Voxel art/illustration: mini Hermit dragon Leonie seated on a huge notepad and surrounded by a field of flowers in yellows, indigos, pinks and purples

Voxel art/illustration: mini Hermit dragon Leonie seated on a huge notepad and surrounded by a field of flowers in yellows, indigos, pinks and purples, behind her is a lit up rainbow wall. A thick pink/orange/red mist covers most of the flowers below and to her sides.

Just sitting on a huge notebook…

Just needing time and space to figure things it out…

but the mists of time approach and all you can do is react…

Leonie rambles about…

• finished watching Death Stranding 2 (spoilers ahead)
  • was a story alright – it was less confusing by the end
  • it’s pretty silly with the metal gear solid, movie/Hollywood and Pekora references
  • it does get emotional though
  • not sure why Lucy is still a therapist when she has relations with her clients…
  • whelp no actual raising Lou I guess, somehow she’s fully adult now who smokes like Fragile???
  • 21 minute anxiety club haha
  • they’re really milking the lullaby song when Die Hardman does a dance number with it
    • and Higgs also sings it
  • silly dumb final boss fights
  • I did enjoy seeing Aussie animals
  • it was definitely Kojima’s vision/playground with his hollywood/celeb friends into a game
    • there are some “Kojima why” moments
    • but much kudos to the whole dev team that made this game happen
  • Why Neil. Why trying to kill Sam when you just needed to give him something and protect Lou…
    • there’s probably some story holes I am not aware about
    • do feel bad for Neil though
  • the whole singularity funding everything versus disconnecting to keep connected via interactions and keep individuality was really reflective of the pandemic
  • Deadman is never dead I guess for convenience
  • the “friendship overcomes all” theme
    • they keep delaying humanity’s extinction here
  • the first game’s story was meh, this is a tad better
  • it’s not my kind of game to play but I watch it for the journey/experience and weird story ;P
• ended up watching a few more streams of Date Everything
  • …still very long haha
• work and life juggling continues, lots of meetings this week
  • feels super lovely to be appreciated for my work and efforts :’D
  • I stumble on trying to do compliments and focus on acknowledging others’ work or agree with people who did it first/better
  • and then go back to being neutral, just do my best and not expect too much (emotionally) from people :’)
• the life of a germaphobe (me)
  • it is a lot of trying to pick your battles while being stressed out :’D
• geez I have to not get too much takeout
  • not beyond twice a week
  • weekly or less often than that is more ideal
• not feeling great with cramps giving me warnings on what’s to come
  • and dreading stressful things I have to arrange in the coming weeks noooo eep
• starting/doing a character telephone challenge this week with a tight deadline eep
  • putting my discord server emotes on hold because of this deadline
• discovered a tiny tear in my bedding
  • I hope to figure out how to fix it with iron-on fabric or if that fails, fabric glue…?? Arghh
• watched a bunch of Umamusume and it’s definitely not my kind of game
  • a lot of hoping the horse girl you’ve been training does well for her career run + lots of trial and error
  • I don’t have the interest nor time for that…people have lost hundreds of hours
  • implications of this game with the not so great actual horse racing industry…
  • it’s great watching people trying to help their horse girl win races though in this roguelite training horse girls game (similar to Monster Rancher)
  • the theme song gets stuck in my head haha
• watched early on Persona 5: The Phantom X
  • chapter 1 Subway Slammer story is not that great indeed – still stuck here as dungeons are so long
  • apparently chapter 2 isn’t great either so :S

Catch you around or at my tiny discord!

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