Exploding Birb!

The last time I posted was on the first of the month and I sucked before that.

In my defense, the world Exists[tm] and more to the point for the last stretch (and on top of a July filled with just lovely familial and ~wellness Events) the best description is, honestly and truly, Summer Has Unfortunately Occurred.

Fuck me do I hate summer.

I was even actually making headway with the FF Lindwyrm project and then shoop -- the wind right out of my sails because Fucking Summer.

Has there been anything aside from melting ...

- I did indeed build MG Deathscythe Hell, once again finishing a Master Grade gunpla in a weekend because I am apparently absolutely insane or something. It was a great time though and Hell is as much a dapper imp as ever so that was great

- Because a goddamn miracle has happened I guessIntSys finally put bog-standard Bruno in Fire Emblem Heroes as a unit (and not a banner unit even), I am -- because I'm absolutely insane -- currently poking FEH again. please ignore that there is deeply weird shit about this unit if you look closer ... No idea how long this might last, because FEH is frankly a bad game and powercreep hell, but for now I'mma raise my duders and collect quotes and call it good. It's also less gross than Granblue and I feel weird saying that.

- Fuck Granblue. Seriously.

- This weekend a fan translating FE novels finished Book Two of the Gaiden novelization. I compiled what wasn't already collected into a copy of the drive file and epubbed it Sun morning; I finished reading it this morning.

This was a gleefully, wonderfully (batshit in places) interpretation of a fairly bare-bones Famicom rpg and I loved every goddamn speck of it, even as someone who loves the Shadows Of Valentia remake on the 3DS. Some of the ways to seamlessly integrate actual game mechanics -- like class promotions! -- was absolutely inspired, holy shit.

Love this version, can only hope the particular Archanea novelization getting started in the new year is half as good (there are several different novelizations out there for Marth's stuff, both of them). My NavarreMarf variant collection shall continue to grow ~

- I have some lovely katazome paper (blue patterns!) coming from Japan and I can't wait to play around with them; I also ordered a little bookbinding kit, not because I completely don't know (I've experimented with several Japanese bookbinding techniques) but because I want to handfeel the kind of page paper an actual papermaking and bookbinding company selects, and see what I can match on my own. Also because why not lol.

- Mostly (slowly) pecking and poking at older games/hacks/fangames on the onion, when Fucking Summer hasn't made me too braindead and lacking in reflexes to do any such thing.


There's an announcement from Bamco later this morning about the next Tales of remaster, but an idiot already accidentally briefly uploaded the video and it looks like it's going to be Xillia. Bleh. Give me an Abyss remaster you goddamn cowards, if you aren't going to tackle the fancy Destiny remake --

Better yet, give us fucking Luminaria as a real game.

Do it, cowards -_-