Monday, April 1, 2019

March 2019 Entry

March 2019 Entry

A long and exhausting month. After typing notes, not too much happened. 

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- Got a text from my bank (03.01). It was similar to one I got last time my credit card information was stolen. And that was the same case again. This time someone was trying to use it multiple times at a gas station (was told $1 purchases at first, but it ended up being $75 each time). Since it seemed to happen at the same place again (a gas station), I decided not to go there again unfortunately. So for the third time in a year, I had to replace my credit card, lame.  

- Had made plans prior to eat dinner with a friend, but got a text earlier in the day by another to eat lunch (03.06). Went to Korean Noodle House for lunch. Had not been there in years and they relocated, but were in the same area. They had just gotten bigger. I was worried the food wouldn't be as good, but it definitely was. Glad they were able to grow. But my friend and I caught up and talked about a lot of things. One was about something I kept forgetting to ask her for months now. It was about a time where she introduced me as her best friend and how I was surprised when she said it. But it's great to know I have 2 best friends now. We did go to a Starbucks after to continue talking and then later got her to visit the new work place since we were close by. Showed her around, answered questions, and then she had to go and I had to actually work. It was great catching up with her like always.  

Work was a short day and I went to go meet another friend for dinner at Yardhouse. Unfortunately, she was late, but she made it. Shared some similar stories with her, but definitely talked about other subjects. We hung out and basically kept talking late into the night. Through no fault of hers (someone else's), the night ended on a sour note, but we still had a good time.  

- A week later, caught up with more friends (03.12). One was on Spring Break and wanted to hang. I told him to swing by work and check it out finally. Thought my work day would end short like it normally does on Tuesdays, but we got a booking the day of and literally an hour before my friend showed up. He was contemplating leaving as he was feeling tired, but he sensed that I wanted to talk so I convinced him to stay. While he was waiting, he called up his cousin to come join us for dinner. Closed up after the session was over and we went to Ra. Food was great. We all vented about things. Mine was related to Twitch (first friend thought it was my new source of income, didn't know it was only donations). I still have some similar gripes and they both kept assuring me that things will happen soon. We walked around a bit afterwards, but it also kind of ended on a small sour note for one of them (that's what poor customer service can do to someone). It was still great catching up with them though. 

- Uno night with friends. Got to visit a new house, meet someone new, catch up with everyone, share stories, and reunite with friends and their kids (who were very playful and played Uno with us). I was the ultimate loser, but it was too fun. 


- I tried to start doing more exercising lately. My gut is growing and I have felt weaker in general. But it really has been destroying my back. It really felt bad getting up at times. Going to need to find a good balance...or get back into yoga as suggested by AGirlKeepsSecrets. As of publishing this, I have yet to try it.

- And I retired 3 devices this month. The first was carrying around my 2DS/3DS in my bag. I forgot when I actually started doing it though, but I figured to do it after forgetting to take out of my bag after a few days. The other things I retired were my 2 iPod Minis. The reason being that I finally found a larger iPod I had after many months. Now all the music will be that I can squeeze (which is twice the amount of the 2 minis combined) into it. 

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- Fastlane was a fun PPV (03.10). If you decided to skip this one, go back and watch it. 


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- Finished Final Fantasy IX (03.04). The ending hit me more than before. I definitely appreciate this game more this time than the first time around. It was great playing it again after so many years. I also named my Moogle, MiSaMo (Mina, Sana, Momo). 


- The DLC for Travis Strikes Again came out (03.06). Black Dandelion gave a few new shirts and the choice to play as Shinobu. While leveling her up, I alternated between her, Travis, and Badman who I didn't use at all until then. There was also an extra visual novel sequence to give more backstory to Badman, which was really good. Same standard stuff, but I still enjoyed it. And if you want a real treat, you can watch the last stream of the DLC to watch my lip sing and dance to BoA and DBSK as I was leveling up Shinobu. 


