Fox's Insanity

Ten months, that was not a question seeking an answer.

I suppose if I want to not just be screaming into the void, I should be prodding communities, but that requires brain power I do not have right now and probably won't have any time soon.

As for what I've been up to, it's been the same old shit. Working, playing video games, plugging away at Twitch (somewhat ineffectually, though I think I know what I need to be doing about that), hating the state of things, and all that happy horseshit.

Oh. Still poking at fan fiction stuff too. I kind of feel like I need to replay the ones for which the fic is eating my brain, but I'm sort of putting it off because I know those games got some upgrades for the Switch 2 and I'm not getting that until 'Age of Imprisonment' comes out. At the least. It might also depend on if there's any fuckery in getting one. I'm also trying to decide if I'm interested in the new Donkey Kong game. I haven't even played a DK game since the N64. But Pauline's presence in the game is intriguing and the game seems to be well received so far.

Another thing that seems well received that I'm curious about is this K-Pop Demon Hunters movie. From a gifset I saw, the art style is fun and there's some Looney Tunes style bullshit going on. They're already talking about a sequel, which makes sense, and a live action remake... which is bullshit. I'm not exaggerating on the Looney Tunes bullshit and that just can't be translated to live action. But, back on topic, it does look like a fun movie.

I haven't really got anything else.

No, I do have something else. I have acquired a cat, though I'm in a state of Schroedinger's* Pet Ownership with her, as she's my aunt's cat, but my aunt is between homes at the moment and staying with her adopted daughter and her family. So, we have a cat, but it's sort of up in the air if this is permanent.

The cat's name is Sage and she's a little butthead.

*I don't not care right now to determine the correct spelling. Spell check says it's wrong, but it's probably just not int he spell check's dictionary.

It's still being eaten by BotW/ToTK fan fiction stuff. I wish I could get my ass in gear on getting that fic stuff postable.

Other than that, I played Princess Peach Showtime! and enjoyed it. Waffling about doing the post-game stuff, but then again, I'm also waffling about post-game stuff in Super Mario RPG remake. I live streamed both games, but I'm pretty sure I'm not going to stream the post-game stuff from either.

Job still sucks but I have actually prodded my back log of games a bit.

Eh. I live. That's main point of this post.

Oh.

I also started playing a mobile game called Twisted Wonderland. It's... a thing. Maybe I'll have a better sumary next post... whenever that is.

So, I did set an alert to post more often. My intention was to try to post once a week. My timing for attempting this sucks. The last post was two days before Tears of the Kingdom dropped. I bought it the Sunday after it dropped.

Other things that have happened between then and now are having to get my car inspected... late and having it need some stuff fixed in order to pass. Since the place I took it for inspection was relatively close to a movie theater, I dragged my sister with me and we went to see Across the Spider-Verse. I hope the next one comes out next March like I've heard. It seems like they'd originally intended to make one two-part movie, but somewhere along the line, they decided on the next part being a separate movie. But, like, a lot of it ought to already be done given the original intent? I dunno.

As for my car, some of the work it needs got done the next day when I called a recommended mechanic and they had time the same day to get me in. Now I just money to clear for one other thing and a part to come in for the other other thing. That's not a typo. I'm being a weird goblin about it on purpose.

Speaking of goblins, Tears of the Kingdom is basically Goblin Simulator. Not that Breath of the Wild wasn't a little of that, but they're kind of running with it here. I am making very slow progress with the plot because the fucking around and finding out in this game is entertaining. Well, that and my work schedule sucks.

Anyways, I live. Saw a movie, playing through a new game, adulting. Stuff. That's all there is.

At some point, I will try to properly socialize more on this site. Maybe try to find some people I was interacting with who fled here from LJ when I did. Although, some of those people are on tumblr and I've just kind of been lurking there and looking at their stuff without getting and account... for a very long time. I was thinking of getting an account, but now there's this tumblr live bullshit that you can't opt out of or permanently disable. You can only snooze it and it's a major invasion of privacy... that is annoyingly timed considering the bird site is on fire and and tumblr is one of the better alternatives.

