Thursday, February 11, 2021

January 2021 Entry

January 2021 Entry

One month into 2021. Felt long. 

MISC=========================

- I knew of JoAnn's Fudge a long time ago, but it was brought up to me recently in a stream. So I ordered some for myself as a Christmas gift. They arrived at the beginning of the new year (01.06). They're great and thick and delicious. Ordered peanut butter and rocky road. Been eating a small slab of one as a snack for streams to make it last. As of typing this (02.04), they're almost done. 


- Got the new crown put in place (01.12). It was a busy day for them. Busiest I had ever seen them. The new crown felt fine, just sensitive to cold drinks. Went in a couple of weeks later to get another one that fit better (01.26). Honestly felt very similar, but they liked it better, ha. 

-  Took me a while to figure out how to spend a $5 credit I had on Amazon. It was limited to certain items sold by Amazon. Nothing on my wish list was available to use it on. I ended up looking at boxers and socks, but the ones I wanted were either on back order or not my size. Then I randomly searched for Snoopy clothing and found a nice baseball shirt that the credit could be used on. Fits nicely (01.13). 


- Now I own a Sonic shirt (01.16). 


- I had some issues sleeping for a good week this month. It was the week of playing Trials of Mana. I did have to take some NyQuil to help for a few nights and ensure I got 10 hours of sleep each time. It ended at least (01.18) and sleep is kind of back to normal. 

- A friend from college has asked a few times to hang out. Usually I was busy streaming or had things to do. I apologized for always turning him down and actually hammered out a day that would work for both of us. He chose a couple of places to go to, but that didn't work well with the day. So I chose Korean Noodle House, which he was also familiar with. We finally met to catch up and enjoy a great dinner (01.19). Hugs are good, hugs are good. Nice to see him doing well and just talking to anyone in general. And it was good to see Korean Noodle House still succeeding during the pandemic. I was excited to see the familiar faces that have been there since day one. 

- Every now and then, I get the urge to watch YouTube videos of choreography I used to know (01.21). I figured this would be a good way to do some type of weekly exercise. Unfortunately, I haven't kept up with that. Maybe it came at the wrong time, ha. I'm still doing my morning stretches consistently. 

- TWIX Cookies & Creme ice cream bars are delicious (01.26). It had been a few months that I had ice cream and was really craving it. I wasn't looking for anything in particular when I went to the gas station, but I knew I wanted it to be an ice cream bar. And that's when I saw them. Never had a TWIX Cookies & Creme ice cream bar. The only ones they had remaining were Right ones otherwise I would have bought a Left as well. But those things are yummy. 

- Picked up a copy of Batman: Soul of the Dragon (01.26) and watched it a few days later (01.29). I was excited for this one because of the setting and theme, but I was actually disappointed by it. 


- Found out I could not use our printer (01.27). Reason being was that it was tied to a subscription to HER. I had printed something since inheriting it, but I suppose that subscription ran out. Tried setting it up myself, but ran into difficulties. The online chat wasn't helpful so I ended up calling them. The person on the other end of the line was very helpful and was able to help sign me up for the cheapest subscription. 

- Prime Movies Round 10 was crazy. It was mainly because a good number of the choices became unavailable. The biggest plus was that I watched the entire trilogy of The Expendables. The second was my favorite out of the three. The Grand Heist and Instant Family were also my favorites for the batch. Round 11 is up. I am contemplating if I want to change things up once we hit one year, but we'll see. 


WRESTLING=========================

- It has now been over a year since I was at a mass gathering. That last event was the Royal Rumble 2020. 

- The Royal Rumble 2021 was so much fun (01.31). Great action, cool surprises, etc. 


H.E.R.=========================

- Renamed this section to H.E.R. since these will be stories from that time. If work became a thing again, I'll probably make another section for it. 

I do want to try something with this section with recalling stuff from the Houston Escape Room. I think mentioning a negative thing instead of trying to only tell positive stories might be good. It would help to get it out there and not keep holding onto them. I know I've mentioned them in the past, but the good times wouldn't be as good if there weren't any bad times. 

And I think I'll start with a big general overall thing. One thing that bothered me were the family/friends that always said they would come, but never did. You had 6 years to come see me do something I was very proud of and that you would really enjoy. Offering discounts and even coming in for free didn't work for some as they were too busy. That's understandable...but you had 6 years to carve 2 hours out of your day to visit and experience what we did and did so well. 

Thank you to the friends and family that did come out. Those were some of my favorite sessions because I got to see you participate in something I helped create. Thank you so much. 

GAMES=========================

- Aviary Attorney: Definitive Edition (01.01)
This was very interesting. I thought there would be more to the trial aspects, but it definitely was story heavy outside of it. Didn't know there were multiple endings. I got one and watched the rest on YouTube. Going for the rest would have taken another playthrough because there were things sprinkled throughout that could have been different dialogue-wise. 