- During my stream of the Black Dandelion DLC, two packages came in so I unboxed them on stream (03.06). One was a chocolate flavored snack called Bing Bing (really good). The other was my Japanese copy of the Ace Attorney Trilogy. That makes it my first Japanese game I've owned for my Switch. Can't wait to play this next month. 


- New Demo Showcase (03.08). This one featured Awesome Pea (short, but simple), Bad North (fun stratetgy game that gained a lot of attraction and convinced others to buy it), Collidalot (interesting take on RC/slot cars), Venture Town (another nice sim game), and Yoshi's Crafted World (gorgeous Yoshi game). Bad North was the favorite for this showcase. Not only did I enjoy it, but the excitement from the chat (followers and fans of the game) at that time helped. 

- DELTARUNE Chapter 1 was so good (03.11). Never played UNDERTALE, but had seen playthroughs of it so I was familiar with characters and game play. Had a good turnout of UNDERTALE fans come in to watch and help me out when I was struggling. I went for a pacifist run, but didn't get a true run as a computer character killed someone (but apparently it only changed a small thing in the end). That Jevil fight...geez. But we also beat it in a single sitting. I thought it might have been something to split into 2 parts, but again the active chat helped and gave me motivation. Highly recommend this even if you haven't played UNDERTALE like me. 



- Yay for more free games. Tried out SMITE (03.13). The stream was delayed though as SMITE had to be updated (tried to continue without it) and it took a little under an hour to do. Got to play with one of my viewers, which made it fun (however we lost every match, ha). There were times that I lost interest because the champions I was choosing weren't as good as others, but overall it was okay. 

- I bought the Child of Light/Valiant Hearts combo since it was the only way to get a physical version of Child of Light. So I finally played Valiant Hearts: The Great War (03.15). I was very surprised to see that one of the tags for the game was "educational." That part is optional as there are facts you read about the war as well as the trinkets you pick up in the game. By the way, the game is a fictional story based in WWI. I went in knowing nothing and really enjoyed it. The art style is wonderful, the game play is simple, and the story/characters are very likable (emotional). It took 2 streams to beat and then an extra 1 to 100% it. Definitely recommend it. 


- Thanks to Agent PQ for the Mega Man stuff (03.17). I bought the Fanta drinks on my way home. The new flavor of Wild Cherry...was fine. It just seemed like normal cherry. Didn't sense the wild part of it. 

- The Nindies Showcase Spring 2019 was alright (03.20). I thought it was a little underwhelming, but had my favorites, which were My Friend Pedro, Katana Zero, and Cadence of Hyrule (which makes me want to play the previous Necrodancer games...sometime soon). 

- Had to reschedule when I wanted to play the Splatoon 2 Special Demo (03.20). Originally I was going to lay it after StarTropics, but it would have ended that morning. So I bumped it up and I think it was good timing. Ended up playing with 2 people I knew. Both happened to share the same first name and be over level 40, ha. And it was great playing with them. Definitely made it more fun and I enjoyed it when I was playing with completely random people too. I think I ended up being level 7 or 8 by the end. Definitely cool to see a nice spike in viewership.



- Beat StarTropics for the first time ever (03.22). Mentioned it on stream, but I only rented this game back in the day. I remembered a little of what I played, which was less than a third of the game. But thanks to save states, an FAQ, and helpful/encouraging viewers in the chat, I was able to finish this game in one sitting. It was a tough one. Hard to recommend it though. 



- We started playing Final Fantasy VII (03.26). First time playing it in 20+ years and it's great. Things are very familiar (however I am following my strategy guide) and the modifiers help the slower parts move along nice and quickly. Not planning to 100% complete, but I want to do a few major things (Knights of the Round, Emerald/Ruby weapons, etc). I don't know if I'll be able to beat it in my initial predicted time frame (before the digital release of Ace Attorney Trilogy) because plans and Wrestlemania weekend, but that's okay. I'm cool with enjoying the game again. 



