#lotto rambles

Bro had too much cake...

But YAY I survived my first year of being an adult. Engaging (and loosing) in a war, crucifying my friends, simping for fictional characters, making said fictional characters kiss...

and of course assaulting everyone's eyes with my precious artrocities!

Last year, I haphazardly made the Xanax Rat, simply because I thought it sounded funny.

About a week or so ago, Xanax appeared as a footnote in my Abnormal Psychology class, so like the easily entertained idiot I am, I drew this up. But in what I can only deem as divine punishment for whatever this cretin is, Veikk decided to update its driver, both proving how much of an idiot I am for how long it took me to figure out what was going on, and heavily delayed the second part.

And… I’m sorry? There’s a genuine, for-sale book on how to give directions to AI.

I’m just. I’m just flabbergasted that something like this exists. Not only are you too lazy to write yourself, but you don’t have the imagination to tell a machine how to do it for you? Like, I’m trying to imagine how many steps were taking for this to be approved. It’s a “For Dummies”, so there was t just one guy making all the decisions.

So, browsing TVTropes one morning brings me to a Danganronpa fic that was great. Loved the dynamics, how it made old stuff from the first game the same but different, the changing perspectives, even little things like how each chapter (like the actual in-game chapters, not the written out chapters) would end off.

But what was the best was the drama. What was so great about it? It made a forgone conclusion exciting. Since it’s a mix between the first game and IF everyone survives, but there’s still trials… meaning that the murders still happen, but altered enough to the victim ends up surviving. The amount of times I got nervous on if a character would die or not, despite the prologue showing the end result, on my first read through was too often for me to count.

Reading chapters 1 and 2 were fantastic, perfect pacing and made me excited to see what was next. Sure it was lasted updated in 2023 but there’s also 57 chapters. It was probably at chapter 5 or the end of chapter 4 at the earliest. More than enough time to get through most of the game, right?

Then I get to chapter 3 and realize that it’s been a considerable amount of time and I haven’t even gotten to the killer plotting out the murder attempt yet. It was at that time that I look at the chapter titles.

29 parts to chapter 3. Here’s chapters 1 and 2 for comparison:

To be fair chapter 3 still had a lot of great moments and the trial itself didn’t have any pacing issues, but still I was kinda feeling bummed that I’d only be getting the start of chapter 4.

Then I go through the comments and see this:

So glad to learn that Pebblego has an official Bluesky page

So glad to see that they saw my deranged yapping and LEGIT said “yeah that’s cool”

DAY 1

I was excited at the prospect of participating, and slightly worried at the assumed disadvantage my team was in. Regardless, I knew exactly what I had in mind for my first attack, as I began to prepare... BunnyEevee pops out! In shock, I drop my glasses like an idiot, batting them up between my hands before getting them back onto my face. As I try to pretend that I wasn't startled, I get interrupted with the news that it counted as an attack. Wasting no time, I set my plan into motion, ringing up the most popular (and definitely not a cactus) Glaceon around, Juanita. Sending her to a nearby restaurant, where she would be greeted by the living embodiment of charisma—Florm. The power of celebrity love gives me my first attack against Scruffy, giving me enough free time to focus on vengeance. While I was prepping for revenge on BunnyEevee, fellow Fossils member Sweeftums uses a drawing of Baccarat as friendly fire; with the boost I'm able to scope out the Eevee explorer Yui, and send her off to a bug infected forest to set off her entomophobia and arachnophobia, officially ending my indoctrination to Artfight with emotional manipulation.

DAY 2

As I before to wake up, my eyes adjust to an odd sight: Scruffy looming over me. My following confusion registers as an attack, and they run off, trying ( and failing) to keep their battle ratio above 20%. Getting my bearings, I look back trough my bookmarks and find that Momento and Mori, Duskull Eevees of BookofCircus and LeafPlays, are on the same team. Tracking them down, they try to put on a Halloween show, but I leave after it registers as a Mass Attack, going on to my next targets. Getting onto the set of the Wacky Worm Show, I see the co-hosts together, enjoying friendship, but before I can end the day, 111catsrule gets revenge by pixlfying Baccarat!

DAY 3

Instead of rebalancing my ratio, the first action of this day is... deeply disturbing... TwentySeven went and told Baccarat the secret trick to gambling! Now he'll be able to disrupt the delicate monetary ecosystem of slots! I opted to save revenge for the next day, instead encountering Mug the Moogle from Skyeon while roaming my bookmarks. After running away, I decide to rest up for the next day.

DAY 4

Browsing through TwentySeven's profile, I pick out Flora from the crowd and search for them for my next attack. I eventually find them lying by their namesake, going through the motions. As I take this in, I devise a way to guarantee an early win for team Fossils, which was of course through crime!

DAY 5

My first action of the day was making an attempt on uwumcuwuface's life! How? By trying to ruin his will to live via badly played clarinet noises while waving a flashlight around. But in some karmic fashion, all this did was summon a Sea Bear to maul me! As I attempt to draw a circle, I wonder who could possibly be to blame for the consequences of my actions. But before I could think of anyone else to blame, my infamous inability to draw means that I only made an oval. As the Sea Bear gives me every known disease (and a few new ones), Aurora and Shamrock come to my aid! ...maybe no more murder attempts for Artfight though...

DAY 6

As the end of the first week draws closer, Venus brings Loki up to a mountain to reenact that scene from Lion Hamlet as the moonlight bounces off of the crystals and dawns on them, gleaming with the power of stones and not being bald.

DAY 7

Uhhh I kinda... didn't get around to anything this day... I'm lazy lol =P

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