- Demo Showcase 55 (01.03)

- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Feuled was free to play for a week so I needed to add it to the schedule (01.04). I was not great at it, ha. Shout out to polly58033 for playing with me the majority of the time. 


- The Immortal...my goodness (01.06). I knew of this game from Game Informer doing a video many years ago on the Genesis version. It's not a good game. Definitely needed a guide for it. I don't recommend it, but if you have a choice, perhaps go for the Genesis version. 


- Island Saver is a fun FPS tied to recycling (01.07). I do think it was pretty good for all ages. It's not violent, it's colorful, it functions like other FPS games, and you get hours of gameplay for free. 


- Saw these Super Mario 3D All-Stars coins on sale for half off (01.08). They're nice. 


- Finally started Super Mario 3D All-Stars with Super Mario 64 (01.09-01.10). My skills have diminished after 20+ years. We did get all 120 stars within 2 streams (originally planned for 3). Despite not performing at my peak, I did things faster than expected. Still great. 


- 2048 Battles (01.13)

- Back to the Collection of Mana with Trials of Mana/Seiken Densetsu 3 (01.15-01.18). This was originally planned for 3 streams at 8 hours each. Based on an FAQ I was using (which was not good but the most recommended), I was towards the end. However, there was a difficulty spike. Those happened here and there, but nothing overly daunting. I really thought we would wrap it up in that 4th extra stream, but 2 screens over was a boss that was too strong. Leveling up off stream for 2 hours in between each stream wasn't enough. Spent 7 hours to gain 8 levels (I tried facing him each level gained) to beat the boss and it was...frustrating. There isn't much left (a few more boss fights) and I probably could have kept adding extra streams, but I was burnt out and needed to step away. So I'll return to it in February and be done with it. It might be done in one short stream, but I still reserved 3 days for it in case there is another level spike for possibly the last boss. The original plan of playing through this game 3 times with the different pairings is no longer happening. March will be the start of the 3D Remake of Trials of Mana. 


- Twitch Recap (01.15)

- Demo Showcase 56 (01.20)

- Party Treats was a game I got for free because of an ownership discount (01.21). I would not have paid for this. I suggest you don't either. 


- Panzer Dragoon: Remake was not that great to be honest (01.23). I enjoyed what I played of it, but it was too short and there really weren't any reasons to play it multiple times other than the extra options (God mode, etc). It was a little disappointing. 


- Bust A Move/Groove is still my favorite rhythm game. Never looked for merchandise outside of the games and soundtracks. But now I own a shirt for it (01.23). And because of this, I think I know which series I want to complete collecting now that I have finished collecting the Ace Attorney games. 


- Skybolt Zack was my favorite demo from June of 2020 (01.25). I didn't think I wouldn't be able to beat it, but I couldn't. The latter levels get tough and I ended up mostly beating the easier path of the map. I did go back and was able to unlock and beat most of the first world. But the "easier" boss still had bottomless pits and multiple phases (checked a video). I could only get to the second phase. I got further little by little, but there were times that I'd have a case of the yips and would lose faster. 


- Blackjack Hands was sponsored by QUByte Interactive (01.27). We had played Poker Hands on stream before and it was interesting. I like Blackjack more in general, but this was over really fast and not as challenging. 


- Started playing the DLC for Cadence of Hyrule (01.28). We used Shadow Link this time. It did take a while to get back into the flow, but it's great returning to this game. Not only that, the new tracks are great (can't wait to hear the rest in subsequent plays). We also got our (at the time) 3rd largest party to come into the stream (20-25) thanks to RaptorKitchen for sending fresh eyes my way. 


- Never played Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (01.30). It is definitely tougher than the original. Still enjoyed it. The added plus were the 3 parties that showed up with our largest party ever (47 from SolaceAndDread) and our new third largest (27). We also hit 550 followers at the very end of the stream, which was a great milestone. We never gained an extra 50 followers in such a short amount of time. We did lose a follower minutes after the stream and 2 more within the following 24 hours, but oh well. 


ETC=========================

- yukaDD - Superhero (feat. Momo)

- ITZY - Not Shy & WANNABE (BTS Performance)

- ITZY - Performance Practice: End of 2020 (Seoul Music Awards)

- January was an odd one. I feel it was fine overall, but the streaming part was rough at points. Nothing else comes to mind for the month other than my crush on Ryujin has grown, ha. She's the absolute coolest. I started watching some older variety/reality shows ITZY has been on to catch up on what I've missed. But other than that...nothing much to note. 

- That's a wrap on January 2021. Thanks for reading. Thank you for your support. Be cool and be kind. 


