Je peux traduire au français plus vite maintenant. Je me suis vraiment améliorée. On ne peut pas dire la même chose concernant mes habilités sociales pourtant vu que j'ai étéun peu embarrassante parfois mais bref j'ai eu des personnes qui m'ont aidée tout longà trouver des projets et même m'ont recommandée pour le statut QC. Maintenant j'attends.
Et je m'en fiche de ce que des gens pensent demoi ! Puisque j'ai atteint mon but !
I went to visit a potential apartment for rent, alone. I don't know what made me want to go alone, but I've always liked the area. It's a vibrant, colorful, trendy and safe-looking area with many shops, restaurants, bakery and ice cream shop. The apartment's price includes heating and hot water, stove and fridge, and if I choose to live in the semi-basement, it would be also cheaper.
To be fair, it was on surface a successful visit. The girl I met seemed calm and nice, but people can lie through their smiling teeth, so who cares. I definitely don't trust people a whole lot nowadays, and I know how people in their 20s lie, being one myself. (Still I arranged a visit alone, so minus points). The apartment is nowhere near the photos she uploaded though, a bit run-down, but expected.
I went home with somewhat positive thoughts, but there was this nagging feeling. I kept randomly thinking of the word "stabbing". I chalked it up to my paranoia and chuckled a bit whenever I randomly imagine her standing over my bed with a knife. She was planning to move to a smaller apartment in the same building because she "didn't want to live with a roommate anymore". Though, it was what she told me after I said no when she asked if I was looking for a roommate myself.
Flash forward to today, I'm still having thoughts about the apartment, even though we've decided to get another. Randomly I search for apartments on the same street. Whaddayaknow? I came upon an article about a stabbing from a drug deal gone wrong in one of the buildings on the street. Guess the address number of the building I saw in the picture. Yeah, it's the one I went to visit. I squinted: it's blurry, maybe it's not that number. But no, after a google map search and comparing the appearances of the building in pictures, it's definitely that one.
You cannot get a refund at a store, only credits and exchanges. Therefore, when you walk out you must make sure that you absolutely want the items and that they're perfect for your needs. The quality is par for the price. Look for faults in sewing lines, inconsistent sizing, etc.
Obviously, if you order online you'll not get free returns, though they do offer free delivery over a certain amount of spending.
All bosses defeated within the first in-game week. At the lowest levels managed, these took some efforts. You can't simply wander into a dungeon and fight its boss. You must unlock events, triggered by the building of the facilities in your house - upgrading forge, apothecary, kitchen etc. in order to synthesize the right item for the next chain of events. The clock ticks 1 minute in game for every 1 second in real life. This is a game of time management. There are so many things to do, tending your farm, fighting monsters, taming monsters and feeding them, mining ore to make your own weapons and armors, fishing, harvesting crops, fruits and wild plants to make your own food (or your energy will run low and you'll eventually faint until the next day, losing "precious time"). Upgrading your house costs a lot of money, which you earn by doing all of the things above and selling any items you obtain and don't use. All the while, you should make time to talk to each villagers to build friendships and love points, as the objective of winning the game after all is still getting married, like your average Harvest Moon game.
I have anxiety and get stressed out easily worrying about what people think. But when I look at my work, whether it's a freshly subbed episode, a game video, a recent purchase or newly acquired knowledge and experience, a smile is put on my face.
Burke - original price ~$90, has gone on sales for $30
Yugo is very soft and comfortable. Burke can cut at the back of your ankles. Like always with Naturalizer, I find the cushion very nice but the shoes are generally a bit narrow around the toes, and wide versions aren't available for size 4-5.5. A size 4 is insanely narrow but the length is right for my feet. A 5.5 is right in width but the shoes will fall off the back of my feet when I walk. Still I love Naturalizer and think the quality is top notch.
While searching for apartments, if you do some persistent googling you may be able to find recent pics of the property like these, without ever having to come on site for inspection:
It turns out that the "all included" apartment with a surprisingly cheap rent is part of a big residential block under investigation by the municipality for years due to numerous unfixed complaints from the tenants. Broken pipes, vermins, garbage regulation problem, humidity, mold, unresponsive management (who has been changed once or twice) who won't do timely repairs. It has made appearance in lots of news sources, which doesn't come up on the first few pages of search of the address. That's when knowing the actual name of the residential building comes in handy. I've also heard bad things about the management company on reddit.
Of all the things I'm afraid of, landlords who won't do repairs or extermination is without a doubt at the top of the list. Bed bugs, roaches, mices, stuff of horror. Broken toilet. Dirty water. Soundproof is also on the list of many people, but I've not experienced a thin wall problem, so I've never thought of it. Inadequate heating is also awful for obvious reason.
You wake up and realize you're the exact carbon copy of one of your parents, and you'll be the exact same when you're their age. From physical stature, intellect, personality, dress style, judgment to tendency. Can one really escape it?
Ever feel like you should be paid for your emotional and physical pain. For example, if you're having chronic pain 24/7, at least by minimum wage you should have hundreds of dollars a day for the trouble. Plus who's to say you only deserve minimum wage for that shit?
