#i tried to watch with japanese cc as much as possible but i had to go english a few times just to know wtf was going on

[zachsgamejournal]

PLAYING: Final Fantasy VII Remake

I love it. Done. Just Kidding. Final Fantasy VII is one my top 10 favorite games of all time. My first play through was over 99 hours, and I didn’t feel like I was “done”. I just beat the game to beat it. I’ve restarted the opening Midgar section a hundred times. I love it.

I don’t know why, but when the PS2 came out, I heard rumors of FFVII sequels...but then FFX got a sequel. I didn’t really care for that one...Why did it get a sequel? Then PSP had Crisis Core and Advent Children. While Crisis Core was an action packed revisit to FFVII’s world, it wasn’t exactly a remake. And while I enjoyed watching Advent Children a 100 times...it wasn’t exactly a film-adaptation, or even an EPIC-Quality sequel to the game. When the PS3 Demo teased a remake, I became desperate. I needed this REMAKE. When the PS4 Remake  was announced, I couldn’t believe it was real!!!! But then it turns out, it was only going to be the first section and that there would be “changes”. While I’m ok with the game ditching the turn-based combat, I didn’t want a game so revamped that it was unrecognizable. And the fact this was only the first section, I was worried that a. they were filling the game with fluff, and/or b. they wouldn’t bother making the rest... Doesn’t matter now. It’s in my hands now, and I can’t wait to play! FFVII’s opening is possibly my most favorite opening of any video game. How the stars of space turn to life-stream embers, and Aerith steps out of an alley to reveal a bustling city. The Camera pulls back to reveal Midgar, our new home, a huge ominous tower surrounded by planet-killing reactors. Then as the camera pushes in, there’s quick cuts of a train--building the tension and pace of this slow, elegant reveal. And boom: the bombing mission begins! In contrast, the remake starts with a vast desert landscape in daytime. For a moment, I thought it was meant to mirror the desert Red XIII visits at the end of VII...maybe it is. But then we see Midgar, reimagined to new glory! It was strange, but not offensive. Until we cut from day to the familiar image of Aerith looking at Mako energy. She’s prompted to leave the alley by someone...or something. And we pull back to see Midgar, as in the original. And while I’m glad we’ve remade this perfect scene, it is sabotaged by the new day-time opening. The city has been introduced twice. Revealed twice. And one is clearly more impactful than the other (the original). Ah well. Now we’re in the familiar train station. I think they’ve added some sections to give more combat opportunities for the player. It works. The combat is fun enough. I’m glad that I can “strike” as much as I want without delay, unlike Crisis Core. Maybe it’s because I played CC for hours that I’m so satisfied with this action-combat? Limiting the item and magic use to a timer was a bit awkward. I would often forget to use them. I’m still quite confused about when to use special moves like Braver. Shinra soldiers are no sweat. The graphics are great and the lighting perfectly captures the original’s style. It was fun to play a modern game with 90s aesthetics. Because the camera is now over the shoulder and not overhead, like the classic, I almost missed how many times they took the original game’s environments and reworked them for the remake. I was impressed when I discovered it and absolutely thrilled. They’ve also done a good job reworking the enemies into the game. The dialog/story is a little hit or miss. But that’s just kind of where Japanese games live, for me. In the 90s and early 2000s, most games didn’t have good writing, even if they had good stories and ideas. So Japan’s non-western style didn’t stand out that much, and they were usually cutting-edge for cinematic games and storytelling. Now that Western Games have improved so much, it’s harder for me to tolerate Japan’s eccentric style. The original game was very succinct and clear: Barret was an angry, militant rebel who saw Shinra Corp as a threat to the world. He explains clearly how the reactors are sucking up the planet’s energy. The stakes were clear. Cloud’s cool indifference was an interesting foil. Usually you’re the hero, now you’re just a jerk. While the remake did a good job showing that Cloud was specifically brought to do the fighting, proving his worth to the team, when we get to Barret’s speech about the reactor--it’s somewhat unprompted and...unspecific? It’s so over the top, I hardly realized this was “the speech”. If you’ve never played FF7 before, I’d imagine the point would be lost on you. If you have played, then you get the joke that Barret isn’t exactly an environmentalist--despite his impassioned posturing. I think this is a misstep.

But they did give side characters more of a voice in this mission, especially Jessie. They basically sacrificed Barret’s presence to give the others more talking opportunity. This works because we’re gonna get to know Barret over many, many more hours. But it also gives Barret a more solemn presence that works for his character.

Getting to the iconic scorpion bot fight, I was impressed by the challenge. The original game is still trying to let you win at this point. The only way to lose is to attack when the tail is up, unleashing a devastating laser attack. But this game really pushed me. Maybe it was meant to challenge the player and force them to experiment with different attacks and strategies. I had to heal a lot!! Also, it seemed like my dodge was worthless. Occasionally the boss would launch a barrage of missiles and when I tried to roll-dodge, I always rolled right into a missile. By the end, I just didn’t bother dodging or blocking, cause they don’t seem to do anything...maybe I suck.

Then it was time to escape. This was fun, but they introduced a new “shock trooper” or something. These guys are fast, strong, and a pain in the ass. I couldn’t dodge, I couldn’t block, and I couldn’t land a hit. I hate these guys. It seemed odd to put such a challenging enemy into the game at THIS timed moment. But maybe they assumed I’d be better at combat by now?? The biggest issue with FFVII is that you start the game as terrorists and that’s never really addressed. Sure, you’re stopping an evil corporation, but you’re doing it at the expense of innocent lives. The remake makes a smart decision here and establishes the bomb as small and insignificant. But then President Shinra orders the reactor to be destroyed--causing a huge explosion that causes a great disruption to the civilians. I assume this is an effort to paint your team as terrorists and enemies of the people. I think it’s a good twist that corrects the original’s problematic points.