"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits." 

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Friday, January 8, 2021

December 2020 Entry

December 2020 Entry

2020 is over.

MISC=========================

- Went for my ENT appointment (12.03). My mom came with me as she wanted to talk to the doctor about the possible surgery. After the hearing test, the long wait, and the cleaning, it turns out my left ear is back to 100%. It's crazy and amazing as I had not been doing anything to hurt or hinder it. Surgery went from ASAP to whenever I feel like it. And it will happen some time because it will prevent future worse problems. It's just that the downside to widening my ear canal is that I'm guaranteed to lose some of my hearing. Better to enjoy the maximum of my hearing now and get the surgery only if things get worse. Still going to monitor it every 6 months to make sure it's good. 

- I recently reconnected with an old middle school friend through Facebook. We had been friends on it for a while, but only started messaging more often. I had been meaning to ask him about if he still had my soul or not (12.08). He busted out laughing. Some back story, we signed a "contract" and he owned my soul for X amount of dollars. The caveat was that I would get it back if he ever lost the contract. Knowing him, I knew he would still have it, ha. He hasn't found it yet, but he says he has it. It's a silly thing, but I can't wait to have it back. 

- A darn power outage occurred (12.11). I actually don't remember much about this one other than it happened and it didn't last super long thankfully. 

- Finished the box of Cheetos popcorn I ordered months ago (12.12). As I've said before, they're good, but I prefer the regular chip version. 

- Went to the dentist for what was supposed to be a root canal (12.15). When they removed the crown, they saw it wasn't that bad (why was there cotton there). So the plan changed to get fitted for a new crown and putting on the temporary one making the visit go from 3 hours to only 2. I listened to a podcast the whole time and sort of forgot I had the process done until a large headache came hours later. That sucked, but was expected. It took a good week before that tooth wasn't as sensitive to chewing. 

- I had been friend requested by someone in a Facebook group I was in. They were new to the group and all I did was Like her introductory post. We exchanged a few messages a couple days later. She was from Thailand so our timezones didn't quite match to talk, but we messaged when we could. Then she started to share photos of herself. And then she started talking a lot about sexual things. I'm okay to talk about those topics, but I was getting tired and paranoid when that was all she wanted to talk about. Plus calling me "baby" and wanting to role play only after a few days of talking was alarming. I would try to talk about normal subjects, but she always brought it back to sex. I confronted her about it after she got mad that I wasn't messaging her daily. But I mentioned that I don't message anyone I know daily whether they're close or not and that I am busy with streams and other things. It went back and forth from talking normally to sexual talk to her getting mad that I wasn't playing along. I know that one of the reasons I didn't unfriend her was that I just liked talking to someone new. However, she messed up. In one of the last photos she sent, it was uncropped and showed a different person's name as well as the user's profile image being a guy. I double checked the account and saw it was a foreign model and found all the other photos she sent in their non-cropped form. I unfriended her/him that day (12.21) and felt better once it ended. 

- We've had shoddy internet for a while now so a technician was scheduled to come by (12.23). The originally scheduled stream was delayed as they came around 1PM and the whole process took a couple of hours. The internet was better, but the technician scheduled another tech to come out and check the grid network as it was affecting the neighbors as well. The next day, the tech finished everything in less than an hour and our connection seemed fine. But when I streamed, it went bad. The connection dropped 3 times within a 2 hour span causing me to delay the stream to another day and run tests to make sure the connection was good. Thankfully it has been fine ever since then. Long story short, our internet connection is better overall. 

- For Christmas, I did a video call with my cousin (12.25). She sent me a package that arrived earlier than she thought it would (12.11) and asked to watch me open it on Christmas day. Inside were 2 gifts. One was from her husband; a handheld Oregon Trail game, ha (he had asked me about older games a month or so prior). The second gift from my cousin was full of candy I liked such as Jolly Ranchers, Warheads, and Sour Punch. But the main things were small beanie babies of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as a gummy pizza. Very unexpected and awesome. We spent some time catching up before ending the call. As of typing this (01.02.21), most of the hard candy is gone, I'm saving the gummy pizza for last, and the beanie babies are now rotating on streams. Thank you, cousin. 


- Prime Videos Round 09 was very interesting. There were a couple of stinkers in the holiday themed movies, but I liked the majority of movies in this batch. Favorites include A.C.O.D., Christmas Cupcakes, and Christmas Cancellation with an honorable mention to Santa Jaws (so good, it's bad). Round 10 will start off 2021. 


WRESTLING=========================

- My gosh, NXT TakeOver: Wargames was great (12.06). They always deliver and it's always awesome. Shout out to all the performers. 


