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Happy birthday, Eizan!

Basketball is back, and it's in a bubble! (Here's hoping the bubble doesn't pop) I watched most of both games last night. Parts were hard to watch, especially the Clippers/Lakers game. Too many whistles. The game didn't flow. But I'm happy that hoops are back as long as the bubble keeps working and nobody is testing positive. I feel a lot better watching NBA given their plan than I do watching the stupid MLB

The Jays' weekend series with the Phillies is cancelled. The Marlins of course still aren't playing. Just saw an article about the Cards on The Athletic: Another team down Apparently they're planning to play the games Saturday/Sunday as long as the rest of the Cards test negative. A negative test isn't really worth much though. Players could still start exhibiting symptoms and test positive just a few days later. A negative test today is don't mean much when they've recently been in contact with teammates who had the virus. The league ought to know better than this. It's getting harder and harder to imagine this shortened season actually getting finished.

I've been having a lot of fun the last couple days with the bassline from "Sledgehammer" : I'm also still playing along with a lot of Cream. I love Jack Bruce's playing.

My daughter decided she doesn't like Let's Go Pikachu! as much as Sword/Shield, and it's due back at the library tomorrow, so we're not going to put it on hold again. I didn't keep playing past the second badge because I've been too preoccupied with music. Oh well. In a fit of boredom over the weekend, the kiddo started looking at other games I have downloaded on the Switch. "What's SUPERBEAT: XONiC? Can I try it?" she asks. It's only, like, one of the best rhythm games ever - YES let me show you how to play it! The Alliance Alive is on sale right now, and I'm very tempted to buy it. I loved The Legend of Legacy on 3DS. But I don't really have time for it now. Might just pull the trigger on it anyway and find time for it eventually.

The amount of time they might to quarantine before that though... That's a lot of double headers! It would be like old school baseball. Too bad the players union and league couldn't agree on playing in a bubble without travel. I'm sure they could have gotten something together in Florida or Arizona with all the club's spring training facilities.

This Marlins thing isn't good. Two games postponed today. I'm not sure how the Marlins can go back to playing games any time soon... I wonder if they will have to start forfeiting games? I guess the Phillies are on hold until tests come back for all their players and staff as well. I assume they will require double negative tests.

The Jays should have gone 2-1 over the weekend, maybe even 3-0, but the bullpen let them down Giles looks like he's going to be out for a while, which kinda sucks. I'm not a huge fan of Giles, but when he's pitching well he does get pretty good results. Who knows, maybe none of it matters. The Marlins have 8 players and 2 coaches (according to the report I read) that have tested positive and have had to cancel their home opener. Is this the beginning of the end already..?

So is a sub a sandwich?

And the Jays are 1-0!

Mets gonna Mets, that's just how it goes. The Jays are up 6-3 late in the game now, but their 8th inning guy has pitched himself into a bit of a jam. This team has talent but wins are not going to come easy. They could be "scrappy and surprising" good, but they're not going to be "we're obviously better than you" good. (Or they could just turn out to be bad )

Yay! I've been wondering if/when it would be back. I'll jump back on that bandwagon for sure.

I'm, uh, not a fan

Seattle... Kraken?

Yes

I think I'm going to drop the few new shows I picked up this season in favour of catching up on stuff I was sad to miss out on in recent seasons because I didn't have a Funi subscription. The things I will keep current with are Major 2nd, Digimon, and Fruits Basket. Major 2nd and Digimon are our Saturday and Sunday morning cartoons

I watched Kakushigoto over the last week, what a great show. I don't know why I didn't give it a chance in the first place The last episodes felt a bit rushed, all that story jam packed in there, but at least it had a good ending.

Fruits Basket continues to be fantastic. I'm gonna be really bummed out when it ends God of High School is losing me. I am not a big fan of the aesthetics / character designs to begin with - the show just isn't that nice to look at for me - and I don't think I like the Persona-like thing that just happened.

And there you have it! Easy peasy. You can get a victory over Shinryu easily with this party too. Omega would probably require a gimmick (Quickleak) but I'm not sure if that trick/bug even works on the PSX port. Then sign up for a second run

Got the Boulder Badge in Let's Go Pikachu today. Poor Brock couldn't handle my dumb Oddish Hopefully I can squeeze in some more play time tomorrow and get through to the next badge.

I was gonna make a thread but this one was right there on the portal so

I started a game in Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu! last night. We've got it on loan from the library for two weeks. Not sure if I'll finish it within two weeks, but I can always put it on hold again. I'm sure two weeks won't be enough for the kiddo either.

That poor Thief is kinda useless, though if you have a fully powered Chicken Knife then the Thief can still be a pretty hard hitter. Mug/Capture ensures that you never accidentally flee instead of attacking. But with the ability to put Armor and Shell on everybody you really don't need many more levels to polish the game off. Shell is key against Exdeath's tree form because none of your characters can equip anything that will block White Hole (petrify), but at least you can greatly reduce the odds of it succeeding with Shell. Shell will also cut the damage from Almagest in half which makes the final battle very doable at a lower level. Necrophobia's Barriers will be a pain though if you want to get that final save point.

If you need more of the weapons - or you want sell them - then you gotta go back. Totally optional. You get 3 weapons per tablet. Some of those weapons sell for good money, and others sell for like 5 gil. It's hit and miss and I can never remember What are your jobs again? You may not need to level up much more. But you'll gain a few levels organically if you do the last two tablets. Both dungeons are rather easy and the random encounters give lots of exp.

Episode 2 of Deca-Dence was a pretty big let down I will watch a few more episodes because I haven't got anything else going on Wednesday nights... but I didn't like this twist after what the first episode was like. Maybe it will get better after things start to make more sense ... or maybe I'll still just be confused and disappointed