Today’s deck is the Gustave Doré Tarot.
Gustave Doré was a French illustrator from the 19th century, so this deck is more grabbing his work and trying to fit it with specific cards.
It’s super rad. Things like the Solomon and the baby story as Justice or Moses as The Magician. But also that High Priestess illustration with the lmap on her head is amazing.
Reminds me that I THINK I have a Boticelli deck around.
Today’s reading states that “The true wealth comes from YOUR definition of success and YOUR own choices”.
I woke up at like 6am today, I was kinda excited because oh boy! now I’m gonna have more time to wake up and settle down before I start doing things!
I mean, that wasn’t a lie… but I then spent most of the morning just playing games.
Or game singular, rather. I played one called ハラマセノーカ which I assume to mean Haramase Knocker. I would say the name is a pun on both Knocker the diminutive folk creature (since the girls are all lolis of different proportions) and the focus on getting girls pregnant to advance things, but the girls are described as “elves” so who knows…
This game is extra cool because it’s one of those where the author didn’t have to go as hard as they did, but they did. Aside from a basic farming setup including cows, chickens, sheep, and crops; you have a whole ass horse raising minigame with races that happen at specific points of the calendar year, a bunch of other minigames, and when you think you’ve seen it all the post game has an AFFECTION PRESTIGE WHERE YOU RESET A GIRL’S AFFECTION BAR AND UNLOCK EXTRA COSTUMES.
There’s also SO MANY costumes. It has very basic poses as a result but it’s still impressive.
There’s also a lot of birthing… unskippable while at it. It’s not the grossest thing ever but it’s one of those details where you can tell what the author’s main kink is. It’s like how Sakura Gozen (another game I brought up a while ago) has a whole pissing mechanic that I didn’t even mention.
The thing though, is that in both cases it’s not solely focused on it so it’s actually balanced out by the variety of other kinks in display.
Zero shame on those kinks btw. This is certainly a case of “it’s not my thing, but I can just look away skipping text because the rest is worth it”.
Sidenote, I really enjoy it when these games let you just have your harem in your own house. It really adds to feel of everything. The two pics are from クエスト外伝MV and パズルダンジョン by ブラックメタルu-1, though most of their games use that mechanic (in fact, I can count on one hand which one don’t).
Eventually I drag my ass out because I need to see what the problem is with my insurance card. I actually took a photo on the cabinet outside just in case I had enough time to renew my My Number card.
I go up and apparently I overpaid my health insurance at some point and they asked me if I wanted a refund or to use that money to pay other months, I chose the latter.
…I think the ojiisan told me to wait, but I’m gonna be honest, I was both hungry and needing to go to the bathroom so I left early. I assume it was done anyways. If not they’ll probably send me an envelope home.
No luck with getting the My Number stuff sorted but hey I got a photo that’s good for three months.
With one need solved after going out I just needed to eat, and while thinking what to get I saw a KFC and figured it’s been a while since I last had some.
After getting chicken I saw a guy being carried out in a stretcher from a pachinko parlor.
As N said about it: “He gamed too hard”.
On the way I started going through the second Stay A While and Listen book, and it’s already a massive improvement because the guy reading this one doesn’t feel the need to give Michio Okamura (the main artist of Diablo) a… not exaggerated but unnecessary accent, or give an exaggerated New Yawk accent to others and whatnot.
I’m not one against audiobooks giving “characters” (be it actual characters or individuals) a specific voice. Hell, I’m not even against biographical books giving specific cadences to specific people. But there’s a difference between giving Vince McMahon’s words his very characteristic voice which is often described in the text, and giving some guy a heavy california accent just because.
This is the part where ideally I should be listing a bunch of other STUFF I did, but I didn’t. I had a KFC Food Coma (there’s the title) and just lounged while sorting in my head what needs to be done which keeps piling up.
Shit happens, I finished one (1) paperwork at least.