Been a bit of a tough 2022 for me, but I've been kept on this side of the abyss by everyone I had met all through last year, starting from Phenomicon 2021 up until now. Here's hoping for a brighter and more-positive year than before!

Happy Holidays to all the beautiful, wonderful bosh'tets out there!

Courtesy of  adhiguna, Genie!Tali has never looked more gorgeous! So glad to find a kindred soul who happens to be just as much into Quarian-genies as I am! He drew this as part of Phenomicon 2021, and it felt good to collaborate with him, as we laid out the groundwork for it all, from her clothing, to the whole aspect of a Prothean artifact discovery gone wrong. In addition, he drew my personal Quarian-genie OC, Kath'Ryn vas Nedas. Links are below.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45139273/ (Tali'Zorah, SFW)
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45175845/ (Kath'Ryn, NSFW)

My team leader took me out to the Dave & Buster's up in Orland Park, had lunch with her, then we went to the nearby arcade and played on some of the many, many games before heading back.

-=GAMES PLAYED (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER)=-
Terminator Salvation: This game took way too long to get through the first-eighth of this one, and the controks were semi-realistic, but clunky.
Time Crisis 5: Twice the foot pedals apparently means more options for taking cover and flanking. The visuals were clean and crisp compared to the game I got terminated in.
Star Wars: Battle Pod: Nobody should ever put me in an X-Wing or Snowspeeder if they wanted to not die because of the light queasiness I felt during my pseudo-VR romp. Yavin IV got blown up, General Leia wound up KIA, and one too many Hoth transports were taken down...
Guitar Hero Arcade: Running off of the GH3 engine, I was sorely out of practice when playing Disturbed's "Stricken" on Hard Lead Guitar. I made it through, but not with top accolades.
Luigi's Mansion Arcade: Yes, Nintendo is still prominent in arcades, with Cruisin', Mario Kart, and now Lugi's Mansion under their belt. Two players, armed with Poltergusts, must clean out three mansions of their ghosts and treasure. Me and my team leader beat the whole game in one go, culminating in a showdown with a returning character from the original Gamecube entry. Very solid effort by Nintendo and Capcom on this one.

Also, I was killed by an airborne orange that a blue ghost catapulted at me, from his safety in the piles of refuse.

All in all, a good start to 2018... :D

So, as of today, I'm 26 years old now. In that time, I..

*Perfected Super Metroid: GBA Style, in 1H:42M, with 100% items, and saved the animals.
*Assisted PHOSPHOTiDYL of Metroid Construction in making a redesigned File Select screen for Super Metroid. I was the conceptual brains, he was the coding brawn.
*Played tons of Goat Simulator.
*Took Kathryn (and myself) out of a three-year retirement in Second Life, and new life and new love bloomed at Bespelled Academy.
*Most-played Doom mods: Brutal Doom v21 (Public Beta) and D4T: Death Foretold.
*Over here, stopped lurking and started interacting with the FA community.
*On dA, nailed a "Fate of the Multiverse" RP, involving a chance meeting between Arclite-S08 of the UNSC, and a geniefied Jasmine.
*I embraced the Discrd messaging service with open arms.
*Watched the entirety of One Punch Man.
*Watched the entirety of Corpse Party: Tortured Souls.
*Watched a close friend play Catherine (Xbox 360) multiple times; equal parts hilarious and dramatic. Especially the True Cheater ending, couldn't stop laughing at the hellish absurdity. XD
*Continuing to work towards an independent-living scenario here at Trinity Services.
*Bought Shadow Warrior Classic Redux on Google Play. Who wants some Wang?
*Beat Retro City Rampage DX, also on Google Play.

Here's to another step in the constant battle for survival that is my life!