Yesterday I was very happy.
The lag that had been plaguing the wordpress backend of this site vanished!
Today I was very sad.
The lag that had finally vanished came back…

I had one day of joy.
Such is the law of the universe I guess.

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The interludes continue!
I do like POV switches in novels like this, but I am not entirely sure on my feelings with how this author handles them.
On one hand they’re very necessary and elucidate a lot of context, but they take up a lot of time too.

I think I would like it more if there were frequent short switches rather than few but very long switches?
Hm, actually just ignore this ramble, I am not sure at all how I feel about it.

Instead, let me talk about the weather, like a true British person… it is very windy today.

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I finished my rereading of Arc 7 and 8 of Rezero now.
I am finally primed for the latest light novel volume!
I forgot how wonderfully written the epilogue of Arc 8 was, it was a perfect moment honestly.

Without spoiling anything, I think it did wonders for the characterisation of perhaps my least favourite characters up to that point.

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In the time between posting the previous chapter for today and editing this one.
I managed the get the S tier Yuina on Heaven Burns Red.
The girl I started playing the game for in the first place.
Well, now I Just need to get the SS tier variants…
Then I will be all set!

Oh right…
In case you don’t read the other story I post on today, here is my HBR invite code:
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It gives you free gems if you use it!

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Planet Coaster 2 is shaping up to look decent from the content I am seeing now, but there’s still some hurdles before I deem it worthy of purchase.
Namely the UI.
Please fix the controller-first UI design logic!

Then I will seriously consider if it’s a game worth buying!

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I’ve been playing Haze Reverb the past few days since it launched in English.
The translation is certainly… cheap.
It’s not unplayable bad but the quality is notable for lacking in many areas.

The gameplay is okay? I feel like the systems are needlessly complex in some areas and overly simplified in other, and finding proper explanations for stuff is hard.
Also why is it such a pain to equip and unequip things etc etc…

Well, it’s basically what you expect from a comparatively indie gacha game.
The art is good, and the story is not as bad as I was expecting, I wouldn’t say it’s good yet, but it’s better than Honkai Impact’s initial story.
If anyone plays on Europe my ID is 100000224
I know, I was the 224th player to sign up for the Europe server, how crazy is that?

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I’ve been watching the Planet Coaster 2 pre-release content and I have to say that it looks nice.
Aside from the fact the UI looks built for consoles, and that makes it so hard to navigate on PC.

There are some weird design choices overall, but every game has weird annoying design choices these days.
The woes of investor requirements.
Well, I’m not going to play it anyway, I enjoy watching other people build stuff in those sorts of games.

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My mental state has taken a dive recently and my usual routine of ignoring reality until it becomes inescapable isn’t working properly.
Why did I have to have the double hit of employment stress and social stress?
If I want to focus on dealing with the employment stress then an important friendship of mine will fall apart.
But I don’t even know how to deal with that friendship issue so focusing on it might not achieve anything at the expense of the employment issue…

Ah.
The woes of my life.
Okay, self pity time is over, one of these problems is my own doing anyway so I just need to resolve it, I’m stressing over something I created.
I’m short sighted like that.
Why did I even create this situation in the first place? Who knows. Ask past me.

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If my understanding of life the universe and everything is correct, at the time you are reading this I should be at comicon in London.
Sadly I will be running chaperone instead of fully enjoying it myself, but such is the way of life.
I look forward to spending the day there though.

Hopefully I will come back with some merch, though since it’s the final day I don’t hold that much hope…
I’ll prioritise going to artist alley first though, you never know with that place.
Might even run into someone I have commissioned once before… that would be wild.

Also, chapter 42, my favourite.

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The weekend draws near, comicon approaches.
A friend of mine suddenly invited me to join them at miku expo tomorrow because someone dropped out.
Sadly I just didn’t have the capacity to arrange getting there, spending the night then meeting up with my original plan of going to comicon sunday.

Oh well, that’s just life I guess.
Maybe if I was more extroverted I could have made it work…?

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Somehow this chapter was less cathartic than I expected, I wonder if you readers will have the same opinions as me.
I think it’s probably because the girl is just an idiot?
Hmmm…

Leave your comments on the chapter with your opinions, maybe I will understand my own thoughts that way.

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This chapter went to some wild places.
I guess our now-evil protagonist will enjoy it though?

Honestly have mixed feelings about the progression of this story right now…
Hmmm… I will see how it goes.

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We’re getting more interludes! More POV this time.
I wonder how this one goes…
Especially when you consider the last few.

Stories with lots of POV chapters like this are always interesting to me because I love seeing the reactions to protagonist moments from other angles.
Arifureta was unironically really good for that, sometimes I wished that it didn’t abridge them so much but I always liked when other characters described past events from their view.

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My project to work on modding Baldur’s Gate 3 continues apace…
Today I finished putting together a rapier weapon with so many gimmicks stacked atop it that it became unreal… but still…

It now effectively functions as a red mage from Final Fantasy!
It has two major gimmicks, the first is that upon casting a spell you can also immediately cast a second spell for free from an adjusted selection.
Basically four spells that cover a few different damage types, plus a weak healing spell and the all important rez mage skill!
It’s a tiny bit unbalanced but I didn’t go overboard so that challenge is preserved even when having fun.
The second gimmick is much simpler, it has a physical weapon attack that if it lands activates a second skill you can use, which if it lands let you use a third skill…
Basically it’s a combo… it’s a combo skill. In theory it will let you do more damage than a normal attack but the tradeoff is that there’s a risk it might do less.

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It is with great success that I can report my first mod for Baldur’s Gate 3 works as intended, fully.
Down to the last detail, not a single compromise needed!
Well, to be fair neither idea was hard to make, I just needed to know how…

The only thing I had to figure out was how to make a spell learnable via scroll without adding it to the level up list, but I figured that out too!
Basically if the spell scroll has the learn action attached then a wizard can learn it regardless of if the spell is on the wizard spell list or not.

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