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Sooooo, I got off work after lunch and will "resume" opening on Thursday. Had to get off work early today because my dog Max has diarrhea for the second day in a row. We usually let it run its course when we first see diarrhea and if after a full 24 hours the dog is still on it then we are properly worried. And now it's 48 hours of that too!

Blood test and all and nothing too bad. He has some borderline things, has some things on the low side, but nothing life threatening. Considerably a beautiful blood test result for a 14 year old dog. So, it's the food. Wonder what he ate to give him his bad tummy.

708B0D6E-87B7-42BC-8C43-17C0D6C673FF I was trying to finish reading my current book over lunch today but.... I just can't.... this book I'm reading, I just can't get into it. I'm trying not to give it up because I don't want to start the year with a "given up book" so I'm trying to finish it. I chose this book simply because I saw on one of my Goodreads groups that this was their book for January... but... I really can't get immersed in it. I've managed to go over 50% of it, so I will try to finish it. I have the next 5 days off. I should be able to find some time to read it. (I'm also trying to to hook my kindle online because this is a library book that has already been "returned" but because I've kept my kindle offline, I can still read it)

There's also this new (for a while) game on my phone that I've been playing for over a month. Octopath Traveller. I played on the Switch before, so now that it's on the iOS I've migrated... but essentially it's 2 different games... but I managed to gacha draw my favorite character H'aanti, yay!



After dinner and dog walk today, I plan to go have a dander at the "Flower market." These flower markets are only up the week before Chinese New Year and will finish at midnight tomorrow. Usually they sell orchids and those red papers (talismans? Banners?) I don't plan to buy any more flowers (my orchid is sprouting a stem that would flower!) but I wanted to see if there's any new colors out there.
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I really need to get a life LOL sorry.

Ever since the game Animal Crossing came out... I have been busy during my free time...

The last time I did something like this (wake up, game all day, walk dogs, eat, game, nap, game, eat, walk dogs, game, shower, game sleep, wakeup and game) was during my summer holidays (in primary and in secondary school) where I kind of turn brain dead because of all the gaming.... (i think it's really because concentrating looking at the tv and my brain only thinking about the game tactics and planning).

Maybe I can call that the game hangover LOL.

Quarantine and can't travel? No problem! I built my own sakura viewing picnic place
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I also built my own bamboo groove (Arashiyama)
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There's a bug in the game as they have 2 events going on, but the easter game event is hijacking the game. I can't get items for the Sakura event... but, some stranger has kindly helped me craft some items
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I have also been visiting some people's islands. Some people really have great landscaping skills!
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And at night, I can also see shooting stars!
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I admit that I need a life :D

I'm supposed to be off this week (a number of holidays and "compensation" holidays), but the boss asked me to do something, so I'm heading over again this afternoon. It's something to do while there's nothing to do.
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This game totally is a time waster and I've wasted a whole week with it LOL. How can you not love this game? Look at the conversation:

Sahara is simply confident that you will like her wares. Though, in truth, I didn't, LOL. But Sahara will take your money payment.
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Timmy and Tommy here talk about their "Fearless Leader" Tom Nook and I just think he is such a capitalist overlord LOL. He forces you to take loans to build a bigger house, even if you say no he will just say it's good and whatnot.... LOL and when they go "Our Fearless Leader" I just think of Kim Jong-Un hahaha
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This would have been such a good game to have during my 2-week quarantine back in February, as I could have met up with friends in-game.
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There's basically a lot to do everyday. I think the season is going to change in-game on 1-April, so in the online communities they are all raving about having to try to catch all the fish in season, or else wait till December when they spawn again. But I'm just a take-it-easy gungho type of playing right now. I got my doggies on my wall!
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Also went out to look at shooting stars. Still couldn't figure out how to "wish" upon a star to gain star fragments.
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I forsee that I'm going to waste a good part of April on this game as well... at least until the full game Trial of Mana comes out on 20-something April. Then I'll be playing that game LOL.
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I'm so smugly satisfied with myself for being so lazy today LOL omg whyyyyyyyy
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I had planned to go get something from one particular shop today, but then yesterday when my Dad gave me a ride to a few places I figured I'd ask him to drive me there and I got what I had planned to pick up:

