Thanks to my brother starting Genshin Impact I was drawn back into the land of gacha games.
What a terrifying force of power it is. Truly no escape.
Anyway, today I was hardcore carrying him as he explored Dragonspine for some exp to continue the story.
It’s hard to judge how much help to give someone.
On one hand you don’t want to flood them with information of varied levels of usefulness.
But on the other hand you don’t want them to have to learn things the long way and have to make up for lost time.
I watched the Sword Art Online movie finally today.
Having read the Progressive novel I thought I knew roughly what to expect, but it was different in a lot of ways.
I had to laugh when they pawned off a lot of Kirito’s early dialogue on the movie original new girl.
Overall I think it worked well, but it also held a couple of problems I didn’t expect as a result.
I wonder how they’re going to carry that new girl going forward.
There’s a lot of anime this season to discuss so let’s talk about the recent ones that I took interest in.
The first is Lycoris Recoil, wasn’t sure entirely what to expect but so far it’s been really well written and was quite exciting! The duo dynamic is well established too, I like it.
Prima Doll was a massive let down though, the first episode was shaky at best, there’s no real hook and the characters are rather undeveloped and bland at the moment.
Engage Kiss has no right to be as good as it is, skilfully walking the fine line between parody and serious, overall I am very impressed.
And of course as a reader of the Light Novel I had to give Black Summoner a shot and I think they’ve done a good job at capturing Kelvin’s uniqueness in the genre, hopefully it holds up, I liked the teaser for the future party members too, although they didn’t show Rion yet. Hiding her I suppose.
Well I’m going to be providing a guided tour for my parents and a family friend tomorrow.
For reasons unknown to me they spontaneously decided to go to comicon in London this Sunday.
Naturally as the resident otaku they have roped me in to being their support.
Seriously I’m not sure why I have been pulled into this but whatever.
I got free tickets out of it.
Although I’m not sure if that’s a blessing given all the memorabilia I might end up buying.
Something about Sunday’s really drains my motivation.
It’s almost like I have to go to work on Monday’s.
Though, probably not for long. My contract ends in two months and I doubt they’re going to renew it honestly.
So the copy of Otome Mob I preordered last year finally shipped this month and then the day it was meant to be delivered?
Well apparently it got damaged. So they’re refunding me. But that’s not the worst part.
They’re refunding me what it cost me to order it… which is less than it will cost me to order a replacement!
At this point I would have preferred a probably mildly bent copy instead of having to reorder.
To console myself I bought the first two copies of Magical Explorer after repeatedly pondering if I wanted to get the physicals or not because Amazon finds them to risqqqqueeee- for their puritan kindle store.
I had a lot of fun rereading them with art. Looking forward to Volume 3 since that’s where I last read up to in the web novel version.
I guess we should talk about anime for this pre-chapter ramble.
No real reason why.
So yesterday I watched the premiere of the RWBY anime.
I have mostly mixed feelings honestly, not leaning one way or the other.
Pacing was a tiny bit rushed, I’m glad they chopped a lot of the filler though. Felt like JNPR needed more time to develop that life trusting bond though.
Being canon-adjacent has me curious though, looking forward to seeing the rest of the show starting next month.
I promised my friend to watch Love Live too. Should get on that.
Well today was a very productive day for me sort of.
I spent most of it on Stellaris taking screenshots for my updated mod showcase.
You see when I first posted the mod it had about 15 technologies included and about 10 of those were just variants, because of that there wasn’t much to show.
Well now the mod has 50+ technologies and a massive variety, yet I was still only showing about five things in my showcase!
Naturally of course I finally got round to updating it, now it shows off a lot more, and should be more appealing.
Although it would have been better to do that from the start haha.
Chapter two of the slightly overdue chapters.
I’ll definitely make sure to stick to manually preparing my schedule instead of using the automated one.
Timezones are whack my friends. Even though I set the app to adjust to my zone.
Well, that’s just how some things work out.
At least it saved me having to think of some pre-chapter rambles heh.
Today I learned the hard way not to outsource my calendar reminders to third party software running in a different timezone to me.
According to the schedule I still have time to schedule these chapters.
But in fact they are overdue.
So using the reminders to remind me was a bust. Back to the manual way like I used to.
Sorry for these being late.
I have learned my lesson.
In fact the schedule still lists them as for tomorrow! Talk about confusing!
Anyway I’ll rush the posts that are overdue.
So I will be going to watch the new Jurassic World soon.
I am really excited to watch it.
One of my friends on discord gave it a bad review, but they went to watch it in a way that made them feel sick so… I think their review is biased.
I mean seriously who actually watches these things in those moving chair things that do the fancy effects and other stuff?
Yeah it’s cool for rides but not for full length movies!
I spent all of today borderline religiously working on my Stellaris mod.
Well I also did a little spinoff afterwards where I made a little side-mod to celebrate 29 years of Jurassic Park.
Look, I like the franchise and I was in a Stellaris modding mood so I figured I’d throw them in a blender together.
It’s just a little mod that lets you research and build Jurassic Park as a building in the game, nothing major.
If anything the only significant part about it was that I discovered that the main gate still looks good even if you crush it into 52×52 pixels.
So let’s talk about the art commissions of my original character I always make!
I recently commissioned a somewhat meme-y piece of art based on a comment my friend made.
The heroine Angelica from one of my favourite light novels, and currently airing anime, looks a lot like my character.
Taking advantage of this of course we decided it’d be funny to commission a spiderman meme!
Yes I’ve got an artist doing a piece of art based on the two of them being shocked at how similar they look to each other.
The sketch is really funny, I’ll share the full piece when it’s done in a few weeks for sure!
The new No Man’s Sky event is giving me no end of grief, I really dislike it.
I think it’s the worst time limited expedition they’ve done so far.
It absolutely sucks that they think losing hours and hours of progress can be defined as ‘fun’.
What annoys me more is the huge swaths of players defending the event by saying “get good” or “don’t play, it’s optional”.
Yeah it’s optional, optional if I want to miss out on an event reward that was half the reason I bought the game in the first place.
I literally bought the game because of the Living Ship update, that was the main purpose.
Now there’s a new living ship? Of course I want it!
BUT THIS DARNED EVENT IS HELL.
This chapter kind of reminded me of that popular manga about the elf from the heroes party dealing with the fact the hero party is dying of old age.
Well, I suppose any story that looks at the effects of time would do that.
I like how this novel is actually giving the reincarnation narrative value and consequence instead of just second chance or plot hook.