- And WWE TLC 2020 was great too (12.20). Fun PPV to end the year. 


- Brodie Lee/Luke Harper passed away at 41 (12.26). The outpour of wonderful stories following his death are incredible to read. When you see how much people cared and appreciated who he was and what he did for others, it makes it tougher as he was still young. I really liked seeing that wrestlers from every organization did things to celebrate his life. The AEW show dedicated to him was tear inducing. I lost it when John Silver got the hot tag and went insane with his offense and then seeing Rowan show up and then hold up his sign...wonderful. You will be missed. 


WORK=========================

- Still collecting unemployment. I did have to start performing work searches. 3 a week. I thought to skip out on it, but they actually reached out to me to explain that it's fairly simple. Plus I was worried that doing upstart work would disqualify me. They assured me it would not.  

- HER Work Story: The first escape at the new location (12.20.14) 
Our first location was on the 3rd floor of a shared building. We weren't there long and I wasn't there for more than 2 weeks before we moved. After settling in to the new place, we ran things as should be. However, it took a month or two before I witnessed my first escape. And at this point, I was not trained on what to do as it never happened. So when the team escaped, I didn't know what to do other than stop the time. I brought them to the couch area, which was our briefing area and sat them down. They were excited of course, but didn't know what was going on. That's when I congratulated them and let them know they were the first team to escape and they cheered. It was a cool feeling. 


GAMES=========================

- Tetris 99 again for stream 499 (12.01). Did my best ever and got 3rd place. 


- Ordered a Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity notepad from Nintendo (12.02). Cost platinum points, which made it free and only had to pay for shipping, which pretty much balanced out. 


- Discord voted for me to play Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King for my 500th stream (12.04). I really liked it. Part of me wished I did do it as a multi-session (2) so I can take my time and explore more, but I had to make it a one-off for scheduling. 


- Once the 400th stream was over (8.5 hours later), I found the clip I wanted from it and finished up the new stream trailer. It was the same time lapse video theme, but with 400 clips instead of 300. Changed up the song too to another one of Dan Angelo's instrumentals (thanks for the song files). I forgot about the normal speed version until late at night. But that needed to render overnight as it was going to take many hours. They're both up. My current plan is to do it again for 500 streams, but then change the format to only show the next 100. I'll need to think on that more, but I do think the more I add with the current format, the harder it will be on the viewer's eyes. 


- Demo Showcase 53 (12.05)

- First time playing the Famicom version of Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels (12.06). Only played the Super Mario All-Stars version of it. Still a tough one. 


- UBERMOSH: SANTINCIDE was given to me by the developers. I already had OMEGA since I bought it for a dollar or less. I knew they would be on the short end of length so I didn't think playing them separately would have been fun. So I bought BLACK as well and decided to play all 3 in one stream (12.07). OMEGA was my favorite and BLACK was my least favorite. All were 90-second survival games with tons of chaos. 


- Saw Reversed play Iconoclasts on stream and he recommended I give it a try. It was also on sale for half off so I bought it. Definitely enjoyed playing it (12.09-12.10). With how colorful the game is, it was very surprising to find a deep and dark storyline unravel. 


- Sephiroth being revealed for Smash was phenomenal (12.10, 12.19). Didn't unlock him right away, but it was cool trying him out. Probably my favorite DLC character overall, but I'm not good at using him, ha. 


- Ordered a Shantae shirt from Amazon (12.11). Have yet to wear it though other than initially trying it out when I got it. 


- Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms (12.12)

- Was looking forward to playing Trancelation when it was released (12.14). Unfortunately, it didn't live up to my expectations. It became more about memorizing, which is not easy for me when studying anything. It might work for others, but not me. In the end, I took the easy way of beating the game. 


- Got a Katana Zero shirt from FanGamer (12.14). I thought they weren't supposed to be released until January, but mine came in early. Can't complain about that. Just like the Shantae shirt, I have yet to wear this out. 


- Back to the Collection of Mana with Secret of Mana (12.16-12.18). Haven't played this since around the original release. A little more difficult than I remember. In the end, I followed the FAQ beat by beat so I wouldn't waste too much time. Great to go back to it after so long. 


- Demo Showcase 54 was  the last Demo Showcase of the year (12.20). Good batch to end with. Shout outs to the developer of Wunderling hanging out in chat. 


- Pocket Mini Golf (12.21)

- 2020 Nintendo Switch Year in Review was available (12.22). I'm glad they did it again. Cool to compare with others. I only saw one person I knew that logged more hours than me. They weren't all accurate though especially the busiest day. Still cool to see them compiled. 


- Received a game key for Roundguard and decided to play a gifted game on the day of gifts (12.18, 12.25). Ended up having lots of fun with this one despite it being a rouge-like. The downward pinball mechanic and having characters with different abilities was neat. This is also the most expensive game I've ever received from a developer at $20. 


