Well, today I just lost my last dog, Rocky.

He had cushions disease and we been giving him meds, and until Monday of this week he was okay, but the Monday came and he couldn't stop shaking, he didn't want to get up or even react to mostly anything. Took him to the vet, then the ER and we learned the disease spread to his kidney and liver, and the medicine we had been giving him was actually hurting him instead of helping this whole time.

We gave the doctors a day to see if he improved, and sadly he didn't, folks visited him today and see if things would improve, sadly not, so we decided to put him to sleep.

Still numb to it all, but at least he isn't suffering anymore.

Figured it's that time of year so I might as well get the obligatory journel out of the way.

Merry christmas and I hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday with friends and loved ones

Helloooo FA it's so good to be back! God those two days were stressful, worrying about this account and everyone in it. Just glad it's over, now everything can go back to normal.

https://x.com/DB_official_en/status.....971213816?s=20

Only just found this out just now, felt I should spread the world.

We lost one of the greatest creators in our time, who gave us series like DragonBall and Dragon quest, among other things.

RIP Akira Toriyama, we'll never forget you

Prince of Persia, for people who grew up in the 90s, this series was widely popular, from the critically acclaimed Sands of Time trilogy, to the original that started it, to even the often overlooked 2008 reboot, even the movie they spawned, this series has been around. And with the remake of Sands of Time under ice, we needed a new game. Enter The Lost crown.

You play as Sargon, youngest member of the Immortals, Persia's elite group of warriors. When the prince Ghassan is kidnapped by Sargon's mentor Anahita, he and the immortals race to where he was taken. Mount Qaf, a place where Time has shattered asunder.

The game is a metroidvania platformer, meaning sprawling landscapes, narrow corridors to explore, enemies to kill, loot to be found, backtracking to be had and a lot of collectibles. Sargon comes with his twin swords, and over time you get a bow, a chakram and a assort of other abilities, usually in the form amulets. Collecting these will help make your build stronger. From partying that creates a bubble to slow down time, or a charm that helps protect against poison, you will be collecting them to further refine your playstyle.

Along the way you will encounter man things, and some places you need to return to with new powers. The game offers memory stones, little pieces that let you take a photo of a location where you see a collectible you can't reach, simply use the stone and leave a mark on your map for later. The map itself is a simple design, and you can collect maps from a character named Fariba, who you find in spots, listen to her humming to find where she is. (Fun fact, the song Fariba is humming is actually the main theme of Prince of Persia '08)

Now there is one more aspect of the game, a power called Athra, basically your super move that comes in three levels. Using it let's you unleash a special move that can help turn the tide of a fight. And believe me, you need to learn the moves and pick your favorite, because they can come in clutch in a boss fight.

On that note, the boss fights are an intense match against big opponents, from a massive manicure, to humanoid bosses with their own crazy abilities. They will test your skill and many will destroy you. Thankfully you can restart the fight or return to a respawn point if you need to change your load out.

Finding the response areas is easy, as they have a trail of gold energy that will lead you to where they are, and usually some include a teleporting station that let you move around the world. Your main hub area is where you can go to purchase new items like healing potions, upgrades your gear, on top of training with your abilities so you can test out new combinations. Use it if you need a refresher.

Now the platforming for the game is crazy and at times you will get killed, don't get frustrated, especially as platforming is useful in certain places. But collecting items will require insane levels of patience and jumping, especially for locating side quests. Believe me I have nightmares of one in particular.

Now the abilities you get are pretty useful, from being able to double jump, to dashing, to even teleporting, you'll have a blast using them in combinations during combat and exploring. Don't be scared to look up a guide if you get stuck, trust me I needed to do it for collecting the last few collectibles.

Oh and one more thing, if you wanna one hundred percent the game, you can upgrade your amulet charms twice, it will cost money to do it but it you wanna get everything, you need to upgrade your stuff. But upgrading some charms can be the difference between success and failure so don't be scared to go on a grind for money.

All in all, I had a blast playing this game, it was a real return to the franchise and I hope this gives it the spark the series needs to make a return. I hope that we can get more of Sargon and his friends, or maybe a remake of a older game in the series, maybe that sequel to Prince of Persia '08 they teased a long time ago.

If you are a fan of the series, and love metroidvanias, or you wanna play a prince of persia game to scratch a itch, this game might be for you. All I say is good luck, you are gonna need it. Have fun too!

Okay so earlier today my friends  Dragon316 and  gamerdragon both got their discord hacked, dragon316 tried to get me but failed, and recently gamer got his banned and another friend's too got affected. If anyone follows their accounts on discord and got get a message saying "Hey I need your help" DO NOT ANSWER, THOSE ARE THE HACKER!!

