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skullhazard · 1 year ago

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"Pathologic 1 is so hard, the combat is so clunky and quirky." "It's just a bunch of walking around, it's so boring." "I can't manage meters or get a grip on the item economy."

Look, I didn't expect that I would ever play Pathologic 1 and so I can't rightly say I've been going into it blind. I know a lot of what happens in Bachelor's Route (the only route I've played so far, which itself calls into question my assessment of the game's difficulty) due to watching various videos about the game. Even when I'm not trying to take advantage of foreknowledge, I somehow did that by accident when I went to Vlad the Younger on Day 8 for the new plague district map, and it started a side quest.

I don't think this invalidates my experience or perspective on the game. I would like to think we're all well past the point of questioning usage of things like guides and walkthroughs in order to have the "Objectively Correct" experience of a game. I've consulted one whenever I've run into some technical hiccup (Mark wouldn't let me ask him about the costumes even though I had the letter from Artemy requesting one) and while it does provide more help than a "pure" playthrough would have, really it's just saving me time and quickloads (which I've been doing anyway). I've loaded a save entirely just to make sure I leave a district in the right direction, because it turned out 30 seconds later someone sent me a letter requesting an audience, and I'd have had to backtrack, wasting precious time.

The game is certainly hard if you never quicksave or restrict yourself to saving only in certain circumstances (this is what they did for Pathologic 2 and I thought it was brilliant and added a new layer to the strategy of playing that game), but the tools are there, and while they don't solve the game for you, they make it far easier than it would otherwise be.

As for the combat and walking: the combat is just basic fps melee combat (or combat with unsatisfying guns); the walking is only monotonous if you have trouble immersing yourself in a world and your character. The thing that actually got me to play both Pathologic 2 and now Pathologic 1, was playing the early access game Shadows of Doubt. They're entirely different games in terms of art style, intention, gameplay, and goals, but they have a lot of similarities like needing to manage a human person's bodily functions and emphasizing first-person exploration of municipal environments, with various objectives, item economies, and a de-emphasis on typical "fps" trappings.

I'm currently on the tail end of Day 8 for Bachelor, and of everything I've played so far, I will say Pathologic 2 is the better game that I'd recommend over Pathologic 1, but Pathologic 1 is fun and entertaining in ways that only games from its era could be.

#skull hazard plays pathologic 1

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parksprout · 16 days ago

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Sprout Journal 11/8/24

Hey guys! Probably a smaller journal than usual today, but I feel like I end up saying that (or at least thinking it, idk if I actually mention it) quite a bit while writing these and then I always end up writing more than I expected. Today was a really straight forward day! I didn't do a whole heck of a lot, and not a bunch exciting happened which... is a bit of a breath of fresh air to be fully honest. This might be the first truly mundane day I've had since my breakup, I think I'm basically at the point of emotional regularity again. That doesn't mean that like all of the sudden there's no pain in my life, quite the opposite actually, rather it means that I have looked at my pain and I have decided how best to address it! I'm working realllyyyy hard on myself at the moment, and I think that's the best way to deal with things! School was a blur today. None of my classes were normal. My Spanish class was really tense and we didn't actually cover much material - we were much more focused on talking about the election. As much as I hate taking the actual course due to the weird online textbook and the high volume of work, my Spanish professor himself is a really genuine man and a good teacher. He cancelled class on Wednesday, and today he sat down with us and talked about the election results. He's obviously unhappy, and he expressed a lot of disappointment towards other voters similar to him. He said that a lot of his cousins are men who immigrated to the United States but now want to close the door behind them, which he personally doesn't understand. We ended class early today, so afterwards I actually stuck around to talk to him for a little. I didn't want to talk politics but it's obvious that he's hurting a lot so... I talked about music with him!

