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Wowzers, thoughts and prayers.

The whole thing is so complex now. You have the traditional weak to strong punches and kicks. and now there is these V-moves, and throws, counter throws. The timing is way more precise because the jumps feel so short. I really didn't enjoy it. I still like games like Smash Bros because of its simplicity in move sets but depth because of it. But I guess just moving two sticks around and mashing shoulder buttons atrophied my gaming muscles from the SNES/Genesis days. I use to have a callus on my thumb from fighting games.
Competitive gaming really sucked the fun out of the fighting genre for me... much like it has the FPS scene.

Same with me. I tried playing Injustice last week... I couldn't get past the tutorial ten minutes in.

The last mobile game I played was Snoopy Pop.  But my phone sucks and games load too slow most of the time. That along with me taking videos of my dogs doing cute stuff I'm always running out of space.. then I delete a game to take more videos of my dogs.

This is why you watch subs, no issue keeping to date and you don't have to worry about people spoiling shit (aka me) Honestly though you're not really missing much Fire Force wise. Been kinda slow progression story wise with some amazing fights but that's it (and some damn good humor).
Heh, you're where I am most of the year when it comes to shit like this. I lost a lot of my hype for anime this year with everything I wanted to watch getting pushed back until next year (exceptions being Fire Force, No Guns Life, SAO, and Fruits Basket (which my god are the feel getting intense, good lord)). Then again I go through a span of time every year where I just don't want to look at anime so I won't watch it for a few months. If it wasn't' for the fact that four shows this season are shows I wanted to watch I'd of probably gone cold turkey again until fall.
Bad time to choose not playing AL with it being the 2nd year Anniversary. Warspite's retrofit item is up for grabs again (unless you grabbed it before you stopped playing) and starting Thursday Bismarck's event is being rerun (fucking finally, I can get my hands on her. I have so many cubes saved up for this). Plus the bastards finally gave my girl Amagi a skin (not an oath skin like I wanted but it's still a nice swimsuit skin). Honestly though I hear ya on Arknights (also I noticed  you haven't been getting on). I was getting back into it recently (hell I finally started progressing the story after months of not touching it) and now it feels like a chore again. Then again 90% of the mobile games I play are chores but for some reason I still play them (then again I have no choice in SINoALICE being a guild leader and all) even if I'm not really enjoying them anymore.
Fuck I've found myself watching weird shit as of late on Youtube since the normal stuff I watch is hardly interesting (outside of the news channels I watch, shit I haven't watched a gaming related YT video in months outside of trailers). Been really into Weird History as of late (learning a lot of shit I didn't know and the video's are quite entertaining) and top 10 video's (why I don't know, normally I stay away from them like they're the plague but for some reason they've piqued my interest. I might need help).

Drinking coffee and watching science videos sounds like a good Friday night to me.
I've been watching alot of science channel but that will stop soon because we'll be canceling our cable package in another 2 months when our promotion price expires. Then I'll be getting caught up on all the science videos on youtube I've been neglecting. Btw, PBS space time is a really good science youtube channel. I keep forgetting to post videos from them in the youtube topic.
https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime
 

this brings back my painful memory lol..damn almost 2 decade ago i use to download new episodes of inuyasha from torrent every week with excitement but out of the blue it got discontinued and it bummed me out so badly. it was like some kind of switch turned off inside of me..it felt like a betrayal. i was like why even start if you cant commit? what about us fans who supported your show? i believe this was 2nd anime that pulled this stunt on me and left me feel cheated for investing my time and money..yes i downloaded it for free but i normally bought a complete series on dvd if i liked them, plus merchandises like manga, toys & games that came along w/ its anime. now that was all pointless. i looked up manga to see kikyo's demise and lost interest in anime altogether at that point on. over the years i do seldomly give a try on new ones that look interesting on netflix or amazon prime but i just never finish watching them past no more than a couple of first episodes. attack on titan was an exemption but i grew tired of that one too. so i moved on to wcw/wwf, when that got old i moved on to pc games. it was only recent that my brother got me interested again in console games around late 2018. lol his wife wont let him play video games (not completely bc he has his nintendo switch) so he gave me his ps4. his ps3 and ps2 were still here when he moved out so i started to play them as well. got a new switch for my birthday around the same time i got ps4 so i havent spent a dime on a console yet he says he is getting ps5 so ill visit him often to play and to see if its worth getting. if i have nothing to watch, i just play old anime on tv like escaflowne as a background noise while i play video games
 