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- Escape room escape rate is at 82% (03.15). That's 28 escapes out of 34 rooms now. Found this small escape room that was planning to have a versus concept, but it was not out yet. So that made me want to check out the other room they offer. It's a small place ran by 1-2 people. The room was also small and very home made. All of us was reminded of our original version of our first room. So many similarities between the 2 rooms from some of the props and their usage and general development. We liked it, but definitely saw where they could improve. The person working there was very kind and open with us too so that's always a plus. 

- One weekend, there were 2 individual ladies that came in that I was really attracted to (03.23, 03.24). The first one was with her family. Throughout the session, I felt we were locking eye contact with each other a lot. The last thing that really caught my attention was that she actually waved "bye" to me as her family was leaving our conference room after taking photos. I just could not find an opportunity to say something to her without raising suspicion from her family. 

The other was with a group of friends celebrating one of their birthdays. She was gorgeous and it was hard to tell if one guy was with her as they didn't arrive together, but he was close to her throughout the majority of their session. Similar to the the previous girl, I could not find a good time to talk to her without her friends noticing. While I've done that before a couple years ago, I had the confidence and the "I have to do this" gumption to actually do it. I wish I tried for at least one of them. If anything, with the first one as I felt she was showing some interest. I'm usually wrong about these things though.  

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- TaeYeon - Four Seasons (MV) 


- Tiffany - Lips On Lips (Live Session) 


- Couple things to note. One is that I think I have more of a handle on Twitch and how I want to approach it. Per month I'll have the main/new games I want to play at the beginning/middle/end of the month and in between each of those will be one Demo Showcase, one NES game, and one-offs (free or purchased). Still does feel weird scheduling out when I play games. And I'm also pulling back on my time on Twitch. That includes taking a break from streaming (like how I didn't play anything between StarTropics and Final Fantasy VII) and from taking a break from watching streams. It was becoming too much at one point that I needed to do this so I wouldn't feel burnt out. I've been doing this for half a year now (03.28, missed when it happened) and it kind of flew by. 

The other thing...I've just felt more lonely. I'm trying not to let it get to me, but it's been growing over the years. I have bestowed upon others over time to help me get dates or introduce me to someone, but the response is usually the same. I don't know. I just don't want to get too desperate and too lonely. I mentioned trying to approach a couple of customers earlier in the month. I think because I didn't, my loneliness shot up. 

- That's it for March 2019. Thanks for reading and take care (can't recall why I started to shorten this outro sentence, but I wanted to add "take care" back into it starting now). 


"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits." 

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Sunday, March 3, 2019

February 2019 Entry

February 2019 Entry

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- The Moogle I won from Toreba came in (02.06). It is huge and it really is my favorite plush I have. It doesn't have a name yet (as of typing this 03.03), but I have an idea and will officially name it after beating Final Fantasy IX.


- When I heard about Most Stuf Oreos, I knew I wanted to try them. Didn't see any in stores so I ordered a package from Amazon. It was a collector's tin that came with a pack of them as well as 5 cookies and cream bars. When I finally got the order, I was surprised with how big the box was (02.07). That was because I was sent 2 instead of one. Since getting them, I have been slowly working my way through the cookies and cream bars (still have a few left) and have yet to touch the cookies. Soon.


- Finally watched Dragon Ball Super: Broly (02.28). Everything others had been saying about this movie were accurate. Such a good Dragon Ball movie. Light on story and comedy (but well done) and a bunch of crazy fight scenes.


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- While I knew I wasn't going to watch the Super Bowl, I made sure to watch WWE's Halftime Heat (02.03). Wow, what a fun match. All men shined and even seeing wrestlers in the audience enjoying the match added to it.


- I was at work when a friend messaged me about the Royal Rumble 2020 being announced for Houston (02.15). Seems like we're getting a good group together to go. Can't wait for tickets to go on sale. Plus TakeOver and RAW and SmackDown will be here as well so I'll definitely be getting tickets to all.


- The Elimination Chamber was in town (02.17). When it was announced during the last time RAW was in Houston, it was the first time I ever went to the box office after the show to get tickets. I was anxious about the event because I got sick the week of (family was sick and I'm always last to get sick from them). But I was doing enough things to feel okay the day of.