He's aspiring to find the time to learn bass just like I am, but he actually has such a fortunate head start on me haha. His cousin is the current bassist for Dance Gavin Dance!! He actually told me that like a week ago or something, but it was day two of my breakup and oh my god I was not ready to talk about it then - I almost broke no-contact with my partner Bnuuy IMMEDIATELY upon hearing that information. Anyways he was grateful for that After Spanish, creative writing class was fine! We talked about writing preferences; tenses and perspectives specifically. I also talked with one of my classmates about photography! I shared that I am looking for the right shots to take right now to send to The Bnuuy (ominous music plays in the distance) and how difficult it is to make the decision to capture a moment when your film is limited! It's an exercise in restraint, honestly. The rest of the class went fine! Anthropology got cancelled, so I went to the library and got comfy while finishing my final preparations for my Archaeology presentation! Truth be told I was surprisingly nervous. I wrote most of the presentation when like ... I was literally a different person. That sounds strange to say, but it's true - my brain chemistry has changed in the past two weeks since I made those slides, it was like reading any work by a stranger. But I managed to present it just fine, albeit a bit zoned out through my own content. Gosh what else I went to the gym at school again tonight! It was suppeerrrr exhausting but I think I'm hitting a real flow of things now. I did my longest run so far: 30 minutes straight, the only times I even slowed down was to skip ads on the Legend of Zelda 2 Game Grumps playthrough I was watching. After that I made my way through most of the weight machines! This one girl kept giving me a super aggressive stink eye though :( I really don't know what I did to upset her? It was a lil disheartening, especially considering I already get super anxious working out in public. But yeah! Now I technically have a bunch of homework to be doing, but absolutely NO energy to do it. I think instead I'll take care of it while I'm at work tomorrow and just suffer the consequences of some late penalties. Whatever, I'm a good student I promise That's all for tonight! Nothing too exciting, just my life in academia. I love you all! <3 have a good night tumblr

#sproutposting #sproutjournals #journaling #journal

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valkyrie-sdv · 7 months ago

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tailor challenge: part 1

starting this challenge! i've been thinking about it for awhile. the basic premise is to collect every single clothing item in the game, while primarily earning money only through selling accessories (shoes, rings, trinkets) and cloth. see the carrd for the challenge for info!

liveblog under the read more.

i've already figured out my farmer in advance, and i even created a hair just for her. i'm starting with the meadowlands farm since it starts with a dresser for storing clothes and accessories! i'm also doing remixed bundles and remixed mine rewards. i made a page already with all my mods for this run. since i've played stardew a bunch, i've added some mods that add more dialogue and events, plus that put a limit on how many events i can see per day. i also added a mod that makes it harder to gain friendship. i figure with all of these things, plus with this likely being a longer run, it'll help keep the game fresh for me.

anyway!! sunday. i've made a page talking about her in more depth here for anyone interested. i'm intending on thinking a lot about how she reacts to things during this playthrough, so i'll be making references to her at times.

soon... god it's going to take a bit before i can get my hands on some cloth to actually use this!!

also at the bottom-right you can see that i'm running the survivalistic mod that makes me have to manage hunger/thirst values. i discovered that if my values are low enough, it also starts dragging down my energy. so day one has actually been a little terrifying when i only have a few foraged items to start!

was fortunate enough to already find an artifact today... money is going to be soooo tight in this run, since i'm also really not shipping anything except cloth. in the rules i'm allowed to ship things to get the achievements (since i also need to get perfection to get one of the final hats!), but that means just one of each shipped item, and only extras to get monoculture, polyculture, and things for quests/special orders. so it's going to be tough. it's making me think about things really differently than i would normally, though.

like for example, i got a daffodil which i can ship. but since i can only ship one, i'm better off waiting until i get a gold or iridium one since then it's at least slightly more gold for my one shipment.

unlike so many other characters, emily's immediately warm. between that, the fact that she has a job, and that she invited sunday to see her at the bar, she is immediately paying attention to her. plus, she has the sewing machine. she wants access to that!!

honestly, i'm not an emily fan personally, so writing sunday in such a way that she would end up in a relationship with her has been a challenge. i tackled that a little bit on sunday's page on this blog, because while i'm planning on having sunday marry emily (so she can get the clothing locked behind her 14-heart event), i'm definitely going to have them get divorced afterwards.

day two started with sunday already almost starving, which means she could pass out. especially since hunger being that low drags down her energy. survivalistic really does make this feel a lot tougher at the very beginning!!

rather than doing anything farming-related, sunday had to book it to the docks ASAP to meet willy so she could get the fishing rod. finally, easier access to food!!

alex, please 😭 i can't get over all his new egg-related dialogue!!!

sunday is so messy that she's immediately internally making a list of all the people in pelican town with stable jobs.

first achievement... soon: hat mouse.

end of spring 2 got sunday to level 2 fishing since she had to fish so much to keep up her hunger/thirst levels!

of course the first help wanted quest that was actually possible to achieve was one from emily. somehow.

by the end of spring 3, sunday already got all the way up to level 5 fishing somehow 😭 i was so determined to get joja cold for both emily and sam...

i keep thinking that since sunday is often hanging around the river south of his place to fish, she just keeps running into sam and chatting with him. of course she'll give him a joja cola if she finds one. i keep thinking that unlike shane, she doesn't mind joja cola? calories are calories and she can't afford to be picky. so she'll probably drink them with sam if he's hanging around.

joja corporation was sunday's dead-end job she was working, so while she doesn't feel strongly about the community centre itself, she definitely makes a decision after hearing about this that she can't get a membership at joja. she's already avoiding the shops as much as possible, so no real difference, right? she has too little money to begin with.

