Pwnage

    School is in session! I'm already ahead on everything. It's so easy when math isn't involved. Ever. Again. Been cool though. Everything's online and I loooooooooooooooooove iiiiitttt. The classes all encourage discussion and whatnot. Graded lol. Whatever. But people think I'm funny and the validation from that is like sustenance. NOM LAUGH DO IT NOM NOM
No-face but with different specs.

My mom is ecstatic about the field I wanna go into. Chicken's mom is worried I'll attract hungry ghosts. He jests, but like... was half serious. I get that. Eastern culture is saturated with spirit folklore and celebrates a whole month for ghosts. That's cool. Latin culture vibes with that too.
I mean, I like to think that I'm respectful as far as sacred places go, but lol ... I thought I was being respectful in Pennsylvania, and then we had 103 fevers all weekend. So.
To reiterate, I don't believe in them, but I do believe in negative and positively charged places, items, people, etc. But it's cool. That's what talismans are for

BUT
yknow what's totally scary? Scares me, even?
Shamans. Shamans are scary. All the way up, dial on 11. In all cultures. They [can] fuck with the wrong side of everything ever. Like. If there was spiritual debt and payment... they gamble. The chips they use are atrocities. Shit is wHAcK. lol I'm not even joking. From Peru to Panama to Uganda to India; THAT shit is scarier than anything I obsess over. And I'm not talking about the ones you can find on google that claim to heal you. There are "good" ones, and then there are the whack ones. The documentaries about the whack ones are mind blowing.

So yeah, ghosts suck less than shamans.

❀ The living are scarier than the dead ❀

Is that how we're starting this post? LOOKS LIKE IT

SO SPEAKING OF GHOSTS :D
MY BFF SURPRISED ME WITH THIS (cuz Mary Shelley and I share the same day of birth)

lol Bendy

Killer Instinct was the first fighter I played growing up. On SNES. I still have that cartridge- the dope black one. Hisako wasn't added til much later, with tons of lore. She's the best waifu, also pretty op. Her design and stage are soooooooooooooooooooooo pretty. There's like... two versions of her. This one is the original, and then there's another that's supposed to be when she transforms into some kind of guardian. This one's cooler. Man, Killer Instinct is crazy underrated as far as fighters go. People sleep on it and like... why? It's so good
And like, adding an onryo character like this... they simply don't exist outside of the realm of survival horror games. HINT HINT HINT TO ALL GAME STUDIOS EVER - so for this character to be in a game outside of that is .... *chef's kiss* fucking amazing.

Chicken saw how excited I was about photographing her so he sneaked in some lights

 She's so well made. The details are mmpf. I wish I had taken more of her kimono and the whole statue but, can google it lol. This is kinda what she does in the game. She has this glow around her when she does stuff. It's sick.

THANK YOU PONIES, I LOVE HER. SORRY I OPENED IT EARLY.


Car stuuuuuffff.
There were two more lights that needed tinting. The little ones beneath the tail lights. Chicken went in and took everything apart just to get to them T_T

So now it's all blacked out. :D
The tail lights are still gross, but it's fine


PLANTS

I need to wear a veil or something when I go outside because ever since i got the plants, I've been going outside every day to smother and love them too much. There's nothing wrong with that except for being blasted by photons, agitating the dumbest concentration of this rosacea battlefield across the center of my face. I HATE THE SUN SO MUCH


I have hats, they just don't offer much sun coverage. yeugh. So I just impulse bought a bonnet. Bonnets are in right now, right? Cool. Problem solved. Little Cynth on the Prairie in hellish Southern California sunshine, at your service.

CAN I TELL YOU
Once upon a time, someone once told me that she had to cut caterpillars in half while tending to her garden. We all teased her about how barbaric that sounded. It still does sound barbaric.

UNTIL A FEW DAYS AGO;

lOOK AT that fucker. EATING MY PETUNIAS.
Dude. I had NO idea. How brutal those are. I was a toll noob. No clue where they came from. Probably was already on there when I bought the petunias. But BOY DID I LEARN STUFF.
So,  earlier this week when I went out to water, I noticed these tiny tiny itty bitty black dots. Like tiny little black pebbles, all over some of the leaves. That didn't seem right, so I looked it up. Not surprisingly, they were tiny poops. From budworms. That devour petunias. Which made a lot of sense, because the flowers that were there were eaten through and were wilting. Like... so bad. And I was like WTF THAT TOLLY SUCKS ASS.
It's suggested to distinguish where the poops were, and behead the buds that were growing in those areas because its likely that they are infested with eggs. I was PISSED. They ate my flowers, but are also eating my leaves, and now infesting the buds. But I couldn't spot any. It took me several minutes to finally spot the first one, that was just chillin on one of the stems.