I was tired that day. But things started off great when I parked. Izzy and her family parked right next to me and we immediately recognized and greeted each other. Got a boost of energy from them as we walked to the Toyota Center together. Got to catch up and talk about things (Izzy has grown so much). And before we split so we could each meet our friends, I took a photo with Izzy.


Getting inside and seeing the actual chamber was awesome. My friend and I took some photos of it and talked about how our vision would be blocked. It wasn't that bad honestly. We wondered who would be in the pod closest to us and the order the pods would be opened. From where we were sitting, we were behind the Riott Squad and Jeff Hardy during their respective chamber matches. We also got to see Becky Lynch hobbling in from the tunnel across from us as well as Bobby Lashley sneaking by in front of us with a chair. It was an awesome PPV. Glad to experience an Elimination Chamber in person.


- Welcome back, Big Dog (02.25).


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- Started off February by playing Onimusha: Warlords for the first time (02.01). I liked it. I did feel it was better with tank controls so I played that way after the first few minutes of trying the other way. The game itself was fun. I liked the combat and the story. I didn't find it too difficult, but I wasn't compelled to play it again or go for 100% completion. I'm definitely down if they release Onimusha 2 and 3 in the future.



- New and only Demo Showcase for the month (02.03). We tried out Combat Core (poor man's Power Stone), Pic-a-Pix Pieces (same as usual), Shift Happens (fun co-op game), Tied Together (can only be played in co-op, but I tried 2 and 4 players with multiple joy-cons solo), and Woodle Tree Adventures (poor man's Zelda). I liked them all to a degree, but Shift Happens was added to my Wish List.


- RIP Screwattack (02.04). It was crazy to find out about it. The YouTube channel is now DEATH BATTLE. But it was great seeing all the memories and kind words shared all around by those that were part of or were fans of Screwattack. Below is a link to Game Attack where they got some of the team together to talk about their memories of the company. You will be missed, but your impact will live on.


- Downloaded Gunman Clive HD early and then got to play it (02.06). I really enjoyed it when I originally played the collection on the Wii U. It was great playing it again. Nothing had changed so things I liked and disliked were still there. But I did beat each game with all characters. Made for a good stream.



- Another free game that came out on the Switch was Onigiri (02.08). It was an MMORPG and it was okay. There were points where there was a lot of lag especially in town with lots of people. But it wasn't too difficult, but not that compelling. It crashed a few times as well.


- I downloaded a couple of games that were on sale for a dollar on the eShop. One of those was One Strike (02.09). My only exposure to the game was when Game Grumps played it. So I knew it wouldn't be a long game to "beat." But I had figured before streaming that I would let anyone in stream be a character in the tournaments. The game itself was fun (need to try it against someone sometime), but watching the AI tournaments was cool for myself and the viewers. At least everyone in stream won 2 or 3 times. I wouldn't mind revisiting this.



- The next NES game I decided to tackle was The Adventures of Lolo (02.12). Never played it before, but it looked familiar. A fun puzzle game. Took about 6 hours to beat it from beginning to end, but we did it. One cool thing during this stream was having a random game developer watching and commenting. The game he was helping develop was heavily influenced by Lolo so he was doing research by watching me. He also helped when I needed it. He's come back in other streams and I've seen his streams too.



- One of the new NES games released on the NES App was Super Mario Bros. 2 so it was the next on my list to beat (02.13). I knew it would be short even though I planned to not warp and play all the levels, so I tried seeing if I can stream the upcoming Nintendo Direct. Had a couple of options I tried, but ended up adding a browser option in OBS. This made it my first reaction video. I didn't think I'd react, but I ended up doing so for a few games. Great Nintendo Direct. After that short stream, I did spend a decent amount of time to figure out my gaming schedule thanks to the Final Fantasy IX and VII release dates. Pretty much, I will be beating one Final Fantasy game a month for 5 months (IX, VII, X, X-2, XII). 




