinkles)

Now every Cookie can hear my tunes... sick! (Given Breakout Ticket)

Bwah! Too bright...! (Given Gray Sugar Crystal)

Woah... Rockin... (Given Golden Royal Dough)

Thank you. (Neutral)

KINGDOM ;

Epic - Middle - Support

Made of low-fat sugar, and accidentally stirred in full-sugar sprinkles, Sugar Note Cookie was baked and showed the world his attempts at rock 'n roll! Of course, he's not perfect like any Cookie is, yet he yearns to be as good as Rockstar Cookie. Since debuting with some of his 'tunes', he's managed to catch the eye of quite a few Cookies—including Rockstar Cookie himself! And with the energy, will it really shine upon his heart and give him the courage he needs?

GACHA PREPULL  ;

Hello, everyone!

GACHA  ;

I'll play these tunes thousands of times..!

WISH  ;

If it will help me get better...

LOADING SCREEN  ;

Please don't make me regret this!

My melody can support us all!

I'll take em' head-on...!

Don't do anything too rash, okay?

Be careful! Please?

SKILL  ;

Hear my melody!

VICTORY  ;

Huh? Just like that?!

I hope my idol is proud of me...!

I did the best that I could!

DEFEAT  ;

Blehh...

... Maybe next time we'll rock...?

If I was just a bit better...

KNOCKOUT  ;

I failed...!

PROMOTION  ;

My dream is to be as great as Rockstar Cookie...

I could never truly preform any of my... 'Music'.

I still hope that I can get better!

This calls for a victory song!

Wow... have I gotten better...?!

ASCENSION  ;

This time...! with more courage!

Let's do this one more time...!

This calls for a victory song!

I still hope that I can get better!

I'm not perfect, but it doesn't hurt to try...!

LEVEL UP  ;

I've never had this before...

Sugary... Just like my dough...!

I think my Tunes just got better!

... Could I have some more, please...?

Is this what Rock Spirit is? Amazing...!

Too sugary... Almost like that one ingredient, ha ha!

I can be stronger for that special Cookie now...

Yayy...! I'm stronger now!

KINGDOM  ;

... Hello!

Just like you mean the whole world to me... ♪ ♫

Other Cookies have heard my Tunes...?! Wow...

Rockstar Cookie is my idol! I strive to be like him in the music industry...

My music? Oh, I call them Tunes instead.

♪ ♫ !

My body can live off of just sugar! Kind of cool, right?

Um... Wanna hear a chord I made?

Uh...! Have you heard Rockstar Cookie's new album?

... You're a Coconut, right? Haven't seen one for myself...!

Awawa... I can't believe Rockstar Cookie liked my song..!

COOKIE INFO  ;

I could never share my... 'Music'... to the world.

I dropped out of school for my Tunes!

New Cookies make me anxious, he he...!

My dream is to be like Rockstar Cookie...!

I used to be in the music club, then I learned about Rockstar Cookie's songs.

The spirit of rock...!

I admit, I'm not the best at much, he he..

I never leave my home without my full-sugar sprinkle toppings!

First day out of the oven... I showed my attempt at Rock 'n Roll!

I'm not gonna JUST rock out—I'm gonna EMBODY it!

Battling Alongside Rockstar Cookie  ;

R : Are you ready to ROCK?!

SN : Don't do anything rash, okay?

R : I know you've been waitin' for it!

SN : I'll play these tunes thousands of times...!

R : Let's hit the stage!

SN : I'm not perfect, but it doesn't hurt to try...!

[jeff-from-marketing]

So Baldur's Gate 3 has now fully released, and it kinda fucks?

Okay more than kinda, Baldur's Gate 3 should be the new standard for larger studios in terms of quality and, more importantly, how they treat players. I can't believe I'm saying that about a D&D game.

So for context to that last bit: I'm super fucking jaded on D&D. I've pretty much jumped ship entirely to any other TTRPG (namely Pathfinder 2e) because I hate how Wizards of the Coast have handled D&D 5e and how they treat their customers.

I fucking love Baldur's Gate 3. It's still got some of the D&D things I'm not overly fond of, but that's a personal taste thing, and overall this game fucking rules. Larian is really out here just making D&D a more fun experience than the actual Wizards of the Coast, it's honestly kinda wild.

But more than just in the context of "a D&D game" I want to talk about Baldur's Gate 3 in the larger scope of videogames as a whole, primarily in the triple A scene. There's a reason Baldur's Gate 3 is doing so well and why it's very quickly become so beloved, and it's not just because of the bear sex. That reason can be largely boiled down to "Larian respects their playerbase, and more importantly respects their money." Too often we're seeing games from big triple A companies that already have way too much fucking money just being absolutely filled beyond the brim with monetisation for something that's likely already $90-100 AUD. Or worse: games that borderline lie to you about how much they cost, Destiny 2 I'm fucking looking at you and your "genuinely the worst monetisation I have seen in a game." Or just straight up gacha games that are purpose built to fuck you out of your money and use similar tricks that the gambling industry uses to make money.