average response to sunday.

encountered an interesting thing here. today is the day that the mines are finally open. but one of the mods i'm using is event limiter, which i downloaded because i wanted my events to be more spread out—particularly after events like the luau that really raise friendship levels a ton, where you usually end up bombarded with a ton of events the next day. i have it configured to only allow one event per day. so since i already saw the event with the community centre, now i can't get the one with marlon to get the sword until tomorrow.

it definitely makes me feel like i get to take my time a bit more.

partially because of that, it meant i got to spend the day fishing again. also because demetrius posted a quest to get four carp. so now i have the mother catch achievement.

finished day five, and got to level 6 fishing, and level 2 foraging. i've barely been able to ship anything so far just because of the limitations i set, and how i'm trying to be strategic about when i ship the few things i have! i've actually been keeping a spreadsheet just out of curiosity to see just how little money i make from different categories.

day 6: finally got the rusty sword from marlon.

hanging out and fishing near sam's place again. i'm using an unofficial update of the mod friendship tweaks, which allows you to configure how quickly or slowly you want to progress friendships. i have mine set at (iirc) 0.25x the normal level, so you can see that with talking every day and giving two gifts to sam this week, i only have the tiniest fraction of a heart.

trying to get his three-heart event may genuinely be an issue at this rate, but we'll see 😭 that's the only event i get tense about since it's possible to miss...

OH, cute, i like that lewis comments about this... i can't remember if this is the new dialogue from concernedape or if it's some new dialogue added by one of the dialogue mods i installed.

spending some time in the mines, finally... i think that sunday spends a lot of time here, since she isn't great with self-preservation, and there's a lot of cool things she can find, so it feels worth it to her. PLUS: finally got my first clothing item other than the ones from character creation!!

i also managed to get a new weapon while down in the mines, but since i can't earn money from weapons in this run, into the trash my old one goes.

with day 6 over: finally got to level 1 farming, then level 7 fishing (SOMEHOW??), and level 1 mining.

i was going to visit the wizard today, but when i stepped outside, i triggered a clint event. so event limiter has decided i still can't talk to the junimos yet today!

at least i have a furnace now.

sunday managed to scrounge up a birthday gift for lewis, even if it was just a liked one. a parsnip, since he mentioned it to her.

sunday is absolutely taking notes.

and current breakdown of clothing items i have as of the end of the first week... this is definitely going to be a long run. also total gold earned: 840g, mostly from quests.

#valkyrie plays stardew valley #stardew valley #stardew valley challenge

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zydrateacademy · 10 months ago

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Current Activities in Gaming #229

So the Crimson Fleet in Starfield is actually very well worth doing on most playthroughs assuming you're not trying to burn through another run at Unity (main story skip or not). It rewards a whopping quarter-mil, regardless of what side you choose and near the corpse of an old pirate lord is a legendary named Magshear. Now legendary effects in this game seem to be fairly random across the board (not sure if that's an effect of mods or not), the first time I got it, it had a double clip. So 150 bullets on a Magshear is huge. An absolute beast of a weapon.

I want to try the Fleet again but as an actual criminal and I'm curious about how pissed the companions get. Or just make sure everyone is off my ship and goes home before doing that questline in its entirety.

The interesting thing I found about the Fleet is that it's basically significantly better at stealth design than Ryujin is. I know big games like this have a multitude of teams, so it's very clear there were different teams. In the Fleet, you have to literally wear disguises or you'll be stopped by NPCs. Multiple missions have you duck and weave, generally without even overtly going stealth mode, like you don't have to crouch around and stuff. But more like you just need to do the mission "correctly" and you undergo multiple full blown heists. An early one has you steal some kind of award trophy, in front of an NPC sitting at a chair. But if you dive behind her, pickpocket the key, you can open the door without her making a fuss. Like an actual stealth game. It... is a bit odd how she can basically just watch you pilfer that entire room. Glass wall and all. I think it is marked as stolen, the whole room, but not trespassing. So you do need to sneak but not like, the entire time.

I enjoyed it.

I also did the Rangers and I had an impression that it was YET ANOTHER "no-kill" ruleset but man they didn't give a FUCK. Right away I blast some mercenaries trying to take someone's farm and no shits were given. At the very end of the questline, turns out some very highly ranked asshole arranged the whole thing. It was either take his 20k offer (50k if you have the Negotiation perk) or fight. I was doing an ethical run at first so I refused and it led to combat, killed the guy, and was later congratulated for it. This is long after the Marshal told me to toe the line and be careful when speaking to him. There's even a moment late in the questline where you have a sit-down and they basically review all your actions up to that point. I was playing it pretty aggressively, blasting my way through mercs, and was extolled for it.

