I guess it's time to do another post already, huh? Like what I've done with the domain? I think I quite like this version. I spent the last few days scouring classic geocities for inspiration, and my theme this time was to keep it simple, stupid—purely a unironic 90s'–00s' demake. No fancy css stuff if I could help it. No templates or using ai, at all, not even runnign this through an html editor if I can help it. Pure gut. I saved the fancy pants cmd-version incase I ever feel like rolling back, but for now I'm just gonna stick with this.
Well, it was a busy month. So let's dive into it. Generally, I'm aiming for the 'positive' vibes, so very little mention of the bad stuff, well, relating to real life so that won't include my usual criticsm or reviews. If you've been following this webpage for the better part of a year since feb 2025, you might know what I mean. You will also see a lot of typos, generally, I write this first in some online html editor and get all the spellchecks out of the way, but I'm not doing that this time, so you might see a lot of typos. My advice? Cry about it!
The new tomodachi life came out and I figurd why not. I wish I bought it physically though, my switch 1 is running out of space. Most of the week it was out I never really left my bed and played it as obessively as you could get. Well, not that obessively compared to some nolifers out there.
I never touched a previous mii game before. This is mostly my first time, except for that mobile site one that came out in like 2010, but other than that I have no prior game knowledge of this franchise. It was fun for the duration I spent playing it. But I and many others quickly realized even for a game that sells itself as a wacky interactive ant farm simulator, there isn't a whole lot of real interaction between miis, most of the time I have to introduce themselves myself. I think I reached about island level 30 before I found myself not nearly touching it as much.
I've heard from a old friend group that one of their pals in the old Artifical Academy 2 community likens this to, well... Artifical Academy 2. But without sex. Old JP school simulator with porn from a decade ago. I'm not too inclined to agree, unfortuntely, at least from my experience, the developers spent so much time with emphasis on the miis that they forgot to actually give them any meanginful interactions between eachother.
At the end of the day, it's just madlibs with miis. And there's nothing wrong with that. But it's because of that that you can't really share miis, or screenshots, or anything as easily because there's no censorship at all. You can literally add in anything nasty or disturbing as you could get. It's likely they tookk notes from Animal Crossing (same team too, oddly enough), and saw the BDSM kinky content people were making in that. Shrug. It's a miracle that game came out in the middle of Covid. This didn't. I also suspect the developers didn't expect people to burn through the immediately lack of content; there is a lot of emphasis on creating your own content, but that's still no excuse for the lack of pre-made content. I guess if you're really big on the artsy fartsy side—and I've seen some amazing stuff, this game will provide endless content in that regard, and since there's no sharing, you'll be forced to at least give it a try. I've only done a few things myself, sparingly, namely made my book cover of A Game of Cosmic Titans.
As I said in a previous paragraph, I have no idea how the previous entries play out, so I can only vaguely parrot they omitted a lot of stuff, like the music stuff and baby miis just grow up automatically. The biggest issue for me is eventually you will face a lot of reptitive dialogue. The Japanese won't care because it just works in their language, and frankly I have no idea if the userbase over there minds it as much as we do here in the West. It's very common for every interaction to kind of just play out the same, but you do get surprised to see new ones and I doubt even I saw them all. One thing I want to point out is everyone is carebear postiviely so if you want to create a baddie or someone who had car oil dumped in their ceral, it's not as easy to engineer. Surely the devs will make content for tht because there's a few quirks for variety.
I don't think I got too much milage out of it, as much as I would like. I'm the kind of person that 1 hr=1$ value, but I only peaked at 30 hours . . . . . for like a 64$ game. Ouch. Maybe I'll still play it time to time, to decompress after work for example, since I still have my little monitor setup next to my bed despite the fact I haven't touched it either until I made this blog post to upload some of these images(pain). I hope the devs act fast to add more content.
I've seen some really incredible recreations of established characters, and this game has the same issue as Animal Crossing where you peek into other people's places that gets posted online and you're like . . . guh, I have no artistic talent compared to these people. lol. Even with all the limited items in the game presently, people make the most out of it. Seeing it's the same teams and all, you'd think they're port over some of the furniture from Animal Crossing. That probably requires a lot of work . . . and yet this game was in development for a very hot minute and was finished last year. Nintendo is pretty strategic with their releases. I was interested in this when it was shown at the Direct last year? I think, but I don't nearly ever follow up on buying a game from any showcases, most recent example was probably Starfield.
If there's one thing I took for granted from this game and glad the team learned from; it costs no mats to redecorate your island, total freedom in that regard. The only thing that may hold you back is money but it's easy to gain thankfully. I never actually finished my island in Animal Crosssing, and I had just checked just now I only put in 80 hours in it. I never got the expansion since I was unbelievably burnout on it by that point.
I decided to play Animal Crossing a few nights ago, just for nostgiagla sake, to see what past me had endured to create. It was a stroll through memory lane alright. I kinda miss the game, but I'm not grinding for shit again.
