Today’s deck is the Land of Stories Tarot.
It’s super cute, the theme is (as the name implies) different fairytales and such.
Today’s reading reflects a mood of contemplation as opportunities present themselves bit by bit.
Today’s been travel prep day. The trip is in two days, but since I’l probably spend most of my day tomorrow out and about I figured I’d sort that in more advance than usual.
I also woke up earlier than usual in hopes of fixing my whack ass sleep schedule. Spoiler: That didn’t do much in the long run.
The main thing today is that I got… I don’t even know what to call it, it’s like hyperfixation but for a brief task. I mean, I just called it hyperfixation but it’s different from the usual bouts I suffer.
ANYWAY, the focus today was knife sharpening. I wanted to faff about with the sharpening stones and practice and I decided to use the two oldest knives in my cupboard, the cheapo ones.
Nothing too exciting to report there though, I just… got more of a feel for how to hold the knife while doing it. I have this issue with EVERYTHING where I have a Death Grip on things. I’m a tense person (in case it wasn’t readily obvious) and I literally need to practice in order to not hold things like I’m trying to get juice out of them.
Speaking of which, one minor detail that always tripped me was the idea that I had to sharpen them by only dragging the knife one way… I was thinking about STROPPING instead.
For those with nary a hint of what the fuck I just said: Stropping is a process where you drag the blade through a surface to basically resettle the edge without needing to do the more invasive resettling of bevel that a sharpening stone does.
While I started to get familiar with it thanks to woodcarving, it turned out to be the fancy (read: proper) version of a cost-saving trick we did back in Venezuela where, to make shaving blades last longer, we would strop them against the thigh of our pants.
…yeah.
Honestly, while I wouldn’t say I was POOR (if nothing else because in relative terms I knew people that had it WORSE) it’s more on a country scale sort of thing where you compare the standard of living of people on the same “class” you saw yourself as and go “HUH…”.
While doing this my brain decided to dig up, of all things, Omega Labyrinth.
In case you’re not familiar, Omega Labyrinth is a dungeon crawler ala Mystery Dungeon, hunger meter and all. The main character’s chest grows as she gathers “Omega Points” and to identify items you must use said Omega Points by rubbing said item between the girl’s breasts.
Before anyone asks: No, my damage comes from long before, probably from SRW OG Endless Frontier at minimum if we’re talking about Awakening Things In Me.
Game’s fun! It’s no Dungeon Travellers 2, but not everyone can be Sting (my beloved).
It got me thinking though. The PS Vita is remembered as many things but I always remember it as the Shockingly Horny Console. And it got me wondering what happened to that sort of game design, to the Moster Monpieces of the world where you gotta jerk off the touch screen.
Then I realized that… that’s just mobile games. The Overtly Horny Gameplay Design, along with Visual Novels have been in that format for almost a decade now, like a lightning rod. The impetus behind stuff like Criminal Girls is the same sort of thing that’s fueling the arms chicken race to Show Hole between Nikke and Azur Lane. In hindsight that’s what made Bunny Garden kinda shocking? The fact that they released it on consoles and such.
“But Fer, Brown Dust-” That pretender to the throne still has to prove itself.
Anyway, is this sort of thing good? Bad? It’s a can of worms that I’m not drunk enough to argue about, to be honest.