Fruit-testing. I'm going to start expanding my horizons slowly by eating fruits and other things, and see what their flavors come out to me. This post is going to be filled up, I guess...
Apple: wet cardboard. Pumpkin: sweet and tasty. Maxixe: too wet. Cassava: decent, but too much and it tastes really wet. Carrot: nervures. Tastes better when it's soft, at least.
Jasmine Appreciation Day So, the remakes were released last year, not this year. Amusing, in a sense, since I was so close when I brought it up.
As soon as I could, I looked up footage, since I wanted to know what was their decision for her. Unfortunately, it was something that did disappoint me.
They decided to give her a look resembling that of the demake version. It's more detailed, thus things like her dress having multiple layers on the skirt.
Honestly? This bothers me, yes. But mainly because it's one of those things where it's just not that consistent. Every other character in the game was given an appearance similar to that of their original, DS designs, but with teeny-tiny heads and teenier-tinier bodies. She's the only real exception.
It's one of those cases where this design would make more sense, be okay even, if it was used for Super Contests. But unfortunately, it isn't. It feels like the devs just... don't want to use the original design, and its innocence, in actual art, even though the dialogue won't change.
I don't like to leave things in a sour note. But this is how I feel about it: this specific element is a mistake.
-sigh-
One of the major elements of the novel Kabalmysteriet is that there is a community of people in a distant, lost island, who must spend four years to create a single sentence. They must create all of their sentences alone, individually, without the help of anyone else.
It doesn't take me four years to create these entries. Maybe they're even faster than a month. But when it comes to them, I do need to spend some time thinking, because it's the one time I feel driven to update my LiveJournal - this one part of my life, that like many things, I cannot abandon.
I'll leave this entry with some nice images, instead. I don't want to leave it in a bad note, after all.
An interesting point that comes to mind once one actually analyzes the footage shown is that there's a clear contrast between this generation of remakes and the last four that came out. Namely... the official designs for all characters are, quite frankly, the exact same as their original versions.
This does not mean there are no changes, and the Platinum designs are available as extra content that will probably be full on DLC for later on... but well, let's take something into consideration.
Ever since the original Generation 1 remakes from 2004, every remake has made an effort to redesign not only the protagonists but the cast as a whole, be it by adding extra details in certain cases, changing the color schemes, or outright changing details so the cast is now completely unique. This had quite the extreme effects for the three generations: Blue was integrated as Leaf with a big white hat and a top/skirt combo as opposed to a single dress, Crystal was completely redesigned to create Soul, and there are the most obvious differences between AnaMay and Courtney's designs in the original versions relative to their current versions. And then, of course, the Switch remakes took this to another extreme, bringing Blue into a design closer to her original [but replacing the dress for a top and shorts].
This all boils down to one point. Up to this year's reveal, I had always expected the remakes to continue this trend of character redesigns to an extreme, to the point where, while I didn't quite dread Generation 4's remakes, I am sure I would be very unhappy with something or other at some point. But instead, what happened is that they decided to dedicate their efforts to character redesigns for a completely different subject: an actual spin-off where the cast has basically past clones of themselves, some of them to a ridiculous degree [Cyrus having a female clone when nobody else seems to, and Marley's having her own Japanese name].
But in a way, this makes me happy in a very unexpected way, because of something from Generation 4.
In those games, Jasmine made a cameo appearance in two roles. The first one was as a tourist in Sunyshore City, hanging out near the Lighthouse due to the memories it gave her. The second one was by taking part in a Super Contest after that point, one of the many challengers you could get.
In those games, she still had the original GSC looks and style that I liked from the Game Boy Color days. Before the Generation 2 demakes happened and redesigned her to be less appealing to me.
Of course, there's always the possibility that they will retcon this, for some reason. I don't know. It's not like I really enjoy Pokémon that much anymore - well, I do like elements from it and it'll always influence me, but there's a reason why I haven't spent time writing stories about it or playing the games.
But this is one element I admit I am hopeful for. That I hope things will be as I want, for once.
Man... used to be I really needed a LiveJournal, huh? Nowadays there's a lot more ways to put your thoughts online. Social media sure changed things.
Nowadays I just post once a year, making it clear to everyone that I'm alive — not that I particularly think everyone misses me. Of course, by that I mean the people I made contact with who only kept up with me via LiveJournal. It's unfortunate, but I suppose it isn't my place to blame them either; if we didn't keep in contact, then that goes both ways.
