Lurker > Grimlyn

oh gosh whole bunch of geekship shipment emails tonight, looks like just about everything on its way now

Tales of the Jedi beated, mannnn I really love that we can still get these little mini-seasons of essentially anthological Clone Wars. These work so well with this short impactful mini episode lengths, and taking from a whole range of the PT time period leaves a great selection of interesting plotlines.

first shipment call about import fees oh geez these could pile up

this is just for goodsmile gura nendo but there's still like 650$CAD value of geekjack goodies they start shipping on the 11th, including my kusodekai takodachi

xb3 chapter 5 is basically if ff13 pushed its chapter 10 climax scenes into chapter 11

OCD god dammit

owned: 1s everywhere but then there's just one page half of which saying Owned 0 and I can't do a damn thing

gems complete wooooo

well... except a lot of the Gem 1s I skipped before realizing the problem.... that's 16 missing Gem 1s and then every other gem complete

dammit game gimme an update to go back this is embarrassing

smashed that follow

21/20 finally, ended up sticking with the Raging Force route since I already got up to the higher teens so it was only a bitleft to go

Aux Cylinders 88 common 99 rare 21 legendary
Aux Exo-Armor 95 common 99 rare 26 legendary

oh god X gem auxilias, I'm still on the IX for Ironclad

Auxilia Exo-Armor 2*? *checks*... I got 80 of those I'm good lmao

14/20 Cylinders! I'll give that chain attack strat a shot though. I've recently just switched to a Raging Force + Capable Hands + Gust Bracelet setup to just one-shot everything so i can clear through faster.

god damn Auxilia Cylinderssss

like it's not bad enough that there's no UM, or that they're from a specific grouping of mobs, or that the mob isn't close to a spawn point, that you have to rail grind from one reef to another for a respawn, or even that there are a swarm of other auto-aggro kevesi mobs around them

but that those mobs included Elites and Blocker tanks who will steal your aggro away so you can't even just target down the Auxilia mechs fffffffffffffffffffff gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

gem grind is pure agony I only have 6/20 of this crap and I feel like I haven't even gotten a Legendary Auxilia Cylinder in like 10 respawn runs now augh kill me

I'm going the whole way although it's gonna be tainted because early in there was a couple I skipped before realizing you can't craft backwards T_T

lmao mega-relate, that's definitely a problem for me but yeah listening back my tutor stream I was surprisingly... okay with it. but also well I was just with my sister is all so nothing public yet

I do think my voice training does kick into a better gear when I'm speaking to strangers / lesser acquaintances though... with family I still find myself reverting back, with the exception of my year-old niece

damn, game8.co has been pretty good at listing all UMs and normal monsters who drop but didn't mention anything but the normal mobs for the light - because yeah I've just been going through the UMs with my soulhacker burst party

I remember searching for comprehensive drop listings months ago always ended up lacking so I was happy to see game8 usually giving me UM results

haven't started DLC yet but I did come back this week to finish up mastering all jobs and now working on the gems

... man the gem hunt just makes you hate it more and more as it goes, this shit was not made to be doable without a guide

wtf Blessed Pippito Light why are you only available from two species of Pippito, one that just comes in a batch of 3 that bolt it away from you so it's hard to kill them before they hide, and then your other option is just one singular Pippito at some far-end cliff on the Everblight Plains you just keep killing, then jump off the cliff to respawn it and trek back there and repeat until the RNG gives you 15/20/30 of the right rarities

another thing I dearly miss about XB1 is how every NPC could be traded with, so you could often find these sort of field/monster drops from there instead (except like Rainbow Slug and Black Liver Bean okay but definitely not the quantity of completely obscure monster drops that this game wants you to farm)

got every gem to lv8 minimum sans the healer role column still lv7s and taking a pause for today, only other exception is Steelcleaver X

one of these days I'll build the nerve

I've done like test recordings in private but oh god i start to stumble over myself

although i did do a private stream to help my sister with econ homework since it wasn't easy over the phone and I needed to screenshare clip studio... and that was fun and I can rewatch it without crying

aw yus

they started out numbered

but it was like dillos topic 5342 or whatever until just switching to random titles

annual oh hey it's smurfyy, it's been a year how's it smurfin'!

man it's like 12 years of topics... a few more and dillos topics will be cracking half my age

of course dillos aim chats I think started in like 2008... two more years for that to reach half my life

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/3/9/AAeYFbAADzr7.png

twitter is proud of its exclusive trends

30 years old just finding out cheese string is a canadianism

oof it really is never a good thing when I see twitter trending mikeneko

sorry girl this is pretty late to still be making the same mistakes

Wasn't sure if I'd just wait for 3 episodes to build up, buuut I think this ep was actually real engaging again. Hard to compare with the first 3 eps since they came all at once but I've enjoyed this more than the last 3s. It didn't really feel like a build-up episode but on the contrary actually connecting things back and even giving some fanservice forwards (oh hell yeah KX droids)

I haven't been completely interested in the non-Cassian plots the last few eps but this week I'm enjoying Mon Mothma's spy recruitment & the Imperial lady actually digging up on the Rebel plots. I take it though Syril's plot is gonna be a pretty long burn though since he's just been getting drab uneventful grunt work clips for a while now. Also Luther I kinda miss his involvement outside of the spy stuff.

But the reveal that Maarva's involved with the Rebellion, not sure if it was explicitly stated that she was Luthen's source about Cassian but that's what makes sense and it works. It was pretty touching how Cassian just wanted to be free with ma but she's got more she wants to do. Also glad it didn't immediately convert Cassian to the cause himself and instead we get him moving on to them KX droids aww yeah

but yeah pretty good ep, keep like this and I can tolerate the fawning I've seen the show get that's felt a bit much to me til now.

bernie's sleepy brother

mnk posted...