My Medal from the Virtual Run Race in January 2020! And with this final run, I'm taking a break from all those virtual runs. Even though it's virtual, and speed doesn't matter, it's still a lot of stress to make myself go run, and all that. So I figured I could do the Capricorn one (since I'm Capricorn) and just let it be for the rest of the year. I still go running, but no need to rush for a deadline or mileage.
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Sunday is as usual, laundry folding day, so after our dog walk, and laundry folding, it was........
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Gaming time! Animal Crossing New Horizons! FINALLY! But I couldn't get the online play thing to work with my account, so I can't swap friend codes to visit :-( I can already forsee this is going to be such a time-waster... I remember the days when I was on my NDS on Animal Crossing as well. It was ridiculous. You get berated if you don't play for a long time (LOL), you are forced to upgrade your home even if you say it's fine and dandy (LOL Tom Nook I'm looking at you). It would have been great to have this game when we had our 2-week work-from-home in February... maybe it's a good idea to have this game now only, because this way I'm forced to live my human life FIRST and only at night in my spare time go on this game.... haha

Time for bed, tomorrow is another day!
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Oh oh oh, allow me to geek out a bit! I just saw that they are FINALLY releasing a remake of Seiken Densetsu 3 on the Nintendo Switch! There's supposedly another video with the gameplay, and I'm inclined to think the gameplay in 3D will probably suck (as in lag or have too many animation scenes), however, just for the nostalgic factor, I am geeking out so much! Yippity yay! My dream team is Reize, Hawkeye and Angela, but I always choose Charlotte because for the last character because then you can get her earlier.

And the soundtrack! It brings all those memories back...

As a kid, I took forever to beat this game because
1. Didn't know any Japanese
2. We were only ever allowed to bring the game console out during the summer holidays. Not even on Christmas break! Only during summer holidays. During school time, all gaming consoles had to be locked up. (I say "all gaming consoles... we only had one LOL)
3. Always got stuck in one particular point. Only after a few years that I got through that point (had to wait till night time to go into the black market)

Right... so later this month there's Animal Crossing coming out... and then end of April it's Trials of Mana (can't get this name to stick... it's still Seiken Densetsu 3 to me). Hopefully they will stop at that. I've finally whittled down my earthly possessions so I don't want to just start hoarding stuff again! And I need to budget my time as well!

(now if somewhere somehow they do a Shadow Hearts remake................ too early for that I guess)
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Here's an update post for a game I wrote about before: Walkr

I wrote about it in June 2016.... it's the only one game I've consistently played for so many years.

So by now I've unlocked ALL the planets.

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However, each planet has a "secret" which can only be unlocked when you max out that planet's level. I'm working on that right now. It's a slow and painful process.

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A lot of the interface has changed as well. The Factory page is a little hard to understand, but it seems you can use a combination of different satellites to create some sort of bonus for yourself.

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The Bridge is pretty much the same. You choose your friends who are good walkers (produce a lot of energy) so that you can siphon from them LOL. The Epics are pretty much the same. The Social though, I think it's new. It's like the Bridge, but you are not interacting with your friends. You interact with other people, best similar thing I could compare it to are Guilds in other games. You mark a planet you want help with, and people give you their energy. Similarly, you should give energy to others too. This energy is used to upgrade your planets.
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I can see myself devoting my life's next 60 hours or so just for this... then it's life back to normal...



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So, there's this game that has managed to get me playing it daily for the last 2 months. Yes, 2 months. 8 weeks! So, given that I didn't just give up the game after a couple days, I thought this meritted a post.


Valiant Force [Official Website] is a, hm... I'd say strategy game. You build your team consisting of up to 5 "Heroes" (characters), with hero placement being important as bonuses can be achieved with certain placements, and you fight monsters.


Virtually everything about the hero is customizable. You can equip with different equipments, upgrade equipments, upgrade your hero's skills, and attach "Runes" to give your hero other attributes.


Then there's also the "Promotion" system. Level up a hero enough, and with the correct items, you can upgrade and promote your hero. There's actually the whole "career path" for them. Some heroes are maxed at 4-stars, some at 5-stars. As you can see of "Kane" (above), he has a total of 4 final "jobs". Winry below is capped at 4-stars so there's only 1 level of promotion.


Battles are pretty simple. You decide who they attack by dragging on the bottom part of the screen, and that the upper screen does whatever on-screen sequence there is. For "special attacks" you get to see a whole other type of sequence too. (Kane's Gunslinger is overly cheesy).


So there are also a few different things to play around with. There's the normal storyline, then "events" battle, "daily gold rush", and a type of "tower defence" spin. There is also the "Arena" battles where you battle against other players and see whose team is better.


I'm still not very good at that so I've been losing more than winning, hahaha.


"Daily Quests" is also available, and that's basically what is making me stick to the game. It's different every day (almost) so it's not too repetitive, and the daily bonus are also quite attractive. Last but not least, there's also paid content, but we are not interested in that.


