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marchionessofmustacheSo I guess I should try to think about updating here more >_>
Actually, I want to, not so much because it will actually get read (shoutout to N, my only reader!) but because I just want some kind of outlet to dump my thoughts to no one but in a place where they could potentially be read. It's weird; I don't like keeping a personal journal or diary because it seems pointless to me, but if there's a chance someone will read it, it seems to have meaning to me hahaha. Even when I was but a wee tot and writing in my first paper diary, I imagined someone finding it one day and reading it as some kind of chronicle of my amazing life.
Anyway, let's update on me...?
I don't remember when I last posted. My website died, and I'm waiting to get more money to put it back up. Sadtimes.
All I've been playing recently is Mega Man; I've actually started speedrunning, which is a trip. I was always intimidated by it and thought I would grow to quickly hate the game I was speedrunning or get burned out really fast, but it's actually quite my thing. Similar to recording no-damage runs, it's just practicing the same thing over and over until you get it perfect (or, well, good enough) which is something I like to do.
I'm just doing glitchless MM1 because it's something I'm already quite familiar with and decently good with. I'm used to doing no-damage/no-death attempts, so going for speed is a really interesting change of pace. Because there's times you have to force yourself to get hurt, which at first I didn't like, but then it added another resource management aspect to the game -- in addition to managing your weapon energy you also have to manage your life energy, which is interesting. Deciding exactly how many times you can get hit and where you can afford to do it, stuff like that. It makes me pay more attention to how much damage enemies do, which is something I never thought too much about before since I mostly played without taking much damage to begin with. That being said, fuck Suzys.
I already have a list of games I wanna try speedrunning when I finish getting my first major personal goal in Mega Man (25:25, enough to be in the top half of the leaderboard). One is the original Duke Nukem (like, the platformer) because a couple of twitch friends of mine are running it and it seems fun. And then I want to do ZZT and Into the Gloom, because there are currently no categories for either of those so it's a free WR hahaha. But also because I'd like for there to be categories for those.
May as well make a speedrunning tag *shrug kaomoji that I'm too lazy to look up*
I probably have like 100 more things to talk about but can't think of right now. I'll try to post more here in the future.
oh, life things.
I got so caught up talking about games that I forgot I have a life outside of that. Me and Dens are moving in together. Well, I'm moving into his house with him. That sounds more accurate. Oct 31 or earlier. Crazy. I'm looking forward to it, though. I also have my disability hearing coming up Oct 22. Life is a stress.
ETA: I just looked at my recent entries and found a private one that was the beginning of a Jean/Cossack fic I was writing hahahahaha
Actually, I want to, not so much because it will actually get read (shoutout to N, my only reader!) but because I just want some kind of outlet to dump my thoughts to no one but in a place where they could potentially be read. It's weird; I don't like keeping a personal journal or diary because it seems pointless to me, but if there's a chance someone will read it, it seems to have meaning to me hahaha. Even when I was but a wee tot and writing in my first paper diary, I imagined someone finding it one day and reading it as some kind of chronicle of my amazing life.
Anyway, let's update on me...?
I don't remember when I last posted. My website died, and I'm waiting to get more money to put it back up. Sadtimes.
All I've been playing recently is Mega Man; I've actually started speedrunning, which is a trip. I was always intimidated by it and thought I would grow to quickly hate the game I was speedrunning or get burned out really fast, but it's actually quite my thing. Similar to recording no-damage runs, it's just practicing the same thing over and over until you get it perfect (or, well, good enough) which is something I like to do.
I'm just doing glitchless MM1 because it's something I'm already quite familiar with and decently good with. I'm used to doing no-damage/no-death attempts, so going for speed is a really interesting change of pace. Because there's times you have to force yourself to get hurt, which at first I didn't like, but then it added another resource management aspect to the game -- in addition to managing your weapon energy you also have to manage your life energy, which is interesting. Deciding exactly how many times you can get hit and where you can afford to do it, stuff like that. It makes me pay more attention to how much damage enemies do, which is something I never thought too much about before since I mostly played without taking much damage to begin with. That being said, fuck Suzys.
I already have a list of games I wanna try speedrunning when I finish getting my first major personal goal in Mega Man (25:25, enough to be in the top half of the leaderboard). One is the original Duke Nukem (like, the platformer) because a couple of twitch friends of mine are running it and it seems fun. And then I want to do ZZT and Into the Gloom, because there are currently no categories for either of those so it's a free WR hahaha. But also because I'd like for there to be categories for those.
May as well make a speedrunning tag *shrug kaomoji that I'm too lazy to look up*
I probably have like 100 more things to talk about but can't think of right now. I'll try to post more here in the future.
oh, life things.
I got so caught up talking about games that I forgot I have a life outside of that. Me and Dens are moving in together. Well, I'm moving into his house with him. That sounds more accurate. Oct 31 or earlier. Crazy. I'm looking forward to it, though. I also have my disability hearing coming up Oct 22. Life is a stress.
ETA: I just looked at my recent entries and found a private one that was the beginning of a Jean/Cossack fic I was writing hahahahaha
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Date: 2019-09-16 03:39 pm (UTC)I actually feel really similar to you in terms of journaling. Every so often, I'll scroll back through my tags or whatever to see what I'd said (this is what led to the creation of the "god I was a dumb kid" tag because yikes) or how I'd felt about a particular subject/at a particular time. I also love scrolling through other people's past posts. I actually stalk your journal pretty regularly for that sorta thing haha.
It really impresses me that you can do anything resembling a no-damage run on MM1, or even beat it. I've learned, after picking up the Mega Man Anniversary Collection on sale as my first ever MM experience that I am... not very good. Hah! Maybe that's an understatement. I am terrible. I die in like two screens. It is very sad.
Congrats on moving in with Dens! You guys have been together for... quite some time now, haven't you? How's everything been on that front?
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Date: 2019-09-19 07:11 pm (UTC)Mega Man is a suuuuuper hard game and you gotta practice a ton to even be able to clear it. I've been playing it forever. Mega Man 1 is notoriously hard, too, even for the series. There's a song about how hard it is and how you struggle to even get past the very beginning of stages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCBmT3g774g
(sorry for the ugly subtitles; it's all I could find with subs, but it's a great song XD)
And tyty, things are going super well with Dens. It's been a LONG time since we've had even the slightest of struggles; we're really good at working stuff out together and understanding each other and stuff. So that's nice. I think we're on 9 years now? I don't know; I'm so bad at remembering this stuff. He would know for sure though. But he's asleep XD