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Nov. 28th, 2024 07:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedBrian cleared something up about what I said a few entries ago.
Basically, collecting rewards as its own kind of fun was something he simply mentioned offhand. What he actually liked about such a game that he wasn't actually looking for was how easy and satisfying it was to clear a few levels every now and then, until it became almost impossible. And with Candy Crush, which he didn't play for nearly as long as me, he enjoyed noticing where he could possibly line up five like candies in a row, but often, something else would happen along the way.
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Frankly, SimpleAlarm has been mostly reduntant. Unlike with my phone and wallet before I collect everything else I need for work, I can never seem to commit to turning the app off before signing out. Usually, it doesn't matter anyway, because the times I put there are imported from Me@Walmart, and I already check my phone time and time again before taking my next break or signing out. Just yesterday morning, I had forgotten to turn my morning alarm off, and the song I had attached to the app itself rang for 14 minutes with Brian still sleeping before I came back upstairs from breakfast. The only reason I downloaded it before was because of the rare instance where I miscalculate when I'm supposed to clock out, which might have happened again anyway and only nets me half a point out of five that I'm allowed within a rolling six months before I'd get laid off (currently standing at 1.5).
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For the sake of my planned intro segments for YouTube playthroughs, I am planning to demonstrate what my ringtone and text alert both sound like, in case either play out while I am recording something, and it also helps not to have SA anymore to think of a second ringtone for. After initially rolling a cubic and 8-sided die simultaneously to decide on one of 24 pre-installed Pixel Sounds, I have decided instead to both my text alert to the eyecatch jingle from Magical Girl Raising Project, to complement Bet On Pride from that same show as my main ringtone (first played in episode 4, 7:34), after having already planned on Genopsyko Yumenoshima from Restart (still barely any news on the anime season announced two years ago) for my new wallpaper, originally for in case I'd eventually factory-reset my whole phone for Food Fantasy JP.
(With La Pucelle off my computer screen, that should take over the role of representing what should have replaced Puella Magi Madoka Magica as one of my two favorite anime besides Lucky Star. However, even though the light novels are quite interesting, both in their own right and as the only LN series I've ever felt inclined to read in depth (still have yet to get into That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime), Lucky Star pretty much holds my top tier alone now by way of Starbound, with MGRP sharing the next tier down with such shows as Kanon, Asuka, Nakaimo, New Game!, Release the Spyce, Goblin Slayer, Killing Slimes, How Heavy are the Dumbells You Lift?, Nekopara, and of course, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, unlike when Madoka rivaled LS via the original Cibus project, something I have not craved quite actively in some new form since reading MGRP volume 1. (I did commission for two different original-setting stories recently, but suspended those following Mom's recent reaction to that popcorn purchase and her mid-tirade order to stop spending so much money as I had been (mostly towards those Earthbound and Epic Battle Fantasy 4 mods), and have taken since to figure out why they weren't actually holding my interest anyway, realizing just these past few days how they could be improved with a reboot each.))
Basically, collecting rewards as its own kind of fun was something he simply mentioned offhand. What he actually liked about such a game that he wasn't actually looking for was how easy and satisfying it was to clear a few levels every now and then, until it became almost impossible. And with Candy Crush, which he didn't play for nearly as long as me, he enjoyed noticing where he could possibly line up five like candies in a row, but often, something else would happen along the way.
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Frankly, SimpleAlarm has been mostly reduntant. Unlike with my phone and wallet before I collect everything else I need for work, I can never seem to commit to turning the app off before signing out. Usually, it doesn't matter anyway, because the times I put there are imported from Me@Walmart, and I already check my phone time and time again before taking my next break or signing out. Just yesterday morning, I had forgotten to turn my morning alarm off, and the song I had attached to the app itself rang for 14 minutes with Brian still sleeping before I came back upstairs from breakfast. The only reason I downloaded it before was because of the rare instance where I miscalculate when I'm supposed to clock out, which might have happened again anyway and only nets me half a point out of five that I'm allowed within a rolling six months before I'd get laid off (currently standing at 1.5).
-
For the sake of my planned intro segments for YouTube playthroughs, I am planning to demonstrate what my ringtone and text alert both sound like, in case either play out while I am recording something, and it also helps not to have SA anymore to think of a second ringtone for. After initially rolling a cubic and 8-sided die simultaneously to decide on one of 24 pre-installed Pixel Sounds, I have decided instead to both my text alert to the eyecatch jingle from Magical Girl Raising Project, to complement Bet On Pride from that same show as my main ringtone (first played in episode 4, 7:34), after having already planned on Genopsyko Yumenoshima from Restart (still barely any news on the anime season announced two years ago) for my new wallpaper, originally for in case I'd eventually factory-reset my whole phone for Food Fantasy JP.
(With La Pucelle off my computer screen, that should take over the role of representing what should have replaced Puella Magi Madoka Magica as one of my two favorite anime besides Lucky Star. However, even though the light novels are quite interesting, both in their own right and as the only LN series I've ever felt inclined to read in depth (still have yet to get into That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime), Lucky Star pretty much holds my top tier alone now by way of Starbound, with MGRP sharing the next tier down with such shows as Kanon, Asuka, Nakaimo, New Game!, Release the Spyce, Goblin Slayer, Killing Slimes, How Heavy are the Dumbells You Lift?, Nekopara, and of course, A Little Snow Fairy Sugar, unlike when Madoka rivaled LS via the original Cibus project, something I have not craved quite actively in some new form since reading MGRP volume 1. (I did commission for two different original-setting stories recently, but suspended those following Mom's recent reaction to that popcorn purchase and her mid-tirade order to stop spending so much money as I had been (mostly towards those Earthbound and Epic Battle Fantasy 4 mods), and have taken since to figure out why they weren't actually holding my interest anyway, realizing just these past few days how they could be improved with a reboot each.))