Dum gemo tacet luna

Can this season please, please, please, please, please, please (...) please, please, please be over already?
It's hot. I have no new clothes. None of my friends from uni have been enjoying this vacation. All ive gotten out of this is a liz lisa bag...

Well, it's alright. Every day is a day closer to a wonderful autumn season, not too warm, not too cold. Back to the dorm. I hate the dorm...but it's close to uni and I can always open the AC.
Back to studying modules that kind of suck.
Back to the heavy blankets.
Back to...getting the flu...and people barely checking up on me...(pien)...
As you can see there's a lot to look forward to

Last year, my autumn obsession was Gakukiri. I wonder what it'll be this year. I have my bets placed on Makkoli from MO4, or something. I first discovered i need him bad before a pharmacology section so i think it's destiny...

So, what's been going on?

My birthday was earlier this month.
It was on the 1st...
I went to the Cheesecake Factory to celebrate!

My brother pointed this out and now the association is drilled into my head. Does anyone else love the sound of a Glamburger healing you in-game? No? Just me? Ok

I miss you. When can we meet up again?
It was too big a portion, but so delicious.
I'd do anything to have one again before I go back for uni...

And that's all for my personal life, really.
I've been going out pretty often, but as per usual, forgetting to take pictures with Henriette. That's no good...as some may say, dame desu...hm...

Let's see, what other pics do i have...

These two were from when i hung out with a friend :-3 The ice cream i got was World Class Chocolate with crushed kitkat pieces. Yum...

Wow what a smooth segway into the games section of this post! 0u0 so smooth. Smoothly smooth...and smooth...

It's true. As always, I've been gaming too much to blog. If anything, I'm really only blogging because my friend S told me to...as she put it "All this gaming is getting in the way of your blogging cat we can't keep doing this". Don't forget what truly matters...(and that im with you in the dark)

I replayed Undertale for...i think, the 8th time thus far. I did a true pacifist route after a genocide route. I really only named myself Gackt because I wanted to see Asriel say "I'm so lonely, Gackt" 
Everytime i play, i feel so emotional...i want Alphys to be happy. WHO CARES ABOUT THE AMALGAMATES BRO. THEY WERE DYING ANYWAYS

Is anyone else excited for the future of Deltarune? I keep seeing people post about Skies Forever Blue, and making connections between it and the weird route, and at first i was liek WELL TOBY OBVI ISNT GONNA USE AN UNRELATED SONG but then i remembered half of ut/dr...IS unrelated songs (e.g another medium, metal crusher, black knife, april 2012...even the egg room music!), so it's alright. I think it'd be nice to have more Itoki Hana in the OST too :> her vocals are very nice and ethereal...

I started MO4 hard mode!! I've been doing really good thus far =u= 

Some notable things:
The whole "x0.5 damage dealt, x1.5 damage taken" thing exists, just in a really weird way...in main story bosses (coughcough hellhound coughcough), it's especially annoying because when low-attack characters, mostly Koritora and even Jack of all people, would deal 0 dmg at times...keep that in mind.
 
Forget everything normal mode taught you. All you have to do is survive. You just have to not die

If there's one thing i learned, it's that the fetch quests are 10x worse now. I was too focused on Mekame Army thinking they'd be the worst fight, but it easily had to be either the things you fight in Arasa Pyramid or King Metal Pome. Both of those fights were just as bad, if not worse because of the limitations you have to deal with...

Since i was replaying, it was just easier to get through since i had the advantage of knowing how everything works beforehand, but it's still a fun challenge ^.^

Hard mode is turned off in pasiri order fights and class heat fights, so keep a hold of your items!

And a dumb tip, try discovering more secrets and going to more dungeons! My personal favorite secret was visiting the Gapanese empire ruins on the way to Yurireiz. You get unique dialogue from Sigkin where he's like OK CAN WE LEAVE? and you can also find a treasure chest with a Book of Armageddon. 

Myakoli.........MYAKOLIIIIIIIIIIIIII
I missed him so bad. I did not miss how he apparently has 20000 hp hello???? Only one other boss has that much and it's Fwancois. Dude...

So far, I'm stuck on his boss fight...but I've had my fair share of perfect clears which I have not had in my first save...I'm very happy about that!! That extra 2k exp means a lot...I can do...so much...like...upgrade...more passives...?

