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Best Gift Ever is a really hilarious episode!
Speaking of episodes, isn't the next one on your list:

S9E22 - Growing Up is Hard to Do

[Hey, it's page 4 even! Took a few months, but we finally got there!]

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Getting closer to the holiday, and, with that, there is a potentially big snowstorm coming my way in the northeast.

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I heard about that. We for 6 inches overnight last weekend but sounds like you may be in for much worse.

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New laptop came in woooo. Kinda nice to get it BEFORE the previous one explodes, for once.

Smash: Sephiroth GET. Decided to do it on Easy after getting rolled even on Normal. That way I could do it with Cloud, lol. Ran through an easy Classic mode with him...he ain't gonna be a main, but he's interesting and kinda fun. He's going to be one of those I might pick when I'm screwing around but would never dream of trying to master. I kept trying to finish people with his down air lol.

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Pluto's not a planet

And....2020 is almost gone!

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Happy New Year Tom!

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Happy new year! We done made it.

Trails: Just getting some info on the quakes.

Disgaea: Struggled to beat the next story level, so did some messing around in Item World. Unlocked Base Map Workshop, which I expected to be a lot bigger deal mechanically.

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ProfitProphet posted...

Will this in any way hinder your ability to get trophies?

If I get unlucky and lose the function of my right eye I might not be able to ever play vr again
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Slowly getting some groove back maybe, it's just that the few things I have been getting to are things that I don't write up here lol. But today was different!

Les Mis: Lots of backstory on Marius, or at least his family. Some good character work there, which....seems to be half the point of this whole book at this point.

Lucha Und: Mundo/Patron! Should be good, and is. Cool end sequence, and Patron wins with a....kick. (****) Muertes wises fwom his grave.

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another post about genesis saga

genesis sage all day all the time

I haven't commented since the 1st of January. Hm.

And then, 20 days went by pretty fast.

Not too much to say lately, just been occupied with a host of different things over the last few weeks.

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Im leaning pat but that may be wishful thinking hoping my winner pick isnt the 1st one out

Or it could be jess or someone else hating the storm

It always takes me a second to realize that is a bump bot and not GTM

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Finally started reading Rhythm of War.

And read the novella which comes first which was very interesting and had great stuff for The Lopen.

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I haven't even ordered a copy yet D:

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I am just using the local library lol

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I wanna say I only have a few discs left of Way of Kings pt.1, on 14 of 18 discs?

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How do you like it?

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It's very fun, I have enjoyed getting to know all the characters and the cultures existing in this world. I relate a lot to Shallan and Jasnah. Kalladin's leadership style and journey is pretty inspiring - kinda wish I saw more managers who took his approach.

I love reading about the characters' journeys of identity - who am I? what am I doing? what is my purpose? It's really neat stuff.

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I love that the main characters in Stormlight are so much more flawed than many fantasy heroes.

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And yet they are still likeable! On paper I like flawed characters, but in execution a lot of them I just....don't really want to put up with, even if they are realistic and probably objectively well written.

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Yeah the flaws are less them being annoying or bad people and more just human weakness that is relatable and doesnt stop them from being heroes.

Cause I am definitely with you on struggling with a lot of overly flawed characters.

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SCI roster for reference

Astaroth
Cervantes
Edge Master
Hwang
Inferno
Ivy
Kilik
Lizardman
Maxi
Mina
Mitsurugi
Nightmare
Rock
Siegfried
Sophitia
Taki
Voldo
Xianghua
Yoshimitsu

could also see them including some of the post SCI characters if they're popular enough like Raphael since they just have to include some whatever story reason to justify it.

hey I'm alive still!

Sonic IDW Vol. 4+5: I still really love this. Characters, art, action....all of it is landing very consistently. We're now in an arc with "Zombots," which is interesting. Actual zombies are a bit too gory for me, but I've always found the kinda infection idea interesting in a world of established characters. (even if it does hit different in current year) "Zombie" roboticization is a good compromise for me! And Cream shows up, at the cost of infected Cheese and Chocola. Is a good time. Gotta remember to go back for the Tangle & Whisper special next time- one apparent issue with reading archivally like this is it's hard to tell when I should read the next main issue and when to throw in the specials.

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Gunnerkrigg: I don't remember where exactly I was, so today is chapters 13 and 14 and the summer break stuff after. Still pretty fun; I don't quite remember all that was going on, but this doesn't seem like the kinda comic where you super need to. Lots of quality background faces this time. Annie is a whole mood trying to set up Kat with the bird guy. Coyote seems fun as well!

MLP 9-22- Growing Up is Hard to Do: Oh geeze, an aging up episode. I feel bad for Bloofy :( This whole "being big is all it takes" bit is triggering my impostor syndrome something fierce, lol. Pretty okay episode, maybe not my favorite ever but fine.

