The Steam summer sale has started!
So many discounts!
I think I can safely avoid spending this time though…
The games I want are nearing the end of their production cycle and will have their final big patches soon, so I will probably pick them up after that just to ensure compatibility and getting the maximum experience.

In the meantime I have games I bought ages ago to keep playing, and the Talos DLC that I am slowly working through due to being occupied with gachas…

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I finished the Steins;Gate and Neural Cloud crossover event.
It was great.

The story was basically the plot of Steins;Gate but lightened up (in terms of duration, it still had the heavy themes) ported over to the setting of Neural Cloud. They really did not shy away from going in dark directions with everything. Sadly due to being a collab they couldn’t make it integral to the main story of Neural Cloud, but they really pushed it as close as they could.
It’s a bit of a shame they didn’t include some more Steins;Gate 0 content though… Kurisu’s field of research is actually memory scanning and AI development, which is exactly the sort of content Neural Cloud is fundamentally based around! But that’s my only complaint.

I think it nailed being a crossover with “Steins;Gate” specifically, but as a crossover with Steins;Gate as a franchise it left out some parts and it left out everything from the Science Adventure Series as a whole.

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The new Hololive girls debuts are soon.
I am looking forward to trying to figure out where Elizabeth is from in the UK.
I’ve seen an oddly high number of people hoping she’s southern specifically…

is there something about southern accents that are good?
I’m from the south so I don’t think I can understand that sentiment at all because everyone has that accent here…

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So Firefly released today…
I used every drop of currency I had left to get her…

Which is painful.
Because immediately after I got told by a friend that I need Ruan Mei to maximise her use…
And also apparently her Light Cone.
And also at least one dupe of her too…
Ah.
So basically I am screwed.

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I hate doing editing in the morning, because of the orientation of my room it points directly towards the sun…
So I get horrible screen glare.

You’d think closing my curtains would solve that.
But because of the angle of the sun what happens is I end up getting a thin strip of light directly through the middle of monitor…
Ah.
So annoying…

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I saw a tweet about how 70% of Nijisanji’s viewership is female and how they make up the majority of its merch purchases.
I thought about it for a bit and figured yeah… the boyfriend experience stuff is their biggest seller.
And for some reason girls seem happier with cheap low effort merch.

I mean how many keychains and stickers is a guy going to be willing to fork out for?

A reality we must all face, is that men have higher standards for knicknacks.

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Alright everyone.
It’s Chapter 69.
Get it out of your system.

So Talos Principle II is getting a DLC.
Road to Elysium… a spiritual sequel to Road to Gehenna I guess…

I’m going to die… yup. Death be upon me.
Road to Gehenna had some hellish puzzles! They’re definitely way harder in this one!!!

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So I don’t really play anymore but the Final Fantasy Secretlab gaming chair is frustratingly tempting…
It’s really really tempting, the only reason I haven’t got one so far is because my current chair still works and if I’m going to buy an expensive gaming chair I’d like one that I at least consider cool… and the Final Fantasy one is close enough to a game that I play and a story that I definitely enjoy that I might cave…

The previous closest was the Genshin one but… boy was that expensive…

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I really need to purchase my brother some headphones or something…
Actually, he should really buy them himself!

But he never will, so I should get him some.
I do not want to listen to his gun gun bang bang shooty games at 4am in the morning, just because he has a wall mounted tv that backs on to the hollow echo chamber of a wall that separates our rooms.

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So the final episode of Star Trek Discovery aired.
Honestly, not been big on Discovery, the last couple of season were…. better?
This one was the best so far I think, I liked this season I just didn’t like the baggage of the first few that it came with, especially the first two seasons.

The ending was rushed, but that’s because the show certainly got axed and they had to retool the ending they had already shot.
The final scene felt a bit weird because of that for certain, it just, didn’t make all too much sense? They did their best to close loop the timeline of the show however.

Honestly, overall it wasn’t bad.

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So it seems that the Discord mobile app pulled a Code Lyoko and made a Return to the Past for the UI design.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist making that reference after I realised I typed “return to the past”…
Sue me.

Looks like their experiment with the bottom hot bar is finally at an end, I rejoice.

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You won’t believe it… I managed to do the final Star Rail boss fight…
The team I used was: Trial HTB, March, Serval and Asta!

It came a bit close, but considering that Serval and Asta were Level 70 with Level 70 cones… and their traces were nothing to speak of…
Asta really came in clutch towards the end, though Serval did the most work overall.
I managed to squeeze three turns into one break window on the second phase thanks to Asta spamming Ult!
If she had an energy regen relic on her I might have even pulled off a fourth…

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So although this chapter is scheduled for the 19th it’s not actually going live on the 19th for me.
Which means it’s not today’s chapter but tomorrow’s that will be on my birthday.

I think…
So this will be a few hours early.
If my understand of temporal mechanics is correct, that is.

Unrelated but it was hell scheduling this chapter, cloudflare went down which meant I couldn’t access wordpress in my area…
Oops!

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This chapter has illustrations of the characters attached!
They’re actually over on the official wiki for the story but we included them here too!
Honestly it’s crazy these are just web novels set in an rpg systems world…
It’s like DnD fanfic… except not actually “fan” fiction… considering it’s the writer…

Weird…

Anyway, enjoy the artwork!

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This was a cooking chapter…
The filler of web novels…
Ah, such pain.

Sorry, I will just never get cooking culture. I’m not someone that really finds joy in food.
These things never land for me.

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