After escaping the reactor, the team is faced with the aftermath of the explosion. They’re confused by the amount of destruction, but also try to rationalize the importance of their goal. While I think they were mostly trying to stretch playtime, there’s an interesting sequence of having to face the fruits of your labor: burning buildings, crashed cars, injured people receiving emergency care, displaced citizens, and complete chaos. Even though I know, as the player, that Shinra is the true cause--it’s a good beat to have the player/characters facing the consequences of rebellion.

This leads into a new take on Aerith’s introduction. This is where Japanese “styles” don’t meld with me. Aerith is fighting off invisible spirits--and it looks ridiculous. Most people would give this flower girl a wide berth, and likely not purchase her products. But Cloud is just like, “Hey, what’s up?” after blowing up a reactor... Anyway, Cloud also sees these ghosts: hooded creatures. This is new--but I wonder if it’s related to Sephiroth clones/alternatives?

Aerith runs off, and we’re treated to a vision of Sephiroth. This seems to be addressing another issue with FFVII--what is this all about? In the original, Shinra is the main enemy within the early 2-5 hours, and Sephiroth is lightly referenced. It’s not till Shinra is found murdered that we really see Sephiroth as a potential threat--let alone the “final boss”. It’s a weakness in the storytelling, for sure. But having the vision of Sephiroth appear and bring Cloud back to the fateful day seems like a real attempt to focus the narrative.

And then I had to do a lot of fighting. It was fun, and didn’t quite feel like “stretching”, but it was funny to reflect that this 30+ minute sequence was about 5 minutes of gameplay within the original. So--I’m around chapter 2 of an 18 chapter game. These chapters cover about the 5 hours of the original’s plot, but I’ve already put in 1:43 hours.

Final Fantasy VII spends so much of the early game in Midgar, it really starts to feel like home--as much as it’s meant to represent the dangers of capitalism and fossil fuels--it really becomes a part of you, like the Mansion and Police Station in Resident Evil 1 and 2. I’ve always wanted to see more of it--so I’m hopeful that this game has taken the time to really build Midgar.

[fantroll-purgatory]

Hello, I’ve loved this site for sooooo long, and I finally have a troll to submit!

I’m garbage at spriting, could you hep?

I can try!

World: Alternia

Name: I’m thinking Ookami, for wolf in Japanese, and I don’t know about the last name, maybe Coquus(cook in Latin)

Hmmm. I always feel like it’s a little too transparent to just straight-up use actual words but in a different language to make troll names. But I also feel that wolves are a very common troll theme, so I don’t want to repeat a cliche in offering suggestions.

You say your trolls likes FLARPing, so why not the first name RENHAG, after Mark Rein-Hagen, the found of White Wolf games (which is probably best known for Vampire: The Masquerade)?

If we wanna *continue* with the wolf theme in the last name, maybe his last name is JOHPUK, like Wolfgang  Johannes Puck?

Age: 6 sweeps

Theme/Story: Sorry, not much. He’s my trollsona, so wolves(i like wolves) Video Games(specifically RPG’s eg. FLARP), ninja’s(unless it makes me a Polypa rip-off), and maybe anime, if thats not to overdone.

I mean since this is your trollsona I think it is virtually impossible for it to be a ripoff since Polypa was written by someone and you are a person. It also makes it difficult to critique themes because they are presumably chosen because you relate to them!

Review Goals: Literally everything

Strife Specibus: Axekind (axes are my favorite Fire Emblem weapon)

Fetch Modus: sorry, I don’t know

I used this before in one of my own trolls but how do you feel about a “FETCH” MODUS that launches your item out of the captcha card. Better be quick enough to grab it while it sails through the air!

Blood Color: Olive(this is my trollsona, I was born in August, and I’m a Leo)

Lunar Sway: Prospit

Title: Prince of Light(Light is my Hiveswap aspect)

Symbol and Meaning: I don’t know

How about we just give you the sign you’d get from the above three attributes, which would be Lepio, the Fortunate?

Handle: canineGamer

I worry that this trolltag is too obvious, but how do you feel about cheatingCur [CC]? It keeps the GCAT structure, references dogs and gaming, and it makes for a type of aggression in kind of throwing in others’ faces the fact that he will do absolutely anything to win.

Quirk: Prince of Light works so well because I want a guy who on the outside looks clueless and lazy, but when he battles he becomes this annihalator. Like, he secretely manipulated you to do exactly what he wanted(like Doc Scratch) but you thought he was sitting around.

Special Abilities: Extremely lucky, completely oblivious to this fact.

We have mentioned that it’s implied that Olivebloods have the passive psychic ability “luck,” and you’ve given us a Light player whose sign is literally The Fortunate so this fits, BUT I wanna be a little more specific since not even Vriska had luck in *everything*. Given what you’ve already given me about his character, I am worried that giving him the ability to manipulate dice rolls alongside his Light aspect and interest in RPGs would make him a little too Vriska, but what if he has luck in randomly finding game-breaking cheat codes?