Just spreading the word incase anyone get hacked and their discord banned

Hey everybody, Drag0nK1ngMark here, coming at you with a update!

Just wanna say to everyone who followed this account. Thank you all for a good year and have a happy new year. This year has been a wild one for me personally. Despite me streaming and testing out potentially streaming on weekdays, internet issues among others, mostly personal, its been a hassle of a year for me.

Firstly incase anyone remembered from my precious journals, I had lost my grandparents on my mom's side of the family, but also angel. Well most of you probably didn't know this unless you tuned in to my streams but I am now seeing a therapist. Have been for months now since October i believe, its been a wild few months but i finally am getting my life on track.
I recently have been seeing a therapist for my own mental health and am close to getting a treatment plan, which hopefully will lead me to getting into a job and making money. Will I still stream? Yes, might not be much depending on circumstances, but since I do it on weekends, might not change too much.

Will I continue to stream? Yeah, but when I get a job I will focus on that more and get myself stable with money, maybe even do better and start to get more productive with my life. The reason why has been a lot of turbulence in the family, and after doing some soul searching, I need to change. The first step was therapy, though that is definitely helping, the treatment plan will help too, granted I gotta wait for my next appointment, as the printer at the therapist's office was on the fritz so I couldn't get the papers last time and gotta settle for this Tuesday.

Still I am looking forward to hopefully getting better, as I have been spending ten years just doing nothing but streaming, with no sign of growth for the channel since then, and with the death of my grandparents, I felt it's time for a change. I will still stream, depending on what life throws at me, but I still wish to work on myself so there may be a slight decrease in streaming activity.

But really I wanna thank everyone I know and to the viewers who watch my streams, and subscribed to the channel, thanks, it really means a lot for a tiny channel like myself that people like my stuff. I wish I could be more active with everyone, and that I had a better mic, been using the one that came with my PS4 and I think it's time to upgrade to something stronger.

Hopefully next year is better for me, but with how things are going so far, it's early to say but I think things are looking better than before.

Again, thank you all for watching and following, and please, have a safe and happy holiday season wherever you are. And I hope next year is a better one than this one.

Been a while since I made one of these reviews, but hey, better late than ever. And I got a good game to review.

Are you a fan of Souls-like games? Any of you a fan of Pinocchio? Anyone a fan of Bloodborne? Well this game is all that and a lot more.

Lies of P is a souls-like game that takes obvious inspiration from Bloodborne, while also drawing upon the story of Pinocchio. Not the Disney one but the original one by the original author. The game is set in the city of Krat, home of puppet automation, from butlers to policemen to workers, almost everything is run by puppets, powered by a mysterious substance called Ergo. With the Grand Covenant to prevent puppets from turning on their masters, Krat and it's people are living the good life.

Unfortunately, something has called all the puppets to go crazy and attack the populace, this "Puppet Frenzy" combined with a plague of something called the "Petrification Disease" is also affecting the people, slowly turning their skin gray and scales, their blood to become blue and organ failure.

You play Pinnochio, or rather Geppetto's Puppet as he is known in-game, where we awaken by a blue butterfly and a voice of a girl Sophie, who urges you to find her at the Hotel Krat. Armed with whatever your weapon you pick up at the start, and a lamp holding a companion named Gemini, you set out to find Geppetto, find out what caused the frenzy, and stop it.

The game is a souls-like, and as such it has the bells and whistles. The stats of the game are simple if a bit confusing. The first three stats govern your Health, stamina and Vitality so you can use heavier weapons, but the last three need explanation. Motivity is the skill that corresponds to Strength, Technique is Dexterity, and Advance is your elemental attacks like Fire, Electricity and Acid. Weapons split between either using Technique or Motivity, but the thing Lies of P does is you can actually disassemble weapons and attach them to the hills of others. The weapons are split between the blades and the handles, and you can take the blade of one and put it into the handle of another, so you can have the blade of a greatsword attached to the handle of a rapier for example. Special weapons you get from bosses however can't be disassembled, so you can use them as they are intended.

You also have access to a function called a P-organ, this let's you add effects such as increasing how many items you can carry in slots, or improving certain things like your Legion or making you dodge when you fall and need to get up. Speaking of Legions, you get this arm that can function as a lot of things, the arm is a lot like the arm in Sekiro, able to change your ability with your Legion, such as having it do electric damage, or having it shoot a bolt of explosives, or even a shield to block attacks.

Lies of P also has side quests through the game, usually collecting from one place and returning to the NPC. Though there are also side quests that span the game with the NPCs in the hotel, those unlock achievements, but doing quests unlock new things to collect, like records to play in the record player. The songs are all unique and amazing, and I will admit the boss songs are also amazing to listen to.

