keltena: Trilby sits with a skeleton on a bloodstained sofa. The word CHZO is scrawled in blood on the wall. Caption: "This must be Thursday." ([chzo] difficulty with my lifestyle)
For my last birthday, my brother got me "the Shin Megami Tensei game of your choice, as long as Mothman is in it" to play together. That was months ago, so naturally we've only just now gotten around to following up on it. We're three or four hours into Nocturne now, and so far it's great! I played the very beginning with [personal profile] surskitty a few years back, and I've heard a lot of out-of-context talk about the game from them (though I don't think I remember many important details that don't boil down to "it's an SMT game"), but beyond that it's all new and exciting to me, and I can't wait to play more.

We chose the correct name for our hero, I think:

SMT3 naming screen. Last name: Man. First name: Moth. Nickname: Moth-man.

Meet Moth "Moth-man" Man, totally normal human turned totally normal half-demon. (The other half is normal human.) It didn't even occur to me until after the fact how perfectly the name would go with "Demi-fiend", or the fact that our goal is literally the bright, shiny light above us. My only small regret is that it hasn't resulted in NPCs calling us "Man" as I'd expected. At least, not yet.

So far we've fought two bosses and steamrolled over both, which is kind of amusing to me considering how wary the game's reputation has made us, but I'm sure I'll be eating those words soon. (It probably helps to have some prior experience with SMT gameplay. And also Google. Oh god why do they not explain the Turn Press mechanics to you.) I love the battle music—really, the soundtrack in general—and god this game's visual design is astounding. So cool. *__*

I noticed partway through the first dungeon that the Demi-fiend glows red instead of teal when he's at low health. He's like a mood ring! I hope fanart has made extensive use of this.

A non-exhaustive list of sentences my brother and I have gotten to say while playing:

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I also started the new Good Omens miniseries with my family. So far (we're three episodes in because no one else is willing marathon the whole thing), my feelings on it are almost exclusively unadulturated delight. The cast is great, especially the leads, and I'm honestly kind of stunned at how well it's captured the spirit and tone of the book—a few scenes have been so precisely my mental image from the book that it's almost eerie, and I love most of the new additions/embellishments I've seen so far. (And they put such loving care into giving Crowley new stupid hair for every era he appears in! I'm so happy.)

My overall reaction can basically be summed up as this:

Photoshopped passage from the book of Aziraphale sensing love from his surroundings. Transcript: “There’s something odd about this show,” said Aziraphale. “Can’t you feel it?” / “What?” / “Slow down a moment.” / The Bentley slowed again. / “Odd,” muttered the angel, “I keep getting these flashes of, of...” / He raised his hands to his temples. / “What? What?” said Crowley. / Aziraphale stared at him. / “Love,” he said. “Someone really loves this story.”


Oh, and I finally finished that Danganronpa/wolf pupy post! Here it is, for anyone interested. I've belatedly realized that this has even more characters than the Umineko one, somehow. Sometimes, I'm not sure how my life turned out this way.
keltena: Pharos helpfully explaining something. ([p3] what friends are for)
(I at no point intended to make "title journal entries with wolf pupy tweets" an actual policy, but I'm starting to become weirdly fond of it.)

I spent this weekend traveling with my brother to visit a friend, and it was great, but I think I've only just now returned to full processing power. I'm pretty sure I did more in those 4-5 days than I usually do in two weeks! Highlights include being relentlessly accosted for affection by my friend's cat and dogs, and an escape room we solved together. I'd never done an escape room before, but it was a ton of fun; I'm disappointed the company doesn't have any locations near me, because the room was fun and our game master was super nice. (We started off all handcuffed to a bed frame in a dark room. We proceeded to spend maybe ten minutes earnestly combing the room via careful coordination and angling of the single desk lamp for every puzzle we could reach while handcuffed, in hopes that one of them contained the key, before the game master cut in to tactfully imply that there was a light switch right in front of us.)

I was also introduced to this masterpiece of a Mario Maker level, which I'm helpfully passing on to anyone else who might appreciate it. (It's a 14-minute video, but might be entertaining if you have the time.)


I started properly studying Japanese again this spring, and it's been a great decision so far. My Japanese is still very beginner-level, but I'm making visible progress, which is exciting—I increasingly find myself able to read simple things with, if not reliability, a good deal less unreliability than I'd expect. The best thing about this is that my reading level is now perfect for spending an hour reading Inspirational Japanese posts to anyone within earshot. This is my current favorite. (It says don't translate into English if you can't read properly.)

My favorite discovery from reading random tweets on my timeline so far: 草 (grass) is internet slang for "funny", because www is the common shorthand for amusement/laughter, and, well...

ASCII art of someone mowing grass, which is represented by a string of w's.


I just glanced at my last post, and... jeez, it's been a month since I said I was going to finish that "Danganronpa characters as wolf pupy tweets" post? Most of that month has been me repeatedly blanking on what to put for Peko and Mahiru, because there's always the one or two stragglers that hold the whole thing up, apparently. See also: why half of this Beatrice/Battler fanmix has remained unfinished for... probably a year and half at this point, solely because finding a balanced collection of Battler songs is like pulling teeth. Any suggestions are obviously more than welcome, on the off-chance anyone else keeps wolfpupy tweets on hand to suggest for any occasion, but I'm led to understand most people don't actually do that.


People around me keep talking about Zanki Zero, and it's very difficult. I have a backlog and shouldn't be starting new, apparently long games! But I want in on the conversations! My life is very hard.
keltena: Karkat gaping open-mouthed in a theater, so shocked he absently tosses away his popcorn and soda instead of eating them. ([hs] popcorn.gif)
I finished Danganronpa V3! That was an experience.

