Entertaining Thoughts
The sense of urgency to beat every floor of Hades is always met with… how do I take what I know and progress higher the next time around. This game out performs almost all other rogue likes in bringing on the essence of what it means to level up both functionally in game and mentally as a player.
If one thing of this year has been, a lack of my responses in the past few weeks have been semi-unwarranted. I’ve gone through a lot of change and a lot of reflection. But ultimately decided to keep this writing to a bare minimum. It’s not that I’ve moved on, it’s that my limited time here means I have other tasks to focus on.
What adventure brings from being nostalgic of your past? I started looking into scanning a lot of my images my parents took of me when I was born. Since digital cameras didn’t exist, a physical manifestation of these events are stored in a box. Digitizing them and saving them to a personal storage is a long task since the first 16 years have been recorded in digital. At my age now, with a ton of smart phone camera, social media boom is increasing the capacity of storage… with awareness of other parties. I realized dad was also into photography and took a lot of old photos… of his honeymoon places, and even saw Olivia Newton-John in his trip to Venice, with mom of course. XD
A journey shouldn’t be compared to other journeys by others. If it takes X amount of time for someone else, it shouldn’t be the same X for the norm. I’ve kind of given up on testing if a suitable partner is going to check off a bucket list. Rather, it’s about how we can work together to create new ventures that fills up the bucket list, no matter the size.
I keep coming back to a failed relationship of the past, one where I had made a mark by knowing someone through extensive ‘accomplishments’ or ‘tests’. In that case, understanding and knowing prioritized over what to do, or how to do things. It certainly made it easy to check off certain activities, but it also made recalling moments very harsh. In that anything we did felt like there was a ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ way of doing something. I still remember the sad face of when I had mixed up an ex’s brother’s birthday with her own. Now that it’s all over, albeit still without any kind of resolve and splitting of baggage, it’s still difficult to handle this bag of thoughts.
Time feels short when you’re out of your rhythm… and as I plan for my departure from routine, I want to thank all of you who I’ve met. Every one, through the times we’ve interacted, have shaped who I became… and it wouldn’t be fair to say I’d like to see you all sometime again because of our short time. So at the very least, I’ve had a piece of your mind in me I think about as I move forward in a non mundane fashion.
Relationships with a first time relationship feels like beauty and the beast. On the one hand, the inexperience makes for very cozy situations, but also for very unassured moments as what to do. It’s not that they want to be more romantic, just the signals can easily be replaced by other activities like ‘blanking out’ a lot XD
For a mature rated game, I’ve always fantasized the return of Travis Touchdown… but after my Wii broke down after gouging all its power to play the first No More Heroes game that I’ve grown fond of during my undergrad days a decade ago, I was extremely excited to play NMH2: Desperate Struggle with updated controls. I will say that the controls using Joy Cons breaks the game a bit because of how Suda51 wanted to use the Wii mote as a beam katana that Travis Touchdown should just start with dual katanas… but let’s just dive into the killing.
I thought I was going to get some working visa from a Japanese company, but I guess that may be asking too much. No responses from them so I will assume I am only working with the intent of a working holiday visa. I applied for one back in February 2020 this year, before the pandemic… with a ton of caveats. I cannot have entered China pre 14 days, no developed symptoms of COVID-19 prior, and have a clean medical record. I passed my tests and got the pass that lasts until February 2021 to enter Japan.
Nintendo released a timely video today of their upcoming new games. I’ve been waiting to hear what new games will be available for a while since there hasn’t been a lot of releases this quarter.
‘Today’s recipe for disaster: baking chocolate cookies with a steam oven’. This was the header I had in place before the read more segment to organize my thoughts. Having done a full week and a half of overtime, did not get a chance to update as frequent… and as this project keeps going, I will not have a frequent weekly update. I’ll try my best to recall my week of what happened outside of work.
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