Yeah yeah yeah.

I’ve written about this before, so I’m sorry if I’m repeating myself to you(You)—just skip to the next part pls—but I really think that She Loves You is one of the best love songs ever written.

It’s just SO unique. It’s not from a guy to a girl, it’s not from a girl to a guy, it’s from one guy to another.

Giving him good news, a message of hope. A message of love :’)

And before we get further into it, it’s actually EVEN MORE of a wholesome song than I originally thought it was.

I always thought the lyrics were

You think you lost your love when I saw her yesterday

you know, as if he went on a date with her or something. And then the rest of the song is him saying that she wants You not Me.

BUT NO. Those aren’t the lyrics, the lyrics are

You think you’ve lost your love. Well, I saw her yesterday.

Well that makes all the difference in the world, doesn’t it? He just happened to see her and talk to her.

NOT ONLY does she love you, she wasn’t even TRYING to stop loving you by seeing another guy.

Now uhhhh… you know, I’m not CRAZY for pop, I’m not in love with the YEAH YEAH YEAHS, but the story of the song is just soooo pleasant, man.

And then there’s just my favorite part

You know it's up to you
I think it's only fair
Pride can hurt you, too
Apologize to her

WHAT A MESSAGE BRO I LOVE THAT 😭 How many relationships throughout history have unnecessarily ended because someone refused to just fucking apologize? At the cost of WHAT?

How much does it REALLY have to hurt your pride to say “I’m sorry” to someone you’re probably making scream your name every night?

Well, bro?

Apologies are a very simple lubricant to help in solving problems. If one or both of you are SEETHING, you’re never going to be able to work out whatever problem you’re having. It doesn’t mean become a doormat, but you really owe it to yourself and the other person to take a second and wonder “Is this argument really important enough to never ever see this person again for as long as I live? How harmful would it really be for me to take an L here?”

It’s probably not that big of a deal. Knowing you(You), you’re probably upset at them being upset over something you think they shouldn’t be upset about.

Why don’t you practice some of that Empathy you’re always bragging about, accept that they’re upset, and try to make them feel better? Why do you ALWAYS have to fucking win?

Well? *me looking into mirror*

anyway, this has dragged on waaaaaaaay too long, I’m sorry. Especially for something I’ve already written about. What a load of trash.

Lemme look at my notes here…

Rosary

Hey, my new Rosary came in :’) I had to … get a new one, because the one I was using, the beads were painted and they were chipping off like crazy from daily use. And I don’t like using my KoC ones because… I just don’t, okay? 😭 I still haven’t hooked up with the local knights since moving. I’ve been so sick, bro :’( it’s just ooooone thing after another. I’ll really try.

Anyway… they uh, sent me the wrong ones first. Me, a Mary respecter, wanted muh Mary; the Miraculous Medal. They sent me one with St. Michael instead.

St. Michael’s great and everything, soloing Satan’s a huge W(well not really, the weakest angel would ritualistically humiliate him), but I’m really more of a St. Raphael kinda guy so if you’re going to STEAL my most gracious advocate away from me…

I’m kidding, we love St. Michael. But still. Also, the company kinda put a dumb branding of their initials on the back of his medal which didn’t seem super appropriate.

My Dad just loved it though lol. So I gave it to him. I asked for another, and they sent the right one, and the medal’s back is purrfect, just the way it should be. Now when I say the Hail Holy Queen, I can actually be holding the Holy Queen. I like for things to make sense.

Where am I… oh, games?

I did it. I ordered Pragmata for the Switch 2. Thoughts?

First, let me get this out of the way: I have come to cope with the Game Key. I might HATE it, but I think I can cope with it.

In case you don’t remember—a TON of Switch 2 games don’t actually contain the game on the cartridge, they’re just keys to download and install the game. It’s a HIDEOUS L that Nintendo has given itself compared to Sony and Microshit. I suppose it might be a necessary L, idk how much storage those carts really have anyway. But it doesn’t matter.

I know what you’re thinking, you, my based and physical-mediapilled friend. It sucks. But think about it for a second. AT LEAST it’s not just a 1-use download code, right?

You can still resell these cartridges and they’ll work for other people. They function identically to normal carts, with the exception that they rely on Nintendo for the initial installation.

I know we all think we’re going to live forever. But what are the ACTUAL chances that we outlive Nintendo?

