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I am almost out of things to do in Hollow Knight.

( reaching the end of the game )

Almost done with Mogtomes: just those that can do everything that just need next week's weekly challenge to top them off and I'll be finished. I have a few alts that got some stuff this week that, despite having enough for Gwiber, I may still do anyway; extra dogs never went amiss. And although Prae takes an age, I have to hang up laundry tomorrow, and it's always a good time to do it in...

Drives are also done! I got lucky and had a win streak today so I only had to play three games to hit the last tier for points, which was good, because I was envisioning being just short if I had lost one and having to play many more to bridge what would have been a twenty score gap. I didn't quite make it back into Legend on tank, but I'm one game off it, and kept encountering a bug where I was not receiving compensation on losses so was just pingponging the same -80, +80 points over and over... small indie game and all that, Stadium has so many bugs even now... but I am not too worried about it, honestly. I played a lot in weeks 2-6 and kind of burnt myself out, so I've been glad to take it easy the end of last week and now the rest of this one before it starts over again. And people are really grumpy during Drives, lmao. My D.Va winrate went from 2-10 in BO5 to something like 50-30 in BO7, so that's my tanking comeback story.

I have 19515 comp points now, so I'm well on my way to getting the 27,000 I wanted for golds for all women. If we get bonus Drive points next season for the end of the competitive year, I'll probably get galactic on Moira and Mei, since they contributed to stadium gains to get me there.

Season 21 next week. Ashe is getting three (three!!) new skins next season, she has been very loved lately. One is heist themed with an animal mask, either a snake or a large cat, and she has soooooo many beautiful tattoos, another she's a cyber bunny because why not, and the third is a festive skin from official art from many years ago that never got made but Mercy's did and now it's finally real. And also has more art to go with it. Look at my girl who's happy and full of whimsy.



But wait. Who is she shopping for gifts for in this official art? Cassidy, because they're always connected and perhaps if they made amends she would, and...



Widowmaker.

Thank you for the crumbs T4 I will cherish them always.

I am inching my way through Hollow Knight, very slowly. ( GARAMA! SHAW! - Hornet words of wisdom )

But yeah I think like, vessel made of void that carries an equivalent great sword around is the most Dark Knight Hours it could ever be so it's no wonder I've latched on. It's been nice to spend an hour just doing something else other than XIV or Stadium every day. Stadium I've reached the stage of being at, or almost at, the rank I was last season, so all reduced loss percentages are gone, which really sucks because it's now +80 for win and -80 for loss so it's like hitting your head into a wall at times. The advertised part of this system is it gives you loss reduction if you have leavers or win multiple rounds! Not so at this point. It makes me not want to grind out anymore because losses feel twice as frustrating and it's why I don't really play traditional comp. It's just asking to be tilted, especially when the game matches you with any rank. Am I not being punished enough with having to carry two rookies on my back the whole time!! Apparently not.

It's drives next week though, so perhaps I will simply play less games overall this week and put the hard effort into next week. And hope it doesn't match me with people who don't know what they're doing and penalise me for it...

Furniture stuff happened on Monday; bed is rotated. Dozens of cardboard boxes flattened, old appliances removed. Had some vertigo issues during that that reminded me why I can't physically do shit or leave the house (not yay). I am now going through the wardrobe which is a weird exercise, because there are gifts in here from six years ago to people who have nigh vanished from my life. I would like to get them to them, but this may have to be tackled in spring. I feel like Ikea shall be getting more of my custom for bookshelves for that room and also a tv stand with actual storage for my living room, lol. And then I'll probably be done in my blissfully dust free zone.

The deep well of sadness is on its way for me again. Passage of time isolation static constantly losing things it takes me so long to do anything can't leave the house ten years ten years ten years. I do not expect it to ease for a while.