I'm not sure where that impression I had came from. But once again as long as you're not a braindead murderhobo and only shoot when you need to (even if you initiate [Attack] dialogs), you come out of that questline pretty clean.

For the Fleet, I know the commander has some words for you if you go in those missions and start blasting but if you end up betraying them anyway then who cares. I'm gonna try it on my current playthrough.

Not saying my current playthrough is my "last", but I will be holding off on Unity for a while. Got a bunch of mining outposts set up, will do a couple of the questlines off-camera and will eventually record for my Youtube... all the various side quests and odd jobs that pop up just by travelling around. Often NPC's you are sprinting by will mention "hey this guy's looking for some work" and a side quest or activity will pop up in your log. So that will be the subject of my later episodes.

I might not have much left to say after that point.

I'm visiting the nexus every day, because I'm always picking up Quality of Life stuff. I keep my eyes out for weapons and armor, which this game sorely needs to let loose in the coming modding tools. So much that's available is just reskins and recolors. A lot of replacers too. I don't want to replace all that much, I want to add onto what's there.

But at 140 hours I'm not in "cooldown" mode quite yet because there's still a bunch of side stuff I want to experience. But I'm getting there.

#Starfield #Bethesda #bethesda softworks #gaming #pc gaming

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dzpenumbra · 1 year ago

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6/14/23

Caught up on sleep today. Even with only 7 hours, the difference is absolutely night and day. Did yoga and today's exercise routine which was pretty upper body heavy. This one pushed me close to my limits. I still find it weird that I'm getting to the point of where my muscles kinda go weak and give out, but I still don't get sore. It's just odd to me.

I played a bunch of Rimworld. Kinda just spaced out and absorbed things on my secondary monitor as the game played itself. I always forget how much I love that game, it pulls me in so deeply. I could draw a map of the colony from memory at this point. I'm playing a Sanguophage scenario on Blood and Dust difficulty, pretty heavily modded, and I'm playing around with a map that's an island in the middle of a lake. It's challenging because you have limited area to build on, and getting to resources on the main landmass can be slow-going, but it offers extra security being completely surrounded by water. I'm starting to construct bridges too, so I can control the flow of where raids, caravans and my colonists go. I think having a big stockpile of wood for repairs would be good, then if raids start getting rough I can just put an incendiary IED on the bridge and let them blow it, to cut their own reinforcements off, then rebuild it after.

I've always played by sorta... making one general common room and then just expanding a complex off of that. So the whole colony is one giant building, basically. Then making walls and bunkers around that for extra security. But... I've been trying to break out of that lately, and build more realistically. I'm trying to build separate structures, and dedicated power for individual structures too, so that I can sorta... break dependency on a centralized power grid. At least to start, I'm curious how it's going to play out. But... this building style is much more space demanding... and I'm on a small island... so that limitation is going to likely keep population pretty low.

I'm tempted, as always, to record another playthrough. To make a story out of it, since it's always a story anyways. It's a little late for that, but... I'm tempted to do one in the format of journals kept in the colony. So the footage shows the events, and the journal is read as voiceover, reflecting on the events as we watch them unfold. I like the idea. I'm not crazy about the work involved. But hell, it's better than just playing and not making a series.

What I don't want to do is... play on stream and get backseated. I am so fucking eternally grateful that people can't fucking spoil a randomly generated game, I swear to god I will never play a game with a narrative on stream ever again. People are just children. I really don't understand it. What the fuck is the deal with people and spoilers. Or thinking they're being coy with spoilers, like "ohh... :D why don't you find out? <wink wink>" or... "ohh... this part PEPW" I just can't. It ruins it. It absolutely ruins it. The whole point of a story, a narrative, is... it's meticulously designed (or at least it's supposed to be...) with something called "pacing". Well crafted stories give you information at a deliberate pace, there's an art to it, you see what you're supposed to see, as a way of controlling the reveal. Feeding information like that ahead of time literally ruins the effect and intention of the entertainment medium. Permanently. You get no second try to see something for the first time. It is mindblowing to me that people who appreciate this medium of storytelling so much that they not only consume it themselves, but watch other people consume it as well... don't actually understand how it works. Or maybe they're just sadists. I don't really know which is worse.

