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I finished Life is Strange: Double Exposure!

tl;dr — I really enjoyed it. It might be my favourite LiS game. (Someone ask me my ranking. I dare you.)

Full spoilers below the cut.

( Welcome to the temporal mosh pit )

Some initial thoughts on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I am still in Chapter 1, have only just reached The Manor.

( maelle is a 16 year old with the face of a 25 year old )

My last entry, if anyone had the misfortune of seeing it before I privated it, was definitely an exercise in 'check my menstrual calendar before screeching into the void of parasocial interaction'. And, like, I meant everything I said—including my immense sadness at what happened in Vancouver—but definitely was imbalanced in a way I didn't love and don't care to use when expressing myself.

Anyway! Here's a few fun things.

— Buying Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 this weekend. I refuse to let you all continue to have fun without me.

— I had to miss bar trivia this past Wednesday due to aforementioned biological assault. My group named their team for the week Team We Miss Jes. ♥ Legend is, I remain a puddle of human delight to this very day.

— I randomly signed up to write a pinch hit for caseficexchange and I'm excited to write it! Hopefully producing 3k+ of [redacted] fic will be the kick in the pants I need to return to my Be Gay And Do Crimes larger fic for the same canon. I'm glad I committed to something with a meatier word count after basically doing the bare minimum for AA FMK and Phoenix Down.

— I've been taking a local improv class for the past few weeks with some friends! I feel like it's kind of a deep cut? But also a form of comedy I really enjoy when done well. (I'll be honest, I wanted to learn more improvisation for if I ever end up DMing again.) Our last session is next week and I'm on the fence about signing up again. I probably will.

— I am really digging S2 of The Last of Us, even though this continues to be a fandom I want no part of. Sure, now you ungrateful fuckers love Abby? I loved her before it was cool! Go step on some legos. 😡 (But yes, definitely recommend it!!)

— The Leafs had a 3-0 lead, managed to blow it spectacularly, and only just crawled out of that pit by winning game six. We're totally going to win the Stanley Cup this time, guys.

— Have my first ever home viewing today. I am on my way to becoming a homeowner!!!!

I finally finished Final Fantasy XVI! Some thoughts below the cut.

( Again, we are damned by faint praise. )



Tangentially related— Someone on the Final Fantasy VIII subreddit asked, "if you were responsible for remaking this game in 2025, how would you do so?" (I haven't checked that this person wasn't rionaleonhart. It might have been. Riona, are you the OP? It's like being a cop; you legally have to tell if you are.) This has occupied my brain ever since, so I'm going explore that question here.

( lion lion wall wall lion ring lion )

Had my first serious earthquake!

It happened while I was at work. I was standing in my office and almost tipped over; for a second, I thought it might have been the construction crews in the back shaking the floor.

(We're getting additional washrooms put into the building, to bring it up to code with our staff headcount. Today was SURPRISE JACKHAMMERS day.)

Branch Manager comes out like WTF?

I, too, leave my office to WTF? at people. We quickly find out it wasn't an isolated thing and was, indeed, a quake. I start texting friends and housemates. No one was injured and nothing was damaged at home or at work, thankfully.

Estimates of the magnitude are anywhere from 4.7 to 5.4, depending on where you were.

There were roughly a million earthquake posts in my localised subreddits, which was fun. And a few more about the Big One, the magnitude 9 earthquake projected to hit my area within the next hundred years; it's not surprising that people would be thinking about it.



Also, someone on the train ride home was taking pictures of my feet until I tucked them behind my backpack. I guess they really liked my boots.