Every day that passes is a day closer to v6.
I have so much hope...v6 is going to fix everything...v6 is gonna clear my skin...v6 will help me sleep...v6 is going to help me stop having to use birth control to get periods...v6 will...uh...be really nice!
I have a lot of predictions, but it's all bullshit...do this bingo if you're also an MO4 fan and see if you agree or not. Or don't. But i'll be weawwy sad

Besides MO4, i've gained a new favorite game...one that no one likes because of its subpar English patch...one that I have open as i write this...

Gekkou no Carnevale is a visual novel that answers the question of "what if werewolves were real, and also Italian?". It's a wonderfully atmospheric masterpiece that i wish more people cared for. I was pretty surprised to see a lot of people, even nitroplus fans, not really care for it.
It's written by Shimokura Vio, the guy who wrote a ton of other nitroplus games like Saya no Uta and Slow Damage, as well as Axanael (which i plan on playing after i finish GnC or whenever med school doesnt kick me in the ass. whichever comes first, really). The atmosphere is pretty grimey and gothic noir, and i love it. It's a very nice change of pace from what I usually play!
The main issue I have is just with the pacing. It's pretty slow, and there's a bit of a gap between what's introduced and when it gets explained. Regardless, i still really enjoyed it and maybe there was a reason for it to be that way.
I could really only find it in English, so I'm playing an English version. The translation's alright, but there are a few things here and there that read to me as either too literal or just confusing. I'm not too picky with translations so I really don't care (lol) but i can see why people would refuse to play it solely because of the translation. It needed a bit of proofreading IMO

So far, I've only gotten one ending, so take my words with a grain of salt if you're more experienced than me...this is my first VN in forever and i'm really no expert on the medium u_u I'm just tasteless and very easy to please. One of the main reasons i read this was because the main character's name is Romeo...and my main Sexy Guy's name is...Romio...so...uhm...this was coming from a place of perversion

Ah! And just as a warning, this is an eroge. Duh. So...don't be dumb, ok?!?

And now for my favorite lines, out of order. Spoilers ahead, probably

This was between Rebecca and Romeo. #CoupleGoals

The ever-so-relatable Perla...probably my favorite out of the three Luparia dolls. What a cutie...

 

That second line sounds horrible out of context. It was about fighting. Not sex

This game translates every instance of chikusho as fanculo. It cant always be LA someones gotta hold it down in Belmonte

Anna is a woman of wisdom and clarity

Yeah exactly

Getting back into VNs is probably one of the best decisions ive made...next up i plan on reading Axanael, but i do ALSO wanna read Togainu no Chi...mostly because S likes it and I've also just been consuming it through osmosis when in reality i just need to sit my ass down and READ. I'm tempting her with this game by showing her Carmelo and she's tempting me by subliminally filling my TL with TnC pics...it's a fair trade-off if you ask me u_u

It's getting late. I'm glad I could talk on here again...have you played any of the games I talked about before? Did you like them? Hate them? Let me know!

Bye!

~Cat

Babbling + Henriette pics

The cursor's been flickering for, like, a whole minute...and I couldn't figure out what to write. 
Vacation has finally started. Well, it started well over two weeks ago, but the first week was stressful. Every day was spent waiting for it...

Besides, nothing of note has happened. All that June has been is finals and my extended family making me exhausted, but when do they ever not make me exhausted (lol). However, my immediate family did get to stay with me throughout finals...my days with them were filled with ordering good food, watching My Kitchen Rules with them...it was cathartic, and I'm glad to be back home now, even if i can't access Dynasty Scans.
When finals started, I'd keep myself up every night, saying over and over to myself not to fail because I know the consequences of failing. I know what could happen and I want to avoid it. After a while, that ritual just disappeared and it was one subpar exam after the other.
Well, it's alright now. I passed everything and my CGPA is really good! Woot woot! 

