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Resplendent Mother and Daughter

Joint commission with @scarlet-flowers in celebration of Soleil getting her resplendent and it matching brave lucina's resplendent (and since we both ship lucinigo "lucina x inigo", this is so perfect! 😊)

Mother and Daughter matching outfits, so cute I love it a lot! 🥰

this amazing art is by ango_aleman on twitter

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Something that only just occurred to me:

The sports team I barrack for are the Geelong Cats, who wear navy blue & white.

My favourite Pokémon is Meowstic, a cat who is navy blue & white!

It only took me 11 YEARS to notice this coincidence.

As a bonus, Geelong's outfit alternates between being predominately blue or predominately white - the same as Meowstic based on its gender.

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Thoughts - 11/7/25

It's barely the 11th in Australia EST (1am), but it still counts as the 11th even though it's the 10th for most of the world.

Soleil's Resplendent is out now! I was always thinking about how the only exception to spending real money in FEH would be to get a Resplendent Soleil, but now that I'm not playing the game I'm not even going to end up doing that.

That segues nicely into the fact that, this month, it's been 3 years since I last spent any real money in FEH. Admittedly it's extremely easy to resist the temptation right now, although before quitting/going on hiatus I wasn't tempted to spend money at all on it.

On my 2nd playthrough of Pokemon Violet I might've seen a shiny Iron Bundle, but it fell off the edge before I could get to it - not helped by being during the section where I couldn't ride Miraidon. Just in case, I decided to shiny hunt Iron Bundle in my main Violet playthrough. I managed to find it just before the Shiny-boosting sandwich wore off. I nicknamed it Silver Santa. It would've been cooler if it could learn Surf but it doesn't - for whatever reason it's pretty much the only Water type that can't learn Surf other than Magikarp, probably for variety's sake. Given how many Pokemon appear on-screen on the Switch 2 it's much easier to find Shinies now.

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Things - 5/7/25

The latest trailer for Digimon Story Time Stranger has made me a lot more excited for its gameplay. It confirmed that it each Digimon has a unique set of elemental weaknesses and resistances, unlike the Cyber Sleuth games where every Digimon had a single 1.5x damage weakness and no resistances. Time Stranger Digimon damage values can be any of 2x, 1.5x, 1x (aka neutral), 0.5x and 0x (aka immune), which is very MegaTen-like. This alone makes me believe the combat will be much better than the Cyber Sleuth games. I scanned the video very thoroughly but I wasn't able to find my boy Tsukaimon. The closest I got was to a Digimon that wasn't DemiDevimon but was dark with big wings, but it turned out to be a Piximon with dark shading. It is really nice to see lots of other Digimon from the PS1 and DS era finally return for a modern game (Drimogemon, Penguinmon, Mojyamon, Flymon, Kiwimon, Scorpiomon etc.), even if Tsukaimon isn't among them (for now).

I've started my billionth 8th playthrough of Pokemon S/V - my first on Switch 2. Aside from how much more smooth the game runs, the loading times being a fair bit quicker is also something I really appreciate. The one thing left I really want to see is how the E.S.P. minigame performs - it was incredibly laggy on Switch 1. I think it's the only particularly laggy part I haven't seen or experienced (Serebii showed off the Lake which didn't lag, Ray showed off the Sunflora minigame while looking at the Windmill and both had their full/a proper frame rate).

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I finished my 3rd playthrough of Persona 3 Reload.

The ending never fails to make me tear up...

(SPOILERS):

I mean, you're the one who has to pick the option to close your eyes for the last time. In first person view. While sad music is playing. Immediately after Aigis is done explaining that you helped her learn what it means to live and that she wants to protect you forever, which she won't be able to do. And you don't keep your eyes open for long enough to see the rest of your friends arrive.

I don't think the ending to any other game makes me feel anywhere near as emotional as Persona 3 Reload...

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I used a FE character sorting website to work out (roughly) all the characters I know sorted by how much I like them.

The top 10's probably accurate, with no surprise whose #1:

I was able to save the full list as a text document, but it would be 441 lines long so I won't bother.