So that about settles Tomodachi life. Frankly game-wise I did end up finishing my EU3 MEIOU Roman Empire game. I don't think I mentioned it in prior updates. From 1790 to 1812, I dismantled the big blue blob, so that felt good. Prior to that, the same emperor campaigned against the eternal persian and gave them a good bloody beating. Nothing like destabilizing the middle east.
What followed was an all-out war against the empire that was neither roman nor holy. Honestly, I wasn't too sure about actually going through with fighting the HRE. I could've done it way earlier but I risked a two-front war in Italy, and my stacks were getting wiped left and right at some points. At some point I risked running out of manpower, but I pulled through. But by about 1810 or so, I decided it was time, and declared war on everything with some cb cheese for religious difference or some other. It didn't matter, I just needed to siege the princes and the emperor. That emperor, wound up dismantling the HRE by November 1822. Mere days before the seasoned emperor who've been through it could march onto the Imperial capitol of Prague to oversee its siege—he fell in battle, and that left his diehard loyal generals to continue the task of dismanlting the Empire. Days after the new emperor's ascenion, Prague was taken.
After that and France, I pretty much beat the game. It became repetitive with constant nonstop rebels. I almost wanted to try and trigger a pesudo French revolution as the Roman Empire, but it's actually really hard to pull off unless you actively play like hot garbage. Also rebels just don't often go for the capital, like revs. So I mostly just idly spammed buildings and did last second religious flips of Anatolia to Orthodox. The mod allows the game up to about 1850, but I decided to stop at '36.
If only victoria 2 wasn't such a hotmess of a game. I loved Vic2 back in the day, but the thing with the economy system is it will go full bonkers whenever you load up the game, so I stopped playing it after a period in time. 3 doesn't exist to me. I used to do super megacampaigns in my youth—first eu3 to vic2, then I think a few for ck2/eu3/vic2 and a project to continue one into hoi3, but it was overwhelming work and I was busy high school/the years job searching. I did try to recreate a 1850 vision of the game in Age of History II, but the ugly ui put me off from trying to add any depth into it. I could do something for vic2, but I have no real idea if it'd work—my various megamcampaigns were horribly scuffed in the 2010s, but I never tried the 2020 update, that to say it's abandonded now unforuntely. Comes with the territory of enjoying decade-old games.
So, after Marathon, I sort of just had a period of wandering between games, so Tomodachi Life occupied my gaming sesion whenever I wasn't in VR doing whatever. I guess I did play The Finals for a while, but it didn't grab my attention as much as I wanted. A few odd sessions of Counter Strike 1.6 and Source, and a unsatsifying sesh of TF2. Actually, funnily enough, I met a friend through cs 1.6 and it turns out how much of a small world it is since he knew a friend of a friend and I wounded up helping him with some amv in vr chat. was pretty cool experience.
Anyway, Meh. Maybe I should give some rpg a chance again? Or maybe another grand strategy. I wonder if I should give hearts of iron 3 a crack, or maybe even Victoria 1? Actually, I do still have that rome1 game I played last year. I don't think I actually continuted talking about it in past entries. Vaguely I remember talking how as Brutii I rolled over Greece, but didn't continue my pesudo After acton report of it after that. Well, I did grind my way through the rest of Greece, Anatolia, carved out the middle east . . . but I didn't get the civil war to fire. I wanted to avoid reading how the late-game mechanics like the civil war worked or even triggerd, so I flandered about. I think now is a good time as any to dive back into it. Maybe I coul play the attila expansion after. We'll see, I'm trying to make more daily short-form entries instead of these long ones, but I only have a 1gb of space for images, so I'll have to make do with what I got.
Soooo . . . . I think that covers most of that. That just leaves anime impressions and writing/reading.
Up to episodes 3-4s of selected shows. wow, what a season this has been!~ Spoiler free where may apply.
I want to watch a Shaft show.
We Have Shaft shows at home.
I went into this completely blind. Needless to say, me and my boyfriend were completely caught off-guard. If you're a Shaft fan, either something like through Monogatari or Despair Sensei, you would've wondered if this was a Shaft show? The answer? No, it isn't, at least from little skimming I did of the staff. It's not every day you see an anime or studio paying homage to the one studio capable of pulling off surrealism as much as 2000s-2010 minimalist Shaft did. That's the best way I can sum up this show: I have not played the VN, but I lowkey kinda want to. A lot of homage, at least to me, and I could only wonder if it was intentional to the influence being worn on its sleeve.
I actually wish I had more needy girls pics to take but I didn't find scenes to stop at and snap, so I only took a few. There were a lot of good ones in the first few eps but I deleted them off my pooter already. I never thought anyone could pull off being a Temu Shaft, but yet here we are. This show is rAW, not in the gory or graphic way that something like the Yakuza boyfriend or Golden Kamui, but in a special way tackling topics in such a surreal way. Surreal. Not very shows would dare show 3dpd like the way you would've seen in Goodbye Sensei. Whoever the staff are, they really must've lavished in Shaft's influence, but it's still their own brand and that's cool. That's one way I can say this show is. There's so many screencaps I could plaster this blog entry segment with of this show alone but I need to stay mindful of storage and it honestly just wouldn't do this anime justice at all. I think it's defintely worth a watch even if you're a Joe Shmuck like me and haven't played the game. It's great. I hope it can maintain this level for the rest of the show.