And on the brighter side, I got to play Deltarune Chapter 5 with my brother! Here are my thoughts, spoilered for anyone who hasn't played, or wants to play, or wants to be spoiled, just not by me:

First things first, I loved the little Dark World segment that you could get at the start, before the festival!!! It was so cute...and any Susie and Lancer interaction is a win for me. They're the cutest friends...<3 AND ALSO CANON SUSELLE SO CUTESOCUTESOCUTE
In terms of Asgore's Dark World, I really liked Flowery. I thought he was a bit pretentious, but I like him and his voicelines. aBLINGOBLIZZERD. IM SORRY ONCE AGAIN I KEPT A LADY IN WAITING. GET A CHANCE. JAUST KIDDING. I also love Green that's my f*cking goat right there
What really stood out to me this chapter was the new potential Undertale parallels, especially in the Weird Route, and how that could relate to...the soundtest of all things (lol)??? Toby...u genius
I feel so bad for Susie...she's grown so much in the past few chapters :-( and Noelle's gonna be a party member again? Exciting...
Another thing I enjoyed was, weirdly enough, the egg room. Something about it being a parallel of Chapter 1's egg room, from the layout to the music...it made me a bit emo. The new dialogue changes everything though, I think it's best I forget that man...sorry but not sorry you're making me a decoy man. I dont want your stupid protein. But then again, the egg could just be a fake egg??? But...no. No, it's just an egg. 
That's all the thoughts I could rack up...

ジェラルしか勝ったん〜 god please dont do this to me

I've been making a concerning amount of progress in MO4.
Here are all the cool things I did:

• Waste casino coins on dufuffuhoho large hatchets (I went from 2.2m -> 500k buying those little shits. Yes thats what theyre called. They up your attack like crazy but its at the cost of a very very low defense...)
• Get eeeeeeveryone~~~ to level 50
• Get EEEEEEVERYONE~~~~ to fight Beyonder
• Win the diamond trials by cheating and looking at JP wiki solutions HARD WORK AND DEDICATION
• Win mazai frontier grand prix (oomfs will remember the suffering i went through. or they won't. i dunno)
• PERFECT CLEAR KAIDEN CLASS HEAT IN TEN TURNS HELLOOOOOOO >u< My proudest achievement yet. I love you Jeracchi

My power grows stronger!!!! 0u0
I really didn't think I'd do it in TEN TURNS...I guessed like 40 turns at the very least. And everyone dying in standby...
Now I can play as the two Zaurus. How can i get Syumitaro's APP up to 100 as fast as possible without everyone dying

The following is exactly what I did during my standby phase, sped up with rpg maker vx ace default music to set the mood accordingly. I am the heir to the hyper dragon player throne...

Why is he so sexy.............(adds another tally to ningen online characters that i MUST fuck)

(I never won another run again after this but it's ok i have my giou crystal now and i am happy)

From another previous run. The unparalleled moe...

I lost to them and this was round 49 mind u 7asby allah w na3m al wakeel 3alek @axez18 YOURE DONE FOR

Kakkoii....

Thought this was funny. What are you saying

Did you know you can get these things from the homunculus enemy? I didnt

Please praise me

I haven't been as hobby-ful lately outside of just playing MO4...(shrug) I wanna love GB again. It feels like the vkei spaces I'm in are just one big echo chamber...I don't have it in me at this point. That and also kenji won't stop posting AI pics of himself from time to time and it's like ok can you not I get youre 45 but just stop. BRING THEM BACK TO ME i hate this. I wanna draw again I wanna write shitty erotic RPF again I wanna (scratches at the wall). No...it'll come back. It'll totally come back. I'm just worn out

HENRIETTE INTERMISSION

You can either be self-hating snark board frequenting bangya or metaphysical sweet lolita. Your choice...

I'm really hoping I can get my shit together so I can work on the VN i have planned with these two. I shan't say any more if you must know what it is then say the secret password and

A cute keychain...

Here's to a good summer vacation. There's still so much to look forward to!
My birthday's in two weeks, so I'm hoping it'll be a good birthday...and my friend from uni's here too, so I think I wanna hang out with her soon 0u0

(Not my screenshot but I love this a lot)

Bye!

~Cat

Need me some toberu choco...

 

It's getting warm. The kind of warmth that wraps you tightly and is probably trying to give you a heat stroke...there's a heatwave now, so that means I can open the AC again (lol)

I'll be honest with you, Cat-sama's trying her hardest not to k(HAPPY) herself...although, I really have no reason to complain as much as i do. I've tried to make a blog post on like two separate occasions now but i just keep complaining >_> (lol) 

Well, the month is nearly over, that's for sure, and I've had this draft since the 17th...and its the 26th???? 

I think what really defines my life now is just MO4...Golden Bomber is still precious to me, but I'm really pissed off at how theyre only having an FC tour =.= hmph. My hard drive with all their DVDs is still in a suitcase, maybe I'll watch one soon...

