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Mar. 15th, 2026 06:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedOur smoke alarm started malfunctioning yesterday morning. Mom and I went down to investigate, and we at least discovered that our dryer pipeline had gotten disconnected, which I was able to remedy through an opening in the wall. Other than that, we didn't see any smoke anywhere, and Mom sent me up to the apartment to see if she had left another detector around somewhere. Couldn't find one, and we ended up buying a new one at The Home Depot before hitting the gym.
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Given the non-availability of Kix in California, Mom had gotten a box of Kix-like Bluey cereal for Marie, along with some Cap'n Crunch. Shortly after he, Marie, and Maris arrived, Brian went out to get a box of Crunch Berries and some cases of soda and root beer.
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Mom prepared us a buffet-style dinner of Peruvian chicken, buttered potatoes, corn on the cob, cranberries, and King's Hawaiian bread.
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Managed to show everyone my brunette-girl video shortly after we finished eating. They sure found my "naked cleavage" line amusing, Brian asked me to replay my later directive for Banjo-Kazooie, and Marie specified "No thongs, please" to be her favorite line (she even asked me to replay that one back at her house), and recorded that whole bit on her phone.
(To specify one thing, I am probably going to play my original copy of Banjo-Kazooie that Brian asked me before to hang onto, rather than a ROM, let alone a ROMhack. After the trouble I already had before with Getter Love!!, and what I would read months later, I would rather just buy new copies of most other N64 games in the 7th grade lineup, with the likely exception of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which has a modder-friendly PC port called Ship of Harkinian that still features the original graphics (granted, so does Banjo, but actually cutting those watermelons in half and then creating a new texture for on top would be its own issue for such a minor character as in question). That particular change (along since with gender-flipping Dash in Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire) was only hypothetical, my point was about which changes other than brunification I would apply to anyone while I specified what those would not include (in case anyone were to check out my deviantArt page and then assume otherwise and unsubscribe), and the reason I included the 7th grade lineup itself was to communicate my since-changed gaming intentions clearly (originally just five inaugural), so that no one wonders what happened to RPGs and the concept of controlled randomization after I showcase that through the Earthbound trilogy.)
Here's the spreadsheet itself, for anyone interested in its current state as it still evolves.
(Regarding thongs in the Disgaea series, the actual classes in question are Cheerleaders, Succubi (as per Disgaea 2 PC and Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention), Kit Cats (that class' name in game 1), and Fairies, but I've also commented on Higan, an individual from Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless, in a combined note for Ceefore, Ao, and Nitra from that same game (there is where I also moved a more general point to combine with that, up from Cheerleaders). (I did originally interpret Heavy/Armor Knights to wear thongs, but have since had a closer look at their 3D models for both 7 and Disgaea 6 on The Models Resource, along with those for Succubi to speak secondarily for all 2D games outside of the still SD-only 2 and 3.))
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For our first celebration dessert, Mom brought a homemade cheesecake up from the basement with forty regular candles and two numeral candles for my 40th birthday (which is actually tomorrow). (Marie declined a slice, though, specifying that she doesn't like cheesecake.)
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Given the non-availability of Kix in California, Mom had gotten a box of Kix-like Bluey cereal for Marie, along with some Cap'n Crunch. Shortly after he, Marie, and Maris arrived, Brian went out to get a box of Crunch Berries and some cases of soda and root beer.
-
Mom prepared us a buffet-style dinner of Peruvian chicken, buttered potatoes, corn on the cob, cranberries, and King's Hawaiian bread.
-
Managed to show everyone my brunette-girl video shortly after we finished eating. They sure found my "naked cleavage" line amusing, Brian asked me to replay my later directive for Banjo-Kazooie, and Marie specified "No thongs, please" to be her favorite line (she even asked me to replay that one back at her house), and recorded that whole bit on her phone.
(To specify one thing, I am probably going to play my original copy of Banjo-Kazooie that Brian asked me before to hang onto, rather than a ROM, let alone a ROMhack. After the trouble I already had before with Getter Love!!, and what I would read months later, I would rather just buy new copies of most other N64 games in the 7th grade lineup, with the likely exception of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which has a modder-friendly PC port called Ship of Harkinian that still features the original graphics (granted, so does Banjo, but actually cutting those watermelons in half and then creating a new texture for on top would be its own issue for such a minor character as in question). That particular change (along since with gender-flipping Dash in Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire) was only hypothetical, my point was about which changes other than brunification I would apply to anyone while I specified what those would not include (in case anyone were to check out my deviantArt page and then assume otherwise and unsubscribe), and the reason I included the 7th grade lineup itself was to communicate my since-changed gaming intentions clearly (originally just five inaugural), so that no one wonders what happened to RPGs and the concept of controlled randomization after I showcase that through the Earthbound trilogy.)
Here's the spreadsheet itself, for anyone interested in its current state as it still evolves.
(Regarding thongs in the Disgaea series, the actual classes in question are Cheerleaders, Succubi (as per Disgaea 2 PC and Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention), Kit Cats (that class' name in game 1), and Fairies, but I've also commented on Higan, an individual from Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless, in a combined note for Ceefore, Ao, and Nitra from that same game (there is where I also moved a more general point to combine with that, up from Cheerleaders). (I did originally interpret Heavy/Armor Knights to wear thongs, but have since had a closer look at their 3D models for both 7 and Disgaea 6 on The Models Resource, along with those for Succubi to speak secondarily for all 2D games outside of the still SD-only 2 and 3.))
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For our first celebration dessert, Mom brought a homemade cheesecake up from the basement with forty regular candles and two numeral candles for my 40th birthday (which is actually tomorrow). (Marie declined a slice, though, specifying that she doesn't like cheesecake.)