Eluvianii

I just watched Okja. In a lot of ways that movie was a lot different from what it seemed. To me it looked like a family movie, and while I wouldn't really hesitate showing it to children, there are a lot of scenes that are very clearly aimed at adults, and there's the fact that there are heroes and villains in the movie but none of the heroes are exactly clean and none of the villains can really be considered, say, evil. Selfish or misguided yes, but all of them are really easy to understand. Actually overall it's a really unusual cast of characters because, aside from the protagonist, I found all of them both hard to love and hard to hate. It's kind of amazing really.

The Neverending Story:

Those two are twins both in looks and personality, can't wait to see that. Apparently we also have English voice for Cassius now, I'm way too excited for this, considering I haven't finished any games in this arc. I can't even replay the previous ones since my laptop died recently. Hopefully next month things will recover enough to go out a little and work for a new one. One that can run these games this time.

This. A lot of procedures would probably be necessary, not to mention a job you can work in on the go, but it would be so worth it.

When your English teacher gives you an assignment called "About yourself", one of the questions is "What do you like to read?", and suddenly an evil grin appears on your face.

So I hear. Gah! I'll do it. I'll have to be capable of reading three books, two light novels, and a boatload of manga at a reasonable pace

I've heard that all Ravenclaws liking books is a myth though. We're more a mix of the ones that like books, the curious, and the weird ones. And I'm perfectly fine with that. (Please note that I use 'weird' as a compliment. I discovered the hard way that not many agree with that meaning)

Just finished this book. That was... different. Like, three different climaxes? That was insane! The ending is also kinda darker than the first three, so many questions and depressed people. Also, I'm officially in love with Perrin and Nynaeve. I mean, I loved them from before but this book was seriously big for them. Particularly I can't believe how much Nynaeve's character was developed in a single chapter. Overall this just feels bigger and bigger. I'm eager to read the fifth book but also want to do a Stormlight reread in time for the weekly chapters. What to do...

That would mean buying a Switch... I need a job.

Edwin stared at the pile of dirty clothes that had accumulated in his room. There were muddy clothes, ripped clothes, bloody clothes, this had piled up in barely a couple days. There had been so many situations it was kinda hard to believe. He took them to the laundry room and hoped the blood stains would wash off. Just another of the perks of being a Radiant.

Well, I'm excited now! I have that feeling of "Well, I like these characters, but not much more." and that always means surprises in the future.

Yeah, I think so. At least so I've been told.

This is Rayo (means lightning). The name suits him because he Never. Stays. Still. Especially if I'm the one outside. If we hadn't been playing with the ball taking any pictures of him would be near impossible.

It asked for data of the first game actually. I hope it wasn't anything big.

Um, oh storms, this one's tough. Europe is a classic, so maybe Ireland, or Norway, I know good music from there. Always wanted to visit Germany too. I know next to nothing about Iceland but that next to nothing sounds like the ideal country, nice, beautiful, cold. Japan seems a bit harsh in some aspects but it's so beautiful. Canada looks nice and there's always people trying to convince other people to study there almost for free. I'd like to visit the U.S., there's places there I've always wanted to see. India and Nepal would be interesting. It would be super interesting to see the enviroment variety in Australia. New Zealand is beautiful too... In short, I have no idea. If I ever get the chance to work without being stuck to one city, I'd love to spend a few months in each country before settling down, if I do settle (not that there's much choice).

Tangentially related but, now that I'm done with Xenoblade, I think I can move on to the Gagharv Trilogy. Prophecy of the Moonlight Witch first, right?