Other notes:

I only included the games I've played so it's not EVERY character I know. The games included were FE2/15, FE9/10, FE13, FE14, FE15, FE16, FEH and 3 Hopes.

From the other games I'd be familiar with roughly half of them, give or take, but the half I'm not familiar with would make doing this far more annoying.

It doesn't do every possible match-up (it did ~3200 matchups out of what I think is a possible 194,040*) so the longer it went on the less accurate the results were - for example, Sylvain and Raphael were below Otr. Some characters must've had rougher matchups that others.

The highest-ranking male character who isn't incredibly feminine was Laslow at #15.

I did one earlier that was just Engage characters - in that one Lapis was my #3 favourite, but in this one Lapis was my #5 Engage character. This just shows how much these lists can vary based on which matchups are chosen or not chosen.

*I think the maths is 441² - 441, with the minus at the end accounting for characters not matching up against themselves. Could be wrong though.

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Stuff - 30/6/25

Oblivion Remastered has been crashing quite a lot since the last patch (I've got the PS5 version). If it wasn't for the fact that the game keeps 5 autosaves at a time then I wouldn't be able to use my current character at all, since some save files just seem to crash no matter how many times I try to open them. Obviously I hope this gets fixed.

Mario Kart World still doesn't have an alternative unlock method for the currently-Kamek-exclusive characters. I grinded to get those characters using a 2-player method already, but it'd be nice for other players to not have to do that.

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Things - 28/6/25

...and now Zentreya's leaving VShojo. I know in my head it doesn't matter if someone's in VShojo or not since it doesn't affect their streams or content at all, and I'm going to keep watching Zen, but the illogical part of my brain is still really upset anyway. I've come to terms with my brain thinking like that over the years...

In better news, I'm liking how Digimon Story Time Stranger's battle mechanics look. My main gripe with Cyber Sleuth's gameplay was that elements were almost meaningless - Each element hit one other element super-effectively for 1.5x damage and that was it, no resistances or anything. The only thing that actually mattered was the Vaccine/Data/Virus triangle, which meant that all attacks from Vaccine Digimon would do 2x to Virus and 0.5x to Data and such. But in Time Stranger it looks like the elements will be much more elaborate than Cyber Sleuth, including having multiple resistances and weaknesses per Digimon. From what I've seen it might be SMT/Persona-esque in that each Digimon has a unique set of weaknesses and resistances. I also like some other things such as TM equivalents.

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Start of my day: RESPLENDENT SOLEIL! WOOHOO! =D

End of my day: Geega's leaving VShojo... Aww... =(

Certainly been an eventful day for my emotions.

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RESPLENDENT SOLEIL AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

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Stuff - 26/6/25

Donkey Kong Bananza looks like it's going to be really fun - albeit not for me, most collect-a-thon platformers I've played I've never been able to properly get into for some reason. I watched the Direct via Ironmouse, which made me realise that the Donkey Kong-Pauline dynamic is incredibly similar to the CDawg-Ironmouse one, for various reasons that I can't word properly so I won't.

I've uploaded two more Dragon Ball Sparking Zero custom battles (on PS5): - A re-upload of the recreation of the Knuckles Sonic Boom fight with Yamcha: 1-632-637-743. - An alternate version of my Cell Max battle with free switching: 1-640-214-477.

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I certainly wasn't expecting Shallot from DB Legends to be a DLC character in Sparking Zero.

He looks really cool - his Ultimate especially - but we all know who the superior one is that should've gotten in instead:

She's from Dragon Ball Fusions, and is very cute. I think she debuted before Legends' Shallot but I'm not 100% sure. The fact they have (practically) the same name is pure coincidence. As is how similar their hairstyles are.

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Stuff - 16/6/25

Until a couple of days ago I found Oblivion's lockpicking minigame to be really frustrating, but it finally "clicked" with me how to do it and now it feels - if anything - too easy. It's funny how that can happen.

