Did I ever mention that I really love Osakabehime's NP? Especially during the oh-so-tense boss fights. There's just this super epic battle music going on (which I do love, btw), but her NP comes around, and it's just very soothing music behind a princess in her castle on a slightly chilly night. Honestly, the NP gives me confidence. It always makes me feel like it's reminding me that in the middle of life's turbulence, you can slow down a little, take a breather, appreciate your own existence, stuff like that.
I'm not trying to sound poetic at all atm so this probably sounds super cringe, but I think it's a genuine feeling, at least for me. I dunno if others feel it too.

And while I'm saying all this Tristan is playing Despacio lol (Failnaught) 

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Tbh I feel like someone could make a meme with how the enemy moves during attacks with high hit counts (e.g. Osakabehime's extra attack) (lol the werewolf looked like it was dancing)

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Just realized that Osakabehime is connected to origami, and Run liked folding origami
Dang it, why does everything need to seem to connect together??? Huh???

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A little late but Fou cute so xD


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GalaxianExplosion wrote:

Posted this in late September of 2021
Still stuck somewhere between the fear and learning zones lol this is fine

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I swear I keep forgetting others' weeks don't end on Mondays and I feel really bad because it feels really inconsiderate lol

But it does mean I can flex on everyone else for technically having one more day of break though of course homework actually lasted 'til Friday and my teachers will definitely be posting homework like the week starts on Monday, so technically it's just me avoiding work lol

F/GO news, major spoilers other than the first bit. 
Mozart murdery man got to Bond 6!

And I beat Goetia! There might be a second round tbh
dfsjdkfoisfjo I cannot stress how many times I failed lol. Probably at least 6 times. After 2 times of lasting only 3 to 4 turns, I realized that according to my playstyle and leveled Servants, I cannot beat Goetia in a damage race. So the other times were me using AP to experiment. 
RNG horrible, I tell you. I was crit every time (like every 3 attacks where Goetia wasn't using a skill, he'd be critting using his "Buster" style attack), and Goetia almost always used this hecking "Buster" style attack (like I'd say 9 out of 10 times he was doing so, the guy must've really hated me), which means little defense NP refund, a defense down debuff chain, and...yeah, just larger damage done to my Servants in general. 
So, I stalled.
Right, this guy had to deal with my bullcrap. Again. Lol.
I did not go down easy, btw. Called him a coward most of the time, taunted him in both English and Chinese while smirking, cheered on my Servants as obnoxiously as possible, and made sure to play my Youtube videos while he was NPing and/or walking away to show that I did not respect him. But the cheering was after I gained more confidence lol.
May I remind you that "canonically" Fujimaru technically just. Beat Goetia with Mash's shield? This guy/gal. The tenacity. Super admirable.
Anyhow,,, how did I actually beat him, you ask? Well, I used a support Skadi. Used Paracelsus, gave her a Guts. And I used Ushi to do as much first turn damage as possible without an NP. Right. Without an NP...it wasn't very smooth. And then oof front line.
Back line was made of Asclepius, Rider Martha, and Osakabehime. That's right. I freaking soloed Goetia with Osakabehime even with bad RNG. (And this is the last team btw. The one that ended up working somewhat.) But I used Skadi (with her Guts) to give Osakabehime a head start with NPing, and I used Martha to clear debuffs (and Asclepius to heal; he did not survive long enough to do another round of debuff clearing, which was what I had planned, but he was able to give Osakabehime a small bit of extra NP gain, which was also intended). 
And then it was just Osakabehime there. I can feel her monetary demands for this battle there.
To her credit, she was a real MVP. 
To put things in perspective--before this, enemies (bosses I mean) were usually at, like, 800K HP at most. Goetia was at 1.5 million HP. And Osakabehime basically cleared all of that HP by herself while tanking Goetia's NP, Ars Almadel Salomonis, about every 3-4 turns.
Because of the horrible RNG, I had to use basically 3 Command Spells. And by that I mean--2 Command Spells and one Saint Quartz. Because I was too impatient to wait for the last one to regenerate. Haha.
Osakabehime soloed Goetia up to 120K HP when he crit her 3 times using his "Buster" style attack. And yeah. Oof.
I used Saint Quartz to tidy him up with Ushiwakamaru and, of course, Skadi. Ushi dealt 300K+ damage to him. 
It was actually incredibly fitting. While I would have loved to have heard Osakabehime's lines instead, Paracelsus got the last words. 
He said, "I am sure you cannot understand it."
I am sure that there is no last sentence more fitting than that one, lol. 

May I add that I actually did predict Goetia's NP the first time I played? Too bad I didn't predict his Ignore Invincible, lol.

And I checked and noticed that Mash is gone from the Saint Quartz Fragment exchange.
I usually use Mash with the Divine Banquet CE, so for the solo, I put that on Osakabehime. Kinda like she's fighting in Mash's place, to protect what Mash wanted to protect. 
I think the princess wouldn't mind that, right? It seems a little poetic.
Anyways, on the SQ exchance thing, I am incredibly hurt, even though I know she's practically not allowed to die and will probably be revived by the end of the Singularity.

