motivation to type is low today, I just finished making waffles and bacon for everyone and cleaning up, let's see what I can remember that happened recently...

Yesterday i replaced the radiator fan on my moms car, took about an hour and I saved her $500 versus having a shop do it. Job was super easy. Charging 4x markup on parts and 2 hours of labor for what should take a mechanic 30 minutes with 1 pry tool and a screwdriver is criminal. what the fuck is actually wrong with shops these days?

Finished Gundam Zeta the other day, I didn't quite like it as much as the first season. It had its moments, but the first season kept my attention better. Maybe I'm just too burnt out on Gundam to care as much, these seasons are like 15 fuckin hours long. I should probably have a few months in between seasons, but the person I'm watching Gundam with just wants to blast through them all as fast as possible, which might be miserable.

Oh yeah, I saw the Resident Evil movie Friday in the Dolby theater. I went into it knowing absolutely nothing about it. Didn't see a trailer or anything. I was more than pleasantly surprised. There were no actual resident evil characters, and the story was pretty much all original. I'm glad they took that approach. I feel like it's cringe seeing live actors trying to be a well established video game character. Like, I hate live action anime, I've never wanted to watch a single one of those because of how weird it is to see a random person pretend to a character they look almost nothing like. I'm not going to bother going into too much detail about the movie, but it was good if you ask me. I would recommend seeing it. I did hear that a lot of people online hated this person because it DOESN'T follow the actual story or have real characters. I can't even fathom how this a thing. Must be the normies whining, I feel like there's a lot of resident evil fans, and "fans" that aren't nerds. Am I a fan? I don't know, I wouldn't describe myself as a fan really but I did really enjoy RE4-9. Well, 6 was absolute クソゲー and not in a good way. RE4 is my favorite (shocker). It's definitely a childhood nostalgia thing, but I would say that it is genuinely a good game.

Ah yes, and as I look around my desk trying to think of what else to type here, I see my launch day nintendo switch. I had lent it to my mother so she could play mario kart and animal crossing. It's hacked and just has the games installed on it. A few weeks ago, I find out it's not working due to an eMMC error. I don't know what happened, maybe she dropped it or maybe over time the connection between the eMMC module somehow degraded, but when I opened the console to reseat and clean the connector there was nothing wrong. I reassembled it and it immediately booted without issue. I checked the eMMC health in hekate and it's perfect now. Before it was not connected at all / not readable. Though confusingly the prior error just said bus speed degraded or something. I'm not complaining though, looks like this thing should be good for at least a few more years of service.

There may be more stuff I'm forgetting, but it's probably nothing too important. I think it's only been a couple days since my last post. I'm a bit anxious right now as I wait for work to approve my PTO for my two week Japan trip this October. It really shouldn't matter at all when I take PTO, I guess whoever needs to look at it hasn't seen it. In hindsight I should have submitted it more than three weeks before the trip starts, but again it really shouldn't matter. I'm sure someone will review the request, eventually..

Apologies also for not posting pictures, I haven't really been thinking to take them. It's hard to remember. Maybe as time goes on I will get better about remembering to take pictures for the blog. I will for sure have a few good ones from the Japan trip.

Well it's time to endure Gundam ZZ. This series only has a 6.73 on MAL. I am definitely going to just play on steam deck while this shit is on. I did actually watch and pay attention to the first several episodes yesterday and I didn't hate it, but I'm sure it won't take long before I stop caring. These 12+ remaining hours of the show will probably be better spent on KH2.5FM or the Higurashi console arcs. I thought I was done with Higurashi a while back after spending like a year getting through the 80-90 hours of reading. But I just learned that you can play a bunch of other stories via 07th mod. I guess there's quite a bit left for side stories that never got PC releases. I am kind of looking forward to the Hanyuu lore from the DS game. I don't even know what the other 10 arcs are about.

P.S. Fuck stupid fucking Samsung making their TVs shitty with automatic firmware updates. I regret giving this fucking thing internet access. There was a recent update that makes it default to launching Samsung TV when you turn on the TV, which doesn't even load correctly it's just all fucking corrupted. Eventually found a setting that was poorly worded that fixed it so it starts up on the last input like it fucking should in the first place. And on top of this shit, the HDMI-ARC got worse and now it's a fucking struggle to get it to send audio to my receiver. Half the fucking time it doesn't work when I turn the TV on. God I fucking love companies in this late stage capitalist era. Why can't we just have simple shit that works and is repairable and doesn't spy on you 24/7. I don't know if I will ever buy a new TV again. I might end up buying a handful of old fashioned dumb TVs at this rate.

P.P.S. that bit of rage just now reminded me to say, fuck mario kart world. 8 deluxe online play was rough enough, but world is a total fucking chaotic shit storm. I think I actually need to stop playing it online before I do something I regret. Game is so fucking bullshit. If magfest has a mario kart world tournament there is no way I am entering it. I probably won't enter the 8 deluxe tournament either since it's so poorly run. The Double Dash tournament was somehow the best. I am definitely doing that and the Magical Drop III tournament again. If there's Tetris I might enter that too.

Speaking on Tetris, I need to figure out how to install the Windows version of Tetris Effect I downloaded. I'm still learning how to use Lutris on here.

Okay end rant'n'ramble for real nowy

edit: Forgot to mention I watched some of the Hellraiser game demo. That was boring as shit, nearly put me to sleep. Its just mindless torture porn and gore. They tried to go for shock but it just does not land at all. Maybe a middle schooler would find this scary. But to me it just feels like lame, soulless slop.