Needless to say, I'm having doubts about playing games on stream if I get back into streaming. It's been crossing my mind again lately. Mostly because... I don't have Mods. It's really fucking hard to fluidly play a game, play tech support for your own stream, tell an in-depth improvised story and babysit full-grown adults with impulse problems who have been told multiple times to cut the shit and stop trying to control the damn stream. It tests my nerves, which I really don't like. I had tried really hard to be patient and nice to these people over the years. I explained at length to several of them exactly why backseating is shit. Why it ruins the playthrough, I even put "No Backseating" as a tag. It's really important. I need to fuck up. I need to forget things. Say someone drops in a transport pod and they're bleeding out and need to be rescued and they would make a great addition to the colony, and I go "okay, I'll get right to that" and wrap up some shit first, but I get distracted and that person bleeds out. That's big. That's an important plot point. That completely changes the story. I'd say... 1/3 of the story is what the game randomly generates. 1/3 is what I input into it as part of playing the game, the decisions I make and things I miss. And 1/3 of it is how I connect the dots to stitch a narrative. Those may not be even thirds, but all three are crucial components, and when one is compromised, the others (and the whole) suffer.

So, in the past, I made it very clear to people - because they do have good intentions, they're just approaching it like... helping someone solve a crossword puzzle, not like watching a movie... - I made it clear to people that periodically I will consult chat for their input on what they think we should do in certain circumstances, so they do get some input in how the story plays out. Anything outside of that, no. Pretty easy system to understand. But I still had regular problems, which is where a mod would come in.

Anyway... yeah, clearly streaming again is on my mind. I'm just hesitant. Same old reasons. Might just do it for fun just to prove to myself that it's not the end of the world.

I've been trying to connect the dots to get here. I did more work on the digital piece again today. The one I was getting bad vibes about. I went back in and deleted the prototype texture layers and made newer bigger ones, and it looks much better. But this piece is going to take fucking forever. Which, of course... led me to thinking about streaming it. Especially if I'm trying to get away from RP streams. I've actually detoxed off them pretty well lately. Mostly because the balance on the server just went to shit. It's 1985 and they're selling crowbars for over $70. $9 for a slice of pizza. "Immersion"... Every beat of how fucked the economy is on that server, a direct reflection of all the current problems going on today. Depressing. Seriously though, it really kills immersion in a setting that's specifically trying to capture a certain time period. Like... there are real-life price points for reference... But if you get a player base that knows that a crowbar is a game mechanic tool that is required to break open ATMs... and you have a server that allows players to own all hardware stores in the game and set the prices... You'd really hope they'd actually... roleplay like it's real life... and not take into consideration that these are the only tool you can use for that particular crime... You know, because it's roleplay... not a competitive video game... right? I mean surely they wouldn't be taking the fact that crowbars are the only tool for that specific criminal job into consideration when they jack the price of them... right? Right? <exasperated sigh> People just can't fucking help themselves. So yeah, it's kinda stressful to watch how much OOC and meta shit is going on in that server right now. Only took a month, well done people.

But yeah, as I was saying... before I got derailed for the thousandth time... I have been considering streaming my digital art because it would be easy as fuck. All I have to do is figure out the audio routing and I should be fine to just play tunes. And I have a ton of work left to do, so... plenty of material to work with. As long as I don't have to deal with DMCA bullshit, that's all I care about. I can break up the monotony with Session or Risk of Rain or even Noita. I can make it work.

So... the digi piece is coming along well. And this was after a false start with the pair of shorts I was going to ink a design into. It started with an image from the Papyrus of Ani with Anubis weighing the heart against the feather of Ma'at. And... I got sidetracked trying to translate the hieroglyphs... then subsequently getting myself back on track and trying to put a sketch on the pants but... the idea I wanted to do was put the design over the cargo pocket on these khaki colored shorts. I ironed the pants as flat as I could get, but I couldn't get the pencil sketch to show up visibly enough for me to be comfortable working with it. Then I went to a plan B, doing a sketch of an image of Thoth from the same Papyrus, sorta standing next to the cargo pocket... but it was just kinda weird location with it on the top and inner thigh of the pants... so I kinda scrapped the idea. I hate scrapping ideas, but I just don't think it's gonna work with these pants. I'll keep brainstorming and come up with something eventually.

After I finished working on the digital piece, I started throwing together my simple mala necklace. And... I don't know how I feel about it, honestly. It's... very simple. Like... 13 Tiger's Eye beads on a white-dyed piece of hemp. And I was going to knot them about an inch and a half apart. And that was going to be it. But... it's just... much more simple than I was envisioning. It kinda feels like it's... too simple. I like the white and different colored Tiger's Eye contrast. I like the idea of the knots. The spacing seems good enough that I don't have to put on a clasp, I can just make it a closed loop. I'm just tempted to fill the space between the stones with wooden beads. But if I do that... it's going to be a lot of them. I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking it and I should just make it, and if I don't like it after I finish it... I can just untie the knots and re-make it.

