Hello friends! I am here still. I've been doing alright. My comp sci course is going alright. I've got some paper work I need to finish up. I've been procrastinating hard on starting Animal Crossing New Horizons (I still have those gift cards I mentioned back in December). I caught up to Ep 22 of saber the other day, it was really enjoyable I'd say.

How are you all doing? anything going on?

If I do go on a killing spree because of the then this will be the song I will play as it happens. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XL0OJzwxVPU
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Damn then I wasted $20.

Play it so I can pillage your island.

Just found out from a vendor that our allocation for an upcoming Pokemon TCG product is zero, as in You Ordered It On Time But Now You Are Getting Zero. Definitely didn't plan on selling those to people and using the profits to keep a business going! (I mean, it's not a ton of money we're not going to be making now, we aren't a Pokemon store, but it still burns.)

Other than that, not too bad! Den-O's a fun show to watch, got a ton of stuff over the last month that I'm slowly making my way through (Figuarts, Mastermind Creations robots, Gaim SO-DO 2), and the snow is finally starting to melt today. Not too bad!

Ah yes, robots, nothing more specific than that!

The man's lost his Pokemon rights, doesn't want to lose his Transformers rights too!

As for life, I sure am mentally somewhere around September 2020 at this point. Wonder if this new Kamen Rider Saber show is gonna be any good? (Note - I'm like weeks behind on Saber, uni work is hard)

look i didn't want to make this a whole thing about how great their new chromedome/rewind figures were BUT FINE WE'LL DO IT YOUR WAY

Finally got the new Chromedome/Rewind two-pack via BBTS (the store that always gets MMC bots last), and it's highly recommended. (Also got their Helex from the DJD, but the review for him is The Last DJD Guy I Needed, at which he is 100% of that criteria.)

The engineering on Chromedome is incredibly smart, where the conversion process is intuitive and rewarding. Everything clicks into and out of place, providing a tactile reassurance that you are doing things correctly. There's enough steps to make it something you focus on, while never being cumbersome enough to need a break in the middle. It's a nice snack of a diversion, and my favorite toy of theirs since Rodimus.

It's a crazy articulated figure, as well, if you're more into having a nicely expressive robot for display purposes. He actually comes with molded hands to hold with Rewind, which is all you should need to know about how aware MMC was of the need to get the Robot Husbands set right. (There're also an alternate head for Domey, mnemosurgeon hands, and other types of hands that aren't strictly about his love or pain)

The Rewind figure is fine. He feels like a glorified (but crucial) accessory for Chromedome, where the transformation and alt mode have a shrug of Did He Ever Even Transform In The Comic. It's an okay conversion, but definitely nowhere near the ease and brilliance of the Chromedome one.

can i go back to work now or what

No comment yet. If it was internal feuding I don't think that epilogue video would have been made, so my guess for now is they are just done with the gig after 28 years. Hopefully they continue making music and if not that's still cool, even if they move on to other things at least they have bragging rights to a dope music career.

Ah yes... Debt Simulator with cute little animals.

Anyway, I've been continuing to adjust to digital art, as I've been doing for a while now. It's hard enough that I've drawn with pencils and paper for years, and now I have so many features to experiment on that it's hard to find a comfortable way of drawing, not to mention my other obligations in life. At least I'm no longer snowed in, and I'm making my way through Final Fantasy XV and XIV, though I should really get back to VIII and Hollow Knight, and for gosh sakes get around to playing Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memories (Which has been sitting here for months.) At least I'm caught up with my shows and finishing up a few I've had on my watch list before continuing on my binge of One Piece.

That sucks about the cards. I've heard it's been really hard for lots of stores to get releases of the latest pokemon cards. I overheard talk about it at my FLGS

Also how are the new figures? Anything stand out? (aside from MMC Chromedome/Rewind)

Sounds like a not terrible time. I hope you can figure out your art style for digital!

The card thing is a bummer, but it's par for the course with Pokemon preorders nowadays.

Figures... there's nothing I've really disliked that I've opened recently. On the high end, I can't stop staring at how gorgeous the Lazer Turbo Lvl 0 and Poppy Figuarts are for Ex-Aid. Just so goddamn shiny and pretty. Those suits are what's in my heart when it comes to Kamen Rider, that whole Ex-Aid aesthetic, and the finish on those two figures is stunning.