Let's get off that topic.

Re: my last post, that Minecraft modpack I was streaming at the time imploded on itself when an item I needed for the quest book decided to to have a game breaking glitch attached to it that crashed the game every time I opened the chest I'd put it in. I genuinely have no idea what it even was other than that it belonged to the Draconic Evolution mod because that was the crap I had in the chest. So that was fun. I think I did another Zelda: OoT randomizer between that and a vanilla playthrough in 1.19. I say 'vanilla' loosely because it wasn't in the Java version, but Bedrock. I can't play with mouse and keyboard and Java has no proper controller support without mods. So that was fun for a bit. Finished it off with killing the Wither, took a day or two off from streaming and then started up a playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. As far as that goes, I've completed the Forsaken Fortress gotten the elemental arrows, the iron boots and the bracelets. And my next stream is going to entail mopping up any treasures I can get at that point and then advancing the plot.

The other thing in my last post is... something I should finish up. XD I talked about Kingdom Hearts: Dark Road finally releasing its offline version and how easy progressing was without new cards relying on the RNG and at this point... I'm sitting at the last quest waffling about whether to try to get all the stat boosts from the bestiary and cards or just going ahead and finishing the game. Note that I have not actually played the game in about... three months? I think? Hoo boy.

As far as work goes, it's fucking retail in a big box store. This is currently a slow time and everyone's hours are spotty. I had six days in a row off, though admittedly two of those were just my normal weekly days off, but the other four were within my availability.

Far too many of these posts have been occurring late at night after work. That might be why they're so rambly for just hollering into the void.

Don't get me started on the latest Pokemon games. Maybe I'll try to post again tomorrow (or really later as it's after midnight).

Blame the job.

Though I will say, one good thing that came out of getting a job is that it put me in a habit of announcing when my next live stream will be. I'm not sure if this contributed to the gradual increase in viewers or what and I haven't got the brain power to look into it, but I'm not going to complain either. I have 20 followers on Twitch as of this writing.

Current game for streaming, for long streams anyway, is Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This will be my third full play through of the game, though I am NOT getting more Korok seeds than I need to max out my inventory this time. I got all 900 the first two play throughs, the only way I would do it again is if I intended to make a guide to them. I do have a personal goal in this run of getting all the compendium pictures without buying them from Symin (you still get one unavoidable freebie from him when setting up the Sheikah Sensor, I think). I'm not doing all of that on stream because I do a lot of grinding for the armor upgrades off stream, so I run into the things I haven't got yet kind of frequently. It would be an exercise in insanity to make a note of it and try to do it all on stream. I'm also grabbing the Koroks when-the-fuck-ever I find them on or off stream because madness.

In other news, not only have I still not watched the live action Sonic movie with the second one being... out now I think(?), but I have bought more things I'll probably not getting around to watching any time soon. At least I saw Detective Pikachu in the theater rather than buying the DVD unseen. It was probably one of the last handful of movies I saw in a theater before the pandemic, actually.

I don't think I've the brains for more rambling right now...

How is it out there in the void?

So... I am still working hours that are part time only on the technicality of being less than 40 hours. The place is still short staffed despite a recent hiring event getting some people. I can't say I'm surprised. Like most places, they complain about people not wanting to work for them, but they don't want to make the concessions that would get people to apply. And honestly? They have a thing that would probably help enticed prospective applicants, but they're not advertising it: healthcare benefits even for part time. I didn't know about this until I was called for an interview and had to sit and wait while the manager handling my interview was in a meeting. That left me plenty of time to look at some posters detailing job benefits and one of those benefits was healthcare for both full and part time employees. I don't know how many applicants that would bring in, given other reasons people don't want to work, but it might alleviate the problem of being short handed at least a little bit. Just a little. They hired five cashiers at that hiring event. ONE of them is on the closing shift with me.