Lusus/Guardian: A wolf

If you want to go a little more otherworldly, what about something closer to the manticore from Percy Jackson?

Interests: Anime, FLARPing(everyone’s scared of him though), playing video games, hunting(unless it makes me a Nepeta rip-off), practicing to be a ninja(which he sucks at)

I’m curious as to why everyone is scared of him in FLARPing. You’ve painted me a picture of a character who apparently plays dumb until his Machiavellian plans are revealed, so surely trolls would like playing with him since he’s “easy” to pick off?

Appearance: He is wearing a scarf that extends to his face like a bandana, curly hair(my hair) really big(kind of like anime Steven Universe), wears a trenchcoat(I love trenchcoats)

I’ll see what I can do!

Personality: Again, he acts like a dope, always tripping, super clumsy. On the inside(usually when playing FLARP) he is cheming, manipulative, and ruthless.

Land: Help please.

You haven’t told me much about the arc you have planned for him, but what about Land of Howls and Cowls, which is littered with broken machinery that he has to fix to complete his quest?

That’s it, thank you SO much. Love this site.

You’re welcome! I tried to fit the specifications for appearance as closely as possible, so let’s just go over this sprite real quick:

Hair - I...have not watched Steven Universe in some time but I don’t...think...it’s an anime? Unless I missed something? Anyway I just gave this troll Steven-ish hair hope that works

Horns - liddle, and off-kilter to soooort of mimic the symbol

Eyes and brows - these are just a standard fan-troll template

Scarf - this is from a naphal template with some editing to get the scarf to cover his face.

Coat - I edited a fan-troll template a fair bit. Wanted to add buttons for that distinctive trench coat flair but decided against it; it looked too busy.

Symbol - I sort of cheated the actual Lepio symbol and gave it a longer “arm” so the circle with the line through it was basically the buckle of the trench coat!

Shoes - from the same naphal template as the scarf! I thought they looked a little bit like cloth shoes which I liked to go with the sorta vague ninja themeing you had going on.

Hope this all helps!

[medea10]

My Review of Zombieland Saga

[bakashidan]

TaS - The Sims 4 Farr Dynasty (1#1)

I’ve played TS4 for so long and have done lots of challenge (though without ever sharing about my experiences), but I have never had done the legacy challenge. Seeing that I currently have nothing to do in my game aside from the 30-days Build It challenge, obviously I decided to have a little fun with one of the biggest, oldest challenge around  🙌

Instead of creating a new sim from scratch, I picked out a randomly generated townie. This allowed me to have a completely random sim whose traits and aspiration are alien to me - since I have a tendency to make my sims look and have certain traits - while also introducing me to the freak show that is Maxis’s choice of... well, je ne sais quoi.

The game did a good job on utilizing all my cc, that’s for sure.

So here is the founder of the soon-to-be Farr Dynasty: Robin Farr.

Driven out of home by her parents, Robin Farr promises to create a far (pun not intended) greater legacy to prove her worth. She moves out to a small island near Windenburg, settling down on an empty land, with what little changes she’s saved up from her job as a leaf cutter. That’s right, folks. Our miss Farr is a gardener. Now that’s something I’ve never truly played with, despite having the seasons expansion. 

Following the basic rules of the challenge, the succession laws I follow are gender equality, traditional, merit, and brood. I considered the exemplar law, but then again it would be far more interesting to see which child tries to lick ass the most :D plus I rarely interact with children in my game plays, so the hates children trait really sits well with me. What doesn’t sit well instead is the scoring sheet, since I will most likely forget to tally all my dos and don’ts to even know my score at all due to college works. I also set down the quality to laptop mode due to having to work on another 3D rendering program, so my graphic in game looks quite crap.

Traits: Romantic, Geek, and Hates children. Hmmm.

After setting my money to §1800, I had to send her off to work because the damn phone is starting to explode with the boss’s calls. She brought home §175, a meager sum which I doubt would even be useful at all to help me build a house - SOOO I set her out to visit the neighbors, the Bro household and the Bjergsens. Robin had free meals over at the Bros’ and introduced herself to Bjorg Bjergsen and his smallest daughter, whom she had the misfortune of having to entertain. That little interaction gave her a 6 hours tense moodlet, lol.

That being said, right after the little imp scampered away to play in a leaf pile, Bjorg made a move on Robin and DUH, of course she retaliated back. They were watching a romantic movie together, sitting by each other’s side with flirtatious jokes flung around, generally having a really suggestive time a homeless person and a rich father of two shouldn’t be having. Then Clara Bjergsen came in, and Bjorg got embarrassed just in time before his wife caught on them. Robin left the house with a plate of warm turkey dinner and a dirty little secret I might had planned to cultivate.

She left the house to go back and sleep at the Bros’, I might add. That earned her a negative relationship with Joaquin, but also a significant boost to her romantic relationship with Sergio for no other reason than all the flirting the two kept doing because they were under the influence of the steamy ginseng juice Joaquin brewed. So much for trying to get her out of the house, Le Chien.

The romance went steady even with all the sneaking around Bjorg led Robin to do - he asked her to dinner right after he fought with Clara, took her to the humor and hijinks festival, and had a date to the park - and at the end of the day, Sergio’s romance meter was higher than Bjorg’s. Fuck it, I thought. Persuading good ole Bjorg to get a divorce is way harder than marrying Sergio. On their third dinner date Robin asked Sergio out, and he immediately followed up with a proposal. It might be because they were celebrating his birthday or whatever, dunno, but she said yes - and they eloped on impulse Θ_Θ)> The news didn’t sit well with Bjorg, who asked Robin out to another outing right after her sudden wedding.