So yeah, that's kind where I'm at today. Lots of creativity today, happy about that. And not a lot of anxiety, which is nice. I think I only got anxious one time, watching some analysis video of The Matrix and realizing it came out... 24 fucking years ago... and that just... yeah. Oh boy... I remember being in middle school when that came out, I remember my friends would come over and we'd watch it in my family's living room on VHS. I think... I think that was before DVD was big. Yeah, I guess when I put it that way it was a long time ago... XD

Alright, enough rambling, tarot time because I want a shower before bed.

Past - VII: The Chariot, inverted (Taking action; setting goals and remaining focused. Approaching obstacles with strategy, tenacity and courage.) Present - Page of Swords, inverted (Childlike awe and wonder, epiphany. Encountering wisdom but unable to process it. Keen intellect, strong will, but lacks context and experience.) Future - Five of Wands (Competition, disagreement, strife, and the accompanying need to step up to the challenge, prove yourself and see it through.)

I'm going to keep my placeholder card hidden from me for now, I'm curious to see if it's relevant at the end of the reading.

This thread starts with The Chariot, inverted. I've kept glancing at The Chariot on my index in my Tarot Study doc for a few days now, it's one of the few of the Major Arcana that I hadn't gotten yet with this deck. In this position, I think this would kinda represent... struggling to put things into action, being hesitant and restrained. Like something is holding me back, and seeing courage pop up in that resonated a lot.

This is connected to a card I've gotten a few times recently, the Page of Swords, this time inverted. The Page of Swords feels to me like the image of someone really excited and inspired, but clumsy and inexperienced. And I'm kinda getting the vibe of... stuck with this one.

And this leads to... Five of Wands. Conflict... more specifically competition, I guess. Those are different things. Being challenged by others and having to rise to meet that challenge. Which I, being a very strict pacifist (aka "pussy"), have been deeply struggling with for a long time. But standing by your creations, your expressions, is an important part of being yourself in society. It's standing up for yourself.

So... my hesitation to move forward due to fear and kinda... being a bit disorganized... is leading to me being stuck in this state where I feel very knowledgeable and inspired, but very clumsy and naive... and this leads to being challenged by others, and having to defend myself. There's a definite trend of courage leading from origin to end here. Courage to drive The Chariot, courage to fail/learn as the Page of Swords, courage to stand up and prove yourself as the Five of Wands. If I were more courageous in The Chariot stage, there would be much more stability to work off of. If there was more courage in the Page, the slips and fuck-ups wouldn't be setbacks, merely bumps in the road. And all of that courage is essential for Five of Wands, in the end.

The placeholder card I had was Queen of Pentacles. A new one for me with a really long description that I skimmed through, but didn't really gather any of it because I really have to pee. Meh, points for trying. I'm off to bed.

#diary #journal #online journal #stream of thoughts #stream of consciousness

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apompkwrites · 4 years ago

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Hi, I discovered your blog an hour ago and I fell in love with it. Your writing is amazing! I love the idea of 'Reader Impact', it's very original and it would be an amazing series. Also, I can't stop thinking about either Aether or Lumine playing Genshin Impact (yes, I'm a simp for the twins) and simping for the reader through all the playthrough.

reader impact || first meeting: traveler edition

series masterlist characters: aether, lumine genre: fluff summary: a game has been released entitled genshin impact, consisting of otherworldly abilities relying on the basic elements of nature. the game follows the story of an interdimensional traveling twin in search of their other half. along this journey, they meet different characters that live in this world. including you. notes: the twins are amazing and that’s that <3

aether's playthrough -

i like to think he's the softer one of the twins.

like, lumine is the one to beat someone up while aether wants to talk things out.

aether and lumine definitely stream together.

catch them playing little nightmares 2 together and lumine being the one to play most of the time.

fit checks at the beginning of the stream.

please he needs validation :((

anyway since genshin is primarily a single-player game, the twins can't really play together for the first part of the game.

they'd still play together, though!

they will start the game together and end the game together.

they're super excited to see that there are twins as the mc.

aether is not prepared for the start of the game.

please he jumps when he sees the main god appear.

now comes the fateful decision of which twin to choose.

aether picks you automatically because he just really likes you.

your scarf is so cute and your wings are so cute and--

he feels guilty when your twin is taken away :((

he really can't imagine the feeling where you lose your other half right in front of your very eyes.

"(twin/name)!"

he's rooting for you when you attack the god but he knows you won't beat her because there wouldn't be a game if you did.

"wait! don't go! give my (brother/sister) back! please!"

he will cry, don't test him.

he really likes your voice.

it's just really soothing for him to listen to.

when the game starts, he'll just jump around the beach for a few minutes.

