Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Update: I finished my run of this successfully, and in celebration, named my Dodrio main "The Dekis" after @Vyzie

Item luck has been okay so far. I've still got a fair number of escapes and reviver seeds left, and a single ban seed waiting for an enemy Pokémon to try Earth Power (a high damage, room hitting move) on my team.

Which is to say, absent completely awful luck or completely spacing on how to play the game, this should be completable... maybe.

I have a slow moving save file on Purity Forest (the most "true roguelike" dungeon of the game) that I'm whittling on, which is now at floor 50 of 99.

And, oof, I had forgotten what it's like to have to take a few turns every minute or two in one of these games because strategy matters.

My current main is Dodrio, which is an incredibly oddball choice, but between Quick Attack, Fury Attack, Giga Impact, and Hyper Beam, they at least don't feel too underpowered.

Watching @Veladynee play through Halo Infinite with subtitles on and being very amused at the extremely descriptive text for every sound sample in the game. From such wonders as "Inquisitive Beeping" and "Alert Confident Chirp" to "Angry Electrocuted Scream" and "Excited Confident Roar".

And realizing I have a mighty need. I want this in most games, both for accessibility and because it's amazing. Like, put this on Rathalos in one of the Monster Hunter games, please.

The solitary Anna's hummingbird that ineffectually sentries our feeders is there today, despite it icing over and snowing. The moment I brought out a warm feeder, they hopped on it and chugged as fast as their tiny beak could, before zooming off and returning 5 minutes later.

Found a cool thing on our hummingbird feeders today while rotating them due to the cold weather:

Continuing the tradition of my weekly sleeping-in-on-Saturdays giving really cool dreams:

This one was heroic coming-of-age story. Most of the details were pulled from other identifiable sources, but the main protag is cool enough to write out.

They're a gender-ambiguous (female-leaning) person who discovered they could shapeshift by accidentally becoming their own (adorably small, anthro orca-dragon) OC. They quickly identified they could become anything else they wanted within the same approximate mass range, with a catch: they need to actively focus on it.

Their personality is distinct enough that I need to noodle on it a bit more to describe them well. The villain also had vague ideas on how they work and may point to other-than-human origins.

While the dream had them doing hero things, they're more into chilling out to chiptunes, signalwave/vaporwave, and playing variations on 80s and 90s videogames with friends.

They also chose a name for themselves, but it has a conflict with someone I know, so I'll need to find a good alternative for them. Still, very neat little fictionthing.

(Also meant to post this earlier, but lots of random other things happened in the meantime.)

This is a few days after a different stranger in a dream said this when I asked them why they do what they do:

"I am you. You have agency here. I'm just part of the script."

Then I woke up.

Either I have very coherent dream gremlins, or someone has a fun sense of humor.

A stranger in a dream posed a good question to me right before I woke up:

"Why do many cultures have specific names for gremlins and monsters, yet Florida has no (specific) terms for the time it takes for hurricanes to make landfall?"

... huh.