He hated it. The old man argued with Robin and threw her drinks until suddenly, Clara Bjergsen came inside the bar, looking shocked to see her husband so violent. It prompted him to stop fighting with Robin, but the deed is done and the love is gone. Whatever fling they had had gone down the drain, even as Robin tried to smoothly recover and apologize (jackass had the nerves to shove her in response!). So I moved her out of the bar, heading to the art gallery, a place where she usually unwinds... with Jade Dragon. Seriously though, this game needs a heavy PG rating - and not just because there are super R-rated mods in the community :>

After three plates of chicken nuggets and unwinding with the bubble blower, I couldn’t force the poor girl to walk home when she’s already jackshit hammered. 

So she slept in the art gallery and was late to her work - oh, joy! - and I automatically switched to Sergio. He was chatting up Joaquin in front of a Japanese restaurant I put in Newcrest and Joaquin didn’t exactly look thrilled about it; so maybe he was asking Joaquin to be a godfather or something? Is this a sign from SimGod that some ~spicy~ woohoo is on the way that night?

Anyhow, because the lad had a day off, I fulfilled all the requirements for his promotion and bought some basic furniture to fill a 6x8 room. I crammed a (used) double futon, a baby basket, a toddler bed, a high chair, a fridge, a toilet, a bath tub, and a workstation as efficient as I could and bought some more decoration mod that resembled hastily given wedding gifts (clothes rack, shoe rack, and an ‘adults only’ neon sign that I put up for no other reason than looking cool during nighttime). Must’ve been heaven for Sergio, seeing as he was a materialistic sim. Building the whole room costed me an arm and a leg, and when Robin came back home the two of them had a quick, free meal to save on their food expenses.

Later that night, Joaquin invited Robin to dinner and Sergio tagged along. True to their action earlier, the bros started talking again about SimGod-knows-what and the conversation took a pretty strange turns when bubbles of sun, diaper, baseball gloves, and an anti-Sergio one poured out of Joaquin’s mouth lol. Is he rejecting Sergio’s offer? Is he dissing his bro? Is he really not bad-mouthing Robin, the one whom he had bad relations with?

Sims are... fickle????????

“Yo, what the fuck, bro.” -Sergio 2k19

On the side notes, while these three were having a serious conversation, the Landgraab couples came and copulated in front of the entry way. I never would’ve seen it coming, not even when the blue notification box popped up and notified the whole world about their intimate times. I luuurve WickedWhims, but sometimes it’s just too much hassle - both the setting and the random sex pair ups. Teen Alexander Goth came by and excitedly took a picture of the event (shame that NPCs can’t exactly take a picture, though).

Even more later on that night, after they went back to Joaquin’s place from dinner, a certain someone couldn’t keep their hands inside their pockets and flirted a lot. And by a lot, I mean a whole damn lot. Sergio finally won over Robin’s reluctance and they tried for baby inside his old closet while Joaquin took over Sergio’s old bed and slept on it. It took a single try for Robin to carry a kid from the suave tech guru, whereas with Bjorg none of the hot dilly dally even produced in anything but the cum slut spermatozoa fluid hussy moodlet. Good thing she broke up with Bjorg, right?

No.

God, I don’t even want to relish the next part ever again. Possibly one the worst drama I’ve witnessed in sim history, even with the knowledge that all kinds of activity that happens is probably mutually agreed upon. But hey, the worst is yet to come... I think. And the next part of our first generation is going to be a grim and heavy, but I won’t forget to add all the cute parts that popped up here and there. Rewriting my experience so far has made me realize just how dramatic a sims gameplay can be 🤔🤣

Special thanks to all the amazing creators whose mods I use during my gameplay, and to ChilliP0uch for talking me into joining this challenge ♥

[deathbyhysteria]

57 facts tag !!

i was tagged by @serensims - thank you for tagging me even though i took so long because it gave me a migraine lol

i tag @gemgeminox @maplestreetsims @justkeeponsimming @all-harlows-eve @daisydezem and anyone else who wants to have a go.

facts are under the cut!

1.   i just turned 21 years old

2.  i am studying law in london

3.   when i finish i may go and do a postgrad somewhere abroad! we’ll see

4.   i have literally no hobbies now

5.   when i was younger i used to do ballet, viola, piano, guitar, yoga, drama, dance, singing and ballroom dancing - not all at the same time (i.e. i was much more well rounded than i am now)

6.   i have one younger sister

7.   i always wanted to have an older sibling, especially an older brother

8.    i used to be a big reader but i stopped. but over the summer i’ve been reading more again, especially crime books by Harlan Coben

9.    some shows i’ve been watching a lot of over the summer: bojack horseman, 3%, the flash

10.   s5 of bojack horseman actually came out on my birthday and i tried to rewatch all 4 seasons before then but i failed. however i just started the new season today!

11.   i was admitted to hospital twice over the summer, once while i was abroad i’m holiday which SUCKED

12.   i love travelling and some of the places i’ve been to are: italy, cyprus, various places in the usa, jamaica, mexico, nigeria, greece, spain, switzerland.

