~I'll balloon my problems away
Ahh COMPLETELY MISSED POSTING ABOUT MY BIRTHDAY OOPS I had a good time! I went out to a nice dinner with friends and played board games and party games all night, it was a lot of fun. |D A good time all around!
I ended up drawing Scout's birthday party for it, since in-game Scout talks about how he invited the team to his party but no one came so he says he's going to throw it again so they can all come that time which is VERY SAD so this time everyone came, haha.
Pyro mostly focused on the grill fire, haha.
Scout loves his team so much! It's weirdly sweet, he thinks of them as his best friends and talks about how much he loves them in some of his competitive chatter lines. BUT THEY DON'T LOVE HIM BACK :( well maybe they do and don't show it BUT IT'S SAD
Soldier also loves his team from what he says in the comics (Merasmus says he's going to destroy everything Soldier cares about, Soldier says that's why he's attacking his team) so it's a bit disappointing how often Scout and Soldier are antagonists or villains whenever a story needs an opposing force. I can't tell you how many homophobic Scouts I've seen! And Soldiers although I think that's not as common as it once was. LET THEM LOVE THEIR TEAMS IN PEACE
It's still been weird since Handplates has ended! I thought Defrag might fill the schedule void but it hasn't yet... it doesn't have that same YOU NEED TO DO A PAGE strength that Handplates did, so time keeps getting blurry and soft and it's hard to get a sense of what day it is. It's hard to describe. I keep forgetting things! I didn't realize Handplates was such a pillar really until it was gone... well maybe I did but it's weird still experiencing it.
I thought I'd have more time to do other things as well when it was done and instead I keep doing other aimless things in a kind of unfocused haze. I got to sit down and focus on just one project! Or at least one thing that I can do now that I didn't do before! I think I have the screencaps lying around for the Giratina movie... I should do that at some point. Or start the Xanth game! I can do these things! Or write in Vargas, or do these other things... my mindset still doesn't feel quite like it's shifted yet, always this feeling of some thing that has to be done hovering over everything. Always something to be done! Even when I don't know what it is...
OH RIGHT I think I mentioned Pikmin 4 before and it's SO GOOD. The controls are really tight and the environments are beautiful, and Oatchi adds a lot of new flexibility to what you can do and how to manage your Pikmin which expands things a lot I think. It was nice to see the White and Purple Pikmin again! I miss the Pikborbs and the Mushroom Pikmin but I guess the Glow Pikmin covered the Pikborbs and the Mushroom ones would be a bit confusing without changing their color. Also the Groovy Long Legs battle was great, what thumping beats, hehehehe. I love Olimar having gone to night clubs in his youth.
A lot of the bosses were very cool! I didn't sustain too many losses in general except to Empress Bulblax at one point when I misunderestimated how quickly I could get out from under her, which was all on me. The final boss was INTENSE. :O And I enjoyed the Dandori challenges too, dandori is one of the things I really enjoy about Pikmin, just splitting up and multitasking. |D And it was great to finally get Purple and White onions too! Although at that point, you've basically completed everything, so it's more like a trophy than anything useful... still though!
I enjoyed the Olimar sidequest too, it really emphasized how useful having Oatchi was when you suddenly don't have him, haha. I forgot how hard Pikmin can be with just one captain! I ended up coming close to the time limit on that one mostly from a few oversights, but I did get it the first try. It was just a bit close! But the tension is fun.
Louie is such a troublemaker lol, I love him. I did a doodle of basically him and Olimar's dynamic because it amuses me so much.
I love how he causes all these problems for no real reason and has no regrets whatsoever. What a chaotic force. Who can understand his mind...
We learn so many cute things about Olimar in 4! We really know a lot about him compared to most Nintendo protagonists. He loves his family to death of course, but also struggled with his parents not approving of his life choices, longs for the solitude and adventure of outer space, went clubbing, worries about his children growing up... there's a lot of stuff!
Louie is just so odd in every way. It isn't that he's just a glutton or a chef or a silent weirdo, he has a lot of weird traits going on. A bit hard to pin down! Aside from being a troublemaker lol. A lot different from what I first pictured when I heard Pikmin 2 would have multiplayer...
