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Yesterday morning, Chester spotted me during a lap I started on Masem Court, and told me that he spotted those ducks walking alongside the log fence separating his frontyard from our backyard. I told them who they belong to during a brief chat.

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Dad's old friends Paul and Stephen from the Woodenboat forum are staying over for the weekend to help move the catboat out, and are occupying the apartment for their stay. I am not gonna be able to play Earthbound right now, so I am going to focus instead on this coming week's video (on my laptop, since we also took apart my downstairs desktop, which also has a habit of freezing for no apparent reason every now and then), which will showcase all the different screenshot edits I've gotten so far.

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Upon arriving at work yesterday, I asked someone in the office where Rohan is, and was told that he's having the weekend off for his birthday. The person I spoke to told me that others would help me out with all the dishes that had already piled up down the dishwasher counter, but that didn't happen until my last hour on the job, at which point I decided just to start sweeping and mopping instead. (Brayden actually asked me while taking his turn what I normally do when there are way more dishes than I can hope to take care of by the end of my shift, and I told him that I would just leave them by that point, like was suggested to me before without Eddie remaining to help out.)

Stayed half an hour late mainly to wash up the soup bowls and dessert cups belonging to reflections, so that I could return those along with the mugs, glasses, and silverware already on the cart. Dunno how others normally do it, but for me, this involved spraying each individual bowl and cup for a tray before sending each tray through the machine, and that's why it took me so long while Mom awaited me in front of the building.

Last week, I made it to Ness and Paula's capture inside Threed Sunset Hotel, but the missing cutscene failed to play out despite a script specifically containing that to have been compiled. Making a few edits to both the script in question and the one it references did enable it, but then I failed to regain control of Ness before Paula reaches out to Jeff.

Sent over to Jonathan, who emailed me some unrelated bugfixes the next day. At first glance, I assumed the cutscene issue was among them, but spent up through the day before yesterday creating this week's video.

Yesterday was when I realized that he had actually wished me luck attempting to figure things out myself first.

Turns out that the script isn't even on GitHub, so it might've been the one from Mr. Tenda those few years ago.

After a failed initial attempt to figure anything out, it occurred to me simply to type "eob" after the call on data_31.ccs for the cutscene script. Regained control of Ness then, so now I just need to set everyone's spritegroups except Paula's to palette 06 and test the bugfixes that Jonathan sent me.

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Mom and I had a walk on the beach yesterday, there in particular so that she could take advantage of a KFC promotion just down William Floyd Parkway from there for a bucket of soft fried chicken. (Not too crazy about that kind, to be honest.)

Mom left me a box of Jim Henson's Count Chocula for Halloween, by a small lamp on the kitchen counter for me to wake up to. (And yes, Count Chocula himself is depicted as a muppet.)

Two days ago, Jeff asked me to wipe the dust off the fan at some point before I conclude my shift, the first time I've been given such an additional responsibility. I got started then while things were slow, and finished it off during my last hour on the job.

The garden has been falling apart for a while now. Helped Mom clean it out and take the side-gate apart yesterday afternoon.

With Jonathan and Vadim's help, I have finally gotten everything in order with the end-of-battle overload script.

New short to showcase everything the script itself enables, as far as I can test for now:

https://youtube.com/shorts/oS6e6BzROyk?feature=share

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Yesterday at work, after I was sent to deliver an individual meal to Reflections, someone in a wheelchair asked me to wheel him to his room on the 4th floor. I obliged, partly to extend such a reprieve as I had already gotten from dishes.

Someone named Jeff has taken Patrick's former position up permanently.

The other day, Mom and I stopped somewhere to take down a cardboard sign for Josh Slaughter, that she found to obscure her rear view. All we did then was clip the plastic straps holding the sign up.

Only yesterday morning did we come back for the posts, for Mom's use in her garden or something. We brought a small sledgehammer to loosen them up with, but they just came right up out of the ground.

While I was having a walk down Masem Court, Chester spotted me and told me that that sign was gone. I told him that Mom and I were the ones responsible. He told me that he was the one to spot her scooping up those goose carcasses the other day, something she mentioned the other night upon bringing me home from work.

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While reviewing a script revision from Vadim afterwards, I tried discarding an equipment item from Paula's inventory in a savestate where I have her unconscious. Even with the script in place, the game specified her to have discarded her own item for a Cookie (from a Spiteful Crow), instead of Ness managing her stuff.

Looked into seeing what happens in the vanilla game, and looked through Blonde Girls to Brunette for a savestate with everyone's inventories just about full. Found that the case in Saturn Valley (before you fight Master Belch), and took on Grapefruit Falls in hopes of landing a Cookie from a Black Antoid (somehow, none of those appeared).

While Jeff's halo was gold when he fell unconscious, Paula's appeared brown (copper?) after Ness finished the fight in question off alone. (I had no reason to mess with anyone's unconscious sprites, so naturally, even Paula's would have wound up in the untouched palette 06.)

(How quickly everyone's HP and PP depleted during such a failed test does go to show how important food is before you enter Belch's factory.)

Then, after Ness bit the dust, I went along with a game over and respawned directly back in the shop (normally, I select No and reload the file from scratch, so as to preserve the challenge), and Paula's halo was gold. Got her and Jeff revived by Dr. Saturn, and Paula sported her normal blonde, just for until I stepped back outside. (Was her sprite calling upon palette 06?)

(A pretty funny glitch if you ask me. Does help to have discovered that two other colors had gone unused, but I can only wonder how changing those instead of the yellow and orange will affect her in the combined hack.)

I decided afterwards that, whatever the vanilla game does say, the main hack should utilize whoever's ID is already retrieved (usually whoever finishes a battle off, regardless of everyone else's condition), instead of linking to vanilla text that would just retrieve the first PC still conscious.

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Having finished the main series, Mom and I watched a total of seven (short) episodes of BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO ~Ohmori~ throughout the day, starting with two before we headed out for those leftover sign posts.

As it turns out, though, I had actually misread something from before, and the actual first season's title ends with just "PICO". Managed to pull that on YouTube here on my downstairs desktop, and will have to pay closer attention when I load it up on the TV.

At Chris' suggestion who had offered to promote my channel through it, I have created a short yesterday to explain why my channel is gonna be about primarily:

https://youtube.com/shorts/_UUGYgCzp-4?feature=share

Mom and I went for one of our walks around Bellport yesterday afternoon.

Upon arriving there, she decided to treat me to some ice cream after parking. I got a cup of cappuccino crunch, and she got a cherry cone.

Where we've seen milkweed before, she decided to collect a few pods, and we spotted some colonies of spotted red bugs feeding on several. She decided to take some pictures and ask Siri about them, and an older lady stopped by to see, prompting some discussion between them about them.