13.   my dream destination is japan... i would love to visit so badly

14.   speaking of japan, my favourite cuisine is actually japanese food, and i also really enjoy chinese and what little i have tried of vietnamese food too

15.   i have only one (two?) piercings and that’s my ear lobes. but i would love to get a second set of piercing on my lobes and i’m hoping to do it in the near future

16.  i’d love to get a tattoo one day but i’m not sure what i’d get and also i don’t like pain

17.   i’m in and out of hospital kinda frequently because of a medical condition i have (without going into specifics, you could say i’m a little like a spoonie)

18.   the only surgery i’ve had was when i was about 6 years old and i had my tonsils removed

19.   i really like makeup and i can get quite creative with it, but i don’t tend to wear anything outside of mascara, my go to lipstick (which is touch by mac) and possibly eyeliner on a daily basis

20.   i’m 5ft 7in (and a half)

21.   i know basic french and a little more than basic spanish, and i’m a native english speaker

22.   this year i’m learning yoruba, and i’m also hoping to pick up some basic german too

23.   i rarely cry at movies but the only ones which did manage to make me cry were: titanic (i’m sure i was too young to be watching it at the time), princess and the pea, boy in the striped pyjamas... oh and avengers: infinity war which made me bawl like my puppy had died

24.  i’m a really big fan of the mcu and i always go to watch the new releases in the cinema with my sister and my dad

25.   i’ve never see the incredible hulk so idk maybe that makes me a fake fan

26.   i had to wear braces for 6-7 years? but afterwards i stopped wearing my retainers so some of the gaps opened up in my teeth again 🤷‍♀️ what can you do

27.   i love music and i always try to give every genre a go... the only one i can’t deal with is country music

28.   my favourite thing is getting to see live music and i’ve gotten to see: one direction (my first concert!), 5 seconds of summer, little mix, twenty one pilots, hey violet and most recently taylor swift

29.   i’m still taking driving lessons over a year after i first started but my driving test is booked for next friday so idk maybe i’ll have an official license soon if i don’t flop

30.   i had 4 really close friends in high school but after that we kinda grew apart and i got pretty lonely and pretty bad (read: ridiculously awful) at making friends

31.   i did struggle with depression and mild anxiety in the past

32.   if you have mental health issues - please try and talk to someone about it. keep trying until you find someone you can trust. it took me a long time to admit i needed help and even longer to find someone i felt comfortable confiding in, but it was the best thing i ever did.

33.   i did really really well in my gcse’s but since then i’ve just gotten dumber i guess because all my grades have been nothing short of average, sometimes even significantly below average

34.   tumblr is basically the only social media i use now. i stopped using facebook, twitter and instagram, and i only keep the snapchat app around so i can take cute selfies, but i don’t ever post

35.   it’s 2am as i type this and i’m running out of things to say

36.   i used to get really painful periods, to the point where i was basically bedridden and the pain was enough to make me physically throw up. luckily they aren’t as bad anymore

37.   i love the summer and i really need that vitamin d in my life

38.   i really love winter clothes and big loose comfy sweaters are literally my favourite thing

39.   i drink a lot of tea, especially green tea with lots of honey

40.   i’m mildly lactose intolerant and yesterday i drank a chocolate milk which had some adverse effects... it wasn’t worth it tbh it tasted kinda nasty

41.   i used to really love bratz and i watched all the movies and even bought some of their albums

42.  i can’t really walk in heels but i’m trying... platform heels are not so bad but then i get people telling me i’m tall already so i don’t need to wear heels (as if i don’t just wear them because i like them)

43. i love lush bath bombs and i always have a few hanging around my bathroom

44.   my dress size is like a 10 but sometimes i have to go up a size because of my big bust, which i hate

45.   i actually really enjoy playing the papa’s pizzeria franchise online and they’re like my go to games when i’m really bored

46.   speaking of games i also really love phoenix wright, i’m playing the trilogy on the app now as i had only played ace attorney before

47.   i love getting manicures and idk why but i always tend to paint my nails dark blue... there’s this shade this one shade and no matter which nail bar you send me to, if they have it i’ll always pick it out without even realising it

48.   i play sims on my macbook air which probably isn’t a great pc for gaming bc it always makes the fan go absolutely crazy, although my game never lags even back when i used alpha cc

49.   i played the og sims but i never played sims 2 or 3 and i also never bought any expansion packs even though i was desperate to

50.   i wear a lot of black, not intentionally but probably because it’s just a safe colour that you can’t go wrong with

51.   i actually really enjoy getting socks as a gift but no one buys me them because i think it’s a universally accepted fact that socks are a rubbish gift

52.   i don’t own any trousers that aren’t jeans and i think that’s probably a little odd but i’m not sure

53.  i don’t have a great track record of keeping my mobile safe and i’ve ruined a lot of good phones by cracking the screen, dropping them in the toilet, dropping them into my cereal, or just plain losing them

54.   speaking of which i currently have an iphone 6s in rose gold and i love it and don’t care all that much to upgrade it. but it only has 16gb of space and i’m desperate for more

55.   i also really enjoy getting new pyjamas. and my favourite pyjamas are the ones that aren’t pyjamas at all i.e. just give me a t-shirt in size xxxl and i’m good to go

56.   i wear glasses because i have a lazy eye and i’m also long sighted (which is an absolute recipe for disaster when you’re trying to apply eyeliner, let me tell you)

57.   i’m genuinely surprised that i managed to list 57 facts about me!

