bandoriposting

this was going to be a full games post, but let's be honest: the only games i've been playing are bandori and civ 6, and i don't have anything to say about civ 6 except that 1) i won the last full-length game i played against my younger brother (diplomatic victory w/ America), and 2) the AI gets annoyingly aggressive in the ancient era on Immortal difficulty. i should consider playing alpha centauri more instead, where (checks notes) the AI is aggressive no matter what era it is, but will be slightly less aggressive early on than later.

now for the rest of the post, which is about bandori.

finally full combo'd that wily Dragon Night, which was a struggle because of god dang slide notes. this means i've officially FC'd everything that's lvl 24 or below, along with some of the 25s and 26s. \o/

also fc'd MOON PRIDE, so that's a success!

unfortunately i did not get White Day Kaoru (the card i was hoping to get in my last games post, but i at least avoided the temptation to buy any in-game currency for another shot once i'd spent all my saved-up currency. the statistics just do not make it worth it, no matter how beautiful she is.

also, i did at least get a different 4-star Kaoru card, the one i spent 30k stars trying to get in October, so... consolation prize?

the current event is a Live Goals event. someday i'd like to actually clear all the EX Goals, except that the EX lvl 4 Combo and Note goals are out of my reach (respectively: "clear a lvl 27+ song with a full combo," and "clear a lvl 26+ song with fewer than 10 Great or lower notes." funnily enough, the latter seems a lot more out of my reach than the former.) oh well, at this point i've cleared all the goals that are in my reach.

PICO!! is beginning to feel like my White Whale. i know it's not, because other songs have been my Big Goal before and even if it took a long time to full combo them, i did do it eventually and a while after that, FCing them became routine. these included Guren no Yumiya (hard) and Passionate Starmine (both hard and expert), among others.

(i tell myself, "you only have to FC it once." which is true, but once i've done it once, it becomes easier to do it again.)

still, i've been working on expert PICO!! since at least december, probably earlier. so it's beginning to feel like my nemesis. or it would, except i still really like the song. that helps.

other songs i'm working on FCing include A Cruel Angel's Thesis, Senbonzakura, only my railgun, and R-I-O-T. these are also all songs i quite like. the ones i don't care to listen to much are also ones i don't really care about FCing.

konmari

so after a month or so (more? i don't know, time is fake) of reading various hot takes about Marie Kondo, i've been curious about what her actual teachings are, so i decided to seek out a copy of her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. turns out my mom had a copy, so i gave it a read.

now, i haven't cleaned my room in at least a year, probably closer to two. and it's probably been much longer since i really made an attempt to organize, or to decide what i wanted to keep and what i didn't want any longer.

there are some things about the book that intuitively appeal to me. for instance, in the introduction Kondo mentions (in regard to advice to tidy up "a little bit at a time"), "I am not the type of person who likes to plug away at something, one step at a time. For people like me, who do their assignments on the very last day right before the deadline, this approach just doesn't work," and then, "If, like me, you are not the diligent, persevering type, then I recommend aiming for perfection just once." this appeals to me because i find trying to build slow & steady habits very difficult; i tend to read a book or write an essay all at once rather than a little bit at a time.

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i guess it's worth thinking about why i'd want to do this / what i'd be hoping to get out of it?

i don't know. it looks promising but idk if i have it in me to confront that anxiety. so maybe i just won't. i guess i'll think about it for now, since tomorrow i'll probably be too busy anyway.