- To prepare for Final Fantasy IX, I looked around to find the soundtrack and strategy guide (02.14). Found the soundtracks quickly, but the strategy guide was nowhere to be found. In terms of Final Fantasy strategy guides, I found all from I through X-2. My guess is I let someone borrow it and never got it back. It wasn't my favorite strategy guide anyways because there was a lot of references to check out the online guide for things on almost every page. 

- Started playing Final Fantasy IX (02.18). Had not played this since it was released on the original Playstation 19 years ago. I remembered a few things about the game, but as I continued playing, I think I forgot about 90% of what happens and what to do. So it was as if I was playing the game for the first time. I did check on FAQ a few times (so many missable things) and asked for help a few times from the chat too. For every stream, I did spend 30-60 minutes leveling up. And my prediction was it would take me 8-10 streams to beat the game. As of typing this (03.03), I haven't beat it yet, but will soon.

One bad thing that happened was that I had my first power outage occur while streaming (02.25). It happened halfway through the stream and took about 10-15 minutes to reboot everything back to normal. 


- Got new amiibo (02.19). First new ones from the Smash Bros line of amiibo. I "unboxed" them on stream like I did the Animal Crossing ones I got, but that means I took them out of the box it was delivered in only.


- Thank you, Reggie (02.21).


- Capcom revealed the release dates for the upcoming Resident Evil games (02.25). You can preload them now, but they officially come out May 21st. Doesn't matter for me as I plan to play them all in October.


- Picked up the Best Buy exclusive Child of Light + Valiant Knights combo (02.26). There were only 2 copies where I went. It's the only way to get Child of Light in physical form, but I will play Valiant Hearts at some point (some time in March).


- Capcom also revealed when the Ace Attorney Trilogy is coming out (02.27). It comes out April 9th, but can be preloaded now. My Japanese copy is shipped out so that will arrive before this, but I did have to figure when to play these since the gaming schedule is front loaded with Final Fantasy for a while. I decided on every other month starting in April (June, August). This also makes it so my Phoenix Wright emote is available to use on those months. Since there are so many games coming out, I decided to preload games the day before. 


- Awesome Mega Man Battle Royal on DEATH BATTLE (02.27). My choice did not win.


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- First time in a while that I've done 4 sessions at work (02.09). Ran 2 Naval Warfares and 2 Dark Sides. Last time I did 4 sessions on the same day was when I was training Agents Blue-Heeler, Oculus, and X and then running a session myself all in different rooms. Needless to say, I was exhausted.

- We didn't have a meeting this month. We were just busy getting Dark Side of the Moon ready as well as actually having a good amount of sessions this month. 

- Honestly, not a lot to report work-wise. February was busy so that was good. Some gripes are still there, but this was one of the better months we had at the new location in a while. 

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- ITZY - DALLA DALLA (MV)

the8bitdee asked me in one of her streams if I was into ITZY. I wasn't, but gave them a shot since she recommended them. I watched their music video and all their performances up to that point and I was somewhat sold on them. I've never been able to get into rookie groups and this wasn't different. They aren't bad, but the song doesn't do it for me. Plus they're super young. I'll keep an eye on them though. My favorites are Ryujin and Yuna. 

- Hyomin - Allure (MV)


- Tiffany Young - Lips on Lips (MV)


Before Lips on Lips was released, Tiffany was on V Live. That was the first I ever caught any V Live stream live. I've only caught replays, but Tiffany was on at a decent time. Watched it from beginning to end. Other than a few technical issues, Tiffany was great. You can tell how happy she was performing. Very proud of her. 


- And to my best friend, you know I'm here for you. Any time and every time.

- That's it for February 2019. Thanks for reading. 




"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits."

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Sunday, February 3, 2019

January 2019 Entry

January 2019 Entry

The first month of 2019 is over. Time for a recap.