But Baldur's Gate 3? Pay the full price up front, and you get a full game. There's no hidden "gotcha!" monetisation, no battlepasses, no rotating digital storefront, no fake "premium" currency, no "but it's only cosmetic" microtransactions. I'm not even gonna gripe against their pre-order stuff like I normally would, because you could actually play the game before it was released. Baldur's Gate 3 was in Early Access for literal years before it fully released, and it used that time quite well! It's fascinating seeing where it came from and how much has changed since then. But more importantly: if you "pre-ordered" the game (read: buy it in Early Access) you could still play the game, you still immediately got something for your money. If you didn't like it, you could still refund it if you wanted to. As a nice little bonus: the game mostly just works! It's not perfect, there's some little oddities here and there, but I haven't had the game break yet. But then again, I'm one of the people who somehow managed to have a pretty bug-free Cyberpunk 2077 experience at launch, so who knows.

And plus it comes with couch co-op! Why is that so rare these days?? It feels like the only games you can really sit down with and play with friends these days are party games.

Of course, Baldur's Gate 3 isn't truly alone here. Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West have come out as full games with no monetisation BS and working fine, albeit stuck to PlayStation for a long time before releasing elsewhere (although BG3 is currently PC exclusive, though that should change next month). God of War, while I've not personally played, I haven't heard anything egregious about it. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is such a fun time, but at $125 AUD it's a hard sell, even knowing all the work that went into it (Though that did drop to just $95 AUD on PC). I'm even going to give Cyberpunk 2077 an honourable mention, because if you had a computer that could run it at launch it was still a damn good time. Though that one unfortunately came at the cost of "should never have been released on last gen consoles" and "worker abuse through crunch."

But all of those examples have the "pre-order to maybe get something" issue that Baldur's Gate 3 avoided through its Early Access launch. You also can't really share those games with friends. You can maybe let a friend borrow the game and then talk about it after you've both finished it in your own time, but that's kinda like watching a movie separately and then talking about it. It's just not the same. That's not even mentioning how small that list is. I'd say it's just single player games, but both Bethesda and Ubisoft have shown even they're not safe.

I haven't seen any game from a large studio respect the player as much as I have with Larian and Baldur's Gate 3. I definitely don't feel bad paying full price for this one. Once they're wrapped up with BG3, I don't suppose I could bribe them to make a Pathfinder game? Pretty please? Already like halfway there with Divinity: Original Sin 2!

[rrelationshipadvice]

I've decided on leaving my partner for various reasons, a few being:

1) lack of showing interest in anything I like but pinging me & expecting me to pay attention to theirs. Literally watching me talk about things I like and proceeding to interrupt me/talk about something else while ignoring messages I sent hours earlier about something I like. zero engagement at all, no questions, no real encouragement past the same two compliments that have long since sounded completely hollow to me.

I understand that not everyone is expected to show the same enthusiasm for something that I do, but it feels like they dont care when I compare it against how I've encouraged other friends' projects/how I've listened to other friends talk about things they like & how other friends have encouraged & listened to me, especially when it comes to things they or I will never play or want to engage in as a media.

2) them holding onto very small conflicts we resolved months ago and casually mentioning how they still feel bad about it long after its solved which makes it difficult for me to bring up anything now

3) being financially irresponsible to the point that the one time I asked them for something- which was no more than $30 iirc- they didn't have the money for it. I had spent on them repeatedly in the past (they spent that money on gacha games because they didn't want to wait a few days longer to pull on something. It was time limited but not ending anytime soon, they very easily couldve waited, met their one obligation, and still been able to get the same shit out of that game. It did not go to something more important)

There's a bit more, but having sorted my thoughts and emotions, those are the big ones that came up in my mind again and again

If I were someone else these conflicts might be able to be solved, but I avoided bringing these up which is, of course, on me. Unfortunately my emotional state/opinion regarding them is now past the point of no return because every word they say irritates me and its been like this for a while. So that'll just have to be a lesson for future me to remember.