I should probably consider asking for more money...

But enough about that bullshit. I've still been live streaming for a bit before work and on days off. I have a whopping 15 followers... woo. I could probably make that number grow faster if I had the brain energy to do stuff to help it along. Like, there are little viewer engagement things I could set up, following and hosting other streamers helps, a Twitter account might do some things for me, and just stuff. If only my brain was more cooperative.

Other than that, I have still not made up my mind about the madness that is tumblr. So I'm still just rambling into the void here.

And, shit, my birthday is Tuesday. We're... not going to discuss my age here...

Since my last post, I have bought a car... outright with saved up money because being unemployed means I couldn't get a loan... and gotten the first dose of one of the two dose covid vaccines. Getting the second on the 14th and then I start doing some uber again while filling out job applications. Fun times.

Also still chugging along on live streaming stuff. It's slow going, but it's fun to do.

I'm toying with starting to share recipes here that I've tried and liked. That does require my brain to cooperate, but it might be something to do.

I don't have a whole lot going on otherwise.

I'm... doing okay I guess? I beat that indie game I mentioned in my last post. It... could have been a better game, I guess.I know it has sequels, but to my knowledge, only one of those sequels got localized. Meh.

As for Melody of Memory, which I also mentioned last post, I finished that in... less than a week. It seems like it was mostly using a summary of the series, from Kairi's POV, plus a few new story bits as the excuse plot for a rhythm game. It works, I guess. Blegh, my brain isn't cooperating with anything I want to dig into on this, though.

My brain doesn't cooperate with much of anything, to be honest.

I'm still trying live streaming here and there. I've had a bit of a drop off in activity, but that's normal for the cold part of the year... for everything with me. I may or may not have some kind of seasonal thingy. And the shit show this year has been certainly doesn't help. Makes it a little harder to do stuff that needs doing, you know? Like... for the sake of my live streaming, I should probably get a second monitor. Playing console games via the OBS feed is a royal pain in the ass. There's a slight latency that can be a problem in games and things within games that need precise timing (like wall jumping in Super Mario 64). So, another screen to play on without the latency would be good. I even have enough money to get one. But I keep putting it off. See above about my brain being uncooperative. Most of my streaming lately has been Minecraft as a result.

And of course my brain has kind of stalled on any kind of writing. All the blegh.

So yeah. That's where things are at for me.

One of these days I should redo my icons. I'm also considering creating sticky posts for things people might want quick access to that it wouldn't make sense to stick on my profile. Although, the only thing I can think of for that right now is fan fiction.

I just found out that the latest Kingdom Hearts game now has a demo available. My sister is already downloading it to her Switch. Considering that I already have a bunch of demos on mine that I haven't gotten around to and I really don't want another one sitting there to forget about, I may just borrow hers to try the demo... though... I'm just going to buy the game anyway. The only real reason to poke the demo is to play something of the game now.

I don't really have anything else going on.

I live, kind of. Not much going on. Started replaying Ocarina of Time, partly because of listening to some really nice covers of the music and partly because of watching some people playing a randomizer of it. I want to play a randomizer myself, but it seems like a good idea to play the normal game first and then maybe play something else between that and the randomizer.

My brain has stalled out a little bit on fan fiction, but that's at least partly brain weirds and, more recently, partly my messy monthly visitor. It doesn't help that there's a scene I kind of really want to write, but it's like way later. I mean, I probably should just have a document for things that come later that my brain wants to write now. I've done it before, but the brain is being a butt about it now.

Also uh... how 'bout that latest story stuff in KHUX? If it wasn't approaching bed time as I'm writing this and my brain were cooperating more, I might actually want to yap about this a bit. But brain and bed are interfering in different ways. Maybe I will yap about this in another post soon-ish maybe.