Meh, I never really liked the campaign to MW2 so I didn't bother downloading it (plus lets get something more meaty Sony, the last few freebies were rather meh). I'll agree it's batshit crazy and there are a few standout moments but MW1's campaign was so much better for me. It's most likely because my favorite mission in any CoD campaign is All Ghillied Up. Such a wonderfully crafted mission (and fucking difficult as all hell on Veteran).

There's only 2 things to do in New Orleans. Eat and Drink. Yeah they got a zoo and aquarium... and the WW2 Museum. But the majority of the city is restaurants and bars.

I'd probably hit that $20 ticket every now and then. The scratchoffs seem to be a waste. Like cool you can win $500? Fuck that, I want the $100 million. The MS lotto website actually has the prizes left on all the scratch offs and most of the big ones are gone. Seems like an odd choice, I'd assume no one would buy any of them anymore when all the big prizes are dried up.
The most lax alcohol laws are in New Orleans. There is a bar at every street corner, and you can just walk around the whole city with a open container. I remember the first time visiting as an adult, I stopped at a gas station and they basically had fifths of every mainstream bourbon behind the counter. You could fill up and get a bottle in one stop.

Nah, they'd never do that. We do have strict open container laws. Like you couldn't take your alcoholic beverage out of a restaurant and go around and drink it outside. They do have an entertainment district downtown where this is allowed now. I don't know if the state of the law now because the first thing they did when the shutdown happened was allow togo cocktails, alcohol deliveries, etc from bars and restaurants. From what I've seen so far, none of my favorite spots to eat have permanently gone out of business.

I couldn't imagine living in a dry county. Again, they're just losing business. I actually think there are a few dry counties in MS and they drive over here to load up and go home. Surprisingly they just passed medical marijuana not too long ago. I always joked that weed would be legal before we ever had a lotto and it looks like thats coming true.

People bundle up in the 70s here. Its ridiculous. If it was 50 all year I'd be happy in a t-shirt.

But is your humidity at least at 90% or higher? Welcome to my worlds for 3-4 months straight, every day.

Yea, I saw them on Twitter. Suffice to say I'm going to be putting way more hours into AL now

i also have glasses on so a face mask will pull my ears down, gives me a headache. so i wear a bandana instead. i tie it very loose around my neck and pull it up when needed. comfortable than other stuff i tried on. but what bugs me is most ppl wear it incorrectly anyway. eventually no one can breathe with that face mask thing on for that long. most ppl either cover their mouth only so they can breathe thru their nose, or pull it all the way down to their chin so they can talk on a phone. seen so many ppl doing that while working or out shopping. defeats the whole purpose of wearing a mask. 

Lol. Screw that. I'll keep my snow storms.