A whole lot of words of liveblogging under the cut, as usual.

there is a big philosophical debate going on, you can tell by the fact that none of it is interesting to anybody )

And with that, I think I'm done for real! This has been a ton of fun. Thanks to everyone who's listened to me babble excitedly about this game for the past several months! :D (And hey, if anyone has any fanwork recs or other things I should check out now that I'm safe from spoilers, let me know!)

Time to mess around in the postgame for a million years! And I still need to finish that wolfpupy post...
keltena: Trilby sits with a skeleton on a bloodstained sofa. The word CHZO is scrawled in blood on the wall. Caption: "This must be Thursday." ([chzo] difficulty with my lifestyle)
Danganronpa V3 status: Chapter 5 clear!

Extremely tl;dr reactions under the cut.

the best way to solve problems is to create more problems until you are dead )

And with that, it's finally time for Chapter 6! I'm excited to finish this up and see what no-doubt ridiculous places they're going to try to go with the ending. (...And then probably mess around a ton in the postgame dating sim mode anyway, but you know.)
keltena: Karkat gaping open-mouthed in a theater, so shocked he absently tosses away his popcorn and soda instead of eating them. ([hs] popcorn.gif)
I've finished Chapter 4 of Danganronpa V3! My opinion is as follows:

Whoa.

Like last time, my reactions while playing are under the cut, somewhat paraphrased for all our sakes.

“i'm beginning to think...” already off to a bad start )

Earlier this week I found myself matching wolfpupy tweets to DR characters, and that's how you know I'm in this too deep. Maybe once I finish this game, I'll sit down and pull a full set together to post. (It may also be time to admit I have a wolfpupy problem in general—but to be fair, it's a really fun problem.)

Anyway, no time to talk. I have to play Chapter 5!
keltena: Trilby sits with a skeleton on a bloodstained sofa. The word CHZO is scrawled in blood on the wall. Caption: "This must be Thursday." ([chzo] difficulty with my lifestyle)
Finished Chapter 3 of Danganronpa V3!

This was one of the most astoundingly, beautifully stupid things I've ever seen in my life, oh my god. Every single time I went "this is the most amazingly stupid case imaginable", they found a way to make it even more stupid than I'd expected!

More detailed reactions under the cut. (I briefly considered taking a leaf from [personal profile] rionaleonhart's book and just copying my live comments, but I'm way too tl;dr for that, so this is the mostly-summarized version.)

Complicated plans have a better chance of working out in the end, wouldn't you say? )

I'm very excited for Chapter 4! Things seem all set to kick properly into gear now.
keltena: Dahlia smiles angelically, next to the words "I kill people ♥" in pretty cursive. ([aa] and long walks on the beach)
So I finally got back to Danganronpa V3! I play slowly as always, but I've finished Chapter 2 and I'm excited to keep going. Some thoughts on the chapter, in no particular order, under the cut. (I know I haven't talked about any of the earlier parts of the game on Dreamwidth; I figure if I tried to recap we'd be here all day, but feel free to ask my thoughts on anything I didn't cover here if you want.)

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keltena: Flonne points on a blackboard to the word "LOVE", written with a heart for the V. ([disgaea] it might just save your life)
A few months ago, I decided I was going to get back to using Dreamwidth again! ...And then things came up, my life became somewhat more busy on a few fronts, and I didn't. (Among other things, I started having mysterious pain issues and eased off on things like computer use in case I'd strained something. But my doctor has since informed me that my nerves don't know what they're talking about and I should actually do things more just to spite them, so there you go.) In any case, I seem to be back now, so—hi!

So far, I've been celebrating my newfound computer freedom by playing Monster Prom, a dating sim that's actually a multiplayer party game, or possibly just an out-of-context screenshot generator. I was sold on it with an explanation of the multiplayer mode + the fact that almost all the love interests are not just shitty teenagers but downright terrible people. (...And also not actually teenagers, it turns out? It's probably normal to be attending high school in your 20s or 400s, right?) I've only played a few runs, but it's already more than paid for itself in entertainment value. On some level, I feel like the game's brand of humor should by all rights come off as obnoxious now and then, but it so fully embraces it that I'm just charmed by it every time. It's like playing with a GM whose definition of "yes, and..." is invariably "yes, AND THEN SOME", no matter how mundane (or ridiculous) a choice they're responding to.

Case in point: My first playthrough, I found a corpse for sale as an accessory in the school store and immediately wished for the option to take it to prom instead of the main romance options. (Especially once they turned out to be judgmental dicks about my decision to carry a corpse as a fashion accessory.) I ended up on one of their routes anyway, but I dumped him for being a hypocritical, body-shaming asshole and got a good ending where I had a great time at prom alone. On my next playthrough I made a beeline for the corpse, aced a series of skill checks to personally end the societal stigma against monster-corpse relationships, and got to take my very first love to prom after all! This game understands me.

(...I'm also reminded that, at some point before I got sidetracked for months, I was in the middle of playing Danganronpa V3. I should really get back to that soon, too. I left everyone in the middle of a murder investigation and everything.)

Outside of video games, I've taken advantage of Tumblr's still not-yet-total demise to post some important things. By which I mean I made an "Umineko characters as wolf pupy tweets" post, because apparently 90% of my interaction with fandom these days is in the form of shitposts. (Note: Full Umineko spoilers in that link. Jesus Umineko has a lot of characters.) And also a nice, normal astrology post about nice, normal astrology, for people who like that sort of thing. Featuring my new favorite humor website, the TSA's "What Can I Bring?" list, because I spent an afternoon laughing way harder than is remotely justified at it and needed to share.
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