[mikazukikannagisjourney]

Channeled (?) Message for these Tumultuous Times -  A Call to Arms for the "Most Unlikely" (timeless)

Abstract: Within the next 6-10 years, the need to self-isolate due to energetic effects from the Quantum field only increases. The community quarantines and the social distancing measures will eventually become the norm, and this brief Saturn in Aquarius season only gives the entire world a glimpse of things to come before retrograding back to Capricorn within May 2020 to do one final slide. Thus it is increasingly important to be even more self-reliant, and self-mastery our vehicle to keep on surviving and thriving, because in the future the group systems that were once relied upon will not be the strong and stable support for the energetically renewed generations. This message pertains to all, but most especially for the Pluto in Libra and Pluto in Scorpio generations, who are the bridges between what has been and what things shall become. 

Warning: Long post ahead. You have been warned.

Hi everyone, how are you all coping with the social distancing and the  community quarantine measures? And if you're an introvert, yeah how's the usual life lol but I'm not even kidding in that sense. I hope you're all doing well, staying healthy, happy and safe. But for the people who are losing their minds due to cabin fever, I hope this message brings you a level of comfort and empowerment after reading it in its entirety.

I don't normally put "channeled message" in most of my posts because I feel like it's redundant, I mean, most of what I post in here are stuff I get from the etheric realms and just write in here to provide information to those who need it. But this one has been bugging me each time I meditate so I figured this must be an urgent matter, and thus this early Aries New Moon message comes to you now. 

The Spiritual Implication of the Community Quarantines and Social Distancing 

Not sure about other people, but from the energies that I have been feeling ever since the Aussie Wildfires and the volcanic eruption that happened in Taal just hinted at me that such events are only a prelude on the things to come. Separations and isolations were only going to increase. I didn't dare post anything about it since I was too busy detaching from the collective and just focusing on channeling energy to the world. Honestly that should have been a light bulb moment for me but again, I thought it was nothing because I was already distancing not just from the chaotic collective but also from a lot of people, by conscious and energetic choice.

I felt like I needed to do what I was supposed to do here. And I guess for me, it was fine. I am in between jobs so might as well do something to energetically clear the world. Once the chaos cleared, I thought I could breathe a sigh of relief. So even if I was 80% pure anxiety, I tried to drown that through more meditations, energy healings and watching owls and crack vids. Spare me the judgment, I'm used to that lol. For a while, it was nice and quiet.

But... Everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

Lol I should keep that under wraps but still, the message is the same. 

Because when the Year of the Metal Rat came, that's when the COVID-19 issue started bursting from the seams (after being kept for so long. I mean, what else can you expect when trying to hide something that only keeps expanding, like bread rising due to yeast? ooops.). By then, things have been too much of a mess that fear and panic takes over, unless one is calm enough to detach and meditate. Because to be honest, staying calm and collected keeps our sanity readily available, and when we can decide with the combined forces of our two brain hemispheres we get to make the best choices, long-term or otherwise. Otherwise, fear-based decisions just lead to worse situations, and it's only going to snowball from there.

So what's the point?

Simple, in order to be free from the fear collective being built around this whole "pandemic" thing, aside from distancing from an excessive exposure to the news being bombarded faster than the speed of light, it is also important to carve out some time to learn new stuff. Like the mechanisms of disease transmission, how viruses multiply (that's my jam), how to manage epidemics, the pandemics that happened in the past century and what where the circumstances that made these dangerous or at the very least, slightly annoying.

Basically what I am saying here is to be informed by being strategic in how you gather information and using those to help you make better, more informed choices. Be more proactive in assimilating knowledge. Don't take the words of others as gospels of the truth. Heck, you can even doubt what I am saying in this post. Or let it tickle your brain to make new questions to ask the authorities, or create nuggets of thoughts and stuff that you might want to learn more of. Detach and make your own conclusions before you start sharing information in your preferred social media sites. Seriously, nothing is more important now than properly digested information because some people are not as strategic nor intuitive as you, and such sheeple will only eat whatever is tossed to them. But you KNOW you're better than that, which is why you are likely to start connecting dots and trying to make sense of things.

However, it is important that you first do these on your own before regrouping with people you trust and hang out with, otherwise the input from other people can cloud your own personal judgments, and could greatly affect the stuff you were already hanging on to, especially with regards to self-doubt. We don’t need that now, or ever. So serve yourself first, love that part of you first and do the inner work required before you go out to reconnect with people. That's why social distancing is so much more important than now: to improve self-trust and self-confidence in what you're doing. Whatever you're guided to do is what your soul wants you to engage in.

Why Call to Arms?

Because this battle is going to grow into a war, and that war is mostly going to be an internal war: war between what a person believes in deeply versus what the society tells this person, as well as the person's own social programming.

Now, more than ever is the need to remove ALL layers of programming and wounds and energetic blocks very relevant. Because by allowing our true selves to shine from within, can we all shine from the outside. But if blots of doubt and fear dot our existence, there will always be fears to run away from, triggers that can ruin our plans, low-vibrational thoughts that invade our times of peace. All that garbage can keep us stuck, unmoving, unable to move from the past and always fearing the future. And it is a well-known idea in nearly all spiritual communities that being in this stuck place prevents people from enjoying the NOW Moment and creating joy and love and abundance, which we all want.

This is basically a live or die situation for the next few years, and this is a war between who we are internally versus the external stimuli that we have to go through. No fret though, a good meditation and mindfulness practice plus facing our inner demons and turning them into our allies through healings and acceptance can really help get us through. It's a long process, but gaining stability and peace from such activities can really help reap in the benefits, especially in the long run when there is a need to keep calm and carry on, in all levels.