Guess it's time for a little story. I was talking to a friend recently. He doesn't have the most optimistic point of view for life in general, and that day was particularly bad. I suggested at some point that he looked for help, that I would be there for him for as long as he needed but that without a professional, things were unlikely to change. He then told me that psychologists were a waste of time and a scam, that they didn't do any real work. It's become obvious to me in recent times, in great part thanks to people here in the Shard, that the importance of mental health is still ignored by many, and my friend's opinion was there as proof. Truth is, I myself had to take sessions with a psychologist five times growing up. There, I said it, no shame in it. It's just that I need a little help from time to time. We all do. Growing up, I had some big issues with anger management, which I never thought of as a mental health problem but, well, given the way it was treated, it obviously is, but I wasn't too familiar with the term. It was what you would expect. Lots of fights, I was expelled from school a couple times, almost a third. The real problem though, was that, although it was not frequent, from time to time my sister would get the worst of it. Did I ever leave any scars on her? No, but the things I said to her would make anyone hate a person, it may have traumatized her at the time, I don't know, I'm afraid to ask. But she doesn't hate me for it. We get along really well now and I don't think I will ever be able to thank her enough for that. Eventually the visits to psychologists along those years proved useful and things got better. It's not "cured", my temperament still can go from 0 to 100 pretty quickly, but that usually happens when I'm alone now, and I don't think I've snapped at a person in at least 5 or 6 years. The point of all this is, if you have the slightest suspicion that you might have a problem, seek help. At the time I was too young and dumb to know there was a problem, but it was obvious to everyone else and my parents were always there to do something, but not everyone has that luck. Talk to your family, talk to your friends, talk to us and, as soon as you can, talk to an especialist. What you see as a simple problem now might turn into something you'll regret in the future. Don't let that happen.

I heard somewhere that the difference isn't if you like talking to people or not, but if you get tired doing it. If you're really social and talk to people all the time and enjoy it and all, but that drains your energy, you're an introvert. It would be the exact opposite for an extrovert.

I'd like to participate. My teacher made us download kahoot so I'll take that as a sign.

I'm the kind of person that really, really, reaaaaally wants to talk to people but can't bring himself to do it. As for the quarantine, I don't know. I'm trying to make the most of it (I'm drastically emptying my to-be-played list), but I kind of miss being able to go out of my house farther than the store one block away.

I had been doing side-quest after side-quest in Xenoblade Chronicles for a while. I've just been informed that all this time I've been doing post-game content and am now overleveled for the final battle. Guess I should continue the story. Edit: I should double check next time I see that kind of information. It was indeed post-game content but it implies starting the game from scratch I kept both saves just in case. Anyway, I can't believe I finally beat this game after an eternity in the backburner. I shouldn't have let that happen, the experience now feels underwhelming. I'm really tempted to start a second game right away and give it the attention it deserves (which hopefully would mean finishing the game in less than two years this time), but I just know the same would happen. I need to lessen the amount of games I'm playing by a lot before doing that, but it'll happen. Am I the only one that felt that story/worldbuilding were completely disconnected from gameplay/world? I don't know exactly how to describe it but it felt off. The music was amazing, While I Think, Imperial Capital Agniratha, and Engage the Enemy will be haunting me for a while. I ended up hating that theme that sounds when you change things in battle but that's for an entirely different reason, every track in the game is masterful. Doing side-quests was kind of addictive too, no matter how uninteresting they were. I've heard the average time to finish the game is around 60-80 hours, but my clear save shows 141. I honestly find it hard to believe even 80 but either way, more game is always better. This game wasn't meant to be played in an old tv by the way. Everything is so detailed, it hurts the eyes to see in 480p. I'll need to do something about that. Overall I loved it. I do have some mixed feelings about it but, I did take two years (or more) to finish it. Likely most of what I would say would be thanks to me forgetting how the experience felt at the moment. I don't think I'll be able to fully appreciate this game until I do a second run, this time focusing solely on it, so I'm looking forward to that.

This is accurate in all the right and wrong ways. Thanks

*looks around to check no one is listening* ...yes, please.

I hope you're right. I also think for current consoles it's better to wait for the mid-generation mark so no thinking about ps5 until 2024. Not that I've ever had a current generation console but still

This seems like the appropriate place to talk about this. Does anyone else do this? Really, it's the only way I've found to make these things last. If I didn't restrain myself this would be gone in 20 minutes, but by doing this, this bar has lasted already like 5-6 days. Don't know what this post is, so I'll say it's a recommendation in case you like chocolate way too much, but want to save money and calories.