My Diary #181

Dear Tigey,

I’m pretty sure the neighbours above me moved out. I hope the next resident is reasonable. Not that the last ones were terrible, nowhere near the one that I had to move away from, but they had their moments. I’ll take “I hope they’re not worse” as a baseline at this point.

Entry #181 (Mar 09 2025)

Table of Contents

Winged…
ට  Life
ට  Games
ට  Plushie of the Week #176
ට  Song of the Week #153
ට  Memory Snippet of the Week #160
ට  Dreams

Life

I met WingBenny this week on both Monday and Friday for lunch, as he was in town to dogsit for another friend of his. On Monday, we went to a restaurant named Mr.Bun for lunch, and we both ordered a dish as well as split some side dishes between us.

Mine was Shanghai Fried Thick Noodles with Pork:

His was Fried Rice Cake with Shredded Pork And Cabbage:

And we split some Truffle Chicken Xiao Long Bao:

And some Pan-fried Pork Dumplings:

He surprised me at the end and ended up paying for it all despite my protests. Now I need to subscribe to his Twitch channel for X more months to repay him for it. I’ve barely paid off his Hong Kong treat. He’s too nice. The restaurant had a nice mural on the wall which I also captured for posterity.

As a bonus, he took me to CostCo after that, my first visit to the place in well over a decade, maybe two, as he needed to do some grocery shopping there too.

I picked up a couple of things while there, some chicken nuggets and some vegetables, but didn’t actually think much of the store overall as they tended to only have one or two brands of things in far larger quantities than I wanted or could use at any one time. I actually feel like the chicken nuggets from the Safeway in-house brand, Compliments, were superior than the brand that was at CostCo, Hampton House. Their vegetable selection was really bad too, though this one made sense since how would one get and sell fresh vegetables in bulk? But in both cases they were cheaper overall, so that’s the tradeoff, though I’m not sure if the savings would be worth it to offset the membership card’s fee if I bought food mostly from CostCo from one year.

Obviously it’s good for bulk purchases of certain things but it could never be a primary grocery store, like a bulkier dollar store. However, it can definitely be superior for certain types or classes of items. Just not fresh food I guess. And nuggets. And tea. There were only 3 total boxes of teas from 3 different companies there on the shelf and they were huge boxes, with the smallest one a 30-pack of some orange pekoe or something, teehee.

We didn’t stay there for long so I didn’t get to explore every nook and cranny to look for interesting things either though, so there’s that, and I only learnt from WingBenny on the way out that there was a Squishmallow plushie section that I had completely missed. Oh no!

We took a picture on the way home, though it was mostly of him and Tigey, and me cracking up at his antics:

On Friday, we went to another restaurant called Donburi King. Oddly, we had tried to go here on Monday, but we found that it had different opening hours on Monday than the rest of the week, and wasn’t open at the time that we were both available to go out for lunch, so it was close, but no bananas for us. Or them. But it was open on Friday. This was a Japanese place with a nice ambience:

His meal was Tonkatsu Curry, I believe:

Mine was Unagi (6oz) with Rice:

And we had sides too but this time we didn’t split them. His was Spring Rolls and mine was Agedashi Tofu, which was pretty great:

As a bonus, this time we visited a Korean restaurant called Hanjan Korean Restaurant for dessert. The place was huge but mostly empty and was playing nice Japanese lo-fi music, which is now a music genre that I want to investigate.

I ordered the “must try” Mango Bingsu:

This thankfully wasn’t too sweet, although the shaved ice beneath the mango had no syrup at all and that was disappointing.

WingBenny, on the other hand, ordered Injeolmi Bingsu:

That’s red bean, though a bit of it spilled over so the really nice waitress gave him another small bowl of red bean to make up for it. It did not come with ice cream, so he ordered the ice-cream addon scoop for $3 extra, but we found out that my vanilla ice cream was lychee-flavoured or something and his was just… plain. We tried each other’s one and it tasted very different. Weird!

