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Meanwhile in Infinity Nikki... ding! Level 80 get. I'm liking the new patch for the most part, story's a bit kiddy but also really sweet and we need more sweet in this world.

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The difference between a Genshin Impact dolphin account (Tirsden) and an f2p challenge (Ita). These are my first attempts at running Stygian Onslaught on hard difficulty today, and even my dolphin gang can't handle the next difficulty up. Whatevs, my resin is going into building Dahlia on both accounts so I'll see what artifact farming is like with this new mode later. I'm not gonna bother doing anything higher than hard mode either... it's pretty clear the devs are completely disconnected from their player community in regards to power creep and expectations.

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How to *not* build Skirk. And yes, she's running this. Why? Well...

While I build Dahlia on my f2p challenge, Skirk is staying level 20 and is in party purely for friendship farming (I'm not sure I can realistically play her due to motion sickness issues but she showed up early and I didn't want Shenhe at all). I initially threw a Tenacity set on Skirk for the set buff, then realized today she's probably not even triggering the buff. So I threw that set on Sethos instead (who is also being friendship-farmed). Dahlia is running Noblesse, so there's nothing else I care to put on a lowbie. Thus, I went through artifacts looking purely for hp% rolled pieces with hp subs so Skirk won't get one-shot if she ends up on-field by accident.

Which is how we ended up with a completely pointless, hilariously not-Skirk build through pure random chance. XD

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Decided to work on an older unfinished House Flipper 2 project this evening, and give the capsule tower a rest (23 capsules done, 8 to go). So here we have the "Old marketplace" property being turned into a bath house. It was all relatively brain-dead retexturing this time, of the structure work from last time. The indoor shots are the upstairs owner's quarters, with the questionably-orange room being kitchen and dining, and the smaller room being a bathroom while the final pic is the bedroom.

Brain is definitely dead. Tummy is not. Time to eats! :D

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We have achieved peak duck.

Infinity Nikki style code: 7sSKZa976BD#

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Zombie baby jesus h. christ on toast, Psycho Mommy! Here we observe one fine lady skilling for almost 9 mil in this week's dot-happy Divergent Universe variant. I guess Kafka heard she's getting power-creep adjusted and wanted to prove herself before the update. 'Course, it's DU where the fights are made up and the Big Dmg Numbrz don't matter but y'know... 8.7 mil is 8.7 mil.

Meanwhile, Sampo on EU side had a bit o' fun with his skill too:

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Man, I love this outfit, with the hair swapped out for the Fireworks outfit hair. The main set is one of the "pick one" choices from the cash shop and the first one you choose is marked way down in price. I'd overlooked this outfit and more or less ignored the selection because I didn't think much of the other outfits. I don't know why I didn't notice this one as being hella cute sooner (probably because it's hard to get a preview of outfits with a non-white Nikki plus you can't mix-and-match outside pieces into the preview).

Regardless, much decora-PJs exploration has been happening while I checkbox my way through the new patch. Momo doesn't like the teacups-ride knockoff very much... me neither, Shorty, but a full ride in various modes is required for some checkboxes and if my motion sickness has to deal with this, so do you. (I mostly watched a youtube video with the browser in front of the majority of the screen, butanyways.)

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Turns out, Dahlia is blind.

I wanted him to potentially run with Neuvie and Mika for lots and lots of attack speed (and Dahlia checks the necessary shield box too), on both my main and f2p challenge accounts. Main got him in a 10-pull, and f2p brought him home within 30 pulls... along with Skirk, who I didn't really want but will take over Shenhe. So now Skirk is staring at her hand-me-down Rancor and hodgepodge Tenacity artifacts in confusion as I tell her, "You're just gonna buff the friendship farmies for now because you pinged ye olde motion sickness during your trial run. Also, your kit is too fiddly."

She is not impressed. XD

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Go figure, the 4-star prince outfit helped me fully-clear Infinity Nikki's Mira Crown for the first time, and the pictured round I had to redo after upgrades was surprisingly less fruit-salad that one might expect. From this point on, I'm not going to bother glowing up outfits I don't care about simply to eek a little more currency out of future Mira Crowns, but one of my goals for this game has been to get it all done at least once. Kinda like Genshin's Spiral Abyss... haven't even bothered doing floor 12 for a while now because of the stupid Natlan bosses, and I've still never 36-starred the thing even with my dolphin account.

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A study in Wednesdays, Fallout 4 vs Skyrim. I decided to throw myself at Skyrim's legendary difficulty today because my gatcha game to-do list isn't insane enough apparently (nevermind that I mostly end up playing House Flipper 2). Regardless, Miss Addams has but one comment: "I look positively normal in this game. Ugh."

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A lil' sneaky-peek at some of the capsules in progress for my decorated version of the Nakagin Capsule Tower in House Flipper 2. Out of 31 total capsules, 7 are done, 2 are probably mostly done, 2 are barely started, and the other 20 are empty but have designated plans.

