my dearest!

I haven’t updated my game or touched that save on months bc the January patch basically messed up and would delete all the texture data for the photos in the game if visited another household or saved and loaded it back up. I had tons of photos in my sim’s home so it was depressing seeing a bunch of black rectangles everywhere knowing that they were pictures of my sim’s kids and stuff.

I’m super glad because I’ve been holding off on aging my sim’s toddlers for so long because I wanted to do it before the end off the sim year (it was a few days before winter in-game) and have my sim complete the cooking aspiration so their food will never spoil (had to keep leaving plates of food out for toddlers to grab so my sim wouldn’t have to put them in the high chair).

I don’t like the MC’s shitty husband (both poor and married as teens, he took out a large loan under her name and they’ve been struggling to pay it off for a decade - and he’s cheating on her with a new worker at his office) or the other guy trying to get her to leave her marriage and fall for him (honestly i don’t like the manipulation, even if he means well, and I don’t like his vibes).

I just want the other guy to get her out and pay off her debt. Surely there’s going to be a chapter going into why he’s so into her. But other than that, i literally do not care for him.

Anyway, I stopped playing like a few weeks ago when I went to visit my cousin to help with her dog and and baby since it broke my routine, and I get back to it and a ton of people joined the team (basically like a “guild” so you can get help from other players) and it’s actually a bit more active

The primary people beforehand was myself, and the creator of the guild, Helen. A girl joined at some point trying to make friends and tried asking me questions since I was an active member (I helped her with some resources a few times), but I missed the messages and she ended up leaving to find another team.

So, like, I like mystery series like this (remote location, closed off community following “tradition”, usage of Japanese mythology (not actual mythology as far as I can tell, but under the guise of making offerings to god). Like, setting wise, it’s like Raging Loop or like Higurashi.

The thing is, idk if I should be expecting “4D chess” plot twists or plans, or just “a guy” doing things. Obviously, I can’t trust anyone. But like, not knowing how the MC will get himself through incidents does have me worrying lol

This is the official English translation, so it’s only about halfway done. I wish there was a digital versiom, bc it’s easier for someone to reupload, but even if I wanted to buy it myself to read it, the only option is physical and I don’t really want this series on my shelves

I had a nickel for every time I came across an asian girl named Kitty, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened three times, right?

Anyway, said characters are Kitty Ko from Sidekick, Kitty from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, and Kitty from To All the Boys I Loved Before

I want to make something for myself when I play the sims. Like I want a calendar displaying “journal” entires - basically a visual way to see what days I’ve played with just notes of what I did plus a photo gallery of my screenshots with tags for what save I was in, relevant sims, the household I was playing and lot types or world I was in. This way I can find stuff from my screenshots folder and I can probably post to Reddit again lmao

I also want a section where I can store all my makeover progress for premade sims, plus their profile information and backstories. I guess the profile aspect should come first, and the makeover part after, but I want a tracker for that.

I dropped it after realizing practically every female character basically is used to simp over the MC or end up being SA’d (not by the MC, but by the various people he’s getting revenge on for horrendous bullying and involvement in the deaths of his family members), and a time skip where I think the MC loses his memories before getting back on the revenge train. I think the antagonist has something to do with a cult after the time skip, and apparently (as I checked the last chapter uploaded) resulted in the deaths of nearly 50 people and injuries of hundreds more.

Ok the YouTube rewind thing feels so odd because I know for a fact I had Changmina’s NG and B-list on loop earlier in the summer (like constantly playing for a couple weeks) like they should be on this list.

Except maybe I Would Do Any thing for You (I think I played a lot in the Spring), the other “Top Songs” were during the Fall (since I was listening to Foxy Shazam bc of Peacemaker) and I was listening to old Rebecca Sugar demo songs like 2 weeks ago.