455 - Ranting Time!

HELLO, and welcome to another Monday Post. That's right, it's Monday again, which means it's time for me to spend several hours putting together a post where I rant about things nobody cares about, only to have it read by a select few of the truest and most loyal bros who actually give a damn! Let's do this! ^^

A WIP THAT SURVIVED. I updated last week's shop item with a WIP file I found on my HDD purely by accident earlier today. I was sure that none of the extra files had survived for this drawing, but apparently, one random file did. ^^

SHOP. This week's Shop/Gallery item is another old TMNT illustration of mine, featuring a peculiar situation involving Irma. Very much in line with my current workload for Reporter Trainer, where I'm mostly focusing on Irma's personal training events at the moment. Anyway, this is an old piece, so I doubt you haven't seen it before, but I can promise you that you've never seen it in such high resolution. Go check it out! :)

YAHOO! The downfall of Yahoo Mail continues. I haven't done any research, but I'd assume they put someone new in charge last year or something, because all that's been happening since then is the continued degradation of everything, starting with the UI and ending with actual features getting cut. Now I've received a weird email saying that I need to start paying for my inbox or they'll start showing me ads. This is bullshit. My account is over 20 years old. The least they could do is spare the old guard like me from this bullshit. Also, I love how the email is in Spanish, even though all our communication has been in English up to this point. Whatever. All things must come to an end. I've already gone through denial and bargaining... acceptance is just around the corner. -_-

FA: FORTUNE'S WEAVE. The new Fire Emblem has a completely misleading advertising campaign that made me believe you wouldn't be allowed to play as an "avatar" and would instead be forced to choose one of the preset characters: a chick, a dude, or a little boy. Apparently, that wasn't the case, and finding that out made me interested in the game again. But after doing a bit of research, I found out that the devs apparently toned down all the S-supports and romance stuff, so I lost interest in it again. Well, it's for the better, since I don't plan on getting a Switch 2 anyway. ^^

FE: AWAKENING. Getting disappointed for the second time by the latest FE game got me in the mood, though. At first, I thought about doing another Three Houses playthrough, but I really hate how underwhelming the romance endings were in that game. All you got was a poorly drawn CG and a bit of text. I love the ability to romance literally any girl in the story in that game though, and according to ChatGPT, only three games in the series allow you to do that: Three Houses, Awakening, and Fates. Well, time to get back to playing Awakening, I guess. In Japanese, of course, since this game has a notoriously bad translation. ^^

AI SLOP. Here is this week's AI slop. The file is attached to this post if you're interested. It contains a few more pics of Avy. I know it has little to do with the game, since the style is completely different here, but that's what makes it interesting to me. I really like how MrLazare managed to get ChatGPT to make her look very close to my original design while still making her photorealistic. ^^

HATING THIS! A few days ago, I sat down to work, only to find out that my laptop had decided to install a Windows update without asking for my approval. As a result, I wasted about 30 minutes of my workday on this bullshit. I turned off automatic updates a long time ago, so this was the first time I had to experience this crap. Why now, though? Did Microsoft decide to disregard my user preferences? I wouldn't be surprised. This reminded me of how, last year, I was seriously considering switching to Linux. -_-

THE WORK. I continue to work on Irma's events, and that's all I have to say. I know it doesn't sound very exciting, but it is what it is. Just another week has gone by at the workshop. This week will be more of the same, I'm afraid. Thank you for your patience and support. I'll see you all next week. Laterz. ^^

-Aka-

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