Interesting, the open world concept sounds fun so I really hope it's implemented well. This new update might actually get me playing a lot more than I currently do (will also mean I'm going to have to step my research game way up to get those anti-siren ships built (curse you Izumo for not being done yet). Really want to get my hands on Azuma). Also look at that Unicorn Oath skin, so fucking adorable. Going to have to start using Uni a lot more so I can oath her (good thing she's my secondary carrier for my RN fleet).
I was using PVP to level but as I said I just got to bored doing it and I don't need to do it for SR Bulins (I've got those coming out of my ears, don't know what to do with them all). Should really do it more so I can get Eldridge but just can't bring myself to do it unless an event mission requires it.
Yeah, for some reason the game just likes handing me SE ships left and right (except Nagato, so pissed I didn't get her during her event) but won't give me shit for RN or IB. As I said not complaining as I love the SE ships but I really want to build up a killer IB fleet. I think I'm only missing like 30 or so SE ships (I know I'm missing 10 SR's and have most of the Rares and Normals (missing like 5 normals I think). Not to sure how many epics I'm missing). Most of what I am missing is event only though so it'll be awhile before I get those (most of the Epics I'm missing are chapter related (like Hiryuu and Souryuu, some reason the game decided I didn't deserve them when I was doing the story)).
Also can I just point out how fucking cute Little Illustrious is. God what a fucking great addition to the game. I also didn't know there was a Little Bel either and after seeing her I must spend all my cubes to get her. Man, Yostar out here playing a dangerous game with these adorable mini version ships (I really want Akagi-chan but gold is becoming a slight issue lately with me increasing level caps and this event (thankfully I got the last event ship I needed today so goodbye cubes, Strider wants his Akagi-chan)).

I do PvP mostly for the merits to get a SR Bulin as much as I can but it does give Hella experience. Enty and Anaynami are my 2 120 ships. Tashkent and Belfast will be there shortly at 119. All my other used ships are between 114-104. I actually made rear admiral today for the first time. I doubt I'll get admiral of the navy but damn that merit bonus would be nice. I can't compete with 120 Retrofit Warspite in a whole 120 fleet, and Monday everyone will take their joke defense fleets down and 95% of the opponents will have her up. X_X
Holy crap about your SE ships. I was just happy to get Shoukaku off that daily game for this event. I got Zuikaku the same way a few months ago. I have a ton of RN ships... and as if you couldn't tell, I'm fine with that. I have all the battle maids except Formidable.
Here is a video of all the new stuff coming.

Yeah wtf with no Skin for Amagi, I was surprised when I got her. I guess I assumed all meta ships would have at least one skin. If I had to pick, Taihou's and St Louis Qipao are my favorite skins becasue the L2D is so well done. But I'll never really use them in my fleets. I think Belfast is one of my only favorites that have a L2D skin on her but its not as well done. Taihou plays her little mandolin, and St Louis follows your finger on the screen. I hope when they give Amagi a skin, its L2D, but either way I'll buy whatever they bring out for her. I'd also like a good skin for my girl Tashkent. The bondage one didn't do it for me during that event.
I'm really not that far ahead of you. I think I finished 10-1 last week. I was only inspired to get that far for the 9-4 secretary unlock, and for PR ship XP grind. I think by world 11, you need all 120 ships. I don't have that yet.
I dunno if its how the game is or just my pull ratio but I have less Sakura and Iron ships than anything and my Eagle Union faction is level 4 in the lab. I finally was able to get the level 2 upgrade for Sakura while Iron Blood is still stuck at 0 for me.
Enty, Saratoga, and Monarch are my boss fleet backline, and Amagi, Hood, and Illustrious are my mob fleet backline. So as you can see, I don't really have any faction synergy going. I still use Enty because shes my best carrier. I don't have Essex or Formidable (God, i want Formidable so bad, I need that rerun and her swimsuit is an instapurchase and permanent secretary for me. )
Did you see their going to be adding an open world part to the game tho? Like a major update is coming sometime soon. it looks pretty rad. I'm also super excited about the Helena retrofit.

And people say I have a mobile game addiction
I've been pondering buying Enterprise's new skin but since I rarely use her anymore I don't want to drop the gems on it (even if I dropped $30 on the pack they just released (was really hoping for her skin but got Mass's instead)). Since I only have access to three secretaries right now (I'm still on chapter 9-1, I don't honestly throw much time into this anymore outside of events so I stalled on story progression) I don't really throw much money at skins but all I really need is Laffy and her adorable Oath skin to make me happy (well and Akagi in her oath skin though I'm seriously thinking about dropping gems to get her New Year's skin (and Atago's as well since Laffy, Akagi, and Atago are currently my secretaries)).
What they need to freaking do is get me a skin for Amagi (preferably an oath skin) because she's a staple of my first fleet (flagship in fact) and she's the only one without a skin in the entire fleet. Makes me sad they do my girl wrong like that as she's tied with Akagi for my second favorite ship (nothing will ever beat Laffy out of first, nothing I say).