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- Watched all 3 Rurouni Kenshin live action movies in one day (01.02). Took breaks in between each one. Originally was planning to watch one a day, but I just got hooked after rewatching the first one again after so many years. I finished the last one just a little before midnight. They are all so good. The action, the character portrayal...all done very well. Highly recommend watching them even if you aren't a fan of the anime.

- After mentioning it in the8bitdee's stream, I looked a dance video for Mirotic (01.11). I was able to recall a good amount of the moves so I tried to do it. Didn't try it full out, but I actually was taken aback that I felt very winded and weak afterwards. I did try it a few days later and it was better. 


- y0nderboy did his first gunpla stream (01.11). Since I knew he was doing it, I sent out a tweet to someone specific. It was a shot in the dark, but Vampy was able to come in to his stream (21:42) and talk to him for a bit (even followed him). His reaction was great and I'm glad that he was making a connection with her.


- One of my favorite sunglasses broke (01.13). I was heading out from work to buy supplies and as I went to put them on my face, apparently I stretched them out to much and they broke apart. Sure, I own many many sunglasses, but I really liked this one. 


- Finally finished all of the cans of Cheese Ballz (01.13). If you don't know this about me, for certain snacks, I count how much of them I eat. Like if I am eating a box of cookies, I'll eat 5 each time and keep track of it. For the Cheese Ballz, I ate 25 each time I did. Sure, I lost track a few times so the counts might be off by a few, but my results are below. 


- Got to catch up with a friend who I had not seen in many years (01.15). We were going to meet last year, but she had to cancel it. Now that she is back in town, we decided to try again. Ate some good ramen, shared a lot of stories, went out elsewhere to continue the conversation. Hopefully it won't be another 5+ years when we see each other again. 

- Had planned a day to take care of a few errands (01.22). First, I went to the dentist for a cleaning. Yay for new dental insurance and yay for the dentist giving me a free box whitening strips (I was actually thinking about getting some too). Then I went to the post office nearby to pick up a prize from Toreba. They had tried to deliver it on the 28th of December and nobody answered the door. And then I went to the bank to deposit a check. Sure, it didn't take long to take care of all these things, but it was convenient instead of doing all on separate days. 


- Bought Reign of the Supermen (01.29). Didn't get to watch it until a couple of days later (01.31). It was okay. I think I expected too much especially after the Death of Superman. It lacked in a lot of places like the pacing and character portrayals. Also the animation wasn't as polished as other DC animated movies, which I was very surprised about. There were things I liked, but this one is hard to recommend. 


- Won my 12th prize on Toreba. I spent too much money trying to get this one. Just imagine that I moved the prize all the way from left to the right for it to fall. Watch the video to see how the final turn actually go down. Definitely going to take a break from Toreba for a while. 


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- Rest In Peace, Mean Gene Okerlund (01.02). 


- NXT TakeOver: Phoenix was so good just like every TakeOver (01.26). Predicted all the match outcomes correctly. 


- Went to a friend's for the Royal Rumble again this year (01.27). Got 6 out of 9 predictions correct. I was going for all champs retaining and all Irish winners for the Rumble matches. My goodness, was it so fun. Becky! Becky! Becky! 



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*if possible, I will post Twitch links to collections* 

- I beat a lot of games in 2018.


- The mic arm I ordered arrived (01.02). Just like my NES controllers, this also decided to come in minutes before starting a stream. I managed to set it up just in time to give it a test run. Throughout the month, I had to figure out how to position it as for a while, I had to rest it on my thigh to keep it positioned properly. Weeks later, I moved one shelf next to my computer desk and the arm seems to be at the most optimal spot right now. The only downside is that it covers up the shirt I wear. 


- The first game I played in 2019 was 99Vidas: Definitive Edition (01.02). This was the game that was gifted to me by the developer when I completed their challenge during a Demo Showcase. The first story playthrough on Normal took the whole stream to do (5+ hours). But I made a goal to unlock all the extra characters and beat it with each one on Izzy (easy) mode on (11 total) on Arcade and Remix mode. The last stream of the game happened on the 10th. It wasn't revolutionary in the genre of beat-em-ups, but I enjoyed it. 