The really important part that I'm asking for advice on is how to go about it. It's a tricky situation since we're both borderline (just to clear up any confusion before it starts, im not the person who also had bpd that came through here earlier), and our primary communication is through discord since its a long distance relationship and they've been through a lot this year already (they lost three other friends in the last few months. I am now understanding why.) Both telling them straight up and blocking them without a word have their own drawbacks right now, being:

- The first friend to leave this year told my partner why & left and proceeded to get harassed on every platform alongside their friends & loved ones because my partner would not fucking stop trying to contact them. There were four people (all friends) including me telling my partner that this was not acceptable behavior and to stop but they were adamant on doing so and refused to listen to anyone. Afaik they were close to this person before they left so theres a good chance I could receive the same treatment too.

I probably shouldve taken this behavior as my sign to gtfo back then honestly, because I've been on the other end of shit like that before and it left me fucked up for a very long time. Something to add to my notes as a future 100% no questions asked dealbreaker i guess. I know its difficult with bpd considering I also have it, but the one thing I could never bear to do to someone no matter how much I hate them in the moment is evade blocks multiple times on multiple platforms trying to get them to talk to me.

I don't want my friends to have to deal with this (I havent actually told any of them that I'm planning/having thoughts of breaking up with my partner. I dont know how to go about that conversation either.) and I know that my partner knows at least two of their users and unfortunately discord has made it incredibly easy to find people through just usernames.

I've considered warning the ones im worried about getting targeted ahead of time so they can configure their settings/block my partner to avoid having to deal with any of it further down the line, but I dont know if my partner knows of their social medias too or would go so far as to make a tumblr just to harass them.

- That said, I know that ghosting/blocking without a word could go equally as badly- the most recent friend to leave did that but I don't have details on what occurred after because I was not mentally well enough to help at the time and dealing with my own unrelated breakdown. I'm probably wrong, but it makes this option seem much more appealing. I'll probably warn my friends and give them the user to block ahead of time either way, honestly.

They've said before that if someone leaves them (platonically or romantically) they want a reason but having seen what happened when the first person gave them one and left I'm not sure any reason or conversation that doesnt end with "ill give you another chance"/"ill stay" would be good enough for them. I honestly dont trust them not to try picking apart any reasons I give them rather than just accepting it

I just don't know where to go from here, any guidance at all would be much appreciated!!!

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[seelestia]

My oh my you're gonna bring me to tears as well my dear author :'''D (this is actually also the first time I'm being an anon for someone hehehe)

A special spot? Reserved?? For me???

NANI ?! :''O

Thank you so much for that- you just made my entire day for real :'D

Venti plus angst? Two of my favs given for free? I'd love nothing more :D but let's wait til you open requests so I can at least play fair with the other askers/requesters ehe ;))

Also ! With the upcoming update for Summer and the new characters, I don't have a lot to say apart from everything looks really pretty asdklglsonjrohr-

I don't have much to say since I unfortunately do not have a good enough the pc to run the game, and my phone is apparently not available to download the game in the play store :''D sadge

So I've never actually played the game myself, but just from someone who quietly lurks around the fandom and only really interacting with the Tumblr side of it- I'm excited for the lore and new fics the writers are gonna come up with :D

I'm not gonna lie, even if I am able to play the game, I wouldn't know where to start cuz it all seems kind of overwhelming what with the builds, strategies (?), Having to farm, the gacha system, and also the fact that I am a broke student which means if I play the game- I'll never be able to buy my way and just shortcut through the hard stuff :'D

But enough of my misfortunes- a quick question that I've just come up with, do you perhaps know or are aware of what SAGAU is? If so, care to share your thoughts my dear author? :D

- Ever so sincerely yours, 👹✨ anon <3

hehe, then i'm glad to be your trial author of some sort fkekkwkd !! you're super duper nice and i always look forward to chatting with you, so i'd say you excel at being an anon! 100/10 recommendedヾ( ˃ᴗ˂ )◞♡

when i open my requests again in the future, i'll definitely be expecting you~ after i finish my current requests, i'm planning on making a milestone event soon tho !! i'm taking my time to decide the theme fjejsksk maybe it'll be a matchup event of some kind but we'll see >:)

so true, no more details needed except for pretty 🙏 dw about not being able to play the game~ sometimes, living thru other types of experiences are enough to drag you into the blackhole !! i was like that with genshin too when xiao just came out before i said darn it and started playing during april last year hfjejdek but true true, genshin can be overwhelming with the various features and storages, so just leave it to genshinblr to give you the news and updates! ;D

yes, i do !! one of my moots, @/meimeimeirin actually writes super good SAGAU stuff~ the concept of characters being aware that they're inside a screen or the reader being isekai'd into teyvat in the place of a divine/respected figure is vv interesting 👀 that sense of 'corruptedness' and the feeling of something being out of place really get you hanging onto the edge of your seat !!

wbu, anon??? what do you think of the au and do you have any recs maybe??? feel free to share! >:)