KrunchyLex

On an airplane many thousands of feet in the air, AMA.

I just got served a YouTube ad for a company advertising their service of humans weeding out AI-generated resumes to make hiring easier for managers. We have circled back around to paying money to use people to remove the AI slop.

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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve'z Nuts

Listening to In Session with the two legends Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. King talks to SRV and tells him to work hard "You're already pretty good, but you're gonna be better" and how he's going to be praying and watching. I had to pause. He was right, but by God, I wish we'd had more time.

So I’ve been generally enjoying the main story in Final Fantasy XIV, but the 4.1 Stormblood stuff has been just sticking in my craw extra hard and I’m actively unhappy with the last several major story beats. Like…fuck me this is ham handed and just outright unpleasant to get through.

Samus & Kirby

I passed Checkride. Tonight we celebrate with conveyor belt sushi.

Still unhappy I couldn’t get the ravenous special edition but otherwise feeling a lot better today. Maybe I’ll play more Prime Origins later.

I can no longer report eBay sellers for selling preorders because they changed their policy to allow selling preorders and I don’t know what else I expected. Okay now actually getting off the internet before I explode.

I’m getting off social media for a while. I’m just making myself angry and frustrated.

…I guess I need to consider getting a Switch 2 after all

I wanted to draw Bombchu girl too...... #zelda

new zelda looks pretty nice imo but we will have to wait and see how long it takes king zora to move before jumping to any conclusions, we can only hope the switch 2 is strong enough to handle making the cutscene longer

When I first came here I thought being outside of the rust belt would mean my car would be in better shape and have fewer threats. You buffoon. You absolute fool. This city apparently exists purely to destroy my car and every time I try to fix one thing, two damages happen.

Played House Flipper 2 for the first time today. How does it feel less polished than the first game? I actually had to go and double check that it wasn't still in early access it feels so clunky and backward.

I hate how much my anxiety spikes before Checkride when I know I’m completely ready and able to crush it. Guess I just have to prove that “performs well under pressure” on my CV isn’t a lie, eh?

I don't know what's wrong with my brain tonight. I was listening to music and Mario Galaxy/Galaxy 2 came up and I've been having to struggle to not just break down crying at the orchestral themes. Like...this is joyous mirthful music that evokes the spirit of childlike wonder. Why soggy eyes?

It’s kind of late. Do I want to stream fusion practice anyway?

Finished off a bottle of tullamore dew and filled with introspection with nobody around because time zones hate me. What’s up?

Today I was thinking about the Shantae series and how the gaping void in my heart left by Pirate’s Curse could be fixed by making a Risky Boots prequel game that answers the story questions PC raised and also gives us more pirate items attack and movement gameplay. @wayforward.bsky.social please?

Starting today I’ve been getting ads on YouTube for a certain ayy eye product that rhymes with baud and I have never in my life been so BLINDINGLY ANGRY at a series of advertisements. I’m no longer in software engineering and I still abhor them and their snake oil with every atom of my being.

So I ran through about 7 splits in Fusion. It’s segmented practice, sure, but comparing RTA to my old IGT PB, I’m already saving somewhere in the neighborhood of three minutes through Varia. That’s significant. Now to see how much more time there is to find in the later run.

Fusion segments until the thing I have later tonight happens. Or until I get tired of doing segments. Whichever comes first. www.twitch.tv/krunchylex

So after sleeping on it, I think my final thoughts on the controller are I like everything about it except the dpad. It gives you accidental diagonals way too easily. Everything else is quite good. Do wish I could use my rechargeable AAs in it instead of having to charge it with the cable, though.

I hope you didn’t think I was joking. I haven’t played these games in a while. But it sure is Metroid. www.twitch.tv/krunchylex

Feeling better today. Need to get some stuff done first, but we doing the aforementioned Metroiding in 3-ish hours or so. Apologies to my east coast peeps, but time zones don’t make this easy.

My body apparently took this declaration personally. Am not feeling well today. Pushing it to Thursday. 🫠

You know what, sure. Tomorrow evening I’ll do it. Let’s see how much I remember or don’t remember about GBA metroid. We’ll try to do a ZM and Fusion any% run. Should let me test the controller and should be a giggle to boot.

Got a fancy new controller. What’s a good way to put a new controller through its paces? [looks at stack of Metroid cartridges] Hmm…

If your video game drops me directly into character creation or gameplay the first time I open it without giving me any way to go into settings, then I just want you to know that I hate you.

Flight training update: Training delays suck. But we still in it and moving forward. Still planning to offer to take speedfriends flying next time I go to GDQ.

For how much data I know Google collects on me, they sure do serve me up mostly YouTube ads about things I *absolutely loathe* and would never spend money on willingly.

Apparently they made a Metroid Prime demake. Color me curious. Let’s find out together. www.twitch.tv/krunchylex

So Razer is buying streamelements. Are there any other options in that specific space that haven’t been bought out or proven themselves to be scummy?

My tablet is apparently too old to run project sekai? I didn’t know that was a thing that could happen???

#rhythmheaven

Had a lucid moment where a minigame that was giving me no end of headaches in Rhythm Heaven just frustrated me so much I decided to close my eyes and go entirely off sound cues and I proceeded to get the perfect. 🙃

This song has been playing nonstop in my head all day and giving me a lot of joy. I wish to share it with y’all. youtu.be/YCGPsNgPzKc

Who do I need to talk to about getting the Rhythm Heaven Groove soundtrack pressed onto LP? Asking for myself. And a friend. But mostly myself.

You ever just want to be a clock, but with anxiety? Let’s play some Chrono Gear. www.twitch.tv/krunchylex

Feeling cute, might stream later. What we thinking, friends? Mina the Hollower? Chrono Gear? Tetris? Blade Chimera? Something else? Let’s have some fun~

Saw a couple of people streaming it and now I really want to pick up Rhythm Heaven Groove. The music is so good, the game looks so cute, and I love music games.

To all my friends at SGDQ, I hope you have a wonderful week! I miss you all terribly and hope I can join y’all again in 2027~