He also surprised me with a gift, a packet of tea that he had brought from Japan for me to try:

The brand of the tea was Karel Čapek, which is apparently a Czech writer and journalist, and although I had never heard of him before, obviously the maker of the tea was a big fan. The tea came with a nice piece of ephemera too, a small pocket-sized card that I scanned.

Very fancy.

Outside of Benny-related news, the better weather meant that I could start walking around the neighbourhood again. There’s a McDonald’s store in the city that rebranded itself to McDavid’s as a tribute/promotion (local), and it was near enough to my house that I could actually walk to it in good weather, so walk to it I did:

I was there early enough for breakfast so that’s what I had there. I hadn’t eaten at McDonalds in forever, especially not breakfast (have I ever eaten breakfast at a McDonalds?) so it was basically a new experience. Though technically I ate at a McDavid’s, not a McDonalds. Anyway, Spicy Egg & Hash Brown Breakfast Wrap was what I picked.

And boy was it overpriced. I also stopped off at the nearby Real Canadian Superstore after that, and almost pulled the trigger on a cute pink raincoat that I wanted but… realistically, it doesn’t rain THAT much in Edmonton, and a raincoat is difficult to use because if you wear it to anywhere but home, then it’ll be dripping all over the place once you reach the place and take it off. It was tempting though, for $69, but my March expenses are already (going to be) quite high compared to other months because, among other things, this is when my biannual Twitch resubs to the channels I care about are recurring.

I mopped my apartment this week, which I usually don’t do, and for the next day or so the mop stunk up the bathroom and a good portion of the apartment itself too. I learnt eventually after some research and experimentation that this was because of bacteria on the mop. Probably because I don’t currently use any solution for my mop water or anything, I just use plain ol’ water. I should experiment with some different formulas for mop water, but I just don’t really feel the urge to mop the floor very often anyway.

Anyway, the solution for this that worked for me was to pour a bit of baking soda from my fridge onto the mop itself and then rinse it again, and this time there was no more smell as I left it to dry in the bathtub. That baking soda has been in my fridge for well over a decade now, in a partially opened case to absorb smells and such, and not meant for consumption, so this felt like a good additional use for it too. That box of baking soda has seen three fridges now and is still going strong.

Also this week, I learnt that the Ecco store in Southgate, where I buy my shoes from, had sort of shut down last week:

It looks like they’re “shutting down” but being replaced by the same company though? I guess maybe the ownership is just changing or something? I’m not sure. I like the posh male staff member who worked there, well hopefully he still is working there, if he’s not one of the owners who retired. He actually recognized me years apart and recommended both my previous pair of shoes as well as my current ones.

I also went into The Bay store in Southgate to walk around, and the third floor escalators leading back down was out of service, so to get back downstairs I had to go down the backroom stairs, which is usually part of the out of bounds areas.

It’s nothing earth-shatteringly huge, but it was a simple, new experience and it was kind of nice to see behind the scenes, so to speak. And talking about simple pleasures, I’ve more or less known this for a while now but I only formally acknowledged it this week — looking at the tableware, cutlery, etc section in stores really invokes a pleasant and calm mood in me. Like I get a rush of feelings that tell me that there is lots of potential treasure and cool stuff present in the place, and to go exploring. By tableware, I mean things like this Zellers section (there were other similar company pop-up stores too), which was in The Bay:

Or this section in Superstore:

Both of which were just from this week. Going back to the Life section in My Diary #155, I had talked there about a nice article about buying small and fancy plates, and listed several other times that I had bought small bowls and plates. There’s even been at least one more purchase since then, a couple other bowls from early February this year.

I’ll say this again, I really should do a Memory Snippet section on my cutlery and tableware and trying to recall where all they were from. One day.

Another thing that happened in this very eventful week that was full of small treasures, was that Southgate Centre was having a showcase called Bridging Generations, a collaboration between a local high school and a seniors housing place that was sponsored by Southgate Mall itself and a few other companies. Local students went to spend some time with seniors from the residence and then did writeups on them, which were then displayed in an exhibition in the middle of the mall. This was super cool, so I catalogued it and made a separate page for it here.