I guess this is just a minipost, because I can't think of anything else to add. I feel miserable. I wish I didn't do as badly as I did on my midterms. Sigh. Woe is me...but then again, everyone else did pretty badly. To each their own...
My practicals seemed to go well, though, for what it's worth...well, ok, surely theyll be fine. I guess I'm just miserable because my mom's finally here and she keeps telling me to study...not what I wanted from her presence, but in the end she just doesn't want what happened to the midterms to happen again, and I see where she's coming from...

I've been thinking, I wanna read House Of Leaves for real real...but I'm holding off on it until I get a physical copy. Well, maybe I'll just find a really really really good PDF in the meantime...can someone make an MO4 House Of Leaves kusoge. Id play that

Tomorrow, it's fasting for 3arafat and overwhelming myself...and probably studying some more. God, what a miserable spring. Hope you guys are having it easier than me this spring ( T u T)

Bye!

~Cat

Social battery strengthening process + MO4 postgame diary

(Makes a disturbingly good death rattle noise) 

It's been a fun weekend.
Thanks to Christians (no, seriously, thank you Copts and whatever other type of Christian Egypt has) my psychiatry midterm gottttt...postponed!!! I KIND OF WASNT READY THANKS U GUYS. Should have doodled a Taiyo for the occasion or something...with Arakawa devouring some feseekh (fermented fish that is honestly kind of gross) in the back too. I just know she'd love it. She loves sushi. Just eat it with rice and you've got egyptian sushi. Has anyone else thought of that? If you're planning on bullshitting, let me in on it and give me some money for coming up with that idea, okay (smiles)
Tomorrow marks the first day of normal uni in...well over a month. I've had it so easy and also not that easy this term but that's, honest to god, enough uni talk, now...

HANGOUT #1: MALL WITH FRIENDS+ITABAG

We originally planned on doing this after our last midterm. We had no idea it'd be postponed (lol)
I took my itabag with me, too! It was nice. No one complained about it because I was demure and kind and didnt really make an effort to show it off. The only real awkwardness was when i had to do security checks and it'd make the metal detector go off and i'd have to show the badge side to the old security lady and she'd be like ah.....ok and I'd just yeah. Yeah it was, yeah, 

First stop...VS~~ the vibes of the store are so very immaculate, I love it...for some reason they still had that sign from the TWICE collab that happened god knows how long ago. I should get myself another lipgloss of theirs someday...
The sample they had of Bare Vanilla was empty (pien)

Cute Zara necklace. I don't like Zara that much because all their perfumes make me dry heave and their clothes kinda suck but my friend wanted to show us the perfumes which, as a result, made me dry heave,

Whatever this was...

Most of the trip was two of my friends looking for tights. I didn't take much pics (pien)...so now I'll dump significant events in text form:

~After a while, we went to Ikea for food. It tasted like utter garbage but it was nice having a ton of soda and the ice cream tasted good, so there was that. I'm glad my friend could have my leftovers, though!!

~At one point, some of my friends wanted to go to a pharmacy outside the mall. To pass the time, me and two more friends went to a perfume store. I smelled too much stuff but one thing that stood out was Hot Pink by Police because the bottle made me think it was from the 2010s, but it's apparently a very recent perfume (lol) there was this other one next to it that didn't smell as good. Hot Pink was nice, very sweet and gourmand-y, but the florals do help smooth it out a little so it doesn't end up smelling rotten.

~We ended the hangout off by me treating everyone to Cinnabon! All of us got huge cinnamon rolls for ourselves. Yummy...I love treating people T_T 

HANGOUT #2: THE DREADED FLEA MARKET

I went to Cairo Flea Market which is notorious for attracting the following, including but not limited to:
Men with allegations to their name
The alt community's most deplorable
Content creators that prooooobably have a bit of an ego problem
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I WANT NECKLACES LOLLLLLLLLL

...or so I've heard.

Honestly, it's not the type of event I'd go to on my own volition...but if it means fulfilling my wish of seeing more parts of Cairo, then I'm happy to go, really. I also went because all my friends were going (lol) I might go some other time, it was really fun...
There was one necklace I saw of an owl (the EXACT SAME as those 2010s owl necklaces everyone fawns over) for...
...seven hundred and fifty pounds...
Evil still exists. That was very evil

Yeah, I just got some cute necklaces. Pricey? Yes. Heat exhaustion? Very much so. Cute? Very cute. For how much i got, it's kinda worth it (lol) oh, and i got two bracelets!!!

