Sunday, September 25, 2022

x. Endless Sweets and Bottomless Hot Pot

[ Art done by rinne_paint ]

Greetings Ocarina, I hope everyone's weekend went well. It's already the end of September, but the weather had been really kind here. Don't need to pull out sweaters quite yet, it's still warm enough to wear some summer outfits!! Tonight's blog post is random stuff that I did, but try not to read this when you're hungry, unless you don't have a big sweet tooth. 

During summer, Kiriya brought me to this Italian bakery and he was hyping this place so much. It was a small shop, and at the front entrance, you can see all the sweets. They do sell some sandwiches and paninis, but they mainly focus on sweets. I already had my eyes on the macarons though. 


Kiri grabbed some cakes and he let me tried them. They were so good!!! I sort of regret not buying as much as I can, but then I wouldn't have enough space in my fridge... (´;ω;`)


I tried their specialty donuts and a box of macarons. The pistachio donut was really bomb and I liked the macarons as well. They weren't too sweet, which is perfect for meeee.


Sas and I went back to one of my favourite afternoon tea places because I received an email about their new afternoon tea menu.... and I was very interested in their new scones. Normally, they serve cheese/regular scones, but this time they made lemon scone and apple scone. They also had new sweets too, so we might as well go! 

I really like the lemon tarts and all of their savory sandwiches. The scones were alright, the lemon one ended up too sweet for me because they had a lot of hardened sugar at the top. The apple scone was alright, but the sweetness was a bit too strong. 


Aside from sweets, one of my friends hosted a summer hot pot. There was a lot of food, specifically meat, because my friends were prepared that I'll eat all the meat ... which I did anyway because everyone else was TOO FULL to eat the rest. More free meat for me HUEHUEHUE


But this wasn't an ordinary hot pot party, there were some cuties hanging out with us o((*^▽^*))o This cutie is Snowy and she is a Samoyed. Don't let her cuteness deceive you, she is surprisingly STRONG and overly friendly. Her owner had a tough time chasing after her though whenever Snowy found the opportunity to book it ripperoni


This little one is Paddy and I believe he is a Sheltie and he's becoming a show dog. 


After hot pot, we got bubble tea as our dessert (*^ワ^*)


Now I'll end the post with sleepy puppers. They played all day and now out of energy. I didn't bring Beemo because Paddy and Snowy were high energy dogs, and Beemo hates that LOL ah welllll!


Take care everyone and until next blog post,

Friday, September 23, 2022

x. Autumn Orange

Greetings Ocarina!! Tonight's blog post will include some spoilers on a side quest, specifically Omega and Alpha. If you don't want any spoilers, then stop reading and skip this post!! You've been warned \\\\٩(๑`^´๑)۶////

Fall is coming and so I wanted to revamp the FC lawn with some autumn trees and Halloween themed furniture. I really wished we got more Halloween furniture, specifically outdoors or even a spooky themed housing exterior sob sob 


I recently went back to doing side quests and I'm working on Stormblood ones. I started with Ruby Sea because that map is basically covered in side quests and I hate looking at it every time I go there for HoH. At the same time, I also hated myself because these side quests were AWFUL. There's way too much traveling here and it's super obnoxious... I'm so glad I finished it all... ರ_ರ UGH.


Speaking of side quests, I finished the new Alpha and Omega side quests and it was so good (((o(*゚▽゚*)o))) !! I really enjoyed this side quest and you get to find them on EW maps too. I love the dynamic between these two and Omega is so tsundere for Alpha. 


How can you look at Alpha and say it's NOT cute ヾ(@⌒ー⌒@)ノ!? I legit walked all around RAH instead of using teleports. I wanted to savor the moment of these two following meeeee.


They also have some really funny cute moments. I love details like this in side quests (more so in ones that I really care about). Omega complaining about stairs, which is totally relatable, while Alpha doesn't care about them.


At one point in the side quest, you have to prove your "fluffiness". Omega says different things depending on your race:


Now Omega chucks a very interesting question at you during this side quest. I wished I could pick Venat and Emet-Selch only. I partially agree with Hermes' philosophies, but I don't agree with his actions. I went to go check Reddit and see the debate about this, it was interesting to see different perspectives on this topic. 


I'm normally not into side quests in FFXIV, quite often, I'm just blitzing through them for completion. I'll only pay attention if I like the specific map, but this one of my favourite side quests in the game!! I'm still not over Il Mheg side quests at all... so many cheap shot writing there....


Okay that's it for now gang! I'm going to go back and binge more on Yu-Gi-Oh Season 2!! Take care and until next blog post,


Sunday, September 18, 2022

x. High Pressure

 

Happy Sunday everyone! How are you all doing!? I finally reached rank 10 on my Island Sanctuary last week and now I can FLYYYY. I found it easier to catch other animals once flying was unlocked, but maybe that's just me. Not sure what to buy yet, but I'm saving up my cowries to buy more crops and such!! 

Island Sanctuary has been lots of fun, but I feel like it's hard to decorate or glam up your island and make it your "own". I was hoping I could re-glam my workshops, but they only let me choose the previous ones ... and not mix and match. I hope SE improves the island gradually, but so far, I think this is FAR better than Eureka when it first came out.

I do like the idea of catching these special creatures depending on weather and Eorzea Time. I got pretty lucky with this Alligator, but I've been really unlucky with Twinklefleece and Grand Buffalo uguuu


Last two weeks ago, since raid lock out make things very complicated, I had Neru jump onto my account and I used Sas' account for raid. Shout out to Neru though for letting me drag him through this raid shenanigan and to sub in for us o((*^▽^*))o!! 