- The Missing: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories happened after Christmas (12.26). Originally it was supposed to be Christmas Eve. If you remember, this was the second day the technician came to work on the grid network. Everything was working fine. About 50 minutes into the stream, the internet crapped out. Came back on soon after and we tried to continue...until it was gone in another 10-20 minutes. It came back on again and I decided to try again after 30 minutes to see how the internet was holding up, but I was going to start over. And then it stopped after the same amount of time and I called it quits for that day and ran a bunch of tests. 

When we finally did play The Missing, the stream was steady and thank goodness since we completed it after 9 hours. What a crazy and amazing game. I had heard stuff about it and how it does respect a specific audience as well as tells a good story and all the praise I heard was right. I did make sure to tell anyone that came in that the game had trigger warnings because it doesn't shy away from certain subjects and actions. It is one I think a lot of people can appreciate whether they play it themselves or watch it played. 


- Ended the year by playing Super Mario All-Stars (12.28-12.31). Been a good decade since I last played it. Good stuff. The only downside was a rolling outage that occurred during Super Mario Bros 2 making that a split stream. I actually could have probably finished things up in that one had I not shown off the 2021 calendar that arrived that same day. 

The cool thing I did was perform warp and warpless runs in all of the games (minus The Lost Levels, did both a Mario and Luigi warpless run). Figured it would be a fun way to extend the stream instead of me steamrolling through them. 


- 2021 My Nintendo Calendar (12.30)

- During one of the Mario streams, someone in chat mentioned they found me because of my playthrough of Aldred Knight. They spoke about how he and others were doing world records for them, but specifically for levels and not the full game. So I jokingly said that means I technically have the world record for a full playthrough. They then asked if they could submit my run for it. As long as I didn't have to do anything else, I was okay with that. All they had to do was verify the official time as me intro, outro, and any break times would be subtracted from it. When I woke up the next day, I officially held the world record for Aldred Knight (12.31). Technically I've had it for almost a year, but the official submission means I've had it for only a short while (I'll keep track of both). Lots of people were surprised and liked my posting of the record, which was very surprising. The person that verified my record also mentioned that the others in the community are now gunning for it, ha. 


- Large Twitter thread made for my 2020 Games Year in Review. I started keeping track of stats around October/November as I was purely curious how many hours I had streamed in 2020. From there I started calculating other things as you can tell. But now I know how to go about keeping track of stats in 2021. I also started figuring out what my favorite games of the year were after November. I figured the lists could be made at that time with only a few possibilities being added in. 


ETC=========================

- BoA - Better (MV)

One of her best songs. It's one of the few times that the teaser made me realize that it was going to be a great song. Yes, extremely biased. 

- BoA - LIVE ON UNPLUGGED (12.12)

This was basically a concert. I definitely watched all of it and sang along to it as if it were. 

- BoA - Better album (12.14)

It's been a while since I bought a physical album. Her last one might have been the last one I bought. It was also a good thing I recently reorganized all my BoA stuff because there wouldn't have been room for the new ones. 

- Happy Birthday, Sana. (12.29)

- 2020...I don't know. Other than the worldwide issues, this was an odd year. Did the most streaming I've ever done with a nice amount of growth, but I thought more would happen with it. I'm thankful for the high points that have happened because of it. I know I'm niche, I know I do things differently, and I know I don't follow the normal path of growth, but that's me...always doing things differently. I do wish for more growth. Anyone that wants to help, let's talk. 

I've been the healthiest in a long time. I didn't get sick at all this year and that rarely happens. My hair is the longest it has ever been and the smoothest it has been in a long time although it still falls out at a normal rate. My teeth are getting better and the worst thing, my hearing, is now back to normal. I still get occasional rashes from sitting too long and I've put on probably 10 pounds. 

Overall...this has been the loneliest I've felt in a long time. This pandemic might have more people on dating apps, but it didn't make it any easier. It wasn't impossible, but it wasn't happening. There's more to consider now because no one would want a date to end with exposure to COVID. But being in the house almost every single day didn't help. I've been given advice to widen my age range (which I do almost every year and it's the largest age range I've ever had) or to not look for love, just a connection. Maybe 2021 will be better in this aspect, but it is what it is. I don't want to feel this lonely anymore though. I'll continue asking others to help me out with this because I need the assistance. 

- That's a wrap on December 2020. Thanks for reading. Thank you for your support. Be cool and be kind. 


"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits."
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Saturday, December 5, 2020

November 2020 Entry

November 2020 Entry 


The year's almost over, wow. 

