#when its 2025 and theres 1 full day of not working in it

[colorfulcuttlefish]

Oh it's January. I keep forgetting.

[maringlechan]

Thurs, Jan 2nd, 2025

Today was a rather simple easy day! I woke up late with Cash and Chopstick kitties next to me.

Started the day off with brekkie/lunch that was leftover Puerta Vallarta from a few days ago. I had one carnitas taco left with some rice. I heated up some refried beans and put some cheese too!

I made the kitties their breakfast and had my brekkie in the room with them.

After brekkie i did a little bit of cleaning! Did the dishes, washed my laundry and took down all the christmas decor in my office room. Ive still got some christmas stuff that needs storage for me to put it in. Lots of extra wrapping paper, tissue paper, boxes and bags.

To not by new storage since I'm a little tight on funds right now since Seven needed a bit of work earlier this week, I found Alanah's old things in the foundation. I brought those upstairs and put all the clothes into donation bags. That cleared out one storage box to use. The other box she had was full of a bunch of stuff from when she was a kid. I'm surprised that we had it here? Sorted through that and found some old clothes as well. So all the clothes are going to get donated and the rest is trash! That left me with 2 boxes to use for storage!

I might as well also start cleaning the foundation little by little since theres so much down there and it's not like I've got much to do since I'm still out of work right now unfortunately.

After that I chilled with some youtube and got ready for the gym. I stopped at target to see if there was a storage box long enough to fit the longest wrapping paper roll i had... and there wasnt TTT.

I started on the treadmill at the gym at 6! and ended up leaving a bit closer to 8pm. Its 11:18pm right now so I'm settling in for the night with my treat of a hot fudge sundae. I left my brownie sundae cup from dairy queen at morgans in the freezer! TT bf hung out with his friend Vinny today while I was at the gym. He said he was on his way home by the time i was sitting down eating my chicken strips and fries.

At the gym i did the treadmill for about 15mins, stretched, and then went to swim for about 15 to 30mins. I'm happy i went to the gym on the second day of the new month/year! I want to really keep track of my progress.

I also hope this month i can have 1 to 2 cosplay outfits, and get my photo printer! Possibly also get the Bali pictures printed out and start finding the stationary to make a cute scrapbook on it :3

Anyways getting ready for bed now! See you tomorrow tumblr journal <3

[galactic-johnny]

The Mecha Break Playtest is over so here are my mechs that I customized. I was mostly basing them off of my gunpla that sort of reminded me of them. (also some of my thoughts)

First was Narukami (my main <3) where I went with a gundam pharact color scheme. I think this was the best one I did.

For Alysnes I was going for a sort of GM Custom color scheme but I couldn't find a lighter seafoam color so this cyant had to do.

Panther was the first one I did and I tried to go for a titans color scheme.

Inferno has the cannons in each hand so I wanted to go for a Buster Gundam look, but there wasn't a good light brown like the MG version has. (Also its charged attack does a sort of Wing Zero thing where it puts its guns together)

I think for Hurricane I just changed one thing to blue but this is how it turned out.

My second favorite was Welkin, I went with a Stark Jegan type of thing although a Zaku would probably be more fitting with its axe and bazooka loadout.

I did have a pilot but I didn't take a screenshot and I didn't spend a lot time other than giving them a big ass anyway.

Also bonus is the overwatch 1 style global chat where people say a bunch of memes in my screenshots.

The rest is gonna be some of my thoughts but its not really comprehensive and I doubt the developers are really looking on tumblr to gauge people's interest in certain aspects.

If you want a basic idea of the game to me its like armored core 5 mixed with Overwatch (which I was very into). The current playable mechs support several playstyles, I've seen people who really like the flyers, or really love the melee mechs, and theres the turret ones, there are supports, and there are midrange mechs, so I think most people could find one that they like.

I started playing on the first day when they had twitch drop keys and I ended up with 15 hours on the game, I have some concerns with how things will be balanced later and ho they will monetize but overall the game was super fun and there will be a hole in my heart waiting to play it again.

The UI implies that there might be weapon customization which I would like, people also seem to think there will be more PvE in the full release. It a beta and the with the release date apparently looking at 2025 there's probably a handful of major parts of the game that weren't in a state they wanted to show to the public.

I've seen some people complain there's more pilot customization than mech customization, and I get it but the pilot customization is going to be more appealing to a mainstream audience that isn't already super into model kits or armored core and such. Also the 4 ass sliders are what half of the social media posts are about so it seemed to work.

I feel like the game has several factors work against it: mecha still sort of niche, and I imagine its niche for the demographic that is looking for a new hero shooter; it seems to have a very high production value which is good and bad because they're gonna really need to make good money; its a chinese indie developer so they will have to fight the allegations of being CCP spyware from a pinned comment in any reddit thread.

In spite of this the playtest had 50k players on all 3 days of the open beta and it seems to have gotten a good amount of attention on twitter and tikok (note: I do not use either of those regularly I just checked to see what normal people thought of them). It also came out at a good time with its announcement being when armored core 6 was on people's minds.

Final thoughts are I like it and good mecha action games are few and far between but I'm keeping my fingers crossed after Gundam Evolution crashed and burned (although I think everyone likes this more than gundam evolution).