Speaking of Pikmin, Olimar kisses every Pikmin goodnight even though it's getting dark. Pikmin fandom seems super lively lately which makes sense, haha. And Pikmin 4 sold well I think! I love this series so much, it's so nice to see it doing well. It's so nostalgic...
I also started MGS5 since othatsraspberry is starting to play it and I don't want to be spoiled, haha. I've been meaning to play it for years, so this is as good an impetus as any! I've forgotten how bad I am at metal gear games though in the meantime lol. I'm having a lot of trouble with missions... I end up having to do most of them like two or three times, which takes a lot of time. :/ It's so stingy with its save points! But I'm gradually getting a bit better at it over time... I'm still only like 17% of the way through, so no spoilers pleaseeee
I played Peacewalker back in the day but I remember almost nothing about it, so a lot of the infodumping about what happened in it is useful. The Big Boss games are sort of their own thing... mostly about building up your base and going on self-contained independent missions. Which is fine! I like collecting dudes for my base, hehe. I am finding myself missing the more linear narrative of MGS1-4 though. You know, where you have one mission and you see it through to the end and see a bunch of insane nonsense throughout. I've seen some insane nonsense in 5 so far! But I don't know, the feel is different, and I've never been as into Big Boss as I was into Snake. I'm not really that into Miller or Huey or Ocelot either, at least not in this time period... I don't know. I mean it's fun to play! But it's not super grabbing me, but then again it's really early, so who knows!
I managed to avoid spoilers for 5 for a really long time and then someone left a Devart comment like a month or two ago about Huey because they were mad one of my ancient pictures of Otadad (before we knew anything about him) was OOC. Which is a pretty long record to avoid spoilers tbh so it could be worse. I still don't know that much about 5 and I'm hoping to keep it that way, I expect insane twists from Kojima. But it's slow going... I need to finish Death Stranding too at some point lol. TOO MANY THINGS I STARTED AND DIDN'T FINISH
Stray as well...
I've been playing with RaveDJ to do little quick mash-ups between random songs, most of them are messes but a mix of Tombi and Vampires actually came out kind of neat. Well in places, in others it's a mess, but still! It's fun to mess with.
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I ended up drawing Scout's birthday party for it, since in-game Scout talks about how he invited the team to his party but no one came so he says he's going to throw it again so they can all come that time which is VERY SAD so this time everyone came, haha.
Pyro mostly focused on the grill fire, haha.
Scout loves his team so much! It's weirdly sweet, he thinks of them as his best friends and talks about how much he loves them in some of his competitive chatter lines. BUT THEY DON'T LOVE HIM BACK :( well maybe they do and don't show it BUT IT'S SAD
Soldier also loves his team from what he says in the comics (Merasmus says he's going to destroy everything Soldier cares about, Soldier says that's why he's attacking his team) so it's a bit disappointing how often Scout and Soldier are antagonists or villains whenever a story needs an opposing force. I can't tell you how many homophobic Scouts I've seen! And Soldiers although I think that's not as common as it once was. LET THEM LOVE THEIR TEAMS IN PEACE
It's still been weird since Handplates has ended! I thought Defrag might fill the schedule void but it hasn't yet... it doesn't have that same YOU NEED TO DO A PAGE strength that Handplates did, so time keeps getting blurry and soft and it's hard to get a sense of what day it is. It's hard to describe. I keep forgetting things! I didn't realize Handplates was such a pillar really until it was gone... well maybe I did but it's weird still experiencing it.
I thought I'd have more time to do other things as well when it was done and instead I keep doing other aimless things in a kind of unfocused haze. I got to sit down and focus on just one project! Or at least one thing that I can do now that I didn't do before! I think I have the screencaps lying around for the Giratina movie... I should do that at some point. Or start the Xanth game! I can do these things! Or write in Vargas, or do these other things... my mindset still doesn't feel quite like it's shifted yet, always this feeling of some thing that has to be done hovering over everything. Always something to be done! Even when I don't know what it is...
