Merry

  Tis the season to beeeeeeee jolllyyyyy falalalalalallalfkdjalfkjdsalfkjdlaskfjldksjaflaskdj

I don't even know how to start these anymore. It's just brain poop.
But hey. It's December! And that means holidays for the whole family. Which instantly made me think of cartoons on Nickelodeon from back in the day.
I learned about Chanukah and Kwanzaa through Nickelodeon lol. The most passive way possible, and was like, pretty cool at the same time.
Growing up in a (passive) Catholic household, Navidad (Christmas) was pretty much the only thing I knew of around the holidays. Idk what I'm trying to say, other than Rugrats and The Proud Family were cool for demonstrating other holidays to kids. Passover too! Celebration of Jewish slaves being liberated. That's dope. THANKS RUGRATS :D

Also, I used to work at a Jewish bakery several years ago in Canoga Park. And uh... Challah bread is fucking incredible. Now that I think about it more... Jewish peeps got fucked over twice in history. Correct me if it's more- I hope it's not. First slavery, then the holocaust. That's messed up. We should like, notice them more. In general. Within media. Just sayin.
Like, yeah Christmas is dope. but uh, other holidays are dope too.

ANYWAY

Chicken got Bugsnax for free for PS5, and it looks like the kiddiest game of all time. Lifa said it got good reviews and like, people were saying it's a legit, decent game. So we gave it a go.

BRUH.
THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME.
I can't. I don't even know how to start to describe it? For why I like it.
Chicken, Lifa, and I (mostly me lol) devoured this game over 3 days (when I wasn't guzzling Genshin Impact). Lifa and I were more into it, Chicken just kinda helped us figure stuff out (mostly me uwu) but omg. It's SO FUN. And like, there were a surprising amount of adult moments and jokes that were pleasantly sprinkled. And a lot of deep drama shit that just... doesn't come across in first impressions. But man. So good. If you have a PS5... this title. Worth playing.

I loved it so much that I ended up making miniatures of two of my favorite snax :3

I was stupid and couldn't figure out how I wanted to make a raspberry until 2 hours in and realizing I could just cover the thing in little black clay beads....
And for Strabby; the little strawberry snax, I made a billion seeds to put on it that took me 948579247 hours. Only to scratch them all off because it didn't look right, and made indents instead after Chicken's suggestion. I hated everything because it felt like I wasted several hours just.... figuring out how to execute shit.

You'd think something like this would take 20 minutes.
no.
No. it never does. Because I overthink everything. This took like... a billion hours. And I hate it. lol.

At some point during all of this, I turn around because I hear Chicken moving stuff, and

And then I turn around again lol. He's always messing around with stuff.

DECK THE HALLS
WITH BALLS OF
MY BULLSHIT

So Chicken and I got Christmas decorations. eeeeeee! So happiiii!
I started singing that one Mariah Carey Christmas song, "I don't want a lot for Christmas" and Chicken said "okay"

:(

It's fine. I nagged everyone into going to Joann's. Because I am a good housemate. And we will have fun. Or I will drag them down with me. Into Genshin Impact. Until they like it. (It's kinda working loooololol)

While there, they picked out two fabrics that they liked!
Whyyy?
Well, to make our very own Christmas stockings of course!
WEEEEEE, FUN!

And, since we had a Christmas tree to decorate, I also nagged them into picking out ornaments ^_^

Chicken got a ..chicken

We also put on Fifth Element. Chicken good.

Lifa got a bear

wao handsome Chicken o__o

Homdray kept screaming about how shitty my black Christmas ornaments were, so I told them they could decorate the black ones with the glitter pens we got lol

"DOPE" - Lifa

These fools

We were hungry, so while Lifa was making dinner, I got a craving for spam musubi. He was down, so I started prepping everything for them, but then Homdray started screaming about Salad Fingers. And by that point, Maker's Mark had been in my veins for well over an hour. And I had no choice but to pick up those crappy dry erase markers and go to town

He's still down there. I hate us.
Lifa was forced to finish my bullshit in the kitchen looolol my bads. It's cool tho, he's a pro spam musubi maker.

We ate.
And then it was time to make stockings!