One year later, my mom has remembered Specter's nickname xD (forgot to actually note when she did remember)
Though she keeps getting Specter and Echo's locations and genders confused lol rip

-Galaxian-

Used up a gift article for this link, hope it works
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/smarter-living/why-you-procrastinate-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-self-control.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbcoohkS1UZBibOWNE9shCcwPzO3r06iTjhLDnQWDFfivwPBIOa8lzRZKxqe9Z23ijeRNZadbkoWPxzyOAaI0soRw7tvZqYmNEeLiE77Im0WH8s2JaLXaw99XWiSFiFH9pF5e_1uQOaYn_3COeZiSd_cBBmppQ2fQyvjmgCkvqTDuImjthh1PZ2AoR7RG8EMCiI6_buDEluKZ7ROEGnnwo1W-pTXTDUnteOuflXIEgJVwWwHD4o6n086dhfJNsUIK30ShUgc8b6irgaYXd6eMbrX9ZiAtiJyMg59OLFuheOy8Kpx_4pFK8yv7jMtmmyMVZHW6pgIc0wGVoCAXCrzWudYqPD&smid=url-share

It lasts for 14 days.

-Galaxian-

Again, some negativity. I'm not aiming to not be negative on this homethread, because avoidance is almost as bad as ignorance (because avoiding negativity is like pretending there is no negativity or to pretend that I can deal with never talking about negative things emotionally), but to be more communicative about where I can clearly pinpoint and mark it so I can avoid influencing others here. 

Anyhow, there's been at least 3 shootings in the last 2 weeks in Aurora (a city in Colorado), and there's just been a school shooting in Michigan. It seems like American culture at this point is to express condolences and then move on. Of course, there are also now at least 777,000 recorded deaths from COVID-19 in the United States, and 1 million deaths may be reached by March of 2022. I think most here know my stance on this, so I won't be repetitive. No matter what, there is definitely a reason for me focusing on games and more positive topics in general, but someone like me can only suppress such feelings for so long. 
On brighter news, there is a mask mandate where I am now, but I have not yet gone out and seen how many people actually follow it. I do not have high hopes, but having the mandate is, at least, something good in my view. And...I am looking forward to the first actual snow of the year here. I hope to write something about it when the time comes.

-Galaxian-

Dang.


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Today was fun because I woke up right before 5 P.M., where the sun had already gone down
So I've skipped both breakfast and lunch and am foregoing dinner atm for Spanish the things I do to try to learn it to little avail lol
My mom keeps looking over in concern but eh
The prices I pay for sleeping 14 hours lol I say it's worth it now but even the divine don't know what I'm gonna do when I have to work and stuff.

The dream I had (well the only one I remember anyways) was cool. 
The thing about me always having lucid dreams is that I can't actually get dream-induced anxiety (btw I only learned a while ago that apparently lucid dreaming every night isn't typical lol sucks to be others. Seriously though,,, do y'all know you're dreaming when you dream? I guess it might suck less if you don't get murdery dreams that frequently like I used to, but I feel like it'd still suck so,,, idk. Let me know if you want.)
I was on a stage performing and I knew absolutely none of the lines, but instead of panicking I was like. "I am here to watch this show and can just leave when it comes to my turn," so haha boohoo on my mind wanting me to get anxiety in my dreams xPPP.
The show was cool and was related to Huyao Xiao Hongniang. I think I was playing Bai Yuechu (but switched to Dongfang Yuechu at one point). Susu was very precious. So cute xD. I (as Bai Yuechu) kept turning her around, and I'm pretty sure I felt some affection for her as him. Very precious relationship, UwU.
On another note, while we were taking a break and I was going over to try to find the script, (Little) Yaya tried to punch me lol. Less cute, but because she actually couldn't, it was fun. And anyways, she tried to help me find the script.
I'm glad that I didn't know where Honghong was, or else I probably would've gotten flustered as either character, haha.
Thinking about it, the dream was weirdly in-character,,,

-Galaxian-

Oh, speaking of which, ethnicity differences are weird. Like, I know for a fact that Chinese women need to rest for one month at the very least--and that's without working--but like, white women seem to be made of iron or smthn idk. Like, I am sure that Chinese women don't overdo it on this count, so are white women just not doing enough for themselves? Or is it that within that less than 1% genetic difference, there truly is some ethnicity difference?
Idk, but in case anyone here is planning to be a future mom/parent, I'd really rather you overdo it. Take a break. A job isn't worth your entire lifetime's health.
And anyways, you'd want to spend time with your lil munchkin.

-Galaxian-

An Italian man tried to pretend to get vaccinated by wearing a pink foam arm to the vaccination clinic, and it's just so funny xDDDD,,,
Gotta give him kudos for creativity xP
I could hear the "bruh" moment from the nurse as I read lol lmiao

-Galaxian-

226 days since the last snow,,, it's been a long time but feels shorter. Hah. 
Time really does fly. 

-Galaxian-

Some funny political cartoons (funny if you don't think beyond the art much)



Posting this one because Avenger of Shinjuku




And also yeah local politics were a mess that I did not care for investigating

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