Lastly, you know the drill — sunset (mostly) pictures. This first one is from Sunday, Mar 02, at 5:57 pm:

Monday, Mar 03 at 5:47 pm, which I liked because half the sky was filled with clouds and the other half was clear:

Tuesday, Mar 04 at 5:55 pm:

Then here’s a night one at Wednesday, Mar 05, at 12:11 am:

The moon was visible through the balcony door behind my computer monitors this week, which made for some very pleasant nights hammering away on the keyboard while being able to look up at the moon through the gap in my blinds without even having to lean in any direction or stand up. The night skies were quite clear this week too and I could see several planets shimmering in the sky. I can’t appreciate this sort of thing very well from where I live and without a telescope, but there was apparently even a rare seven-planet alignment in the sky (local) late last month. Some of them are obviously still hanging around and one’s visible in that picture, even if the phone was not able to take a good picture of the moon itself

Lastly, here’s one from Friday, Mar 07, at 5:59 pm. I like how all the clouds were surrounding a central triangular area in the sky where the sun was.

Games

First, some bookkeeping. I just ended stuffing the demos that I played this week into last week’s list, since there’s no point breaking them up over two different weeks. Especially if I decide to edit something in the future.

A list of the demos I did play this week, and have added to last week’s posts, are:

All in all, I played 38 demos and my average score for them was 5.34 out of 10. Not all of them were played onstream. There are still more interesting demos that I didn’t get to, and a lot of them are still up even though the Steam Next Fest is over, but eh. Maybe I’ll make some more off-stream videos for them someday. Or maybe I’ll just wait until the next Steam Next Fest.

After the demos spree ended, I started upon a new game for my stream, Suikoden I&II HD Remaster Gate Rune and Dunan Unification Wars. Well that’s technically two games, but I only started the first one so far. It’s an old Playstation RPG that has popped up a lot for me on searches for good town/kingdom building games, but it was remastered for the modern age (though it still does not have mouse support in 2025) and released on PC this week, so I picked that up and started playing that. So far, so good! Except my party members sometimes leave me for story reasons and take the gear and items they are holding with them! Which is hilarious.

Outside of stream, I played a couple of games, CivIdle as I worked on an offline empire there, My Little Universe as a brainless thing to do while watching Twitch streams in the evening, Backpack Battles as a community night game with my night-time Twitch streamer, Nomakk, and Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings, which also released this week.

Shadowveil is the first (official) computer game set in the L5R universe that’s ever been made/released! My childhood! The game is based around the Crab Clan and features several characters from the actual game (like your main character is either Hida O-Ushi or Hida Sukune, depending on if you want to play a male or female character), but also many randomly generated names for the random troops you can recruit. It’s a roguelite, so the player loses a bunch but gets more powerful each time, which is cool, but it’s also an autobattler, so the characters can’t actually be controlled in battle, which is weird and painful when the AI decides to path somewhere dumb. Nonetheless, I bought it because I wanted to support the company working with the L5R IP, and it’s decent enough.

I also had an anecdote about Backpack Battles that I wanted to squeeze into here. This week, on Tuesday Mar 04, I emailed the publishers for Backpack Battles, using the email on their Steam page, with the following email:

Greetings,

I am not sure exactly what it entails to get this fixed, but there’s this mobile game called Backpack Battle: Bag Fighter that has kind of managed to hijack your game’s identity on Google and such:

That other game using the too-close-but-legally-distinct name, from Growth Studio or whatever, is not you guys, right? They’ve managed to make your game title into an alias of theirs somehow.

Part of the burgeoning issue that I and other larger content creators have run into is that when we’re trying to set out game category on YouTube to Backpack Battles, whether for live streams or video uploads, BPB (which used to be a valid game category) isn’t even on the list anymore, and all that remains is that knockoff. You can see this by setting any video upload on YouTube to the Gaming category, and then trying to search for your game under its specific name:

And that’s weird when pretty much every game on Steam, even unpurchasable ones with tiny tech demos, are selectable on Steam. That Bag Fighter game’s managed to completely knock you off somehow though, and it seems that you guys need to get in touch with YouTube/Google and have them reinstate your game in the category list so that creators/uploaders aren’t forced to give that random mobile knockoff credit, since YouTube likes to automatically assign that game to BPB videos/stream if the video/stream title used is close enough to it or mentions it.

