just a triple a threat (agender, asexual, aromantic) doin' their best.
I want to thank people who were talking about Blue Prince because I was able to recommend it to a friend who loves puzzles. she's enjoying it a lot.
I've been doing stuff in both Honkai: Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero, but on the non-gacha front, I've started Disco Elysium. I haven't gotten very far but I'm really enjoying it even if not knowing how bad I'm messing up makes me a bit anxious. I picked Inland Empire as my main skill(?) too.
otherwise, I'm planning on playing more Fields of Mistria, now that they've updated again. I love that game with a passion, and I can't wait to see what more they add to it. I thought Stardew Valley was as good as it got, and while Fields of Mistria doesn't have multiplayer (and that's okay!) it ticks so many boxes for me, like for example, the shoujo laughs from Juniper spark so much joy. I don't enjoy the mines in SDV, but in FoM, I definitely do!
thank you for the well wishes!
I have a Scribe (the older one) that I got at a discount, but I'm scared to jailbreak it, especially with people getting theirs bricked because amazon is trying to revert the jailbreaking. I'm gonna save it in case I need it for a Kindle specific book, because that's unfortunately a thing.
I actually use the linux server for a lot of things! everything from Jellyfin to I actually have a Calibre Web Automated setup that I'm going to integrate with my Kobo reader for syncing my books. I'm not a backend coder (I dabble in CSS for fun, though) so nothing going on there, but I have a private journal, a Mealie instance for my recipes, etc. it's been fun learning, even if the blog setup took me 5 hours, hahaha.
what do you like to read?
currently using Vivaldi and I love it, but eyeing a switch over to Floorp (fork of Firefox) when uBlock is officially done for in chrome browsers. I'll still need Vivaldi for some things, but I can't live with ads.
really fatigued. I hate it, but there's really not too much I can do about the causes.
my partner offered to get me a Kobo Libra Color when it gets closer to my birthday. it's not this month or anything, but I'm genuinely excited. I have an old Kindle but frankly I don't like being tied to Amazon and would prefer to put my own books on the Kobo anyway. plus, the pop of colors, as small of a thing as it is, brings me joy. of course, everything I want to read are books a lot of people cringe at, but no one has to know!
I've almost finished writing letters to my friends, I just have one more left, and that one I get to deliver in person, so I don't have to send it through the mail. I'm going with the friend to a drag show brunch on easter, and it's my first thing like that, so I'm pretty excited for that too.
trying to find my escapes where I can, so I've been throwing myself into learning linux server stuff too as much as I can. I've started documenting stuff in a Forgejo repo so that my bad memory can't wreck things.
welcome!! I'm recently trying to get more active again.
I think it's okay to put down art for a minute and breathe. you got this.
sneaks in here.
things have been mostly down, not up. it's been a long time since I've been here but I meant to come back sooner, it's just that everything being really draining has left me pulling knives instead of spoons for everything.
partner got on meds for their ADHD recently so big win there, but we're still figuring out everything that will help them. it's at least a good step! I've gotten back into self-hosting, after coasting on what I had on my server for a while. planning to try out some new services, hopefully installing something for books so I can throw a bunch on my server and not worry about losing access to them. also maybe a new dashboard, though I kind of like the one I have.
coping with the world is hard right now, more than usual. but Susan Crawford won the race on the supreme court, and I'm happy about that at least.
been playing a lot of video games too. mostly hoyoverse games but Fields of Mistria and Disco Elysium (I just started it) are also calling to me.
I hope everyone has a bright spot in their week!
So I'm pretty new to self hosting as well, but I use Tailscale. They also have the option of working with Mullvad, though I'm not 100% on how that works. Tailscale is a VPN itself, and it's allowed me to access all of my self hosted stuff everywhere, including on my phone. It's been really nice, though I understand people might not want to use corporate methods.
Gluetun to my knowledge, when I use it, is just for my qbittorrent stack to access my VPN.