The city of Krat itself is beautiful, I mean despite puppets going crazy, you locate documents and journals that explain the lore of the world, as do the characters, from Vengini the prince of Krat who helped make the puppets, to Lady Antonia who owns the hotel, the world of Lies of P is a beautiful but harrowing and at times sad world that asks a question about the nature of memory and if puppets, and by extension automata, can become human.

The theme of Lies plays heavily in this game, as P is unique as he can lie. From lying to enter the hotel, Lies are prominent in the game. Usually it's fine to tell the truth even if it's hurtful, but sometimes lying, even a small lie to hide a hard truth is acceptable. From giving a blind woman a doll and lying it's her baby, to lying about the identity of someone, both big and small Lies help P grow. The actions you take will make P become more emotionless like a Puppet or have him grow more like a human. Having high humanity has you act and be more human, it also unlocks a few items and even an ending if you want to get it.

Combat itself is fairly standard except you have no poise so you will be stunlocked a lot. It also has the Sekiro parry mechanic in that you need to time your blocks to not suffer damage. If you see a white outline on the enemy health bar you can stagger then, letting you deliver a devastating critical hit. It's all about timing in this game so if you play Sekiro this will be easy, if not be prepared to study and learn timing cues if you want to live. Also there are no summon allies, but you can summon a Specter to help you in boss fights, you will need it trust me.

In short if you are a fan of From Software games and you haven't gotten Bloodborne or Sekiro yet, this will be a good game to try out for either type. Be prepared to die a lot but have fun with it.

Well today is new year's eve, 2022 was a hard year for me and my folks honestly, though mostly for me, to give a recap;


-both grandparents died this year
-my Maltese dog Angel also passed away this year
-my attempt to get my student loans forgiven is in limbo
-suffered a anxiety attack at a doctor's visit among a bunch of other health issues
- issues with some friend drama
-general anxiety issues and depression that I need a therapist to get fixed...which sadly I have not heard from in a while due to too many clients and not many psychiatrists to handle them all.
-computer issues like needing to get more RAM added to my computer and the anxiety of figuring out what to do.

But there were some good things that happened to me

-started working out to deal with my body and am enjoying it? Been doing a routine every day to keep in shape
- got a new phone to replace the old one that had bad screen burn
- am getting off my desktop earlier than normal, not at midnight but arund 9 pm now that I got my new phone.

So what's on the agenda next year?

-plan on getting professional help for my anxiety and depression (high piority)
-keep working out
-staying off the computer more often
-attempt to locate a job (will try after I get help with anxiety)
-learn to drive (again after dealing with anxiety)
- try to be a better person

So yeah that's my plan for next year, here's hoping it goes well...it probably won't knowing my luck with plans, but I am trying to be hopeful about it

Just popping this journal up to say Merry Christmas and to enjoy your holidays with your friends and family, and stay hunkered down it is freezing out there

Well today I got me a new phone. A Samsung galaxy A03s. Had to d it since he old one had A bad screen burn issue that was making things literally unusable. Now to get more ra for my desktop but that comes later

At 3:59 AM today, the nursing home called my mom, my grandpa passed in his sleep last night.

New year, new me, or trying to be. Last year was a hassle, losing my grandma and angel hit me hard...but today is a new yea so i got plans. Firstly i want to get a job...though i need my license and a new ID photo too. maybe even look for a psychiatrist for my...issues with anxiety, see what i have.

hopefully this year won't be as bad as last year.

Today is a sad day. Early last night, my maltese angel threw up and also pissed blood, on top of having diarrhea also be bloody. We took her to the hospital and found out her liver and kidneys were failing so we had to put her down...this on top of her having that stroke a few months ago that cost her her legs. we thought she wouldn't make it but she did...but now we had to put her down.

Goodbye Angel...you'll be missed

Today, around 3:10 maybe 3:15 PM, my grandma, Raquel Munoz, passed away today.

Until further notice there won't be any more streams until we take care of business...sorry.

Just got the word that the Playstation Stores are closing for PS3, Vita and PSP. For PS3/PSP it'll be in July, for the Vtita its in August.

If you got games that you want or DLCs you wanna get on any of those consoles, grab them soon before them okay? Thankfully any games you already have can still be redownloaded, as well as any PS Plus games, long as you still own PS Plus.

Well its finally 2021, after the crazy year 2020 was, i hope this new year is an improvement over that one.

Goodbye 2019 hello 2020 and the new decade. Here's hoping it'll be better than last decade...probably not but one can dream

Just wanna say Merry Christmas to everyone and Happy holidays as well.

