The past few days have been a blur of 3D printing and my newest tap tap phone game addiction: Ensemble Stars. I've been playing LoveLive since uhhhhh 2015? 2016???? but it's been a fucking shit show. SIF2 is not even close to the original, and it's shutting down in a couple months. Worldwide is apparently launching next month, but it'll only be open for a few months before it also shuts down.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

lays on the ground sadly

But look I hate change and I really like 1) the songs and 2) the play style of LL, so no other rhythm phone games have stuck for me. UNTIL NOW, APPARENTLY!!!! I even tried enstars a few years back and didn't really care for it, but I guess I just needed to try for a bit longer? I've barely been able to put it down since I started a few days ago XD

ANYWAY. The other important part of this post is 3D printing, namely the inevitability of me printing a bunch of tristamp Knives's blades.......not a million of them but as many as possible XD I bought a 3D model on etsy and it's been.....challenging to get it to work right, to say the least :T


Knives is disappointed in the many failures >:O
Something about the model isn't working right; it's basically too HD???? Pat's brother has been trying to help us sort it out, because where the blades come to their "sharpest" point, it's too narrow for our printer to actually render/print/something???? I dunno. I'm not good at 3D shapes in general and considering we just got this printer a few days ago, it's been a lot of messing around to try to get things to work.

Micro Center did have small packs of fun filament - because of COURSE we went back to get more already - and I also got a big thing of shiny silver to make the blades...once they work right :TTTTT I had to take a break from it for a bit.

Also, classes start tomorrow!!!! It's my last semester at community college :D I'll be graduating with my associates in creative writing after this, and hopefully transferring to complete my bachelors :D I have to work on filling out some transfer applications, but I started them just as I got sick and couldn't really work on them for the past couple weeks.

I'm both nervous and excited, tbh. I kinda thought I'd never finish any sort of college and now here I am, just one semester away from success!!!!!! And my top choice school to transfer to is definitely a reach, but I'm still gonna give it my all~~~~

First print from our new bestie, the 3d printer, was a success!!!!


He wiggles!!! I'm so pumped :D He's gonna be the first of many (hopefully?) since we wanna get decent use out of the printer~ Both for cosplay and just....general house stuff. Liz found some VERY COOL Kingdom Hearts shelf brackets that we're gonna use to hold up basically everything.

That's it XD Just very excited about the 3D printer~~~~

soooooo after dealing with various issues with my laptop - namely the trackpad dying and both the USB ports rapidly failing - I replaced it. I'm really upset because I actually invested in a really good laptop for once, something I hadn't been able to do before, and I feel like it just blew up in my face. I got less time from it than my past two, so like.....go fuck myself I guess?????

Anyway!!!! First thing I did was "downgrade" to Windows 10, because I am not dealing with all the bullshit of 11. I'll stubbornly use 10 for as long as possible (much like how I only upgrade my desktop from 7 to 10 a few months ago), and they'll pry it from my cold, dead hands XD I'm also very excited to have a touch screen again, which is one of the things I sacrificed for a "better" machine last time. NEVER AGAIN.

Today is gonna be a lot of transferring data and installing software, which I feel like I just fucking did when I rebuilt my desktop recently, but whatever. Worth it for the upgrade. It's also nice to have a bigger hard drive in this thing~~ And since it's a slightly bigger laptop, the keyboard is already more comfortable :D

ALSO!!!!!!!!! We got a 3D printer!!!!!!!!!! arahith and I should never be trusted in Micro Center alone, because we always end up spending way too much.............BUT IT'S EXCITING. We've wanted a 3D printer for awhile and there was a decent sale and we were already spending a lot of money...totally worth it XD The first test print is going right now and I can't wait to see it!!!!!!!!!!

I'm still fairly sick btw, but finally well enough to leave the house for brief periods. FINGERS CROSSED it all clears up before classes start next week ;w; I am not looking forward to starting the semester sick.