Why me though? Well, isn't the better question to ask is "Why NOT?" I mean, seriously, the times where relying on other people to do stuff for us in exchange for money or whatever is honestly only going to start decreasing, especially as we approach a great energetic shift. And that new shift is like the dot com boom and bubble bust period, where stuff just came and went in less than 10 years. So just imagine, things seem to only get better and better and then poof. Gone. Where do we go from there?

OK first of all I am not inciting fear in here, I mean, these are actual events that happened, probably even way before the Pluto in Sagittarius generation even understood or heard the first release of Backstreet Boys' Album MILLENNIUM. A lot of them were probably snot-nosed bebehs trying to play snake in their parents' NOKIA 3210 phones. Or something.

But back to you. Why are you being called?

Simple.

You might be one of those people who surfed the wave of that dot com bubble and burst. Here now, gone tomorrow. Or you probably panicked when the Y2K bug became a cultural phenomenon, or worse, the I LOVE YOU VIRUS got into your PC (an ancestor of all other computer AIDS right now). Maybe you were one of the kids who had to raise themselves because the old folks were out making money and you're mostly left at home, or you hang out with your friends after school just to find some sense of family in a way. Or it is possible that you just discovered some weirdly obscure niche such as Japanese Animation but can't share the joys of it because everyone else was obsessed with youth-oriented live action drama stuff, or F.R.I.E.N.D.S. (No judgement though) and whenever you mention Rurouni Kenshin, Yu-Yu Hakusho or Hunter x Hunter nobody batts an eyelash. Even if you stan Yukito and Touya (CCS) for some weird reason. 

If life just isn't making sense right now, just remember those times. Those were frantic times, everything was hanging on a moment, the unknown was just a heartbeat away, but even so, you were able to find some sort of joy and satisfaction to get you through all the crap. You were tested once, and you're still alive now, meaning you were never broken. It just means that in the game of evolution, you were adaptable enough to survive the chaos. YOU'RE WORTHY OF THOR'S HAMMER, so to speak.

How is this going to affect me? 

Well, remember the crazy times of the past? Since life's basically a cycle, the shitty times are going to roll over and make another visit yet again, but honestly, this time there is a bigger world that eventually gets affected a lot by these events. And truth be told, there won't be a lot of beacons of light once the older Pluto generations kick the bucket, especially the boomers that the whole world just can't get enough of (I am being sarcastic here, OK? Though some of them were really good musicians so it's hard to hate them all.). Within 30 years time, the Pluto in Libra and Scorpio people must grow into the sages that will help shape and stabilize the societies that were already changed by the continuous shifts toward self-mastery and self-stability. The younger generations will need more guidance than they will probably admit, and a lot of them will be so stubborn to even admit that they need any help because a large chunk of them were coddled and spoiled and made to think that they're right no matter what other people say, which is why a lot of them have grown to become very rude and selfish (and us millenials get the bad rep with what the younger bunches do, smh oh well). They're also used to bouts of impatience and wanting everything in an instant and perfectly done. Thus the impending need of the guidance of those who ACTUALLY HAD TO do things traditionally aka the hard way without cliffnotes and wiki how to's and all the hacks strewn in the internet. Doing everything by yourself, from scratch. Patience may not have been your virtue but trust me, the younger ones are probably a whole lot more impatient than you, so you're basically a patient person now whether you like it or not lol

But seriously, aside from that, the implications of these is that in the coming years, getting instant results will only turn out to be a lot more painful for everyone involved because the price of getting these through the "unclean" way will only lead to more chaos. A lot more people will rebel due to resentment because they will grow to realize that they're being overworked and underpaid and under-appreciated, plus they're being used as tools and then thrown out once after being used.

Never fear though, because in these times the over-looked members of the society will be sought after by those who will need their help, their talents, their assistance, not because someone says so but because their true, authentic, masterful nature becomes more apparent. Your strengths of making sure the job gets done correctly will be your strongest point, not just because you CAN deliver, but also because you have the uncanny capability of breaking down EVERYTHING into a logical process so that you can show and tell the entire method with everyone else. And people who only use other people because they're basically posers who actually have nothing on their name other than faking their way to the top will eventually be exposed. Thus, honesty and your sense of persistence to achieve your personal goals will be your best asset, and through this process the two generations can help provide assistance and guidance to the younger ones.

What can I do about these shifts?

Actually, it depends. I mean, to be honest it's easier to move with the shifts than force the energies to align to what you want. This is called the Law of Resonance. It’s like riding a wave when you surf, or going into the zone to do something creative. While nearly everyone else is doing their best to work miracles through the Law of Attraction, and getting frustrated because they haven't manifested that shiny new car yet, it is a whole lot better to just focus more on aligning your values and goals towards providing help and service to the world through your work. 

Of course, it's realistic to worry about where you'll live, what you'll eat for the night, or even dispelling the gnawing heartache due to loneliness. Yeah, I get you there fam. But, annoying as it sounds, Source, God, the Higher Powers, or whatever you call the infinite energies give away more energies to those who ask for blessings in order to help others and bless others more, rather than giving energies to those who only want their own lives to improve. This is likely why the Law of Attraction doesn't work for nearly 99% percent of the time: People kept asking to appease their ego or personal needs. 