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Remembering stuff will be more important later.

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FE: Chapter 20 BEATED after a heckuva fight. Killed the Death Knight and Caspar, hopefully I didn't screw something up. Had to surpress my instinct to try to kill everything, instead just driving down the east side, and only messing with the middle folks enough to get through.

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I got my second vaccine dose and it was a doozy. Good thing a comfort show is up in the rotation!

Aria 3-1: heck yea we back. Really just everybody swapping stories about the mentors and how inspirational they are. Nothing super groundbreaking, but that's not what I was here for anyway. Will miss the old OP and ED, will enjoy the new ones.

LP MGS4 16-2: Crying Wolf was....uncomfortable.

Smash: Got absolutely dunked on online repeatedly....but hey, more quickplays towards the challenges.

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Yeah my 2nd dose took me out for a day but then I was fine.

Hope it's the same for you.

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Indded! Arm and stomach are a bit off but I am about as perky as I get these days.

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Hello Tom, it's been just about, forever, since I last made a comment? Pretty much. Anyways, yeah, that episode [MLP 9-22] was definitely it's own thing. Trust me when I say the next episode is quite hilarious though!

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Good morning.

Hard to believe that 2 months of 2021 are already behind us. As for my PS5 search, it's still been to no avail, it's either sold out, or when I get the word it's available somewhere, it goes out of stock before I can order one.

Eventually, there will be a point where the *hard to get* label will be off the system, but for now, it's more of the same.

Glad to hear you were able to get the vaccine Tom. For many people trying to schedule an appointment, it's been quite a challenge with the high demand versus the supply chain of it's availability.

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I imagine! I am glad my work simplified and expedited that process for me because it sounds a lot less fun for most folks.

Finished up Little Witch Academia with Wifebolo, after a rather lengthy hiatus. Was real dang good! I wouldn't have expected Trigger to be good at family friendly stuff but they done did it. (and it was still very Trigger)

Trails: Only had a couple minutes to play, but sounds like a new Enforcer is behind the quakes.

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Realized my Switch had an SNES thing as well as NES. That opens up a whole load of stuff to mess with :D Not looking for another big long serious game to add to the pile so I just fiddled with Kirby's Dream Course until I could beat the first world.

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I just finished the 2nd book in a really interesting Chinese mythology/Dao inspired fantasy series. Its 2 stand alone books (so far) following the same main character. Set in early 1900s San Francisco chinatown.

Author is M.H. Boroson, first book is Girl with Ghost Eyes.

In case that seems interesting to anyone here.

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Smash: New sword waifus are kinda fun even if I don't know em.

FE: Oh man, is the final battle coming? I'm not actually entirely sure, but if it is, I'd best stop screwing around with underpromotions.

Trails: It is TITA TIME and also sidequest time. Gotta find some machine parts I guess. Kinda a neat idea but it's gonna get old fast. At least it's only eight things in two rooms!

Disgaea 2: Fought some Dragons. 's about it, since I screwed up a few times and decided to retry.

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Finally finished Dragon Age Origins for the first time. Fun game with some interesting choices and no like perfect route.

Still happy with the ending I got even if my MC is dead.

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The remote work era is (theoretically) over for me, which means (among other things) audiobooks are back! There are like ten people ahead of me in queue for Rhythm of War, and the library doesn't even seem to know what Dawnshard is, so I'm gonna chill a sec on that. I think they finally have Dark Forest too, but it is also unavailable atm. But it's time to bust out something else I've been meaning to try (and did try back in the day, but have subsequently forgotten everything about)

The Colour of Magic: I wonder if I started a different book last time? All I remember is the luggage. I do like the sense of humor and vibe already, though. The reading order told me Death was a fan fave, and I can already see why, and the effect is enhanced by the booming voice and copious reverb this production gives his line, lol.

Gunnerkrigg: I feel like we're about to get some overarching plot started, but in the meantime there are amusing fairies and psychopomps. For whatever reason I always tend to enjoy fairies in whatever fandom or form, and Red and the other one are not exceptions.

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I struggled with Colour of Magic.

Enjoy some other discworld books but not really that one.

Discworld makes for really good audiobooks though. I did the City Guard and Death books that way.

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Colour of Magic: Dryads are fun, and so was that business at the temple. I like 8 as a mystical number. Hrun is kinda fun too.

My ongoing battle against my Steam backlog has led me to try to knock out some of the board games outside of the usual process. I'm imagining them as fairly quick casual experiences, but the next one up is....Gloomhaven, which I suspect is very much not that, after spending about an hour working through the rules. My solo board game group worships it, though, so I'm curious to see it for myself. Died on the first advanced tutorial, so we're off to a good start.