Thanks, and thanks for the game!

Well, they never replied, but three days later on Friday, when Nomakk surprised us with a Backpack Battles community night for his stream, he said something along the lines of “Hey, Backpack Battles is selectable as a category on YouTube now! That’s the first time that’s happened!” while setting up his YouTube live stream. So they evidently did SOMEthing in the background.

Plushie of the Week #176

My plushie of the week this week is.. this thing, this Ganz plushie that we picked up from who knows what event or festival in Canada or acquired some other way back in what was probably the late 2000s. Don’t know for sure though, it could have been from anywhere from the early 2000s to the mid 2010s. It’s in that big box at the parents’ place now, langushing lazily with all the other animals in their trapped box, waiting for me to get a new home to finally free them all.

We know nothing about it and have not given it a name, but it is particularly recognizable because of its blue mohawk tuft of hair sticking out of its yellow feathered head. The pictures I took of it were, like many of the other plushies from that box, from the Chinese New Year event at my parents’ place on Jan 30 2022.

Front top:

Back top:

Belly up:

Tag 1 front:

Tag 1 back/Tag 2 front:

Tag 2 back:

Song of the Week #153

Title: Songbirds
Artist: Homecomings
Album: Liz to Aoi Tori OST (2018)

This song was the second ending to the movie Liz to Aoi Tori, or Liz and the Blue Bird, a heartfelt movie about friendship and making connections that I really liked. It was a spinoff of the Hibike! Euphonium TV anime series, but I actually liked this spinoff movie more than the actual show itself.

The song itself is sung entirely in English, but it’s heavily accented English, so the lyrics can be difficult to make out. The lyrics are here (local), though. I especially like the lines, “Golden reflections of our life, in the afternoon sunlight. Chocolates melting in my pocket.” It’s very evocative, though there are other lines that are nearly as good. I also really like the band, they have four members and run two guitars and a bass (in this song) but have other songs where they run three guitars too, and they have a certain band sound that I can recognize and pick out, at least within the context of AMQ and their other songs that I don’t know well.

This song has fallen out of favour for me though, and before today I probably hadn’t heard it for quite a few months, maybe a year, minus one time that it randomly popped up in AMQ. I used to have it on my phone though, so therefore the memories that I have associated with this song are from after December 2018 when I watched it, and before the COVID lockdown in March 2020. They’re related to the University, walking around the buildings and halls as I listened to the song about regretting time not spent well enough at school. Perhaps it’s fallen out of grace because I’ve stopped taking classes for now as well.

Memory Snippet of the Week #160

Having met WingBenny this week, I was thinking about, and wanted to make a list of, friends and acquaintances that I have met in more than one country in the world. Obviously I can’t count family, since I’ve gone to them with many countries on vacations in the past. But I don’t actually think I’ve met with anyone outside of my immediate family (as of March 2025) in more than two countries in the world. There are a lot of people whom I’ve met in exactly two countries though, and here’s a living list that will probably have to be updated through the years, but that I wanted to compile this week for fun, and for my curious musings, as I don’t know yet for sure (while I’m writing this paragraph in March of 2025) that I *haven’t* met anyone in more than 2 countries.

Have I?