And this is what I've been wasting my time with...
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I normally wouldn't post games from the Japan iTunes store (when I just did that with Dandy Dungeon LOL, but hey, it's got an international release already!), but I had a bit of time, and I wanted to be more active around here, so... Here's an iOS game. Not a review. Not a walkthrough. Just to tell you how I'm wasting my time lately.

This is Kamitsuri 神つり, God Fishing, or something like that. Here, the official Square Enix page on it.


Well, to put it simply, this is one of those "connect the same colored gemstones to make an attack" sort of puzzle game. Think Tower of Saviors.

To be honest, I'm not sure of the actual story behind it. Too lazy to watch the opening clip. Too lazy to read and decipher all that Japanese. But hey, at least I understood enough, it's set in medieval Japan, with characters pertaining to Japanese spirits and characters (like, the standard Samurai, Ninjas, or spirits like the fox lady, etc, etc....). The artwork is decent, and the OST is great. I love the music in it.
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I found something fun this time... This is only available in the iTunes Japan store, I think. Meanwhile, it has now gained an English name, called "Dandy Dungeon", I think eventually they'll translate the game and soon available worldwide. I think.


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And yes, I have found another time-wasting game.... haha!
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I think I'm getting better with the games thing as I've slowly trimmed down the games I have on my phone, haha. This time I found something fun! Again, there's no pressure or commitment to this game.


The intro story to this game really had me laughing so much, the whole game seems to just revolve around the cliche of "The Princess gets kidnapped... (again and again and again....)

I've cropped the story out for you to see: )


Kind of feels like the Princess actually enjoys being kidnapped, LOL

Game: Pokemon Go

Thursday, 11 August 2016 23:24
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LOL I guess I don't really need to introduce this game as this is all the hype these days. But I felt like writing about it here so I can laugh about it in the future.

So the Pokemon Go game doesn't work in Macau. It loads up, the maps come out, but it's empty; there is nothing in it. No Pokestops, no Gyms, no Pokemons. I had to go to Hong Kong to help my Boss sort out some stuff, so of course, I took the chance.


The game itself is pretty straightforward... )

So... that's what I'm partially wasting my time with lately.
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After I went to that Distant Worlds concert in Macau, I felt the sudden rush of all Final Fantasy hoo-haas, so I went to the app store to see what they've got. I know I had previously bought the FF1 and FF2 iOS games (then got stuck somewhere again and forgot about it), and thought I could start playing again.

Instead, I found this!


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Another time waster game, it's good to have to kill time (because honestly, if all you are playing are the 2 default songs, you'd get bored very very soon), like to slip in while waiting for something (I don't know, bank queue? doctor appointment?) I suppose as long as I don't splurge and buy a new music piece then it should be good.

Game: Walkr

Thursday, 2 June 2016 15:05
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I was a bit in a Health frenzy and was checking how to use my Apple Watch as a pedometer (I know the function's in there, I just have to find it), when I came across this game: Walkr.


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This game I'm wasting my time with has a little more point and target and story than the Kleptocats I wrote about before.

Crusaders' Quest


The graphics are really cute, retro-y like the old 8- or 16- bit RPG games I used to play on the SNES before, and the gameplay is simple enough.

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Game: Kleptocats!

Saturday, 21 May 2016 10:34
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So I've been wasting my time on a game, Kleptocats.


It is truly a heartfelt, time-wasting game. LOL. I guess it's like the other Japanese cat game... Neko Atsume I think.

With this game, you basically have to feed the cat or pet the cat until the "happy" gauge is full, then you can send him out.


The cat will come back after some time (it shows as a countdown, either some 1000-seconds or I've even seen 2000-seconds). It comes back bearing gifts, and sometimes money. So the point in the game is to collect all that crap the cat brings back and decorate your room (the item locations are all pre-set, so you can't "decorate" it as you like). You can collect more coins by watching ads. Collect enough coins and you can "buy" a new cat (randomly given you). The different cats don't do anything different. The only difference it makes is the cats actually appear with all the crap in your room, so say if "Harry" was hanging on the wall, and then you choose to use "Harry", then the cat that was hanging on the wall disappears (because you've called him to the front).

So, you don't really need technique, no plan, just a lot of time, and remember to check in once in a while. If you don't feed the cat the cat won't die. There's no "Love-o-meter" that you have to pet your cat so many times a day. So it's really 0 pressure in maintaining this game.

I suppose I should start a "things to waste my time with" tag... LOL...

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