MISC========================= 

- Ordered a box of Cheetos Popcorn (11.02). Been eating a bag a day. I do prefer the original crunchy chips though. These aren't bad by any means. It's missing that crunch. 


- New Japanese warrior shirt (11.06). I like it. 


- Reorganized the shelves on my computer desk. (11.12). It started with taking the hats off the top shelf and cleaning them (so much dust). Then I organized the drawers next to my computer so there was a section dedicated to the hats. I wasn't sure what to put on the top until I figured I'd need more space for BoA stuff. So she moves up to the top and the second shelf is full of miscellaneous items. 


- New Mystical Ninja merchandise (11.14). There really isn't much merchandise for that franchise outside of the games so it was cool to see anything. The only item I didn't get was the vinyl. 


- Originally I had a dentist appointment set for a cleaning (11.17). But they had been calling me from a new number that I wasn't familiar with so that they could reschedule. Didn't know that until I went as normally scheduled and they explained. I added the new number to my phone and we rescheduled for the 20th. Routine cleaning. At the end they gave me a free electric toothbrush as an extra apology for the earlier mix up, which was great because I dropped my toothbrush into the toilet the night before, ha. We also talked about something we talked about a year ago and that was fixing an old crown. I mentioned having pains a month ago in that area and it wasn't the first time that happened. So...root canal in December.  

- Because it was my cousin's wedding anniversary, I know that I haven't had a haircut in one year (11.23). Been a while since I had gone this long without cutting my hair. Oddly, I feel that it is healthier than ever. 

- Eighth round of Prime Movies was okay. My favorites were Saving Face, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and What Men Want. I'd also recommend Gemini Man and Wandering Off. Round 09 will have half be holiday related much like I did with October. 
 

WRESTLING========================= 

- Survivor Series was fun (11.22). All the matches were awesome and the farewell to The Undertaker was good. Thank you for 30 years, Taker. 


- Got some shirts on sale (11.28). I ordered them a few days before their Black Friday sale, but I would have only saved a dollar, ha. 


- WWE makes great documentaries. But Liv Forever is one of their best (11.29). Highly recommend it. 


WORK========================= 

- Had another weekly meeting (11.17). Unfortunately this was the same day I thought I had a dentist appointment. I was very tired since I had to get up early and it showed in the meeting as I got frustrated with things. Not a good representation of myself. I apologized to the team afterwards. But yeah, that was not a fun one for me. 

- I had typed "random work story" here, but I can't think of anything that I have most likely mentioned in old blog posts. If there's anything you would all like to ask or read about, let me know. Otherwise I'll try to not rehash an old story. 

GAMES========================= 

- Celeste was very challenging (11.01-11.02). I did as much as I could within the two streams, but it would have been impossible to do it all especially as everything else was more of a challenge. I was able to at least collect all the B-side tapes, strawberries, and beat The Core (45 minutes). 

This was a game requested for me to play, but unfortunately none of the people that asked didn't show up. I do have one more game request that's being done in December, but after that, no more off the cuff requests. It has to be done via channel points otherwise that redemption is pointless for others. 


- Demo Showcase 51 (11.04) 

- Mighty Bomb Jack (11.05) 

- Finally played Streets of Rage 4 (11.07-11.11). The original goal was to beat it with every possible character. I didn't realize how tough it would be on Normal. After playing as Axel and Blaze, I bumped it down to Easy. So a 2.5 hour runthrough became a 1.5 hour runthrough. I had fun as each character and their retro counterparts felt distinct and fun. Such a good beat 'em up. 


- Super Mario Bros. 35 was fun (11.13). Got two first place wins. Didn't unlock everything nor did I play against anyone I knew from the stream, but I liked it. Maybe I'll try to fit it in again before it becomes unavailable. This also starts playing at least one Mario game a month for about half a year. 


- Starting the Collection of Mana with Final Fantasy Adventure (11.15-11.16). Pretty good Gameboy game. Most of the negatives I had were just because it was of its time. Having a guide helped too. And just like Mario, this is the start of one Mana game per month for a while. 


- Future sponsored stream from QUByte Interactive with FLATLAND: Prologue (11.17). 


- Demo Showcase 52 (11.18) 

- The final of the 10 free games offered by Qubic Games last year, Mana Spark (11.19). I'm not the biggest on roguelites, but I liked this one. It sure was challenging though. I think we only got 8 levels in or however many levels it was to see the second boss. 


- We reached 500 followers on stream (11.19). This was actually the second time. First time was on the 11th and it lasted a couple of days before losing a couple of followers. It took a while to get more and this was a bad time. It was the start of a funk that I couldn't shake for a few days and it leaked into work, home life, and even streams. There was a point I was going to cancel a couple of streams because of this, but I figured I need to push through it. I did. And when we hit 500 again, things felt better. Can't wait for us to hit 600.  
 