So, I'm dumb and impatient and decided to make my own stocking pattern. Which was made from paper towel in all of 15 seconds earlier that morning. I made the mistake of not including the trim when we put the two sock pieces together, but it's fine. We hide that shit.

He was so excited

LOL that pattern omg
When Chicken chose his fabrics at the store, I just... wanted to pat him on the head.

Everyone else used a glue gun (because I threw my old sewing machine away and frankly no one has time for all of that), but he decided to hand sew his sock together
what a cosplay boyfriend thing to do lol (fiancé, but you get it)

"my hobbies; space and cars"
precious nerd. just precious.

I chose spirals because that's festive, right? Spirals? And a green trim

Lifa was having so much fun with his lol
He was like a little kid in 2nd grade doing arts and crafts

Homdray picked out dope expensive fabric with super pretty astrology stuff on it, and crazy soft trim fabric. I'll scream if Lifa accidentally spills on it somehow from like 3 miles away, cuz it's really nice LOL

His feels like he skinned beanie babies to make it

Waaaoooo

I was so proud of them!!
They did such a good job! ^_^

Lifa had a lot of fun with the glitter pens on his Marvel sock
lmao

gaudyyyy

moar glitter

JOYFUL AND TRIUMPHANT

waaaoo festive

L O L
I forgot to take a picture, but my ornament was a bottle of soy sauce

The splendor
amazing
We would've put them over the fireplace but there's no room lol

This was so much fun. I'm glad they went with it, because it looked like they were all having a good time. ^_^
We didn't do anything for Halloween, but this month it was nice to nag everyone into coming together for cute stuff heehehe


SO. Chicken made me cry.
School stuff has become insanely dumb and complicated because of COVID-19.
TLDR; I can't do anything until August- at least not in regards to my major. I was supposed to start this next spring semester, but because it's a hands on field, classes are canceled.
The alternative that was suggested turned out to be a huge miss as well. Because they only take people in the fall, and I guess that wasn't communicated well between departments.
I'm really, really, reallyyy bummed in regards to school.
Chicken then said "are you feeling discouraged?" to which I nodded brattily. He then pulls out a package and hands it to me, "this might help"

When I open it... it took me a moment to figure out what I was looking at

He surprised me with a Japanese talisman (Omamori) from the Yasui-konpiragu shrine. Blessed by a monk.
It is a talisman for luck with school, studies, entrance exams, etc.
And I started crying.

He's seen my frustrations trying to get everything set up for next semester, and then to have it all fall apart, and then fall apart again. This was so thoughtful. Everything about it. I love it so much.
I'm not sure when he meant to give me this, but that moment was probably the perfect time to do it.
It's hanging on my PC tower.
I'm not forfeiting school, as I will still be taking more semesters of Chinese language classes, but things will definitely change moving forward.

And lastly, this morning I woke up to a Steam notification...

Damn. Thank you!

Now I guess I can judge Hades adequately :P
This should please Homdray, I guess. He's obsessed.

Anywho. Here ends the thingie. So many people on fb showing their beautiful decorations! I love it all ^_^
lol my Halloween decorations are still up. And will be. Forever.
It's a Friday in December, and California is on fire again

Merry Holidays and stay safe!

Dorifto

  Oh man. It's that time of year again. Here we are. December encroaching. Things become kinda heated because that day .... and... idk. Idk how I feel, with everything going on. Especially from that busted lag input during boss combat, but you know what? Maybe people like lag input. And maybe Ghost of Tsushima will win this year's Game of the Year award, but we won't know. We just won't know until December.

I should've edited this so the colors would be more striking but
I stopped caring :|

Frankly tho, I can't even say much because I didn't play all of the nominees this year. I wanted to like Ghost of Tsushima, but idk. Maybe it's residual burn-out from Sekiro. Which totally deserved the win last year, imo.

When I'm an old abuelita, my grandkids will sit all around me in my dope rocking chair, and hear the exciting tale of how abuelita beat Sekiro without using prosthetics :']

Going over the nominees for this years Game Awards. Huh.