And even if the uh… store closes, when the Switch 3 or 4 comes out, they’ll still probably allow you to continue re-downloading your purchased games, right? They still allow 3DS store purchases afaik.

Right?

I know this is cope. But it’s also not, and I’m serious. We have to come to grips with that fact that physical media is not as permanent as we wish it was. They might USUALLY outlive digital storefronts(but do they really usually? Steam seems to be chugging along perfectly fine, as anxious as it makes me) but all the discs will still warp, the carts will decay, the batteries will die. We will die. Memento Mori

So WHATEVER. I’ll take the gamble that Nintendo, the gaming juggernaut that’s been around LONG before I was born, will survive me.

I have no real, honest reason to believe that a cart containing the full game will be accessible to me for longer than a Nintendo Game Key will be. None.

I’m going to fucking DIE, thank God, and I won’t even want to play video games in Heaven.

Anyway… what? The actual game? Ah, it’ll be fun. Looking forward to it. Maybe I’ll even get a Diana amiibo :^)

...eventually. They’re freaking $100 rn.

Do I want to comment on the obvious… nah, who cares. The Biggest Freaks on Planet Earth call you a pedo for playing a space dad simulator? Are you(You) supposed to care what perverted eunuchs, lonely hags, and performative enablers like Hasan the animal-abusing sex pest think? Am I supposed to care? At all? Yeah, Diana’s cute. She’s probably funny. She’s barefoot. They maybe had some idea what they were doing with her design. Or maybe they DIDN’T, because she’s literally just a little girl. I know you haven’t gone outside in a while(I’m kidding) but that’s actually just what they look like. It’s still a dad simulator with no HINT of anything inappropriate, and everyone named above are already in perpetual hysterics about literally-anything ever enjoyed by normal people anyway. There is nothing that you will ever do that will not lend itself to Hasan “Pays for Sex” Piker calling you an incel, and Diana could look like a 40 year old woman and you’d still be a creep because of a natural power imbalance between humans and machines.

The late great Richard Nixon once called Bohemian Grove “the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine” but he wasn’t around to see folx on Twitter unironically using the phrase “The Gaming Community.”

The gaming community. Unreal.

Anyway, I hope Pragmata’s fun, it seems fun.

…

DQ3? Meh. Lol. I’m really still trying. But bro, the forced cutscenes telling you exactly what to do? It’s actually disgusting. Random characters you’re forced to interact with just always conveniently knowing where you need to go and what you need to do. It strips out SO much of the adventure that you once had to figure out on your own either by exploring or CHOOSING to talk to people to maybe get clues.

This is just totally on rails. IT’S ON RAILS AND I HATE IT.

And yeah, the localization fucking sucks as always. I’m in the “Rome” town and characters just randomly pepper in Italian words for no reason. There’s a Russian town up north where you can barely understand what anyone’s saying.

And verily, I have not forgotten their foolish counsel to employ Early Modern English for DQ1 & 2.

I’m going to be really fair…

actually, NO I’M NOT (I was using “fair” incorrectly there, I meant to say “nice”) and what I was going to say was that SOMETIMES the localization isn’t bad—like I don’t remember Dragon Quest XI making me sick to my stomach the way that most of Schloc Ltd’s localization does.

But as I was typing that, I got suspicious as to WHY that was, and I looked it up: when they were localizing DQXI, they were subjected to WAY more oversight by Square-Enix than usual, they WEREN’T ALLOWED to do their normal terrible quality of work. So that’s why it wasn’t so bad. I can’t give them props for that since they were forced to against their will.

Say something nice, Ask.

It’s pretty I guess. It’s very pretty and colorful.

…

I’ve dragged this on way too long, I’m sorry.

Next time we’ll read the latest Mil-Sim Story and I’ll tell you how I’m (barely) coping with Devil May Cry.

Zzzzzzz mems

never going to watch, but tickled by how fucking cool they accidentally made them 😭🇮🇹

This stupid bitch is at LEAST 30 if she’s writing into the NYT, and she doesn’t have the social skills or emotional fortitude to cope with an old woman praying for her wellbeing.

[I wrote 3 extremely mean paragraphs, but nvm]

no more.

Ttyl, pls keep praying for me
I’m praying for you too, oomf
Godblessfrien

btw go read all my other stuff, idk why you haven’t yet. InPieces.rip