Good news, AI isn't good at hands either.

like really tho

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/0/6/AAeYFbAADypy.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/0/7/AAeYFbAADypz.jpg

so many otherwise decent renders but then wtf happened to your hands/arms

so i tried out some of that AI art business where I can feed in my OC designs

[album link]
https://imgur.com/a/EUC9Izv

also some uh creative interpretations of armadillo ears when i boost up the creative strength
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/0/AAeYFbAADykY.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/1/AAeYFbAADykZ.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/2/AAeYFbAADyka.jpg https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/6/3/AAeYFbAADykb.jpg

... I legit love the last one a lot tho, and the second translation into an armadillo headband is adorable as fuck

this is such a small sample of each type tho i ought to album all the ones that turned out well

well baby's certainly taking away a lot of the gsis time

today some more econ tutoring, oh geez 3 hours cuz it's pretty math-heavy, tediously so, but also involving some trickier math she's unfamiliar with ie. dividing fractions... and well slightly trying to explain what a reciprocal is

these sessions tho really shining on a light that i enjoy teaching, hmmmm

texts gsis

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... oh non-online people

so i got a letter about online voting for the mayoral elections

... good lord this is so difficult to find concrete platforms for any of these people. there's like one source of very basic interview questions for each with 5 short generic questions & equally whatever answers

at least I ran into this

https://www.insauga.com/local-activist-wants-burlington-to-honour-queen-elizabeths-wwii-efforts/

lmfao what

wait he fucking what

Jamie Lee Curtis's trans daughter.............. is a vtuber?!?!?!

omg based

that's a lot of missing posts

dffoo art for Reks revealed
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/0/1/AAeYFbAADxbl.jpg

I didn't understand what was going on until that second tweet oh lawd

and that's another trio capped off

ehhhh I said about 1-3 that packaged as a movie it would easily slot into the top tier for Star Wars... but I'm not saying that for 4-6. Like yeah 1-3 was also a slow burn to climax but I never felt bored, every scene felt important no matter which perspective we were being shown (Cassian in a rush to flee, Syril with his obsessive drive to go after him, the Kenari flashbacks wonderfully coinciding with Andor's new journey, Timm's jealousy), but in this set I can't say the same.

but again that isn't to say it's bad or anything, I think the escape was a beautiful set-piece among the meteors, and I I like that the guy hurling suspicious accusations at everyone ended up being a traitor himself... kinda cliched but hey it was a nice pay-off and we get to see it drive Cassian to paranoia to just get his cut & go. Honestly though throughout the episode I felt like there was supposed to be tension but I wasn't actually feeling it, like with Vel getting hesitant during the operation and falling behind schedule, it didn't feel like a big deal or anything. Then when they're actually found out it's not like they're really overwhelmed since it's like one dude who caught on and brought a small group of 4 with him. I really liked Lieutenant Gorn tho (RIP), I was lolling when he was continuing to cover for the situation as a secret operation that comms guy wasn't authorized to be involved in, and the dude's visibly confused despite overhearing the whole heist. Really sad he got shot, definitely my fav of the group sans-Cassian.

speaking of, it was pretty noticeable how just the two black guys got quickly shot down before the escape.

anyhow still enjoying it fine... but I kinda think I might be better off banking two weeks if they're continuing this 3-episode arc stuff. I think I would've enjoyed this set better that way... maybe I re-watch them all together. Not sure where the next arc goes but I'm interested, Cassian handing off the blue kyber crystal makes me think they're not quickly teaming back up right away. I know Saw Gerrera's suppose to be in the show so maybe we start heading that way? Then again it makes more sense for him to be involved with Luthen & the rebellion.

oof reading that sentence starting in a positive mindset then hit like a gut-punch when I got the "was" half

yikes indeed

when you're cleaning up / rearranging things around the room but then it's 2am wtf when did that happen

when you realize you forgot the ?-mark in "it's not too spicy?" so it changes the whole meaning and i can't fix it because edit time has passed

fml

gotta nom Belle to take that 7 away and just get MartinFFCC

getting at the downstairs convenience and noticing some shin ramyun to restock

clerk: "ohoo, you like? it's not too spicy"

heh little do you know kind sir I left the water boiling for samyang buldak spicy ramen tonight, shin ramyun is just the "take it easy" stuff

nah just a create-a-character I freshly made in the off-chance I ever actually do a stream for xiv

I also just purchased Endwalker content which only just now opened me up to create a Viera race (the 3 other characters I made were all miqo'tes)

I'm very much a self-insert kinda player tho so I typically use create-a-character to make my idealized self which may explain common similarities

(also holy hell Viera race outfit is so uh noticeable)

nominate Mog (FF3 US Commercial)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15qmRzn2Pc

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/1/1/AAeYFbAADwaH.jpg

lmao youtube thumbnails are fun

also I was gonna wait til the dffoo art was revealed but now I suspect the topic's gonna 500 before then so fine

DFFOO has finally done it, brought us all the long awaited character that begins with an R that should've been added years ago

https://twitter.com/7Itsomar/status/1575329137677328384

the estheims are a very powerful family in VIII I'll have you know

a V is literally just the top half of an X okay

how am i only now noticing how much XIV dominated the newcomers this year

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/2/4/AAeYFbAADwXM.png

if only they were numbered

rptgtjyp

oh shit that was mentioned before and i thought I fixed that

I think that was in the database but i didn't change the hardcopy excel sheet

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/2/3/AAeYFbAADwVn.png

yup 5 contests for Vayne

coming back for a 100/100 boot would still plop him into the Bottom 20 at worst, just under Umaro as per last page lefty post

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/1/1/AAeYFbAADwVb.png

we can get Wakka another boot