People I have met in two countries:

  • Canada and China: This is what inspired this post, as I met WingBenny in Hong Kong in May 2024, and then again this week in Canada.
  • Canada and Japan: The people I met in RSJP, since I also met them in Canada in pre-RSJP meetings. Aubrey, Aurora, Cameron, Evan, Julian, and Sara. I also met Aurora in Animethon 2024 but that was also in Edmonton. Not Zian though, since she wasn’t from UAlberta and we have yet to meet up anywhere else.
  • Great Britain and Singapore: The people on the ACPMC tour to Hong Kong in 1996. So Alvin Foo, Calvin, Julius, and the two teachers that followed us there as chaperones. Hong Kong was a British territory at the time, not Chinese.
  • Japan and Canada: This would be Ran, with Summer Connect 2020 being the Canada connection and my 2022 trip for the Japan one.
  • Japan and Singapore: While on my first trip there, I met both Xuanjie and Yaoxiang in Japan as they were both travelling there separately. They were my classmates back in Singapore in both primary school (Rosyth) and secondary school (Dunman) from 1994-1998.
  • Japan and USA: Quintopia is the person in this category. I met him in Minnesota in the USA in July 2017 during SGDQ, and went to Japan Jam with him in May 2024.
  • Singapore and USA: Eileen was a classmate back in Singapore in both primary school (Rosyth) and secondary school (Dunman) from 1994-1998, and I met her in Los Angeles in Nov 2021 too.

I think that’s it. Am I missing anyone? I’ll add them in if so as I recall them.

I almost met Allen once when he came to Edmonton, which would have been a Canada-Singapore combo, but I was leaving for one of my trips around that time now so we were unable to connect. Yaoxiang and Yucheng are both in USA, I believe in San Francisco specifically, and I could go down and meet them there at some point too if our schedules meet up. If that ever happens, Yucheng would be a Singapore-USA connection and Yaoxiang would be my first triple, with Japan-Singapore-USA. But we don’t have firm plans to do so at the moment, just “sometime” if things line up. I also hypothetically could join WingBenny on a trip to the USA to some convention, perhaps TwitchCon, or another one that he’s interested in going to, at some point. That would be a Canada-Japan-USA triple if that ever happens. That’s not on the cards for me at the moment, though.

You only live once, everyone, travel more if you can! See the world! It’s really interesting out there! It’ll be too late to do anything but regret not travelling around more and seeing the whole, wide world once you are in the twilight months of your life!

Dreams

Although I’ve had a nice, looooong dream streak going now, I haven’t had a good, long dream for a while now, nor a nice dream that involved visiting outer space, and I had both this week. I walked above the surface of Saturn and got to experience Saturn’s ring of storms! And then got tortured by a mad doctor the next night!