Like... a few posts ago.. I was ranting about how vikings and Nordic themes are utterly over-saturated. And uh, yeah. I still stand by that. IS NO ONE TIRED OF THAT YET

And how these nominees were the only ones that got blown up on social media. Which I guess is enough merit to be nominated.

That seems flawed to me. Is that flawed? Is it just me? If you have a powerful marketing team and strategy, then your game is loud enough to be talked about until it's just... commercially good. Or is it genuinely good? I don't even know anymore.

Is the marketing team good, or is the game good? I want this on my gravestone.
This reminds me tho.. I still gotta pick up the new Yakuza game. But moving on...

HAPPI FRIYAY. Specifically shopping friday!

I peeled myself away from games long enough to make sure I get this out today. It's hard. because look

Omg as I was uploading and stuff, Chicken walks in and puts this on my desk T_T

ahhhhh sweet potato friiiieeesss so yummmyy

Alright. So.. this last week marked not just Thanksgiving but also the release of Shadowlaaaannnds

If you're unfamiliar, it's a WoW expansion title. Which normally would be celebrated on campus in front of the orc statue, but uh, pathogens. So.
Lifa was sent a care package from his team, so what way to celebrate than to have a toast! But... we can't do it without an orc statue. Thankfully, we have an orc statue. I forget who, but someone added the footsoldier, and it hurt a little bit.

Hooray to another WoW expansion launch!
Homdray didn't wanna be in the picture rofl
I didn't either, but that was because I look like shit

The next day, we held an early friendsgiving!
Complete with brined turkey legs and ... all that other stuff

It took me forfuckingever to figure out where I could get drumsticks. Because apparently, they're just really hard to find online. But when I went to grab groceries, there they were. amaze.

Everything was coming along, it was cute

Ugh. So good.

This was weird tho because like, a few days ago we had a 84579lb brisket, and tons of carbs, and chicken thighs, and now we have this, and. We're just. There's. There's so much food. Not a complaint. Just.

We need to stop. Or dial it down. Or something. I don't know. Or maybe we don't. And I'm just... idk. I feel greedy and gluttonous. A part of me feels like... evil. lol. No not evil. But like. Idk. TOO GOOD, YOU KNOW? Is there a phrase like imposter syndrome but towards life? That. Whatever that phrase is. That one. I feel it.

On actual Thanksgiving day, it was chill. I got to join in on Chicken's family Thanksgiving zoom call. His little niece's request. Omg. I can't bring myself to type it out. But I told my mom, and she screamed in joy.

THAT PHRASE. LIFE IMPOSTER SYNDROME. Everything. It feels like it's all peaking. Which is good. If a plateau comes, I won't even be mad. Because it'll feel real lol. Is this real life

It has to be, because look at this game.

Chicken surprised me with Sakura: of Rice and Ruin and it's SO CYOO.

The game is gorgeous. The music is beautiful.
My one critique. Just one. Little one.

Like. I was watching some footage of the game after playing it a bit to see if I could switch it to a different language... because on PC, there are only 4 languages- in absolute- that the game can be played in. No sub options. All Chinese, all Korean, all Japanese, or all English. Which was a bummer. But on the Switch, there's Japanese with English localization. So like. uh... basically.. well, because..the English version of Sakuna sounds very.... Nickelodeon lol. Which is kinda distracting. Like uh... super aggressive generic cartoon girl voice in a kids show. Idk. That's probably harsh. If it is, am sorry. I'm too meticulous. It's fine, I probably sound like Angelica Pickles pedantically narrating herself, while in reality just being like, a clueless, overzealous trash gremlin. So what I think of the English dub literally doesn't even matter.
That aside, I'm liking it a lot :P

Anyay... does anyone else want Sung Kang to glare at them into submission?

We watched Tokyo Drift again so Lifa could experience the dope that it is. And I just. Sigh.
His character reminds me a lot of Chicken.
And. and and. And I just wanna dorifto down a mountain with Chicken in a cyoo car. Right before grabbing some late night tacos or something. Just for the lols. That'd be so romantic u_u

Lifa loved it. I told them when we go to Japan... we gotta go to car meets. We have to. It's non-negotiable.

