Today’s deck is the Barbara Walker Tarot.
Whos’ Barbara Walker? I don’t know! Does she walk? Does she talk? Does she come complete? Apparently she was an essayist and this is a deck she designed based on her studies. The biography included in the deck gives me the impression that she’s one of those types that are to feminism beard grooming guys are to manhood. I don’t mean it in a bad way though, just a specific… flavor of person.
The deck is fine, it’s an US Games deck so it’s solid and the imagery works. It tries to include more imagery from other cultures and whatnot. Though the imagery is a bit odd, the Four of Cups is traditionally about meditations and/or meditating so hard you miss the forest for the trees, so what does a dancer with a king have to do with that…?
Anyway, today’s reading advises that getting too carried away by moodiness might spiral out of hand… and I HAVE been in an introspective mood so it’s good to remember to keep tabs on myself.
My day basically went poof playing Holy Knight Ricca. That’s a 2021 game that still shows up in the rankings at random every so often, and I gotta say, very well deserved.
The game is a rarity in DLsite in the sense that it’s 3D AND has a shocking amount of polish, not to mention the plot is great. It might not be groundbreaking, but it’s in that sweet spot where it’s neither too verbose nor too laconic.
I’d joke about setup and payoff being a commodity but that’s… honestly not limited to DLsite.
In fact, you wanna know how good it is? My complaints only fall in the terrain of “could’ve been better” in that vague “well anything can be better with enough time”.
…no, actually there is ONE petty complaint. Even though you can customize Ricca, some scenes make you go back to the default appearance, but that makes sense thematically because the Ricca you customize is her transformed version.
Surprisingly, the author has been working on DLC since the release in 2021 and has remained active in terms of devlogs, here’s hoping the DLC releases and I can add Rikka to the GOTY list.
I was kinda sleepy afterwards so I decided to try and sleep and see if I can adjust my sleep schedule a bit, it required some tossing around but I eventually did and slept like… 4 hours or so?
I also woke up SO THIRSTY for some reason, I chugged like half a liter of water in one go.
I knew my energy would be a gamble (I don’t get gradually sleepy, I get suddenly sleepy, ADHD meds or not) so I took it easy and just went to get food.
Man I need to find more places that serve Harami, not that this one is bad but more like… it’d be cool to have more options.
There’s a cool restaurant called Tan to Harami but that one’s more of a “bring your friends” sort of place.
I took the chance and also bought a new filter for my humidifier, it was already getting calcium slush when I first got it but now it’s like… basically a rock. Sadly, turned out the filter was the wrong size. That’s on me.
Also, note to self, check the shower head and see if it needs cleaning or outright replacing…
Oh yeah, the new Uma Musume artbook also arrived, I’ll write about it tomorrow, though.