Mar 03 2025
  • I was living in a world where I had to unlock and upgrade tiles by collecting resources and then using them. In particular, there was a area at war to the east that I was concentrating on, where the tiles were unlocked but I had to keep feeding resources to in order to hold back the enemy.
  • There was a shopping mall area a bit west of the middle where I visited. When I needed to catch the bus home, there was a busier bus stop that was far too crowded, but I knew of a quieter alternate bus stop where I could board the bus from so I went there instead. There was only one other person waiting for the bus at this bus stop, which was at one end of an underpass tunnel that ran next to the shopping centre, with me.
  • The only difference was that instead of being able to use an automated transit card like the other stop, I had to manually pay for my fare when boarding from this stop. This was fine though, and I picked out six ten-cent coins and gave it to the driver to pay for myself and the things I was carrying.
  • My parents were living further west in locked territory, but locked territory just meant that I couldn’t influence it rather than the locations did not exist at all, so they said they were going to come travel to my apartment in 10 or 15 minutes time anyway via Jon‘s car. I was still in bed at that point and rolled out of it with slightly messy hair to get ready for their arrival.
Mar 04 2025
  • Snippet: I believe I had parent-related dreams, with the strongest memory being a specific scene where Dad came to meet me at a shopping mall, and then Mom and Jon also arrived soon afterwards. Dad wondered if they had arrived on the same bus at them. But everyone else pointed out that that wasn’t possible as he walked the slowest of them all, whereas Mom and Jon tended to walk quickly, so they likely arrived on the bus after him and just almost caught up on the walk over from the bus to where I was.
Mar 05 2025
  • I was walking along a long walkway above the surface of Saturn with a friend. The walkway was more or less linear, but had escalators up and down that followed some sort of airflow so that the wind pressure wouldn’t push people off the barriers at the edge of the walkway. Everyone including me was walking from a start point to the south to an end point to the north.
  • Eventually, I was walking by myself across a large, open field and there were swirling storms nearby as Saturn’s Great White Spot was passing by. I went around the bulk of the storms but held on to the grass on the ground and used it as anchors, pulling myself along as I crawled through the field, so that I wouldn’t blow away in the strong wind.
  • I felt bad for anyone else who was blown off, even if they managed to land on any small platforms below before falling into the gas giant, as humanity did not have the technology to rescue people from below yet.
  • After the storm had passed, I pulled up a screen and watched some seasonal anime as I walked, and eventually managed to reach my destination safely.
  • Snippet: I was on an island, with boats carrying people and things arriving on the west side of the island, despawning, and then respawning on the east side and sailing away east after a little while. I was on the south side of the island, and the “screen” of the dream when it shifted to me was shifting left and right as though I was dancing back and forth. I was doing something there, possibly repairing or upgrading something, while also waiting for afriend to arrive on one of the ships.
  • Snippet: There was a church in one of my dreams at some point in a game, and on the southern entrance to the church was a room plaque reading “Church – TigeyChurch – Tigey“. I edited the plaque, which popped up a text box with the text on the plaque in it, and I removed the duplicate text so it only read as a single “Church – Tigey“.
  • Snippet: There was a boy and two girls walking together, and one of the girls, who had super powers, thought she had been wronged or was mad at something that had happened and used her powers to attack the other girls, who was initially a separate character but eventually became played by me. She pinned me to the ground and started punching me many times and tried to strangle me. However, I had been forewarned about this happening by the boy, and had also awakened to my powers within the last day or so, which kept me immune to the attacks. I also really liked the other girl and knew that she needed to do this, so I did not mind being hit and possibly even gave her a hug at the end.
Mar 06 2025
  • This dream started in a house, where I was kiting a swarm of slow bees around an internal wall that separated the kitchen from the living room, and letting a robot friend that was floating around me shoot the swarm and slowly kill it off. Apparently robots were considered really effective against bees because they were ranged and immune to poison.
  • Once the swarm was dead, I saw a newer player standing scared by the door to the house, and a swarm of bees waiting for him. He had no idea how to deal with them. I went over and took his hand and led him around the same path that I took, showing him that the swarm moved very slowly and telling him that if he just kited them in this manner then he would be safe. The ground was made of non-slippery ice and we were basically “skating” our way along the floor, which was faster than the bees could traverse the ice somehow.
  • Later on, I was in school with some friends and considering visiting and viewing an international Chinese Chess tournament that was being held in the school yard. However, that yard was very big and was also considered to be partly overseas and belonging to a Japanese school, so it was a bit awkward to visit, especially since our school’s team was playing near the other side of the yard, about 30 minutes away. I had brought a paper Chinese Chess game board with no pieces, and had wanted to gift that to the team, but I decided not to, then folded it up and put in my pocket instead.
  • There was a group of young adults nearby who were harassing a businessman in a suit who had wanted to try to be cool and hang out with them. I had seen the group before and knew they meant no harm, instead they were hoping for a ride to an event and pestering him to drive them there. He seemed reluctant but they asked him something along the lines of how he had nothing to lose whereas if he didn’t do it, then the girls would lose out on something.