Ahh, last note. I've been playing a lot of Bugsnax on PS5. Holy shit. This game is really fun lmao. And it was free. We're all invested in it looolool. It comes across as a kids game initially, but wow. Took us all by surprise. Highly recommend. It's extremely fun, and the hours just pass by- there's so much to explore and do. Bungers are gross tho lol.

ANYWHO.
I hope all the of the Thanksgivings were happi and yummy, and people are staying safe. Steam sale is dangerous right now... tread carefully.
I'm still trying for Qiqi, but my hope is dwindling.
Happi Friyay
Masks are your friends
Drink water ^_^

kBAI

Protecc

   I spent way too much money on genshin impact, and some shit hit the fan last week hnng don't judge me pls i'm grieving and this is how i cope ok

Homdray yelled at me for not uploading on friday lololol.

Well. My grief is with school. Studies have been brought to a complete halt because of covid-19, and there won't be a spring semester for my field. I'm mostly annoyed at myself for being so uptight making sure all the paperwork was finished- only to be met with this giant wall of.... other peoples' complete disregard for the seriousness of this pandemic.

The good news is there's something I can focus on that'll still apply to my major. Smaller scale, but still applicable. A small solace if tHEY EVER RETURN MY EMAIL.

So, in my grief, I dropped a uh.... significant amount of currency... in genshin impact.. and uh. I felt better LOL. SO IT'S WORTH IT. New content out today omg. I didn't get who I wanted, but got other peeps who are cool so... it's fine. I guess.

She's so cute omg ONE DAY. I WILL HAVE YOU
T_T it makes me so sad seeing a ton of videos on le youtoom with her and I'm just here... without her

waaaah u_u

But... I got Diluc and Ningguang.
Diluc is dope, I'm wrecking everything with him. Was using Bennett before. I say this as if any of my friends are playing this as hard as me. Sigh.

Probably just me being salty but..

I have this crazy conspiracy theory that people who have recording software actively running on their machines somehow benefit from the RNG algorithm of Genshin's wish pulls. Like, Genshin is coded to be completely RNG, unless you have recording/streaming software running, which boosts the percentage of A or S tier items and characters to drop. Because if people are showing this, on a free game, it encourages other people to play it. Providing the developers more sales potentials. So if there was in fact some kind of coding that syncs up or reads streaming software, it would make sense to reward players by upping their chances to pull rare drops.

But that's just my conspiracy theory. Big reach on my end. I say this because to me, it feels like games now are being designed for streaming. Which... doesn't apply to me because I don't stream, nor do I watch streamers.

Salt = conspiracy theory

I just want Qiqi lmao

omg her voice is so cute. I'm currently playing the game with Chinese VO, but listened to her in Japanese and English. And... my detail oriented nature came out.. after hearing all the characters in various languages. So I have to talk about it.

English voice actors tend to talk in falsetto for certain female/youth characters as opposed to the natural higher pitched chest voice Asian language VOs provide. It's almost singy-songy, because I guess English VOs don't generally have higher pitched natural voices.
The falsetto drills my ear drums. I hear a huge difference that distracts me.
That's not the case with all characters, just some- but sometimes it's enough to sway me to go with one version over the other.
That sucks, specifically because 2 of my closest friends are English VOs. But for as long as I've known them, they don't come across to me as peeps who would take a part that's not suited to their voice/talent. Cuz they're dope.

But yeah. That falsetto thing isn't something I noticed recently... just something that always come back up when I hear a dub and could never really understand like... why... sometimes something sounds.. not natural... or it doesn't flow as good? Y'know? It's the falsetto shit. At least with female characters. No one talks in falsetto. Unless you're in a musical. Then I guess... yeah. ANYWAY YEAH. THAT.

One more weeb thing. My manga finally arrived!

Been reading this online over the last few months as the artist gradually releases volumes. It's ongoing currently, but only in Japan. But an English version was finally printed and released earlier this month. Aaaand best way to support the artist is to buy merch.
This is the CUTEST slice of life I've ever read. It's this girl, and she can see ghosts. But she can't let it be known that she sees them or they could attach themselves to her or hurt her. So she just goes about her life as normal as she can, but it's hard because the ghosts show up and sometimes they're extra yucky. IT'S SO CUTE. And like... other characters and stuff happen or whatever but omggggg I love iiiiiitttt so much hnnnnnnnnggggg.