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity was phenomenal (11.21-11.26). I put in many hours into Hyrule Warriors on the Wii U and Switch. I put in 41 hours into Age of Calamity. I originally thought I could beat the story in 3 streams, but that wouldn't have happened the rate I was going. In the end, the last 3 streams were side quests, story, side quests, story. I also put in a good 12 hours (9 in one day and 1+ hour before/after streams) off stream because there's so much to do. Part of me wants to play it more, but I do need time away from it. Anything extra will be off stream, but if the rumored DLC is true, that could be a reason to come back on stream for it. 


I double checked because I remember this was a thing years ago, but I did play various Zelda games during previous Thanksgivings. 

Thanksgiving 2011 - Skyward Sword 
Thanksgiving 2012 - Nintendo Land - The Legend of Zelda: Battle Quest 
Thanksgiving 2013 - A Link Between Worlds 
Thanksgiving 2014 - Hyrule Warriors 
Thanksgiving 2020 - Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity 

- Got my copy of Panzer Dragoon: Remake (11.22). Scheduled to be played in January. Ordered it back in March and it finally arrived. 
 

- Then my copy Shantae and the Seven Sirens and the Shantae plush came in (11.25). Such a nice packaging. The plush is great and joined me for a few streams. 


- Valentina was a sponsored stream provided by QUByte Interactive (11.28). It wasn't great, ha. Bad translations, glitches, etc. I can see how it's only $1, but you can get something better at that price. 
 

- Our SNES game of the month was Operation Logic Bomb (11.29). I didn't know what to expect from it, but I really liked it. I don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about this game and I'm not sure why. It has its negatives, but it's a good one. So nice we beat it twice. Go try it. 


- And then my copy of Forgotton Anne was delivered (11.29). Ordered it in February and it is scheduled to be played next February. Only have a few more Limited Run Games orders I'm waiting on now. 


ETC========================= 

- Happy Birthday, BoA. (11.05) 

- Happy Birthday, Momo (11.09) 

- TWICE - Better (MV) 

To me, their best Japanese song from top to bottom. Paired with I Can't Stop Me for their Korean release, this was a good time to be a ONCE. 

- 202020 BoA 

This was so good. I was surprised by a lot of things that happened such as her updated versions of songs and looks especially Eat You Up. I could also reflect on myself as memories of how my life was during different BoA eras. If you didn't know, my start in Kpop was when BoA started. While I knew of other groups a year or two before then, BoA was the first new artist that I grew attached to and never let go. 20 years strong. 

- ITZY Performance Practice (Asia Artist Awards Ver.) 

What an awesome version and dance to my favorite ITZY song. 

- That's a wrap on November 2020. Thanks for reading. Thank you for your support. Be cool and be kind. 







"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits." 

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Friday, November 6, 2020

October 2020 Entry

October 2020 Entry: 


This was an interesting month. I will say the majority of it went at a steady pace. 

MISC========================= 

- I've been searching for miscellaneous new shirts on Amazon. I have a few in my cart, but decided to get one a month. One new shirt arrived (10.07). I don't have too many light blue shirts either so I like this one. 
 

- Mentioned it a few months ago that I was rewatching a lot of old videos I had. Went through a few more and found a set of interviews that we conducted (10.08). We did these for a photo shoot magazine that was created. I only watched 2 of the interviews with one being mine. I thought I was going to see differences from me from back then to now, but the interview was mainly about hobbies and the history behind them. Still interesting to watch. I dug out the magazine to see the final product. Unfortunately my part of making a video didn't happen as the audio messed up because of a bad lavalier mic.  

- Caught up with a friend through chat and he invited me to go eat sushi with him and a few friends. I was still apprehensive about going out in big groups so I was on the fence about it, but ended up going (10.09). Went to Kura, met new people, and ate so much sushi (the table total got 3 sets of Sonic chopsticks). Another cool thing that happened was seeing a long time highschool friend and his wife and son there as well. It was very refreshing seeing them and catching up with them as well. We walked across the street to the bakery before splitting ways. Went back to my friend's place and we talked for another good hour. It was good. The times I met with this set of friends, wrestling was usually the reason we hung out so there wasn't much time to get to know each other. And it's been forever since I've done that as well. That night was very much needed and I'm more open to meeting others in groups rather than 1-on-1 as I had been doing for the last few months. 

- Bought and watched Batman: Death in the Family (10.14). It didn't take long to see all the endings, which is very good. The alternate endings were for the most part interesting and I did notice that a lot of the movie was majority voiced over saving on animations. Definitely recommend it. 
 

