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I reached level 31 on Final Fantasy today, I also died for the first time upon reaching level 30!
I thought I would have a perfect no death streak for a long time but I ruined it…
In my defence it’s like double exp so my level was skyrocketing faster than anything else could keep up. So I had like Level 12 gear, and then I thought I’d do the new class quest before I went to bed. So I did a challenging solo quest with pathetic gear while falling asleep at the keyboard. Naturally it didn’t go well. Let’s just not count that failure okay.
I forgot I bought it months ago, but I noticed it on my kindle and started reading it.
World’s Strongest Rearguard isn’t actually that bad. It’s pretty well edited and written.
You can tell it’s adapted from a web novel directly rather than written for Light Novel but I’ve been enjoying it.
I should also read my Otome Games Is Tough For Mobs physical copy that arrived recently too.
So much to read and play and so little time.
My friends finally got me to play Final Fantasy XIV.
I started playing.
I decided to follow my usual MO and make a blank self insert recreation of myself.
I went with Arcanist for my start. It seemed like a good choice. Magic, equal parts DPS and Healer. Means I can spec as I want later.
Ideally I wanted to go full DPS though but something about Arcanist spoke to me.
Probably because it’s the most sciency of the starter classes.
So I ended up backing the Stellaris board game kickstarter with all the bonuses for like £200 despite having managed to resist up to this point.
Will I have anyone to play it with? No not really.
How many times will I play it? Probably once.
Will I make much effort to try and play it? Unlikely, social stuff is a pain.
Why did I bother backing it? I’m very easily swayed by own desires. Some of times. Look there’s really no pattern to when I ignore something I really want and when I end up buying something I only want in passing. I’m a strange person! I have games on my wishlist that are way cheaper that I haven’t got for years while waiting for a sale.
We’re almost nearing the end of our journey together.
Yes, there’s only like….a bit left of this novel.
I can’t remember exact numbers. But it’s a small number.
I don’t know what I’m going to do after this.
This novel made me so much money. And it’s all going to evaporate.
Someone quickly find some other novel! Pronto! Also someone to translate it. So I can leech off them.
Seven Seas is doing a complete overhaul of Jobless Reincarnations novel translations it seems.
I hope they start to learn from this.
The light novel translation industry is a bit out of touch with its consumer base for various reasons, mostly because of the outdated generalist tradition they use to translate. When you’re dealing with subculture material I think it’s much more appropriate to make sure that you’re resonating with your target audience.
But the publishing industry, especially in America, has always been a mess.
Conclusion, all light novel translations should move their HQ’s to Britain, the world capital of literature, and use the J-Novel Club business model.
I forgot to do some of my Princess Connect dailies today.
I did half and meant to go back to them but forgot.
Woops.
It’s probably too late now anyway so I guess I’ll just have to live with it this time.
Actually I think an event has started hasn’t it? Good timing actually because I was starting to hit a roadblock and needed something to consume my time.
I got a huge parcel delivery today with posters, calendars, prints and signatures and all sorts of fun stuff!
Which reminded me shortly after that I finally get the Invaders novels in a couple of months.
It’s been years since I backed that kickstarter!
I can’t wait to read the exclusive short story that got written for me based on my prompt to the author.
I have a dumb grin on my face just imagining it!
Honestly this chapter was a nightmare to publish.
I couldn’t work out how to handle the in game update text for ages!
If I left it as text it looked messy, but if I put it in a table it didn’t look like part of the chapter.
It was really awkward and in the end I settled for the table cause I put so much effort into it.
Well some effort.
A chair is a piece of furniture with a raised surface, supported by legs, commonly used to seat a single person. Chairs are supported most often by four legs, and have a back. However, a chair can have three legs, or could have a different shape.
I’ve been so distracted with games lately I’m behind on anime.
Have half of Cells At Work to watch, half of Last Dungeon Boonies to watch and an episode of both World Trigger and that famous isekai thing everyone is hating on.
I did contemplate maybe starting Healer just for the sake of completionism but I saw a few clips online and my god….
It’s so low level shovelware anime. There was very obviously barely any effort put into it by the writers, animators and actors.
There are hentai with more impressive production values!
My friend got me to watch Half Life VR but the AI is Self Aware.
And I’ve been dying since I started watching it.
Holy, this is comedy gold.
It’s a bit too random for my exact preferences, but that’s just because I like plots.
If it had been a little more strict with its premise it’d have probably lost quite a bit of its spontaneous heart though…
It’s hard to make a judgement if it’d had been better.
I’ve started obsessively playing Stellaris again lately.
I always have phases like this.
I’m rather bad at the game so I tend to cheat a lot and just roleplay it out.
But after a few sessions of using cheats to roleplay instead of play the games get stale because you can always recover losses.
I also tend to play the games a specific way, especially with my custom empire.
I think what I need to do is play the role of an empire that antagonises my favourite custom empire and roleplay that instead.
Actually that might work! I can use the console commands to give me custom empire a bunch of early game advantages so they can steamroll ahead and see how things turn out.
While I was scheduling this I think the site may have died.
Or my internet.
Whatever the case it got stuck on loading for a long time so please forgive me if it turns out that the page failed to publish correctly and all you’re getting is a dead link.
Since this is important I won’t bog down this post with my usual ramble.
I’ll say it again if I need to!