If you don't want to use something like Tailscale (there's also a self hosted option called Headscale, and others like Zerotier and I think Netbird?) there's opening ports and using reverse proxies. I would be really careful about that one, but hopefully I've given you some options to look into.
Oh boy my favorite game series!
Admittedly the ones I've played the most are 3, 4 and 5, although I've tried 2 a couple times a while back. I wouldn't mind doing it again, I just don't remember why I kept bouncing off of it.
3 is my favorite, and admittedly I played it at a younger age than I probably should have, as a teenager. I couldn't bring myself to finish it after getting the ending spoiled to me online, but I always had a fondness for the game and I preordered Reload as soon as I could. I will finish it this time. Mitsuru my love.
4 is my second favorite. Kanji and Naoto in particular really always stood out to me and I used to go by Kanji online for a long time. I made a character who spun into an oc with just traits inspired by him too, who is one of my favorites to write.
5 is fine but my least favorite of the bunch, even though I know a lot of people who only like that one. I felt the pacing was poor and the escalation of the severity of what the adults did wasn't really going in order. I also didn't feel any real attachment to the characters, in sharp contrast to the other two games I've played.
It still irks me every time a teacher and student romance comes up, or the times the games have been phobic. I wish we had the option to maybe pick between a masc/fem/androgynous looking protag and slap our own pronouns on them and romance who we wanted out of the options regardless of those selections, but I know that's not ever the game Persona is gonna be. I'm happy they included content warnings at least in Reload.
Man, I love her music so much! Thank you for reminding me of it, I'm gonna go give her a listen again.
The Tetris cover is one of my favorites. I also have a soft spot for the Pokemon and Super Mario Bros one.
I...went back to Path of Exile.
It was originally just to see how things had changed, but a lot changed and it's very different. Not that it answered all of my personal issues with it, but I resigned myself to using a build guide. I've been enjoying it, surprisingly. Enough that, when I haven't been out of the house, I usually play it daily.
Progress is going really slow because I'm not that good at the game anymore. But I also made loot filter sounds that spark joy, and I've been managing even if I'd like to be at endgame. I'm on act 6 out of 10.
My partner is also playing but doesn't have a lot of experience. So I've been trying to help, which makes it more enjoyable to me because I like to teach.
Not sure if I'm fully going back yet. But I like the league mechanic and am having a good time.
Guess who got their computer back??
Finally after having to send the motherboard I had bought back that I had unintentionally broken the pins on, it's together and back at my house and I'm so grateful. I'm glad I had a laptop to lean on but I hated it all the same.
It was a bit of a struggle because the drive with Windows on it wouldn't work for some reason. After messing around with it, I got it to function, but I need to find the time to wipe everything and start over with Bazzite and Windows dual boot. That's a project for later me, though.
I got help for my dog's vet bills, as I'm drowning in money issues currently. It's not a huge chunk of money and I'm spacing their visits out, but Bowser is behind on immunizations and they both need annual checkups. I feel like a really bad pet owner because I'm disabled and don't work, yet have two dogs, but I treat them the best I can. And originally, circumstances were different and I could afford everything much more easily.
But things are okay at this very moment. I hope everyone else has a fabulous week.
I decided to try Zenless Zone Zero. I'm already a Honkai Star Rail player and I used to play Genshin Impact, although I gave up Genshin because I was irritated with how they handle story and characters. I originally wasn't going to try ZZZ, but thought it wouldn't hurt anything. Worst case scenario, I drop it and go back to solely playing HSR.
I'm really enjoying ZZZ's combat, even if I don't feel like I'm doing it "right" or optimally yet. The story is nice so far, I love the Persona vibes it gives me, especially Persona 4. Wasn't expecting that. I got the guaranteed S rank character I wanted (Lycaon!) and I'm skipping the first limited character because... I really don't like the maid outfit thing. It wasn't for me on Noelle in Genshin, and it's not for me here. I love her design otherwise and she's a shark girl with a shark tail, which is super neat. She has a casual outfit I like a lot. Just. Cannot. Do. The. Maid. Thing.