- The seventh round of free movies is in the books. Also did 17 movies this time as I had someone recommend me one on YouTube and it fit with the theme. This round might be the one with the most movies I didn't enjoy. Despite that my favorites were Kingdom of Blood, The Good Neighbor, Silent Hill, and The Addams Family. 


WRESTLING========================= 

- NXT TakeOver 31 was  great (10.04). TakeOvers always are great and this of course did not disappoint. And this might be the first time I got all my predictions correct, yay. 
 

- Hell In A Cell...wow (10.25). So many awesome things happened. I only caught the last two matches live since I was streaming, but catching up on everything else was fun. Such a good PPV. 


- And the return of Halloween Havoc was fantastic (10.28). I really hope this will be a yearly event again. They did some fun stuff with the theme on top of having cool matches. 


WORK========================= 

- Got a message from Agent Ocean letting us know that the locks at the Memorial location were officially changed (10.28). So if anyone on the staff wanted, they could take anything from there that day. Was 30 minutes away from streaming when he sent that message out and I quickly decided to go over there. Agent Ocean and I were later joined by Agent PQ and we started dividing stuff up and helped pack things into our cars. We were there for a couple hours. It was nice seeing them again, but obviously bitter sweet. Agent Ocean and I went back a second time the same day. He contacted friends who wanted stuff and my dad wanted to see what he might want for himself. Crazy day. One sucky thing was that I had made plans for a friend to come do the escape rooms there since we still had access, but it was going to happen in November. Unfortunately that won't be happening anymore. 
  

- On the flip side, a few of us from HER have been having online meetings and we're planning a start-up. We know what we want to do and now it's about creating the product and establishing things such as hours and compensation. Definitely excited. 

GAMES========================= 

- Castlevania Anniversary Collection (10.01-10.15) 
I played each of these 8 games every other day. The first 4 I had played before while the latter 4 were completely new. It was great to have more Castlevania games under my belt. 

- amiibo (10.02) 
Joker and Hero are very detailed. I keep saying this as more amiibo are made, but they keep getting better and better. 

- Super Smash Bros Ultimate Steve (10.13) 
Much like all the DLC Smash characters, I gave Steve a try. Unfortunately, he wasn't clicking with me...or it at least took longer. He has some potential, but...yeah, he wasn't clicking with me. 

- Demo Showcase 50 (10.17) 
Did 6 demos instead of the normal 5. That was to make the total number of demos played a multiple of 5. 

- Overwatch (10.18) 
Tried out every character. That was my main goal for playing. I found myself liking the melee characters more than others. Top 5 to use were Ashe, Brigitte, Reinhardt, Sombra, and Winston. Shout out to Agent Kagai and Agent Blue for playing with me. 

- Hardcore Maze Cube (10.19) 
Sponsored by QUByte Interactive. This certainly was challenging. Thank you to the chat that was helping on the riddles. The game deserves the "hardcore" in its title because the levels were very difficult. We were 2 levels away from finishing the game, but at that point I was also worn out. At least I'm first on the leaderboards. 

- Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 1 & 2 (10.21-10.22) 
Keeping with the theme of games this month, finally got to play Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and then it's sequel. Had a copy of the first game from Limited Run Games. I think I enjoyed that game more than the sequel. The sequel is fine in its mechanics. However, the difficulty went up a lot...each time you did more...and I couldn't do more at a certain point. Playing these has me interested in trying Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (on my wish list). Maybe next year. 

- Cadence of Hyrule, Untitled Goose Game (10.23) 

- Blasphemous (10.24-10.26) 
My goodness, this deserves its M rating. It's so well done in every aspect (gameplay, story, setting, etc). From seeing Debonair Vox play the demo when it first came out and then me playing the demo back in June, this did not disappoint. 

- My Big Sister (10.29) 
Played the demo back in February. It left me wanting more and it delivered. The story definitely went places I did not expect. But I enjoyed it enough to get all 6 endings. 

- Demon's Crest (10.30) 
A favorite of mine on the SNES. Didn't know there were 4 endings so we got them all...especially that true ending. I don't remember it being that difficult because I have proof of it, but this time it was taxing. But I still enjoyed replaying it. 

ETC========================= 

- I have been 6 years sober now (10.24). I actually would not have remembered had the story of drinking not come up in a person's stream. I spent time going back through blog entries to find out the actual day. It's cool. Have I wanted to have a drink since then? Yes. Have I drank since then? No. I still stick by my rules if I ever drink again; when things are really bad or with a significant other. 

- TWICE - I CAN'T STOP ME (MV) 

- Odd month. Streams went smoothly for the most part. Losing the Memorial location sucked. Going out with a larger group for once was great. Hopefully there will be more positive highlights next month. 

- That's a wrap on October 2020. Thanks for reading. Thank you for your support. Be cool and be kind. 


"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits." 

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