At least with this show, I know I'm in for a great time, sober or zooted.
My boyfriend picked out most of these at a glance so I think he struck it good with these choices. In a season full of sequels, a lot of them just didn't look too appeasing. I had watched the PV for this when he posted it and I thought the setting and plot sounded interesting. Lol. It's almost like quirks or stands. But it's been great.
Neither of us had read the manga, but my boyfriend mused he felt like he has seen this character before or at least seen her in some doujin. This show is just so goofy that I love it all the more for it. Like a bug guy who walked away on bugs away from the protag? So totally diabolcial! I hope the show can maintain this kind of goofyness and still keep it engaging. Also, the twist is just too amusing, but I'd rather avoid spoilers. I think for a non-sequel this is defintely worth a watch.
This show is basically Food Wars but alcohol. It's also Kirchis from Legend of the Galactic Heroes and Misaki from Welcome to the NHK. Something feels off about this show, and I can't put my finger on it why. It's uncanny, stiff, it's the polar opposite of Needy Overdose Girl. I had watched the subquent episodes after Needy Girl while zooted and felt disturbance by what I saw. But there isn't anything wrong with the show. The animation just feels . . . .off, whenever it isn't visualizing the wineporn. I don't know.
I guess we'll keep watching? Maybe? I actually forgot we were watching Eren the Southpaw and we both vaguely suggested dropping a show if we didn't like it, so we'll see, maybe...
This was maybe the one show I had picked out, other than Fist of the North Star which I may watch myself. I haven't been talking about shows I'm watching by myself simply because I haven't been botherd watching them. So, back on topic: I thought this was a fairly interesting show. I think we'll be following this. There isn't much to actually say about this show, but I don't always go on yap seshs about anime as muchas my other blog segments. It's just not bad and it's not noteworthy for me to go off. If you have any ounce of interest in rakugo through Shouwa Genroku or that one Shaft one that escapes my mind you'll no doubt be interested in this one, but it doesn't seem to be as drama-focused as Shouwa Genroku however.
It's just literally mid. I wish I could say more about this show. That subtitle is the best service I can give it.
Oh yeah, this happened. To our shock, it's uncensored. And boy is it brutual as ever. I'm lovin this show. I had shown season 1 to my boyfriend about a year or two ago and he enjoyed it, and season 2 has just been great, sure it's been a little confusing with the whole boy double situation at first but we picked up quick what had happened since the end of season 1. Unfortutely, it doesn't seem like it has a new opening like last season did. Bummer. That's really the only bad thing I have to say about this show, beside the OP not being as much of a banger as the first. But if the first didn't exist, this would've been good on its own.
We get to meet a new member named Natsuki who joined the Crossed Eyes very recently. She's totes really cute. I LOVE anime babes with eyes squinting/closed, it's one of my favorite archtypes but I don't really incorporate it into any of my character designs, but I've toyed time to time with having it on my pink hair avatar as a default expression, but I haven't acted on it yet.
That about settles it for all our airing anime thus far. I haven't talked about Eren since I forgot it after episode 1, but it's just OK.
So airing anime aside, we finished up the Koro nni Rei OVAs for Higurashi. THey were a decent send-off to the series: I will not be showing the subquesent OVA that happened or the 2020s' Higurashi that most certainly never happened ever in this timeline. Higurashi ends here, though maybe one day I will read the VN. Maybe one day.
I've been showing VOTOMS episodes every so often, but other that we haven't explored other anime yet or gotten to progress much since he doesn't have enough days off. RE:Zero, Fist of the North Star, and Kirio Fanclub I'll make impressions of if I feel like it or even get around to watching them. I also haven't been able to watch Yamato Rebel 3199 yet, so I could give it some watch sometime.
Heinlein's Moon is a Harsh Mistress. I've been steadily reading through this month and made a lot of progress, now on part 3 and about 80 pages left. I hear alot of people online these days don't like it, but I feel I've come to overcome the weird dialect and come to appreciate the anarchy ramblings of the professor. It's been a fun read. I can wait to start reading Starship Troopers after this.
My writing: I've been writing it slowly but I otherwise have been making good progress on chapter 15. With this chapter, I'll more or less bedone with the adaptation of the Zeta storyline from Yellow Typhoon. And then after that, I can start writing faster, hopefully, the rest of act 1, because it's just a matter of removing all the Homeric mythic prose while still retaining the drama I envisioned.
Soooooooooooooo . . .I reached the end of all I could ever yap about. I think that's everything . . . .. okay bye until next time! Bye felicia! I always read your comments if you leave them.~ I'm just bad with answering!
