“my rice…is your ruin!” still lives rent-free in my head

(how has it been five years……)

ryan found an area in z-a where a goomy is always scooting around and happy to see you no matter how many times you attempt to catch it. he very kindly sent me like 10 pictures of this goomy, which i will treasure

right??? i'm so sad... he's a public transit icon....

going to treasure my penguin suica forever… he is the perfect little mascot guy… how could they do this to him…..

ohhh i love that shark... a very good haul all around!!!!

got my fill of air riders for now and switched over to mario kart. the first thing i had to do was unlock touring yoshi. i love touring yoshi.

ohhhh i knew you'd be able to find it!!!! and for barely 6k yen... amazing deal

also the entirety of the biolabs-related quests/dungeon had so many sickos (positive) undertones that i still think about it from time to time... all of the weirdness going on in the lighthalzen/rekenber corp.-related quests fascinated me as a teen in the pre-renewal era......

during this era of RO they started adding these cool/slightly darker questlines... stuff like "the child pope who was supposedly chosen by freya actually had a twin brother who shared her blessing but the church hid this and froze the little dude in the ice dungeon so the religion didn't collapse"

i'm taking this opportunity to test out clip studio from the laptop with some procreate brushes i use. i dunno what it is about the pressure/stabilization on sai vs csp but my brain is just not processing the latter as well as i would like. i'm going to try to keep practicing...

tested her out a bit on xiv at max settings... she barely ever dropped below 100 frames even in limsa, which in a post-graphics update world is far better than the 45 fps and weird stuttering issues i was having on the 3070 after 7.0...

sometimes i wish they still made gaming laptops like funny little jet engines. my rog from 2015 was this but she lasted a whole 6 years without too many issues or dying and i loved her dearly… i mostly replaced her because the gpu was old and she’d crash at the sight of ishgard restoration crowds

if you want to listen to any of this, the one song i was looking for for YEARS was called そよ風に乗せて and played during boy events. while it's likely nostalgia talking it's one of the most moving string/piano pieces i have ever heard in a game and i feel like it's a crime it was consigned to THIS SERIES

regardless, you still get these beautiful piano/string pieces mixed with 2010s technopop. grandiose event themes that sound like they should just be battle themes in a mid-aughts low-budget wii RPG. there's a song where i thought "huh. i could see this in mario party 1." (which mitsuda composed for)