OH RIGHT I think I mentioned Pikmin 4 before and it's SO GOOD. The controls are really tight and the environments are beautiful, and Oatchi adds a lot of new flexibility to what you can do and how to manage your Pikmin which expands things a lot I think. It was nice to see the White and Purple Pikmin again! I miss the Pikborbs and the Mushroom Pikmin but I guess the Glow Pikmin covered the Pikborbs and the Mushroom ones would be a bit confusing without changing their color. Also the Groovy Long Legs battle was great, what thumping beats, hehehehe. I love Olimar having gone to night clubs in his youth.
A lot of the bosses were very cool! I didn't sustain too many losses in general except to Empress Bulblax at one point when I misunderestimated how quickly I could get out from under her, which was all on me. The final boss was INTENSE. :O And I enjoyed the Dandori challenges too, dandori is one of the things I really enjoy about Pikmin, just splitting up and multitasking. |D And it was great to finally get Purple and White onions too! Although at that point, you've basically completed everything, so it's more like a trophy than anything useful... still though!
I enjoyed the Olimar sidequest too, it really emphasized how useful having Oatchi was when you suddenly don't have him, haha. I forgot how hard Pikmin can be with just one captain! I ended up coming close to the time limit on that one mostly from a few oversights, but I did get it the first try. It was just a bit close! But the tension is fun.
Louie is such a troublemaker lol, I love him. I did a doodle of basically him and Olimar's dynamic because it amuses me so much.
I love how he causes all these problems for no real reason and has no regrets whatsoever. What a chaotic force. Who can understand his mind...
We learn so many cute things about Olimar in 4! We really know a lot about him compared to most Nintendo protagonists. He loves his family to death of course, but also struggled with his parents not approving of his life choices, longs for the solitude and adventure of outer space, went clubbing, worries about his children growing up... there's a lot of stuff!
Louie is just so odd in every way. It isn't that he's just a glutton or a chef or a silent weirdo, he has a lot of weird traits going on. A bit hard to pin down! Aside from being a troublemaker lol. A lot different from what I first pictured when I heard Pikmin 2 would have multiplayer...
Speaking of Pikmin, Olimar kisses every Pikmin goodnight even though it's getting dark. Pikmin fandom seems super lively lately which makes sense, haha. And Pikmin 4 sold well I think! I love this series so much, it's so nice to see it doing well. It's so nostalgic...
I also started MGS5 since othatsraspberry is starting to play it and I don't want to be spoiled, haha. I've been meaning to play it for years, so this is as good an impetus as any! I've forgotten how bad I am at metal gear games though in the meantime lol. I'm having a lot of trouble with missions... I end up having to do most of them like two or three times, which takes a lot of time. :/ It's so stingy with its save points! But I'm gradually getting a bit better at it over time... I'm still only like 17% of the way through, so no spoilers pleaseeee
I played Peacewalker back in the day but I remember almost nothing about it, so a lot of the infodumping about what happened in it is useful. The Big Boss games are sort of their own thing... mostly about building up your base and going on self-contained independent missions. Which is fine! I like collecting dudes for my base, hehe. I am finding myself missing the more linear narrative of MGS1-4 though. You know, where you have one mission and you see it through to the end and see a bunch of insane nonsense throughout. I've seen some insane nonsense in 5 so far! But I don't know, the feel is different, and I've never been as into Big Boss as I was into Snake. I'm not really that into Miller or Huey or Ocelot either, at least not in this time period... I don't know. I mean it's fun to play! But it's not super grabbing me, but then again it's really early, so who knows!
I managed to avoid spoilers for 5 for a really long time and then someone left a Devart comment like a month or two ago about Huey because they were mad one of my ancient pictures of Otadad (before we knew anything about him) was OOC. Which is a pretty long record to avoid spoilers tbh so it could be worse. I still don't know that much about 5 and I'm hoping to keep it that way, I expect insane twists from Kojima. But it's slow going... I need to finish Death Stranding too at some point lol. TOO MANY THINGS I STARTED AND DIDN'T FINISH
Stray as well...
I've been playing with RaveDJ to do little quick mash-ups between random songs, most of them are messes but a mix of Tombi and Vampires actually came out kind of neat. Well in places, in others it's a mess, but still! It's fun to mess with.
dw post