Today’s deck is the Sweet Forager’s Tarot.
The art isn’t my cup of tea. I don’t wanna say I don’t like the art because that’s stronger wording that evokes the idea that there’s an objective flaw when in truth it’s just a matter of preference. The deck itself is great functionality-wise which is more than I can say from decks where I really like the artstyle, so…
Today’s reading continues the trend of being like a pat in the back with the bank situation. The cards basically saying “you can relax, things might be going slow but they’re not stopped”.
Every so often I set Quests for myself, small ongoing goals and such. For example a while back I wanted to see if I could find the vinegar I used back in Venezuela. Turns out it’s called White Vinegar and while I haven’t been able to find white vinegar on the supermarket I’ve bought it online and stocked up. Or also that time where I was obsessed with finding coconuts. Or the time I wouldn’t know peace unless I found plantains.
My current quest is to find beetroot.
I can’t remember for the life of me what prompted the memory, but I was remembering that when I lived with my parents we garnished salads with grated beetroot sometimes, and I wanted to have that.
It has proved a shockingly tricky affair, I haven’t found any beets on the market yet. In fact, I even discovered in the process that there’s RED RADISH but no beets.
A cursory search showed that in Japan they’re mainly harvested in Hokkaido, so I’m assuming they’re out of season, kinda like how there’s stretches where I can’t find green beans out of summer.
Plantains are called “Thai Bananas” in Japan by the way, and are indeed short like bananas rather than the longer varieties I knew.
It being the weekend means I have to TRY and relax. Because really, even if I WANTED to, no place where I do paperwork will open until Monday anyways. So I booted up Dragon Quest 3 HD2D on my PS5.
I played some of it and the 1+2 game on my Switch 2, but region locking stuff means I was struggling against the Japanese a little bit. And while that’s FINE because it’s practice, I kinda wanted to read through the text for a change.
Then the personality test at the start called me a loner so I feel Very Called Out.
Then the hero’s mom got me very emotional.
I mean, on a regular day knowing how the game ends I’d be emotional regardless, but I’ve been in a very “Shows of affection by fictional women is affecting me” sort of mood.
It’s normal during moments of mental distress for me… well, “normal” might not be the right adjective, but the point is that I know it to be part of how my brain process things.
If I had to try and explain it, is like my brain is seeking some kind of comfort and so depictions of comforting moments hit me harder but sadly I’m the kind that cannot be lost in the illusion no matter how briefly and instead resents the fact that I cannot be in that situation.
I was actually playing Horizon Walker the other day and had a similar moment with that game’s messaging gimmick thingy.
Back to DQ3 though, I made a party of a warrior, a priest, and a Gadabout. The Gadabout choice is actually because when I play games I’m usually a goblin that loves to just spam things or hit hard enought I don’t have to think about strategies or dexterity. I’m like that to the point where I WILL put up with suboptimal and bad builds just on the premise/promise that the moment I find this one thing or get this one skill then the whole setup becomes OP.
That creates a funny contrast where my two favorite guns in FPSes are either big rocket launchers that go boom or sniper rifles that make heads go boom.
Or y’know, EYE’s Fuller Auto SMG, but we can’t all be EYE Divine Cybermancy, sadly.
My landlady called me saying I should be done with the moving of stuff from the old office to the new by next week. Thankfully it’s mostly checking for odd ends I never got around to moving, but gotta put that in the schedule.
Next week, though. I’ll try to play DQ3 and RELAX even if it ends me.