I might pull on the second half banner. But I haven't met the character yet so I have no idea if I want her either. It's a bit frustrating waiting, because my teams are kinda a mess due to lack of characters. But it's okay. The story comes first and that has my interest so far.
I watched a friend play Sea of Stars and really enjoyed it! I hope it's a good adventure for you the rest of the way.
Something to note if you're in it for combat, the difficulty plateaus a bit towards the middle/end. And if you like this one, their other game, The Messenger, is tied to it lore wise, although it's a different genre.
Also the music slaps.
I feel you. I dislike most of the pyro characters honestly! and also, oof, Thoma requires ascension materials from a special huge questline island in Inazuma. he's kind of a pain to level. the pyro four star I like the most is a tie between Gaming and Yanfei. Yoimiya is my favorite 5 star one, and she works well with Thoma, actually.
you can probably guess who some of my favorites are based on profile pic and banner (eventually, anyway, they're both in Inazuma.)
who do you have your eyes on that you want, anyone besides Diluc and Shenhe? I don't know what the banners are currently.
yep! here it is on the steam workshop and I hope it helps you out! if you want the video series too, I can shoot that your way, it doesn't really spoil anything and I didn't know 95% of the mechanics even existed.
live and drink friend!
genshin is surprisingly good (I was also wow'd when I started playing), but ultimately I found the story lacking in a lot of key places for me (justice for Inazuma's story especially!) which ultimately led me to quit for now. I played for two years, and have a pretty well established account. however, I have really bad fatigue issues and wasn't able to keep up as well with the adventuring requirements, such as having to unlock chests for free primogems.
I think playing it until you're tired of the grating parts is a totally valid way to experience it. especially because it's free!
like the other comment, I tried Honkai: Star Rail and honestly I love it so much more. it is turn-based combat, but I feel like the writing is better, and they treat their characters better storywise (in contrast to genshin, which imho the hangouts for four stars are not comparable to the story quests some four stars get.) it's my gacha game of choice, and while I've had my nitpicks, I have those with every game I play pretty much. I also agree it's more f2p friendly.
these are all just my opinion tho! I hope you enjoy your time with the game and that you get the characters you want. may your pulls be blessed!
I'm absolutely going to do my best to understand and not copy/paste without doing that. I don't like doing things to my computer that I don't know what is happening, so that makes sense to me! I already ran into that issue plenty of times with my servers, so I'm trying to go all in now.
thank you!
thank you for the resources! I think I have VeronicaExplains noted down already, but the other ones are new to me. I'll give them a look!
thank you for this!
I too have brain fog and memory issues in general. I'm glad to hear that systems seem simple to understand but have the high ceiling, I love that kind of thing. I just need to push on I think and try LE again, when I get my desktop back.
what is your class of choice in LE?
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I'll keep that in mind about jailbreaking! I think you're talking about KOReader? I think it's pretty good software, though I'm going to try to the Kobo's regular one before I install that one. with a Kobo, you don't have to jailbreak anything, they just let you do it, hahaha. they also let you sideload books, fonts, and screensavers, and I'm looking forward to customizing it.
oh wow! I only have 10tb (it's actually two 10tb in a RAID 1 configuration) but I don't watch too much, I'm really picky about my movies and anime. and I mostly get my things the same way, though I've started to buy my books from different places and removing the DRM so I can store it on my server. I really want authors to get paid, as someone who aspired to be one for a long time. and I want them to know people are interested in their books so that they keep writing.
I actually have three servers. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 (not running much besides Adguard Home and a dashboard, but I like having it), a Synology NAS, and then an Intel NUC that runs everything and I just use the NAS for storage. I've really enjoyed learning about selfhosting even though I didn't start off knowing much about it, and I'm a slow learner.
I hope you and your kid are enjoying that Minecraft server! I would've loved that as a kid.