In Mario Kart World, I really hope they add another unlock method for the Kamek-exclusive characters - of which there is 11. The current method for them involves: - Using a rare item appears in less than 50% of races from my experience; - Only affects the people in front of the user (and not the user themselves); - Can miss said people; - Turns you into one of 26 characters - 15 of which are unlocked from the start; - Isn't weighted towards characters that haven't been unlocked; - And some can seemingly only be unlocked on certain courses, and trying to work that out is an ongoing process of trial-and-error by the online community. I've played over 10 hours of the game but only got two of these unlocks - Coin Coffer and Fish Bone. There is at least one small mercy though - when I unlocked Fish Bone I had just crossed the finish line before the transformation was complete but it still gave it to me. If it were up to me I would add missions to Free Roam that unlocked them. EDIT: And of course after I wrote this I got two new characters in quick succession (Spike and Pianta). Maybe I should rant more often?

My first grand prix in Mario Kart World ended in me being Mario Kart'd. I wouldn't have it any other way...

This is the only kind of situation I would find it hilarious - otherwise it's just annoying.

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Things - all Oblivion Remastered stuff this time - 12/6/25

The main story/questline was shorter than I thought it'd be. It felt like the last few quests of it went by really quickly. Also I was assuming it was 15 quests but it was more like 14 quests with an extra post-story one that barely counts as a quest. Not necessarily a bad thing - it means that stopping Oblivion Gates from opening up is pretty quick, and there's still a plethora more content outside of it. I think my plan now is to roam around the base game world and do as many quests as I can be bothered doing before moving on to the Shivering Isles stuff.

I was reading about some of Oblivion's glitches beforehand and I ended up accidentally doing one: There's a quest where all your equipment is forcibly removed and if you're wearing any "quest" equipment their effects will remain permanently on your character even when you're not wearing that equipment. I knew it was the quest that could cause the glitch but I initially didn't think I was wearing anything that would qualify - turns out I was! I was wearing the Ring of the Viper Eye and I thought it didn't count since it wasn't essential anymore but it still counted. Hooray, I accidentally took advantage of a glitch!

I don't like how Oblivion has Daedra Spiders. I have what I call "mild arachnophobia" (large spiders or close-ups of spiders making me uncomfortable, especially if the former move realistically in a video game). It required me to use a mod to get rid of Frostbite Spiders in Skyrim but that isn't an option for the PS5 version of Oblivion. At least after the main quest very few - if any - Daedra Spiders will spawn. On that note, I'm surprised Oblivion Remastered doesn't have official mod support in any capacity since Bethesda went out of their way to allow Skyrim to have mods on PS4/XB1.

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Stuff - 10/6/25

Persona 4 Revival! I've considered Persona 4 Golden to be my favourite game of all time (I'm not sure it is anymore just because of how hard it is to compare with games of other genres and such, leaving me without a definitive number 1 favourite), so I'm obviously going to enjoy it a lot.

I'm working on a second version of the Cell Max custom battle in DBSZ, which I said I would do. The main thing over my previous one is that it has free switching, and if you want you can have Gamma 2 use his Ult to weaken Cell Max or have Piccolo be knocked out to make Gohan transform. Getting the balance right is tough. I want to make it both feasible to win without any sacrifices while at the same time make it so that Cell Max isn't already on the verge of defeat by the time Gohan transforms. I think I've done as well as I can do for now. My main issue now is worrying what people will think if I've uploaded "the same battle" twice, since it's kinda hard to convey that it's a different version without changing all the opening scenes. Oh well.

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SOLEIL!!!!!

She's a bit squashed but I still luv her

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Other stuff - 5/6/25

I was able to pre-order the Switch 2 on day 1 like I would anything else, so I was surprised to hear that the were "pre-order lotteries" in other countries - at least in the US and Japan.

It turns out I've played Dragon Ball Sparking Zero for 485 HOURS! That's not too far off Skyrim (558 hours) and I've done at least 8 playthroughs of it. There's no way of telling how much of that was spent making Custom Battles, but if I had to guess I'd say that would be over 50% of it.

I'm really annoyed at the amount of untagged AI art on Pixiv. I've tried reporting them but nothing happens, even though it does breach their guidelines: https://www.pixiv.net/terms/?page=guideline. I could be reporting them wrong though, as I reported them by picking the "other" option and writing it - it'd be cool if there were a clickable "posting untagged AI art" option. Then again, the sheer amount of it makes me wonder if they care since I can't be the only one that's reported it.