Ok i made this poll on twitter that'll be gone in a day, so i wanna leave the link. The poll is about my Stellaris game and whether i out to either do a new LP over a new species i made, or one of the Dracovian alternate templates i made.

https://twitter.com/MarkIrizarry17/.....95415309533185

If anyoen has been paying attention to YOutube then you might have heard about accoutns getting banned recently, wlel specifically suspended, not just the youtube account, but the google one too.

Apaprently it has to do with spamming in a comment section on live streams, well spamming emojis on youtube channels during streams. So...as someone whos treams this scares me like no end.

Wanna know how i elarned this? Markiplier posted a vid discussing this and honestly i am scared.

So, until YOutube gets its act together, i'm not gonna stream for a while. Sorry, but i am not risking my channel and my entire life for this.

For those curious about Markiplier's vid, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWaz7ofl5wQ

Yesterday my folks got me a phone, its no iphone but it's still good to have one,e specially for work about to come up...hopefully

Well i made a twitter poll earlier over what games should i stream, between Darkest dungeon and Stellaris, leaving it here for you guys, it expires in 24 hours

https://twitter.com/MarkIrizarry17/.....57349141716992

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment.....c=bell-brknews

Just needed to break the news, the actor who did Chewie's iconic voice...well, roar more like it...has passed away

Okay so earlier i did a vid on Hollow Knight and i had to cut it off early than usual to go listen to an orientation...okay more like a job opportunity for a job hiring on a stream. Long story short, i'm not qualified...and honestly i am still bitter on everything.

Here's the gist, i did a college online course for medical billing and coding, expecting to find work where I don't have to work from home, and i can still be paid money...except not only do i have student debt, but no one is hiring me, no matter how hard i look. I need to have three years of experience, a certified exam taken so i can be a certified coder, and a degree in billing and coding...i only got the degree.

Reason why i got no experience is because the job shadowing, which is basically you work part time at a place for a few hours and they mark down what you did there, no one was hiring me where i live. Plus i flunked the exam despite studying and i have to pay to take those...sadly, i got no money...and there lies my problem. Money.

I got to pay my student loans, i need to get insurance because i'll be taken off my parents and i won't have insurance when i turn twenty-six...next month. And trying to find a job is impossible because they want three years experience, so you see the loop i'm in right?!

Truth is, I stopped caring about finding a job, and this little seminar i did hours ago shows it, I'm fucked basically. all my work was completely wasted and i feel like shit. I'm not looking for a job because no one will hire me, I need money to pay bills and to get insurance and pay off my debts and help my folks, and i also suffer from anxiety issues and want to look into getting help, but can't afford it or sometimes worried they can't help me...

Sometimes...sometimes i actually contemplate suicide you know, just the stress of everything, the hopelessness,s the insanity...it's too much and I can't take it anymore!

I know i'm sounding like i'm whining but i'm just angry, angry that my work was worthless, angry that i can't find a job, and angry that i can't get help...i'm also worried about the fact that Puerto ricans are being treated as second class citizens, given what's going on right now in America (yes, I'm Puerto Rican, tho I don't act like it) i'm worried no one will hire someone like me given all the...well racism in the country. I know it might sound dumb to think like that but it's true, i'm worried soon it won't matter if i get education if the system just screws me over for a lot of things out of my control...

I am sorry for venting like this but i needed tog et it off my chest, okay? I'm just so done with all this and...honestly i don't know what to do. The reason i even game is because of all the stress on me and i just need a escape...yet i've been playing games for so long it's not doing much. I'm not wanting to become a Youtube celebrity, i don't really care much, i just play games because they're fun and i am good at it...and yet, they're my crutch holding me back...but also because of school crushing me when i was young.

See, someone i knew told me in my senior year "you used to be so bright an energetic, now you're quiet, what happened?" i told them "School..." and just went back to reading. See...i got picked on, bullied, a lot, mostly for stuff i stupidly did, commenting on people, annoying them, acting like an idiot...a lot of stuff I've come tor egret...and no one helped me. I sat with people who constantly made fun of me all so i could hang with just one person who treated me nicely. I dreaded going to school and whenever i was sick i would skip whole weeks trying to just get away. I went to the guidance counselor to ask for help and vent...didn't work as far as i could tell. Ultimately at my final year, most of my friends were gone, some left without telling me they did, and i was all alone. when i got my final day, i took my diploma, told my folks what happened and didn't look back as i went to my room.

Ultimately, i wasted my life hiding, afraid, angry, and not wanting to go to school and get a career, all because i was just done with everything. I don't care about the future because there's not one for me, I don't care about finding a job because i can't find one, i just. don't. care. anymore...and i hate it...

again sorry for venting, but i just need to get this off my chest. I'll probably feel better after a few hours after this is up, but for now, just need to say my peace.