I did it. I did the thing. I stormed inside, grabbed the sheers and did the thing. Idk if it was because I was projecting, or if it was because of the other person telling me that's how she controlled them, but I did it. The site suggested drowning them in soap water, but like... idk about that. Anyway, it was dead. I cleaned off all the poops and eggs I could find on the leaves. Left it alone and went back inside. I went outside later to check on it. POOPS REAPPEARED. BITCH WHERE ARE YOU.

See image above.

I missed it the first time. This time, I was gonna make sure that no leaf or bud went unchecked. After some more research, I learned that these fuckers come out at dusk and are most active during the night. SO

Just like how Leon the professional brings his plant in at night, lol... that's what I've been doing the last few days. I had to pluck off all the flowers that were eaten. The large one on the right was the only one from the original blooms that survived. Everything else, gone. The left one was a bud, and the sleepy one on the bottom right is blossoming. The good thing though is that because I cut off a bunch of buds, the ones that remained are now growing super fast.

Today... I found a tiny caterpillar... but no other sign of them anywhere else. I'm gonna watch my petunias like a hawk now. They're too pretty to die to asshole invasive moth pups. Like, I'm big on relocating insects to somewhere else for them to be safe and happy... BUT I'M NOT GONNA LET THEM EAT MY PETUNIAS. FCUKEM. Other than that, all my plants are chillin. Even Baby Sarlacc. His condition is stabilizing. His roots are growing, look healthy, and the buds growing in the center of his cute widdle serrated rosetta look green and promising.


Chicken got me this cyoo air freshener for Noodle :3

 She smells like matcha hyuuuuhhh ^_^

For anime tuesday, I told Lifa that I had a fever.

HE DELIVERED

Featuring the most delicious spacy sauwz. For that top tier ouch with that yums

Drunk Cynth took to the white board again;

 This household (just me and Homdre) believes in the Pwnage gospel. The godfathers of internet web series. And taking noobs to school. You can take a noob to like, water, but you can't make a noob like, drink.
Me and Homdre force fed Lifa 5 episodes before he couldn't take anymore. He hates it. But he understands it now. Chicken just refused and walked out of the room rofl.

I miss this.

 How long ago was this, I don't even know. Pre-rona beards. Sun Nong Dan galbi jjim goodness. With our best friend who used to be a SC pro back in Korea. Damn, good times. I don't even like back ribs but you know what... I'd tolerate them to have this again for one night.

Psyche lol no I wouldn't. It's supposed to be short ribs, we talked about this already

jk

I think.

No. It says short ribs, and it's an expensive dish. Nope. Can't. Lawful.

Lastly, this title just launched a few days ago on Steam; 

Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story

Obviously. Appealing. to me. There's folklore and all of the above. But then like, almost immediately got pulled bacause there was so much negative feedback in reviews. I went through them, and it seems like a lot of people had a hard time navigating the game. Like... just dying a lot, not knowing what to do, being confused and stuff. Which can be frusterating. And then I saw the developers' note in their apology letter lol

When we set out to make the game, I wanted to make a game in the method of old school survival horror titles like Fatal Frame , Resident Evil, and most importantly Clock Tower. This meant very limited saves, deep exploration, repeated trial and error, punishing deaths, and a reliance on careful reading and planning your actions are the things; things I find engaging about those older titles. I wanted to bring those aspects back first and foremost.

 PRECIOUS. Don't they know that gamers don't read? lolz jk

It's fine.

I eat failure for breakfast. Tastes like LEARNING, MMMM.

Jk. 

I will say this though... There are a ton of indie games of that "aesthetic" on Steam that deserve more attention. Projekt Red has a monster marketing team pointing at itself, screaming at the top of its loud af yellow lungs to pay attention to them, but VirtuaVerse didn't. 

Phenomenal game. Beautiful soundtrack. Awesome story. Impressive, gorgeous pixel art. Like... idk. Just bugs me. 

That theme is big right now, and like... if you wanna experience that, can also play _Observer.

Different genres, but both submerge the player into that environment and atmosphere. _Observer holding a more noir feel than VirtuaVerse.

Mkay that's my preachy blabber. I know once my bonnet comes in, everything will be okay. I'll sit in the corner, bonnet equipped, and eat taro waffers until my rosacea goes away. Surely that's how it works. It'll make all the caterpillars disappear. Not forever, just within a 50 mile radius of my petunias. 

I sweartaghad if I see more budworm poop.... 

grr.
I gotta go to the garden center again and see if they have spray to sheep the adds. And probably buy more petunias. This time, I'll know what to look for. If I do get another petunia plant and it has evidence of budworms I'm gonna wreak vengeance. ALL of it. Maybe not use scissors tho and just smash em quick. War.

War never changes.

I'm gonna tolly pwn those moth noobs like, pretty hard and stuff, right

HAPPY FRIYAY 

fishnet or mesh masks are evil, put people at risk and make you look stupid :D

Have a great weekend!