Disclaimer though: This does not apply to those who are in dire need for food or shelter or protection, but rather to those who only want to be famous or respected by getting their material wants met. It’s because there's a huge energetic difference between those who resonate and those who attract. The resonators tend to find their life purpose quicker by resonating, while those that do their best to attract (under the assumption that they haven't done actual inner work) just keep getting stuck or even reverting to somewhere worse than where they were standing originally, thus making them believe that the Law of Attraction is a lie. But honestly, for everyone who did their inner work by healing and removing the low vibrational energies in their field can use either law or even both and still get some fantastic results.

So going back to your question, what YOU CAN DO with the shifts is to HEAL YOUR SELF. Focus on your own growth. Because you can't help others properly if you're wounded yourself. It's like the emergency flight instructions to put the gas mask on first before you help others. That's applicable and of utmost importance in the spiritual as well as in the 3D life. This ensures that you have enough high vibrations, as well as removing any agendas or resentments toward the people you help. Also, just to be practical, please give up on the notion of forcing everyone else to do this with you. You can only invite others to join, but it's just an option. At the very least, find a supportive person who can guide you to the entire process, but in the end this is a highly-personal journey that you must do ON YOUR OWN. No one else can do this journey for you. Thinking you can solely rely on one idea or guru to do the spiritual awakening journey by taking in your sins is like eating a whole bunch of food and telling someone to poop what you ate for you. That's just not gonna happen. So might as well start cleaning your own crap right now, it's for your own benefit anyways.

To start the process of working with the shifts, you can just shift your energies to instead RESONATE with your Higher Self, as per the Law of Resonance. If you haven't started already, the best thing to do is to go within, and clear as much of the old programming right away. Find out all of your limiting beliefs and reprogram yourself through the grace and power of self-love. This is the kind of love that encompasses your entire being and encircles the world, to the point that you have surpassed the idea of Duality and Polarizing views. You just start seeing everything as an expression of love from the Higher dimensional realms. 

But seriously, it's OK to do fun stuff to stay sane

I am telling you right now, nobody’s going to hold it against you if you still want to do some wholesome fun. And if any spiritual guru out there starts blabbing out  stuff such as watching horror movies or medical drama or whatever like that lowers your vibration, THEY'RE NOT ON MY ENRICHMENT TEAM. I just disagree with them wholeheartedly on that aspect.

Why?

Simply because despite being on the spiritual awakening journey myself, it was actually the opposite for me. After realizing that I'm a spiritual being having a human experience, that gave me a lot more courage to watch really gory and scary movies, because I know deep down, that shi* ain't real. So why should I fear? I'm supposed to live all aspects of the human experience, and watching something like the entire Conjuring franchise is an option that I can get on board with. Truth be told, after my awakening process and still walking this spiritual journey, I just get to enjoy a lot of the stuff with a greater depth of perspective. It feels so much different from when I was still living in the 3D consciousness state.

I actually found this to be true when I started binge-watching all of the Harry Potter books and movies, as well as the LOTR trilogy. When I compared what I felt and the stuff that went through my brain before and after awakening, I had greater appreciation for all of the characters, I simply saw each one as pivotal to the movement of the entire plot. Otherwise, nobody's going to learn and become stronger, and that creates character stagnation, which I honestly just think makes the hero’s journey stale. It's like setting up a character like Naruto, Ichigo or Saitama into overpowering mode right from the start without running into any obstacles. We all want our heroes to have that journey of growth, so why not see that into our own lives as well? Might as well be the cheerleader of our lives, right? So just enjoy this meatbody ride and to heck with the haters. You do you, have as much legal fun as you want.

The bottomline of this entire long-ass post is that self-reliance will become the new norm. And while everyone has some sense of self-reliance, those who were born around the Pluto generations of Libra and Scorpio will have their chance to shine, because this has been their thing since they were young. The lessons that they learned growing up will become even more relevant, as being the generations that were living between the boomer age and the internet boom age their skills of trusting their self, what they learned through experiences will be of great value in the times of information overload and the need to scour what works and what doesn’t.

Maybe you never had your shining moment because you let it pass you by. It's even possible that you're angry because everyone seems to be flying high and you're left on the ground eating dirt because you believed in yourself and not in the prevailing status quo. But I hope you still keep the faith alive, because there's a strong reason why you just keep sticking to your higher consciousness guns, and those will be revealed in the next 6-10 years. As to why this time period, you can check out this link from the Jovian Archive. Even if you're not too familiar with Human Design, the information here may have some value for you, or at the very least, give you some assurance that everything is cyclic and we're only moving forward with more shifts toward unknown territory. Just know that everyone who's been relying way too much on other people, whether they know it or do it deliberately will be greatly affected by the sudden shifts, and for the first time in a long time their ability to do things entirely by themselves will be tested. Spoiler alert: not everyone's gonna survive or even enjoy that ride. It's like separating the chaff from the grain, and if you're reading this right now, YOU ARE ONE AWESOME GRAIN.

I hope that this channeled message gives you support during these troubled times. As always, stay healthy and safe, and most importantly, use both hemispheres of the brain, your logical and intuitive side to stay sane. The time to play with both polarities in order to move beyond duality pretty much started already, and there's no better time than now, to begin seeing the two sides of everything and loving the entire thing because it's an all for one, one for all reality.

Thank you so much for taking your time to read this very long post. May you become the healing you seek. 

三日月🌙

Mikazuki

Links to Resources or Extra Readings:

Jovian Archive Post - Support During the COVID-19

How to get your Human Design Chart

My Pluto Generations Post

How to generate your natal birth chart wheel

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