- Ordered a set of cheap Animal Crossing amiibo (01.07). I really wanted the KK Slider one for a while, but it was always part of this bundle. It was cheap on Amazon, so I got it and unboxed it on stream. This brings the amiibo count to 117. On the same day, I received my Momo phone charm. 


- I was planning to play Lightseekers for the stream, but it's only playable in handheld mode. Luckily I figured that out right before going live and switched to Color Zen (01.14). It was visually pleasing and relaxing. My cousin was in there too and I asked him to pick an NES game for me to play after. His choice; Dr. Mario. I tried to beat it normally, but then played the SP version to see the ending. 


- The first Demo Showcase of 2019 (01.16). Tried out Desktop Soccer, Dungeon Village, Fitness Boxing, Robbotto, and Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story. I actually found all enjoyable. But my favorite of the batch was Fitness Boxing. It reminded me of how I felt playing Wii Fit. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up playing it for 2 hours (looking back at the stream, I also played Valthirian Arc for almost 2 hours). Could've gone longer as I had a few more free trials of it, but was getting tired. Added it to my wish list. 


- Picked up Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes (01.18). I was excited to play as Travis Touchdown again as it has been many years since No More Heroes 2. They don't play the same as this was more like a Gauntlet beat-em-up game. Enjoyed it though. This was also a unique stream where you could actually hear me cuss as I was reading the dialogue out loud. I was able to beat it in 2 streams, but decided to go for 100%, which took an extra 2 streams to do (01.23). While I was glad to complete the game, the last stream was a drag as I was only gaining experience points for the last couple of hours by fighting the same crop of enemies the entire time. It was one of those times I wished more people were in chat to keep me company.



- Don't know what possessed me to check, but I looked to see how much space I had on my Switch's memory card (01.20). There was only 4.4GB left on the 200GB card. So I decided to archive all the demos I had already played (100+). After doing so, I went from 4.4GB to 73.6GB of free space, wow. From now on, I will archive demos after I play them.

- Did some cleaning around my room (put controllers in boxes and stored them away) and did research on my camcorders I wasn't using (01.24). Yay for more space and cleanliness. As for the camcorder, I wanted to convert it to a webcam for the stream. Found some articles online that said it was possible, but couldn't find the proper drivers for them. Finally got to chat online with someone from Sony and he let me know that it wasn't possible with that model or newer ones, only older ones. That was funny seeing as my camcorder is actually 10 years old. At least I tried. 

- Decided to tackle Blaster Master on the NES App (01.25). Never beat it as a kid as I never owned it (either rented or borrowed). 8 hours later, the task was done. Glad to have that one under my belt. 

However, this was the stream where I let a lot of frustrations out about Twitch. About half an hour into the stream, I had to take a break to take care of something that took over 20 minutes to do. I came back from it being frustrated and I was thinking to end the stream as I wasn't in the mood. A couple of people were in stream and I was openly venting about ending the stream since I wasn't feeling too great. But that's when I started letting it out. I'll talk about it more at the end of the blog as it combines with other things and you can watch the video to listen in. But I do want to thank abomination1212, bamCRASHkapow, SNERDAPERDS, and softguitar for being there when I was venting and for being supportive. 


- Another Demo Showcase in the books (01.28). However, this one was jam packed with 7 demos instead of the normal 5. Reason being that 4 out of the original 5 were incredibly short. The first 3 were done in the first hour. Coming towards the end of the 5th demo, I decided to add 2 more. I chose one and I gave options to chat to select the other. So for this stream we tried out Drowning, Gelly Break, Jewel Fever 2, Octahedron: Transfixed Edition, Retimed, Cinderella - An Interactive Fairytale, and Piczle Colors. My favorite out of the batch was Octahedron, a puzzle platformer with great visuals and music. I did end the showcase early as I wasn't really feeling the last demo (liked it, but got frustrated towards the end). But not only was this our biggest Demo Showcase in terms of the number of demos we played, but this was the most retweeted and liked be the developers of the games. Also playing 7 demos helped even out the number of demos played to 130. 