My ladies...

Bracelets~~~ the one to the right was technically free. The stall owner wanted me to get something else since she didn't have enough cash to pay me back (lol)

I should've gotten some coffee while I was there...

Okayyyyy~~~ that's enough real life stuff, now...^~^ Back to my fictional world. My kissing Osar and harassing numas world
Truth is, I've made quite some progress~~~

Amidst all the BULLSHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT going on with Osar, I really enjoyed learning more about Amber...he looks so cute and im so pissed this is the only proper CG we have of him. I can't wait for v6...more Amber more Amber more Amber

I find it really pathetic cute'n'moe that Axez made Amber a fan of his own music. How much of a fucking loser cute person do you have to be to do that >///<

This minigame was such a pain in the ass...
This was when shit got serious, and one of the last things i did before updating my MO4. I had no idea it was that easy, so i kept it on hold...

SUB3 EUROPEAN OJISAN GETS MOGGED BY TRUE GHASTLY YURIREIZIAN OUJISAMA (None of these words are in the bible. Or the Quran. Or just any form of religious scripture. Im disgusted)

If she doesn't terrify me like Eclair terrifies Marikin i dont want her

I support women's wrongs #MakeMoreMenFarmWeedPlantsForNoReason

I have to kill Fwancois I'm so serious I have to end his life 

This is so fucking funny. Im cunty look at my fish boy
Nyakichi is playing out to be a veryyyyy interesting character, i think she'll be more of an anti-hero? She seemed to want to help the numas out, but she seems to want them to be evil judging by how she (iirc) approved of or just was ok with Sigkin massacring the Gapanese empire. But the v6 teaser we saw seemed to have her be...kinda good towards Machika??? But at the same time...

Put that fucking steak down

After this, Kirimi talked about what he did to Machika, which, at best, implies (c/w torture and S/A) exposing her to torture, murder, things of that caliber, and at worst, her being raped or sexually assaulted...this fandom does not hate Kirimi enough I'm so fucking serious ;_; I mean, he doesn't have to be HATED just because he's a villain, but I just don't have it in me to find anything that makes up for or justifies the shit he does to others, regardless of whether they benefit him or not, and all it does in my eyes is diminish any motive he had in the first place. Something else that pisses me off is...whose side is Nyakichi even on???? She was like "what you did was seriously lameeeee you made that girl mentally weak and sad =3=!!" but it just didn't feel genuine. Does she have ulterior motives...
Maybe I'll talk a bit more in-depth about it in another post, my wording's getting weak T_T lol

Osar: ...So you really believe what I said just now?

Amber: Obviously. No matter what, I'm by your side, Osar. (kinda bullshitted this one so do correct me on the wording lol)

 

Osar: ...Thank you.

Theyre hyping each other up like two middle aged dudes should...except Amber's probably a bit younger...ANBAOSA AGE GAP YAOI?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?! (Gets a boner)(Gets shot)

I'll take any Anbaosa crumbs i can get i love them so much ue ue ue ue

Tfw OTONANOONEESANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Andthenwehavetofightanotherfuckingrobotttttttttttttttttttt it was a shockingly fun boss fight...I should try it in Class Heat sometime soon

All that fucking traversing just for this
I did, however, record myself winning~~~ lol
Messiah Palace is such an annoying area...the BGM is good though

I REBUKE I REBUKE I REBUKE ASTAGHFIRULLAH GET AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY FREAKKKK Ok he looks like kinda badass its just such a shame this is Kirimi

:( Adukin...

Thank you white woman. I still do not like you that much

Why are you doing that. This was a weird cutscene

I mean. Sure

MFW i actually do what i have to for once

OKAY I spammed so...I'll try and wrap it up (lol)

It was a very fun series of events, actually. The first half of postgame is essentially just Help Your Sexy Boyfriend In Yurireiz simulator so getting past that makes for a veeeery fun MO4. I'm very glad to be into such a fun game...
Now I'm stuck on the third and final Fwancois fight!!!! Ahhhh!!!!! 
I upgraded the wrong passives for Taiyo, so now I don't have nearly enough for God of Taiyo-ken...

Good night!

~Cat