Big project is big, but then it doesn't help that it's not easy to duplicate things like the default bathroom without running back and forth with bits and pieces to copy-paste. Welp... I did this to myself, I shall continue! XD

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Mortefi so chill while the world burns around him. I ran the WuWa film festival stories a few times this morning to check off all the timed rewards, and pistols pyro Baizhu was by far the most fun to main out of the combos I used (with spectro Rover and Baizhi on support which enables the Model Citizen combo). Of course, Mortefi *is* my main, but he's usually relegated to being sub-DPS while Jiangli Yao boops things a bunch, or Jinhsi makes an elegant mess of critters since she's been on friendship farm lately.

Speaking of Jinhsi, bonus pics of her skilling for a mil in FoTG, and her busted stats that run:

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Someone's inner fairy princess is happy.

(It's Momo's.)

Things I hadn't planned to do today in Infinity Nikki: Pull my first complete 5-star outfit. And all the recolors.

255 wishes, with four double 5-star 10-pulls. Not sure if that's ridiculously good luck, but I'm happy I still have a lot of stash left for a "Cool" 5-star outfit, the one major category I'm missing from the big hitters. Hmm, and this princess outfit is "Ballroom"... I need to retry that level of Mira Crown I barely scraped through the other day. XD

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Download: clicky

The Nakagin Capsule Tower lives! In House Flipper 2, where it can exist forever in a rather squished form, but it lives there none the less. This is the empty version, where the only decorated capsule is the model unit on the first floor. Anyone with HF2 can customize each capsule to their heart's content, and landscaping is also wiiide open for improvement. The latter is minimal, partly due to wanting to get this thing published before I dive into decorating it myself, and partly because the original lot was the "Great Charity Mansion" property which has some missing grass in the back and weird terrain dips. I marked (and hid) all the trouble spots with plants, except for one section that looks like a nice footpath between the parking lots.

Enough gabbin', let's head inside!

Sadly, there is no good door to imitate the front entry, but I was able to pull off at least some semblance of the real entrance. The common areas take huge artistic license (and use a carpton of grey) due to me not finding enough info on the tower's internal structure as well as HF2's building constraints.

Ooh, we found some color! This is my rendition of the standard capsule model unit as per what I could glean from images and tour videos, including the teeny-tiny bathroom. it's also the only unit with lights. All the rest are empty, and while I didn't technically have to texture them all, ye old OCD was like, "No, we ain't having this lazy-ass orange brick nonsense. We're doing this right."

Oh hey, it's the roof! We'll have a quick look at it next, along with the parking lots and solar panels. The tippy top of the roof is literally at the upper build limit, and the white lettering involved a lot of fiddling with that one lil' adjustable tiny brick bit. The solar panels were a challenge to get looking decent, eventually involving generic tile, the lil' resizable brick again, and floor trim.

Aaand that's that. This has already been a heck of a project, and is going to be insane to actually decorate properly... but I have plans. Oh yes, I have plans. THE DUCKS MUST-- I mean, totally normal regular people will happily reside in a "full" version of this build whenever it gets done. Viva la capsule tower, me hearties! :D

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Yet more work on the Nakagin Capsule Tower, House Flipper 2 edition. This is my rendition of the standard model unit, as best I can pull the design from images and video tours along with some artistic license. I'm thinking there will be two versions of this property, since I can copy-paste it into sandbox mode at any point. That means I can do an "empty" version that will be 30 unedited units plus the model unit, so other players can decorate the entire thing at whim. Then there will be a "full" version later, where I've done up all the units myself.

Gonna be a while on the full version. For both versions I'm planning a covered parking lot on at least one side of the building, gonna see what it looks like when one side is done since the other side could be a garden or the like. Currently I'm working on tiling and painting the stairwell areas, where I've used 100% artistic license due to lack of reference footage and HF2's particular building limitations:

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Progress on the Nakagin Capsule Tower, squishified House Flipper 2 version. Brain broken, need food. But the next session is gonna be finally putting in a real heckin' stairwell... the Ladder Co. be like, "We thank you for your bizniss," and as @cellarspider observed, the life insurance industry be like, "We've run the numbers and this building would bankrupt us," while an accident and injury law firm be like "No no this is good actually put tenants in it, this will go great."

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Hoo boy. May have bit off more than I can chew on this one, but whatevs, bad migraine today and apparently the last two and a half braincells are like, "Let's do spacial math!" Thanks, guys. x.x So, here we have Nakagin Capsule Tower, House Flipper 2 edition. Doing this in career mode, because I'm insane... and because I actually dislike sandbox mode's controls. The property is technically the Great Charity Mansion but that puppy is gonnnne.

I built an empty variant of the tower in Sims 4, and I never did do a decorated version of that one... hmm. Welp, we're gonna scratch that itch this time around, but anything remotely like decor is gonna wait until the structure is done. The interior of each capsule is verrry cozy, shown in the first shot where the walls are pink, the tiny-ass optional bathroom section is blue, and the door placements are in green.

It's entirely possible a full two-sided tower might have fit on this lot, but I decided to play it safe with one tower. I know for sure I can get three floors of build height and haven't checked how much more room I have above that. Just in case, my work file has five floors of capsules selected from the Wikipedia arrangements, ready to brick into being as fast as my virtual gloved hands can fling 'em in.