Yeah.

WELLY WELL WELL. Last week, we hosted a dear visitor for a night. Who arrived with a lovely engagement gift for Chicken and myself uwu

(spoiler: we got engaged like, a week and half ago)

So sweet!
What better way to have champagne than to chill it in a huge kimchi container of ice

Our dear guest was none other than Brudda Lifa!
His work requires travel. And for a send off, we were more than happy to host him.

I know Lifa was happy. It's like he split in two when Bruddah Lifa visits. Funniest shit in the universe- they mirror each other and make the same exclamations and sounds. They're like two German Shepards you just wanna protecc forever

T'was a good eve. TOo good.

We showed him the ways of Villainous, and... taking a whisky shot every time you got Fated

(Fate is an action that allows you to play one card from an opponent's Fate deck to any unlocked location in their Realm. By taking a Fate action, you can disrupt an opponent's progress)

SO HAPPY LOVE.
WE MUST PROTECC THE HAPPY, GENTLE GERMAN SHEPARD

The following day;

Lifa and Chicken spent most of the day tending to the 587698237lb brisket they were smoking.
Bruddah Lifa slept, Homdray probably harassed them in between Hades games, and I skulked in my room, rotting, wasting away on Genshin Impact. Similar to how today will be.

I can't say what, but Homdray has to do a thing, and we're gonna be on the other side snickering and giggling and cackling like trolls the entire time looooooooooooooolololllloloooooooooooo

Since it was a nice day/evening, the German Shepards suggested we go out and play ball before it got dark. So play ball we did!

Aside from gym class, I've never thrown a football, or really had one thrown at me for leisure, outside of being forced into it. It was fun!

Except for the part where I cut my hand with my own nail, trying to catch the football. But I suspect this injury isn't a common one amongst this sport.

Womp womp

Cynth, how tf do you cut your hand with your own nail?
Like this:

Probably not the best idea to catch footballs with long nails. Past Cynth lacked foresight. Thankfully, I can pass this intel to future Cynth, who I trust, kind of, will not repeat the same mistake.

Didn't think the PS5 would have a blue screen of death- but here we are!
(It was blue before this one popped up)

DA GERMAN SHEPARDS, AWWWW

When we got home, it was time.

They let the brisket rest for a while... and then it was like... Thanksgiving and Christmas at the same time. Unwrapping that thing... man. The house smelled incredible

This was a 12 hour smoke. The first one he did was a 10ish. It was concluded that 10 hours is the sweet spot for a juicier, more tender result. But this brisket was also pretty damn godlike.

MMPF
*chef's kissu*

A hearty feast for friendos. This could've been our Thanksgiving meal honestly lol. We were stuffed and hadn't even finished half of what we had. I gained 2 lbs LOL. So gooooood. And so many leftovers. But we got stuff for thanksgiving.

Aside from the crappy news with school, life is good, man. Simple pleasures.

Also... Fool's Idol boss in Demon's Souls is really cute and I wanna cosplay her.

I love her.
It's me. Reading Meiruko-chan
hnnnngg.

Shadowlands launches today. That's important, because my friend has worked on that title, and he will continue to be working on it throughout Thanksgiving. I probably won't play it until he gets to. Idk. I haven't done any of the pre-patch stuff. Kinda salty about not getting the mounts/pets I wanted from previous content lol. But it looks cool.

I gotta finish my Genshin stuff first tho loolol

Signing off. With happy vibes.
The goodest, chillest vibes! With lots of yummy loves and friendly reminder to wear a mask you fucks
:)
Thanksgiving is huge, and while many (including myself) aren't able to share this time with their families, it's important to remember that while doing so, you're preventing your loved ones from the risk of being exposed to something that could really hurt them in the long run. I miss my family so much. But they're vulnerable, and putting myself on a plane and walking into their home after the fact is incredibly dangerous. So. with that said. I hope everyone stays safe and remembers all of the good people and things that crossed your paths up to this Thanksgiving, including the health of your loved ones. May it continue, and overcome the lamenting shitshow that is this pandemic.

K BYE