  • Eventually he relented and led the group along to his car. I kind of knew the group as acquaintances so I slipped in with them and no one paid me any mind, and the seven of us piled into his car before he drove off.
  • After some time, he stopped at a convenience store and the other girls besides me piled out. Left in the car was the driver in the front left seat, and two guys, one in the front right and one by the left door of the back seat. I was by the right door of the back seat and pretending to be asleep. The guy at the left door was the leader of the group, and he took a good look at me there and wondered who I was, and if I was another friend of theirs that they had not seen in a while.
  • I opened my eyes and said that no, I was an acquaintance who was familiar with them and had chatted with a few of them before, and had come along because I wanted a partial ride home. He laughed and nodded. Once the other girls came back to the car, it drove on, and then arrived at a train station where I asked the car to stop and left the group there.
  • The train station, while closer to my home than the school, was along a side line that would require a transfer to get home. Specifically, it was the second last train station on the NAIT train line in Edmonton, one stop away from the Boon Lay MRT Station in Singapore which was the end of the line.
  • A bunch of people were going down the stairs towards a dead end door that couldn’t be opened instead of following the passage to the train platform, as they were following the person in front of them who was also mistakenly following the person in front of them and so on, and I told everyone that that was a dead end in an attempt to stop the cycle.
  • On the train, I sat on a single seat that was located behind another narrow single seat, with the leg room for my seat stretching around both sides of the narrower seat in front of me, cupping it. There was a guy sitting in that seat and he looked at me as I sat down, then at the layout of the seats, then decided that he didn’t want to sit there anymore and left.
  • A mad doctor came onto the train with a pistol and approached me as I was seated closest to the door. He asked me a number of questions, then proceeded to take a lot of time slowly injecting me around my face and neck with alcohol syringes, stepping out every now and then to wash and refill them at a sink just outside the carriage.
  • I felt like I had heard of him from a previous dream before, he messed people up and made them both drunk and look terribly aged with his solution, and then mercy killed them. However, the syringes did not hurt, I didn’t want him to hurt others on the train, and I had a secret trick up my sleeve, so I stalled for time by chatting with him and letting him inject me. He smack-talked me at times but seemed genuinely kind at other times.
  • Eventually, we reached a point after many syringes where my face was flushed red and the counter showing my physical age said I must be around 110 years old. I knew he was going to eventually shoot me with his pistol so I watched it closely. I considered jumping him but didn’t think that I would be able to overpower him in the state that he had put me in.
  • So instead I just sprung my secret, which was the ability to load a localized save file from back in Chapter 2. The load screen said that we were in Chapter 5, so it would just send me back to much earlier in the day. The save file also only affected me, so everyone else would be able to continue on and it didn’t reset the time of day or anything like that.
Mar 07 2025
  • Snippet: I was “fishing”, though in this case what that meant was standing next to water and using a resource node in it. The node could produce all sorts of resources, about 12-15 different types, but I needed a specific one from it to unlock the next fishing node next to it, and so on as there were a few of these to unlock. Each one took a while to get.
Mar 08 2025
  • I was on a plane, on a row of four connected seats in the middle column, with other seats to the left and right sides of the plane past the walking aisles. There were also seats in front of and behind me, with a thin, but long table attached to the back of each row of seats acting as a permanent counter for the row behind them.
  • On the counter in front of our row was a computer monitor and a keyboard and mouse. I was the only person in my row, so I took up the middle two seats and took control of the computer, playing some game on it. Eventually though, a plump man came by and sat down on the leftmost seat in my middle section, next to the aisle, and he took up so much of the seat that his thigh was going over the seat divider and touching me.
  • This annoyed me, especially since there were other seats in the plane that he could have sat at whose neighbouring seats were not occupid, so I left the game running to make sure he couldn’t use the computer, and visited a different room/scene that was still part of the same dream but was no longer on the plane.
  • I don’t remember those other scenes, but I do remember the game was a top-down tile game where setting my pieces down in specific combinations or positions next to each other, and next to pre-filled node tiles on the map, caused synergies that produced either more resources or special resources.
Mar 09 2025
  • I was in a top-down dungeon in a game, following a predetermined path, but by collecting resources and information I unlocked temporary freedom of movement and could guide my character away from the fixed rail for a few seconds to do or examine something or acquire a nearby object, before my character would automatically walk back to the path and continue her preset movements.
  • At one point, there was a key to a gate that my character couldn’t open, so my character looped upon a preset path, but during my limited window of control I could get her to move into the forest to an area that was technically the “next” zone. There she found and grabbed a key, before going back to the main path and unlocking the gate the next time she encountered it.
  • The game was set on a screen/UI backdrop of what looked like a large paper theatre with curtains and a wooden stage, and two displays that rotated through different paper plants and animals every few seconds in the upper left and upper right of the background.

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