I also...like to thank my raid mates...for supplying me with pot mats ಠ_ಠ not sure about the 69 amount ... 


I ran some normal Pandae with Razine and Naria on a weekend!! While we were waiting for loot rolls, Razine walked straight into the goop. What a loser huehuehue (´◡`)


I'm slowly chipping at the Manderville Quest and I'm finally at Stormblood one. Drawing is definitely not Nashu's strongest (but real talk, what is she good at?). That drawing is so ugly and she's trying to draw a wolf...omg

Heavensward one was entertaining enough, but a lot of people said they liked Stormblood one, so I'm looking forward to it. Praying that I'll have Manderville done by the time relics are out!!


Now I'll finish off the post with Cucco EX Trial #4!! It was a blast and we each walked out with at least one weapon in our hands. The mount dropped and congratulations to Naria for winning his first Lynx ٩(^◡^)۶! 


and here's a shenanigan video of our runs hehe


That's all for now and I hope Monday treats you kindly,

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

x. Shallow Sleep


Hallo Ocarina, I hope this week has been treating you well! I wanted to redecorate the FC house with fall theme furniture or Halloween even, but I didn't realize we lacked that much (◡︵◡) SE, please make more autumn or spooky furniture for meee. I need more!!

Anyway, Aikia, Kiriya, Neru, Sas, Ubi, and I recently watched a movie called "Blood - The Last Vampire". I don't know, I personally thought it was bad and confusing? Bad in the sense that I felt the movie didn't get anywhere, but at the same time, it was still amusing the watch. The movie is technically like a prequel? and it leads you into the anime series, but the movie didn't get my attention really. 

I think Ninja Scrolls was definitely better than this movie. Don't come at me.


Kiriya, Chips, and I tried out Unrailed and I actually like this one!! We downloaded this game for free from Epic Games and it is a teamwork game. I ended up enjoying this one a lot ヾ(^∇^) It was definitely chaotic at the beginning, but once we had a system going, everything was smooth like butter.


Speaking of games, I was checking out some cheap Steam games few months ago and I came across this shitty ass otome game. Yes, it's an otome game, but majority of the reviewers say it has a really good story. So yes, I bought into it because I wanted to try out an otome game with a good story line.

And let me tell you.

The story is friggen ASS ಥ╭╮ಥ

I don't know how old the reviewers were, but by the time I wanted to return the game, I can't because I played for 5 hours already (I could only return the game if I played for 4 hours max). 


Like in most otome games, there is a one true pairing, but it's up to the player who they want to go with. I don't care for the romance, I honestly want to ruin as many relationships as I can. I think there's a route where I could actually let the main character die? Maybe I'll go that route.

I do have a legit question though. Can someone please explain why people still romanticize a guy that has massive TRUST issues and is like overly protective and has really BAD TEMPER!? LIKE HOW IS THAT ATTRACTIVE!?


LIKE HOW CAN ANYONE LIKE THIS DUDE AFTER HE SAYS THIS KIND OF SHIT!?!?!?

A little background - you have a curse and you're probably gonna die, so you need a baby to pass down the royal lineage or whatever. 


This is where I roughly stopped. I don't even know if I'm close to finishing one playthrough. Fortunately, this game was only $5, so ... it's sort of whatever at this point. I will say that the voice acting in this game is actually decent. The art is actually alright, I wouldn't complain too much about it. 

That's it for now!! Thanks for reading and hope you have a wonderful Wednesday, 

Sunday, September 11, 2022

x. Tomorrow Never Dies


Greetings Ocarina!! How is everyone doing? I can't believe it's already September, it's almost time to say goodbye to summer. Although I have to say, this year's summer kind of sucked with the ridiculous heat waves... also, my area is covered in smog, so that's also fun. 

I finally did the caster role quest because I  just felt like completing it (not so much for the dyeable AF caster gears). I saved this one last because I heard you can go on a date with Aymeric...and it's TRUE!! But why the hell is the story writing so god awful..........and it's just a re-write of Heavensward but watered down? Also my date with Aymeric lasted like 1 minute, cmon guys. Why didn't I get a full Foundation City walk with him....? ಠ_ಠ


Kiriya grabbed me for O11S farm because he wanted some pants here. Turns out the healer pants from here isn't too bad, so I got myself one too!


This fight still hurts a lot even at level 90, I was kind of surprised. We ended up getting 8 books so that everyone could grab a pair of pants at the end of the farm. Poor Hikari, she later flopped from exhaustion.


Here's Luna and I leveling together!! Congrats to Luna though for leveling all her classes o(≧∇≦o) I still have my DRK left... yes yes. I'm finally leveling it after 84 years. 


Went back to my daily Frontlines because I gotta get that dragon mount and minions. I thought I got DRG Hiro on my frontlines team but it wasn't... 


A few of us are gonna go back and try to reach Floor 100 for HoH since we have a week off from raid due to people going on work trips/vacations. The floors are definitely getting spookier ... (T⌓T)


On our first night, we spent some time leveling Rare to 61 (oops, didn't meant to say 70 in screenshot) because HoH won't let him enter at level 60.


While we're queuing into Frontlines..... just wait for it.... SIGH


Look at us goooo! Climbing the TOWER (maybe we'll become GODS, anyone get that reference??)


I'll end HoH post with this amazing screenshot of Rare ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ


That's all for now! Until next blog post,