- Last game of January was GetAmped Mobile (01.30). It was a free download. A simple generic brawler kind of like Power Stone, but not as good as Power Stone by any means. I found things to like about it to play it for 5 hours, but I definitely needed to do other things to keep me entertained. I played some Korean, Japanese, Spanish, and English music for a couple hours and even rewatched the entire 2019 Women's Royal Rumble to end the stream. 


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- We had our annual Holiday Party at the beginning of the year (01.04). Originally, I wasn't going to go as I was in a sour mood for the party not actually taking place during the holidays, the change of location when it was supposed to be in Memorial, and that I was planning activities like I had been every year but the task was given to someone else without me being informed. But after my visit to Downtown, I changed my mind because I wanted to help liven up their spirits. The party was fun overall. Agent Wolfman came up with some good games. I still thought something was missing, but it was enjoyable. 


- Listened in on one Misss Clickk's streams at work (01.07). She mentioned escape rooms. I chimed in along with Agent Ocean and we got her pumped to possibly visit us. She even read out the names of our escape rooms on stream, super cool.


- Agent Yeti put in her 2 week notice (01.07). Unfortunately, I did not like working with her for the past couple years. I won't go into all the details, but I do see this as the opportunity the company needs to steer the ship in a different and needed direction.

- The Memorial team had their company meeting (01.11). We went back to the last escape room we went to and tried their super hero themed room. We had a larger team as it was myself and Agents PQ, Ocean, Gig, Widdershins, Voxel (welcome back), and Majordomo (visiting). The room itself was not bad. A little small (we exceeded the limit by one), but overall good. I think we all preferred the wizard room more.


- Agent Ocean and I went out during a dead day to eat at Grub Burger (01.19). It was good to get out of the office and to talk about some work related topics. Not only that, we made nice with the Grub Burger team and invited them to come to HER. 


- We have an actual sign now. I don't remember the actual date, but it's up and it lights up at night. Definitely had more people notice where we are now.


- Had a frustrating session (01.29). A lot of technical issues happened that haven't occurred in a while. It's the first time in a while that I could remember that we had to reset the game. Fortunately, the team was okay with everything and had fun. Still frustrating though.

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- Apink - %% (Eung Eung) (MV)

- Hyomin - U Um U Um (MV)

- Tiffany Young - Born Again (MV)

- The proceeding 2 paragraphs were added here as I have been told in the past that some people skip sections of my blog because they aren't interested in that topic. 

- I've had thoughts to quit Twitch. That also included watching streams. It really could be burnout, but the main thing I said is that I actually felt more lonely ever since I started streaming. I go into more detail in my Blaster Master stream, but the main thing was feeling more lonely. It's a platform that is open to build a community and it sucks when no one is in the stream at all, which has happened a lot. It's hard not to compare myself to other streamers, but the ones I follow usually have a good number of people always contributing to chat. Seeing that and then seeing nothing in my stream really adds to the loneliness. Thankfully there were a few people in that Blaster Master stream that I opened up to. And letting it out really helped. But I do think something needs to happen. I want a more active chat to interact with. That would really help. I'm 4 months into being on Twitch now. I'm trying to keep all the high points in mind because there have been some really wonderful things that have happened. 

- With Agent Yeti gone, a lot of my work frustrations have gone away. I'm sure that's the same for others. Agent Ocean and I did go Downtown to pick up stuff and visit and their spirits were definitely better. Agent Striker and Agent Blue-Heeler both came back to the company too. And a lot of us are on the same page in change and progress. That's not to say there aren't any work frustrations at all. I still wish Naval Warfare was 100%. I don't agree with trying to salvage The Countdown. But we shall see where the company goes from here. I have motivation, but things just need to happen now.

- That's it for January 2019. Thanks for reading.



"Reprise the theme song and roll the credits."

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