It's been a rough year. People I care for suffered a lot due to this whole pandemic that's been going on. Some have died. Some have suffered in other ways. Spent most of the year in a lockdown, sometimes in further isolation.
It would be fitting, after fifteen years, to end things here. To let this be the last of these days and thus, abandon this part of my life for good. But I don't want to do that, not when I keep this mostly to myself at this point. I want to keep this up as long as I live, because it's thanks to her that I reached this point, years ago. I don't want to ever forget that.
So for now, I'll leave with these pics. Hopefully they'll be enjoyable.
I didn't come to the internet because of Pokémon or Jasmine, but for the longest time, Pokémon was one of my greater gateways to the English side of the internet. I met my best friends and people I've come to love over the years, because of Pokémon. A reason why these bonds grew stronger was because Jasmine was, definitely, an ideal of mine, and the feelings I have for her could be manifested towards others as well.
It wasn't always happiness. Sometimes there were conflicts. Sometimes my emotions and attachments could certainly get in the way.
But I know these are part of me. Of the person I am. Because of her, and of what she means to me. And thanks to her, I've found happiness even outside her as well.
One of these days, I'll describe one of the images I've had of her, for the longest time. It will come soon enough.
Well, not quite. Ironically, while my ideas aren't dead, there's been a significant delay on things. I haven't really gotten much into writing full stories nowadays.
I don't feel that alone, though. At leasg someone else has writteng nice Jasmine stuff. And my feelings are less 'dead' than I feared... at the expense of another thing, sadly.
Still... I'm just glad she exists. And that my favorite pairing still exists.
I won't say things are perfect, but at the same time, they've helped me appreciate the smallest things a little more. Which makes me feel bad. Today, in particular... but due to other days as well, has made it harder for me to say, with all honesty, that I have the same feelings towards Jasmine as I used to before.
I think this is maybe a positive change, as it relates to me having strong, personal feelings towards real people. Considering how much my feelings towards Jasmine, and the other Tops, come from my loneliness and internet friendships, it's hopefully understandable why I'm not completely against it.
Of course, I'd rather it remain as ideal as it used to be, but... things change. And at least, it doesn't mean I lack the complete emotion anymore. I'm just more distant, in part due to turning more perverted and unfocused perhaps.
Things didn't go as I wanted. I kind of had a plan for this back in August or so, when I had the idea for it, but I completely forgot what I had in mind until the last week. I knew I was going to do the thirty days, but I didn't know what I would post during those thirty days anymore. So I started talking about my past, overall, and eventually stopped once the events in the present overtook them.
Does that mean I'm not going to finish either? No, not at all. But it means that for now, I'm taking another break from this here. My friends know how to message me, at least, and I'm always available. Even if life's going to be pretty rough in the foreseeable future, it's not all set in stone just yet.
Let's see if next time, I manage to go through with the plan. Maybe it'll be a good surprise then.
Jasmine Appreciation Day. Today probably won't be the last time I do one of these, but the day has been enough to make me think.
I picked today as this day because it was one of the most important days for me. But unfortunately, I should admit that I have mixed feelings as a whole regarding my favorites. In part because, for Jasmine, I have a complex of sorts, since for the longest time I tried not to see her as a sexual being and, even now, it's still something uncomfortable. But I also realize that I'm kind of a very perverted person and that, in a sense, it means I have to embrace everyone I love in that sense.
It's not something I have come to terms very well yet. Today is still a day I want to celebrate via positive emotions that aren't lust, but at the same time, I don't know if this is giving all of myself. I hope that, by the next year, I'll be able to find some form of answer to my issue.
Potatoes. When I started posting here, I used the 'blah' mood most often because of the smiley that came along.
Now that it doesn't have a smiley, it doesn't amuse me nearly as much, but I still think it's something connected to me, in a way. That's why it's been like this for so long.
Because the theft attempt happened here, while it was under my watch, the whole thing feels like they don't trust me at all. Stupid. They also think that this house is too big for me to manage on my own.
I don't know exactly when it's happening, but I do admit it's complicated. I don't see this place as my 'hometown', because of the fact that I wasn't born here and spent a good amount of time away. But my family demanding that I leave the first place I could consider a 'home' for years because they can't live here anymore is no less unfair.
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hopeful