Lucha Underground 1-27: Evans/Aerostar to kick off, awesome. Coulda sworn he was already there, but I think I'm just confusing this with AEW lol. Thems is some high quality flippydoos, and Aerostar surprises me by picking up the W. (****) Big 7-way lucha for a MYSTERIOUS MEDALLION that I kinda know about due to TEW research. Some kinda contrived spots, but a solid match nonetheless, Fenix over. (***) Crew gets a title shot in a ladder match next week! I've watched too much Hololive and now I ship Fenix and Muertes. I keep forgetting Patron is a face, but he's going for #1 contendership against Hernandez. Either Striker and Vamp have found their stride or my tolerance has increased. Patron jumps through Cueto's window trying to get away from Mundo! (**1/2)

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Colour of Magic: I think my issue with this book is that it doesn't seem that cohesive. Like, there are a bunch of little self-contained adventures, and they are all cool and fun, but I'm like 3/4 of the way in and haven't really seen much of an overarching goal or plot other than surviving all the shenanigans. I like the writing style and world, so I'll probably continue, but it's a big shift from all the grand sweeping mostly-serious epics I've been listening to this whole time. Sidenote 1: I love any time that a non-American does an American accent. Sidenote 2: I wonder how I'd like Piers Anthony these days. I read a few of his a long time ago and I have had him and Pratchett conflated ever since. I feel like that's kinda fair.

Gloomhaven: OK, cleared the little mini-tutorial this time, and we're off to the races. It's struggling at a non-fullscreen resolution, and also trying to run the same time as a TEW sim with no plug >_>

IDW Sonic- Tangle & Whisper: I still really really love these two. Trauma! Bonding! Friendship! Anxiety! Personality dynamics not dissimilar to my marriage! In the side stories, I'm still not used to Silver being a dork lol.

Trails: I wasn't expecting a regular ol' peeping tom, but I also wasn't expecting Sheep Voltron. Guess that's our requisite relatively tame hot springs scene quota out of the way! Also knocked out an extermination and found all the orbment parts. One more extermination and then we get to do plot things!

MLP 9-23- The Big Mac Question: Solid! I'm always a fan of a good proposal or wedding, and this was a heckin cute one. Also always a fan of a good Discord episode.

FE: Team's starting to shape up for the last push!

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most discworld books aren't like colour of magic. that (and Light Fantastic IIRC) are like worldbuilding establishment books. the rest are narratively-driven

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Oh, sounds good!

I put requests out for Light Fantastic, Dark Forest, and Dawnshard, which I am guessing will come up in that order and possibly even the right timing. I'll have to figure out how to do the digital ebook stuff I guess?

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Yeah that was probably part of my issue as well. Just couldnt get into the story of Colour of Magic. Also I just didnt really enjoy that main wizard guy.

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Episode 23 was great stuff! Crazy Discord antics, ah yeah!

So Tom, now it's onto the Series Finale of MLP!

Episode 24&25 - The Ending of the End
Episode 26 - The Last Problem [Epilogue Episode]

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Wild!

Colour of Magic: I, uh, guess it's over! That was kinda abrupt even for a cliffhanger ending.

Gloomhaven: Game's still intro-ing all the characters and mechanics, I still don't quite have the hang of it.

Disgaea: Little Subpoena run....and I beat my first pirates! Not actually sure what to do with the map- I assume I'm supposed to go to its item world but I am not nearly strong enough lol.

Aria 3-2- That Smiling Customer...: Akari gets specifically requested, which is odd for a trainee. Her guest has clearly been to all of Akari's favorite spots already, building up a mystery of who exactly she is. Turns out she's just a fan of doing this and giving the kids some experience; she did this with the previous generation as well.

LP MGS 17-1: Raiden's back! Vamp's back! Very silly splitscreen fight ensues!

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Yes Indeed! The Finale to the show is good stuff too!

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I went ahead and did the ESPN Second Chance Bracket Challenge for the NCAA Tournament. Out of all of my entries, only one has a 100% score. The next 5 fall in the 92% range, and then it drops off heavily from there.

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Trails: Spent my whole lunch break trying to figure out which of the several roads around was the Soldat Army one. Didn't quite find it, but got some fights in and met up with Anelace and Agate, accidentally advancing the main plot. Always good to see Anelace, rarely good to see Agate, especially as we start to indeed set up Agate/Tita. Why is that a thing she's like 10.

Smash: Think I cleared out the Sacred Land. Chrom took me way too much time to figure out lol. Boss Ganon was weirdly anticlimactic after how much I struggled with the Mii Plaza Emperor guy. Took the opportunity to get more familiar with Pyra and Mithra....still haven't played a Xeno, so they aren't likely to be mains, but I do enjoy them. Kinda wish I could pick which one to start with, because I prefer Mithra....takes me back to the Melee days where for some reason I couldn't always execute the Shiek trick.

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