"look! look at their scarf!"

he likes the physics of the clothes whenever your character moves.

he's just so giddy!!

lumine is teasing him but he doesn't care.

his chat really wants to know why he likes you so much.

and honestly? he just does.

you're cute and that's that.

he's sad he doesn't get to hear you talk that often though :((

he's like a little puppy please talk!

his chat doesn't like to see him sad so whenever they can, they tell him about the voicelines in your character profile.

honestly, they don't expect him to get that excited.

but he is and now he's obsessed.

he can and will make your voicelines a daily part of his life.

anyway, back to the actual storyline.

he gets scared by dvalin because he doesn't want you to get hurt.

"aren't they, like... professional adventurers?"

"yeah, but... i don't want them to get hurt."

LET HIM LOVE YOU

anytime there is a long silence during the stream, aether will cut in and just compliment you out of the blue.

like it's dead quiet except for the game.

you can hear aether's character (you) running through the grass.

"they're really cute."

aND HIS CHAT IS GOING WILD

anyway, he gets further into the game and him and lumine have top-tier characters.

even though he has a bunch of new four and five star characters...

hE JUST CAN'T LEAVE YOU BEHIND.

you will always be in his party, no questions asked.

and then he learns you can have different elements.

he doesn't care which one you have because you'll look cool with any one of them!

he soon gets used to your silence whenever something happens.

he appreciates the noises you make every so often when you're traveling because that's all he gets.

until the end of the liyue mission.

"name your price. you deserve that much."

"we still need to find our twin..."

you guys are in sync at this point istg--

"well... could you help me put up some missing person posters...?"

you've done it.

you've killed aether.

now his chat and lumine are laughing at him.

lumine's playthrough -

like i said before, lumine's the "tougher" of the twins.

it's not like she's a tomboy type, she just is more... confrontational.

she likes to stand up for herself.

we love a strong woman.

anyway, games.

she and aether tend to do more story-based games because they like the banter that comes with it.

her viewers are... different compared to her brothers, but she doesn't let that stop her!

the chat's exactly what you'd expect from a strong female streamer... unfortunately.

once again, lumine and aether stream the game together but with different playthroughs.

while aether chooses your sibling, lumine chooses you!

she really likes your outfit, ngl.

you. are. adorable. any other opinion is invalid to lumine.

"(twin/name)!"

YOUR SIBLING LOOKS SO SAD STOP--

and they're gone.

she's actually yelling at you to defeat the god, but obviously, it doesn't work.

"stop! give my (brother/sister) back!"

as much as she loves to tease her brother, she'd feel devastated if she were in your position.

if you have flowers just like lumine, she will purposely get matching ones and wear them for genshin streams.

WHY ARE YOU SO CUTE

anyway, she loves your fighting style.

if it's graceful and calculated, she loves watching your scarf flow behind you while you fight hilichurls.

if it's reckless and wild, she'd admire you for being so tough :0

lumine still teases aether for being so smitten over his twin, but she'd be just as guilty.

they'd rant on and on after ending the game about how cute and cool you are.

surprisingly, she'd be the one to point out the slight difference in the twins.

once lumine and aether can play together in the same world, she'd have them stand side by side and attack just to explain the differences.

like how your twin uses the opposite hand in every attack.

or how your elemental skills are animated differently along with different voicelines.

also, she'd argue with aether about which twin is better.

her side of the stream would definitely start with some of your voicelines.

she wouldn't go as far as to use your lines for alarms in her daily life but she'd definitely use them for her stream.

she loves gliding around teyvat with you.

"look at how cute they are when they're flying!!"

you are her main dps, no questions asked.

her sub dps wouldn't get as much attention,,,

and once you unlock the other elements, she is prepared.

any character she has that matches your element, you get their artifacts.

she will buff you no matter what element you use.

just like aether, she wished you would talk more but she wouldn't be devastated.

her chat would tell her not to worry because you'll talk soon.

she's kind of annoyed they told her but she can't help but feel really excited for that special moment.

"name your price. you deserve that much."

"well... could you help me put up some missing person posters?"

"please tell me someone's already clipped that."

even if she wants you to talk more, she can't help but feel like these scenes are special when they pop up. <3

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HELLO EVERYONE I'M GOING TO RAMBLE ABOUT MY COMFORT CHARACTER!!!

It's 00:35 as of starting to write this, I'm tired and don't really care enough to stop myself from writing like a crazy person. So uhm... Sorry.

YOU SEE THIS GUY? THIS THIS THIS ABSOLUTE PERFECT BOY IN MY EYES???