I got buzzed on my way home from work from the emergency broadcasting system for a severe thunderstorm warning with 70mph winds and golfball sized hail. vehicle damage expected. Thankfully it was in Mississippi where the radio station is based. We got some super heavy rain though before that, I guess the system intensified when it went over us. That gulf water really supercharges storms if they feed off of it.  I should have snapchatted it today.

That's some intense winds. 😲 and yes fuck yellow jackets. I forgot to mention them, Hornets and bees. 😖 It was either yellow jackets or ground bees stung the hell out of me and got one of my dogs with a sting to about 3 years ago I think. I sprayed the hell out of the couple holes I saw them coming out of and thought that was the end of it.. nope, 2 days later they were swarming around. We had skunks in the yard a couple nights in a row, turns out they were hunting bees. A big pile of dirt almost 2 feet deep was dug up in a flower bed and what was left of a hive was exposed. I sprayed all those damn things and a couple days later I flushed them with the garden hose and left it running in the hole for hours just to be safe.
At my house now I've been seeing bumble bees and wasps having death battles. Wtf. I need to buy more wasp spray.

When its hurricane season we'll always get a tropical storm or depression. They have winds of 20-60mph. The rain would eventually erode your rock formation apart if left unattended between occurrences. Last year we had a pretty good thunderstorm system roll through and it damaged a ton of gas station signs around the city. I'm not sure what people did in the 80s when a hurricane hit TBH. I'd imagine they'd took down all their window units and brought them inside. Interestingly enough you're suppose to leave a few windows cracked open during a hurricane the intense barometric pressure will make buildings swell and contract like a breathing lung. It will shatter windows which is why you see people tape and barricade theirs. its for more than just debris hazards. I remember a few years ago when that hurricane almost made it up the NE coast, it was a big panic on the news because houses up there aren't build to code for hurricanes and the damage would be way worse. Those screws would be fine, but the wood would break apart around it.
Its pretty amazing that we'll all go to work during a depression or storm, but let an inch of snow fall and the city shuts down. We have no snow plows, no salt trucks, or anything to cope with snow and ice. Its a super rare occurrence. Our drainage systems would easily take care of the melt water though since they're built to withstand several inches of water hourly because of hurricanes and just the generally rainfall we get.
When I lived in Virginia I remember the gnat clouds that would be in random places outside. We don't have many of those here, but everything else you mentioned we have that on top of everything else. its bugpocalyse most the year. multiple types of ants, hornets, wasps, bees, spiders, crickets, grasshoppers, earwigs, moths, stinkbugs, ticks, dragonflies, mosquitoes, beetles, etc. Daddy long legs are around but they're def not the most prevalent. I'd say orb weavers and the most prevalent in the yards, and outside the house, while wolf spiders are always finding ways to get in. The yellow jackets are what you have to worry about since they like to nest in the ground, if you step on it, its over with. They're super aggressive. Unlike most bees, they don't lose their stinger and will keep stinging you. In fact I believe once they sting you, you're marked so they can keep tracking you down. They're assholes.

I forgot the last couple pics. Here it is completely done now. 

Its amazing how different north is from south. You won't see any window units here, probably haven't seen one since the late 80s. Central air is in every house and apartment complex here. It was 96 degrees here today with brutal humidity. We've been pretty lucky this year since we made it all the way to the last 10 days of May with relatively nice weather in the 70s. AC runs every day 24 hours a day for months here. basically winter season is the only time it wont cut on to maintain temp. I bet window units would be hella expensive on the power bill in this environment.