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Yesterday morning, after defeating the Dept. Store Spook, I visited the Monotoli Building for context purposes. After having called Escargo Express from the department store itself to pick up the Franklin Badge, I called EX again inside the Monotoli Building to deliver me a Rust Promoter to use in Moonside.

The agent arrived and then left just before Pokey's bodyguards could warn me never to visit Pokey again, and the actual dialogue played out after they went back into Pokey's chamber. The game froze thereafter.

This is one false recording I've decided to keep, and have even just uploaded such a funny moment to YouTube. What luck that I just so happened to take place in a playthrough I was even recording in the first place; just imagine how hard something like that would be to replicate.

https://youtu.be/iu86daQlAB4

Having noticed Paula's hair almost blend in with the floor in the gold mine, I did consider yesterday, making a point to create a lighter brown for her as well, based on Mai from Makeruna! Makendou (my main userpic), just to showcase the actual range of shades that appeal to me. Another part of that also comes from Honoka from The Honor Student at Magic High School, which I started re-reading when we drove to Brian's for Maris' birthday, and Akatsuki from My Stepmom's Daughter is My Ex, which I've discovered in passing not too long ago.

Having thought about it, though, I could easily end up from there creating much more than dark-brown and light-brown, using multiple different characters equivalently to paint chips. I already had been planning to recommend two different shades of brown for Natalie in Epic Battle Fantasy 4, since her hair appears orange in cutscenes and more crimson on her field and battle graphics. However, a full range to include, say, War Nurse, would likely be best reserved for Disgaea, where each game has multiple character classes lacking a brunette tier. Here, too many choices could end up barely distinguishable from one another.

Maybe four, as the number of screenshots allowed on onsite content pages on ROMhack.ing. (No more than twelve if I decide to go further.)

[T]he four grown women I left blonde are not decent people. A big part of why brunette girls appeal to me so much has to do with Saga, the kind and cheerful human protagonist of A Little Snow Fairy Sugar. While people of any hair color do come in all stripes, someone like Miu from Strawberry Marshmallow is a perfect example of a brunette girl I don’t like, because of how she treats her friends. Admittedly, my tastes are more complex than that, but Lardna and Miss Fake, unlike Paula, are still not people I would want to end up lumping together with Saga Bergman, Yui Hirasawa, or Sakura Kinomoto.

-Planned for my YouTube video.

I originally saw the name "Miss Fake" on videogamesprites.net, and later saw it as her page title on Wikibound. Recently, I saw it in an actual script dump, but assumed it was someone in the Runaway Five who uses the name.

Yesterday's recording was of the Dusty Dunes Desert gold mine mission that leads up to the Runaway Five's final act at the Topolla Theater. Following said act, I went into the dressing room, and discovered that their leitmotif comes on there, even though only Venus is actually there. That's something I should look into ironing out personally after Mr. Tenda is able to make three changes I have just assigned him.

(I do recall Mr. Tenda somehow setting me up with his previous build, with Poo yet to join me, to obtain the Signed Banana from Venus in order to test a dialogue I requested for after you exit Fourside Sewers, but her actual performance initially did not activate. I wonder if this had anything to do with what seemed like a ROMhacking bug at the time.)

Having had a look at the script through CoilSnake, I could see that whoever mentions Miss Fake, prior to obtaining the Diamond, suggests traversing between DDD and Fourside by foot for exercise. However, loading my savestate from before the gold mine, I spoke to everyone I could find outdoors in Fourside, except for the hint man; at first, he didn't seem like he'd know the manager's "name", but it suddenly became obvious when I went to ask on Reddit.

For the sake of the aforementioned part of the video, I'm gonna have to redo the gold mine raid in order to include that guy at the end of the recording. (Not a complete waste of time, though, because yesterday's run did allow me to flesh out the corresponding walkthrough page.)

Mom and I got me a pair of in-soles yesterday at the clinic, that were planned for me from the start.

Mom sold that recliner chair yesterday that Brian and I had picked up back in October, not just to create space between our dining and living rooms, but also to have one less reminder of Dad in such a state as he was in by that point.

Heard on the store radio that yesterday was National Hamburger Day, and relayed to Uguu Blue: Lemonade Crew. Marie later asked me what my favorite burger place is, to which I replied Applebee's, to tie in with Cold Stone for dessert.

Mom and I decided to go there for dinner after she picked me up from work.

Got myself a quesadilla burger and some blue-raspberry lemonade.

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From what I read via Google Discover, the flavor I got last time was one of two new flavors available there; the other one, Better Nutter Butter, is said to contain sugar crystals, like that donut from before.

Despite that, this isn't something I'd pick out again; it did not surprise me to contain crushed peanut sandwich cookies, which are kind of dry for my tastes.

Yesterday was the third consecutive day I called in sick (feeling much better today, but have off by default). Still sick as I was, I had at least recovered enough to come with Mom to Target to unload a shopping cart from the pickup, that someone had left at the edge of our frontyard.

Mom spoke to Dr. D'Amara, and relayed to me yesterday after picking me up that I will need another week of reduced hours, along with two sessions a week of physical therapy that was already established the previous day, for what she has identified as bone marrow edema.

Soon as Mom arrived to drop me off at work, someone came up to her and told her that this new manager (possibly Eileen, whom I'd go on to speak to about my schedule) does not want associates entering through the auto care entrance, only actual customers.

Upon picking me up, Mom suggested that I keep my vest in my drink bag until I'm inside the building, so that I seem like a customer.

Two days ago, ending my shift that day at 1 after Elizabeth modified my schedule for up to Friday next week, I decided to have lunch at Bagel Boss before Mom were to come pick me up. Ordered a Mel, which is supposed to be a tuna-and-tomato melt on a bagel, to go with my protein shake that I originally planned on having with a grilled cheese at Starbucks. Despite the name, the cheese wasn't actually melted, and while it wasn't bad, I probably should add a note to actually melt it next time I order that.

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Texted Mom to meet me at "in front" of Starbucks. She told me that there was no parking available in the "front", and asked me to meet her in the back. I thought she meant the back of Walmart, where she normally picks me up near the auto entrance, but I only saw a handful of cars parked in the lot that faces Walmart while making my way back to the store. Texted her that I don't see her car, and she soon came to get me in front of the vision center entrance.

As it turns out, we were thinking of opposite parking lots as the "front"; I was thinking of the side facing the front of Walmart, while she was thinking of the side where a nearby roundabout leads directly, which faces a condominium complex.

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Started planting some oak trees in Dad's name shortly after coming home, using some bags of soil that I helped her pick up the other day at Costco. We're supposed to get some more bags today, to tie in with an MRI that we were actually supposed to pick up yesterday.