This is Blandon, a character from the yo-kai series/franchise thing. And despite not getting his own episode segment until episode 206 of the anime in Feb 2018 (which is... what 4 years okay now? Okay that's a long time ago but still)

He might have a weird voice in the games, but he (and Dimmy, presumably Nul too) bitch slap people as a soultimate. So all is forgiven. (Also Nul doesn't sound okay at all, #sendhelpforNul)

I love him. More than most fans do, I can't explain it really. But it's probably due to nostalgia. When I first got the first Yokai Watch game, Dimmy caught the interest of my 10 year old self.

'Purple ninja, that looks kind of cute? Nice!' I befriended him, and evolved him into Blandon. And little me lost my marbles. Blandon was the peak of epicness in my eyes. And ever since then I've used Blandon whenever I can.

Please acknowledge Blandon's cool design, I think it's cool, the combo of Black, Purple, Red and Gold/Yellow works well.

I don't remember a playthrough where I didn't use him, when I got the second game I spent ages finding Dimmy. In Blasters, I spent ages trying to befriend Dimmy as well.

So, yeah. I like this scroll boy a lot. I also like Dimmy and Nul a bunch too! Ironically, out of their Yo-kai medals, I like Blandon's medal the least. To be honest, to me it looks like the poor thing is being sucked into a hoover/vacuum. Nul makes me feel even more sympathetic for the poor thing who's sitting sadly on the swing. And Dimmy's medal is by far my favourite, it's very pretty!

Also, I found a video of episode 206 on youtube, and translated the Blandon segment from Malay. I'm going to try and basically describe what happens.

We're skipping the school part, because that's boring.

Nate is looking around with his yo-kai watch, looking for the yokai responsible for everyone ignoring him! Whisper is about to say the typical 'there's no way a yo-kai is responsible for this!!' thing but says something along the lines of: "What are you talking about? No Yo-kai... Damn. I always say that."

Which is funny to me.

ANYWAYS they begin walking, Jibanyan sees/senses another Yo-kai, Nate looks around desperately but can't find where this yo-kai is.

Blandon is like "I'm here lol" and fades into existence to our heroes shock. Nate's like 'Whisper who the heck is this???' Dunno Nate, kind of looks like the ninja guy from episode 8 and that Gorgeous Ambassador episode don't you think?

Whisper uses the holy yo-kai pad, and they discover Blandon makes people practically invisible! (Which is also Dimmy's inspiritment in the games, but in the anime, it was changed for some reason? Seriously why was it changed? I have no idea.)

Whisper looks back and is like 'Wait where did he go?' and TURNS OUT NEITHER NATE NOR JIBANYAN WERE PAYING ATTENTION BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FIND HIM NOW EITHER! Mood honestly.

Blandon, poor thing, hasn't even moved a centimetre from his spot. Says something along of the lines of (remember this is a probably bad translation using google translate): "I'm here all the time. As you can see my presence is not felt. Even though I'm near them, no one notices me. Sometimes, it makes me know secrets I shouldn't have. It's very troublesome."

Makes me realize Blandon probably knows a lot of things he shouldn't purely by being there at the wrong time and nobody noticing, probably the same for those he inspirits.

He also mentions people are hunting him for his skills and trying to use him. (assumingly the skill of being unnoticeable)

Then Injurnalist appears, snatches Blandon and the two vanish. Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan don't do anything to try to stop him or his fake articles/rumours. That's kind of sad, to be honest.

Injurnalist and Blandon take pictures of different yokai (Blazion, Blizzaria, Hungramps, Snartle and Komasan to be exact) and use it for the article and spread rumours about them.

After that they return to Nate's house, Injurnalist is like "Thanks Blandon lol" although judging by what happens five seconds later he probably doesn't mean it. BLANDON TEARS UP AND SAYS THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME SOMEONE HAS THANKED HIM.

POOR SOUL.

The other yokai show up, obviously pissed about 1. Having pictures taken of them without consent and 2. Those pictures are being used in a bad way to spread rumours/lies.

Injurnalist quickly pins the blame on Blandon, everyone's like "There's no one there" and proceed to beat Injurnalist up! Yay.

Blandon leaves because Nate, Whisper and Jibanyan are pointing randomly trying to find him like idiots.

Also makes me realize Blandon would be pretty tall if he straightened himself, he's just... Permanently crouching/has bad posture. That doesn't matter because he's literally paper thin, therefore does not have bones!!

So, yes. I spent almost an hour writing this. It's very long and I'll probably regret it in the morning. But here you go. And for those who actually read down here, thanks I really appreciate it. :)

#yo kai watch #yokai watch #yo-kai watch #blandon #blandon yokai watch #blandon ykw #blandon appreciation post #also dimmy and nul appreciation post #because they're all best boys #im tired #lol

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