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Of the 6 "dragons", there are 3 historical figures and 3 fictional. The ones who existed in real life are:
- General Yi Seong Gye, later King Taejo of Joseon
- Yi Bang Won, Yi Seong Gye's 5th son, later King Taejong of Joseon (known in history as being ruthless to his political enemies but a good ruler)
- Jeong Do Jeon, prime minister who came into conflict with Yi Bang Won over their political system ideal. JDJ wanted constitutional monarchy, while YBW wanted absolute monarchy. This was in the 14th century.
I love the characterization in this drama. Everyone has a backstory, motive, and conflicting sides in them, that make for great storytelling. The fights are so spare and require such a long buildup with political intrigues that when they happen it's so epic. It's nowhere as tense when you're just viewing these fight scenes out of context, though the cinematography is still pretty good.
By good I mean amazing:
50 episodes is still overkill, but starting from ep 15 the pace has picked up considerably.
I'm also partial to Moo Hyul who is just like a character straight out of a Japanese cartoon and who serves as a comic relief most of the time but is shaping up to become the great warrior in the sequel Deep Rooted Tree.
Misaeng (Incomplete Life) continues to manage to make the viewers cry and laugh right after or at the same time with very daily and common situations.
Geu Rae's day 3 accomplishment
Got Young Yi to tie his tie for him (but not on him, unlike he shyly expected). Sadly he had to wear the old suit and carry the new suit with squid juice in a bag as he didn't go home last night.
Stayed up all night at the office to re-organize the files Manager Oh gave him and slept at the sauna.
Assistant Manager Dongshik couldn't stop wowing at how he organized all the files and folders. Still, when Geu Rae came he told him he was not the only person working here and that he should read the company's manual and understand the standard for organizing and formatting files.
Manager Oh acted unimpressed and told him "At least your quantity is proven."
It turned out that Geu Rae was also good with Excel, which got some work done.
The final interview
Everyone kept hint dropping Geu Rae that "you can't work alone" meanwhile he felt lost and left out. Turned out interns needed to form a team of 2 to give presentations for the final interview.
No one wanted to partner with Young Yi because she was the ace and would overshadow them.
(Un)surprisingly, suddenly intern after intern started to approach Geu Rae to give him lots of teas and snacks and ask him nicely to be their partner.
Baek Gi stopped by, commented on Geu Rae's pile of gifts and gave him a thumb up.
Meanwhile, Young Yi looked at the hair tie Geu Rae gave back to her and thought to ask him to be her partner.
A.M. Dongshik finally pulled Geu Rae aside and told him why he was so sought after: because he lacked confidence and competence, which would make his partner look good.
Geu Rae sat quietly and thought about the time when he finished part-time work at dawn and walked alone home in the opposite direction to the crowd of people who went to school and work in the morning. He never felt like he belonged.
Dejectedly, he walked out of the meeting room to a group of interns who walked past him with phony smiles and hopeful eyes that he'd be their partner.
Characters
Manager Oh of Sales Team 3 seemed to have his own problems as he seemed to refuse playing office politics. When the Head of the Department suggested he could get the Executive Director to have dinner and hike together with them, Oh found an excuse to not join. Department Chief asked, "Even when I try to help, why do you refuse?" Later it was discovered that it was the Executive Director who placed Geu Rae, someone without qualifications, in Oh's team.
Manager of Sales Team 2, a close friend with Manager Oh, wondered why the Executive Director placed Geu Rae into Oh's team, commenting that even if the E.D. hated Oh he wouldn't be as immature as wanting to sabotage him.
Sales Team 2 intern, a married guy with a child so he had to stay up late, constantly making mistakes and getting scolded as a result. The intern who was actually nice to Geu Rae by telling him there was space in the elevator in ep 1. In this ep he unintentionally caused problem to Geu Rae simply by the act of borrowing a glue stick.
Seok Yool, slimy intern of textile department 2, with 50/50 parted hair and overfriendly laugh, presented himself to Geu Rae and asked to be his partner for the presentation. Jaded, Geu Rae asked him the explain his reasons, but walked away in the middle of it, leaving Seok Yool stunned then comically bursted out laughing to himself due to the disappointment.
Misunderstanding and Resolve
Heartbroken after knowing the other interns only wanted to use him, possibly including Young Yi, Geu Rae was leaving for the elevator when Manager Oh followed in and asked where he was going during working hours. Geu Rae then directly asked Manager Oh to mentor him, because he had always been alone and being alone he would not accomplish anything.
Manager told Geu Rae how lucky he was that he could even get an internship without any qualification and that he disliked a world where connections settled everything.
Sales Team 2 intern caused a big misunderstanding leading to Geu Rae being yelled at and punished. After asking to borrow a glue stick, he stood at Geu Rae's desk which was full of old confidential documents which needed to be shredded, and inadvertently attached one of them to his own papers, then dropped the confidential paper in the lobby. The Executive Director picked up this paper with Sales Team 3 name on it, and brought to Manager Oh. Manager Oh yelled at Geu Rae to "Get out" and asked if Geu Rae now understood why he was called unqualified and why he wouldn't help him.
Sales Team 2 won a big contract and celebrated. The intern was praised. Meanwhile Manager Oh looked at the paper picked up in the lobby again, and saw the Sales Team 2 intern's name accidentally imprinted on it when he glued his paper on top earlier. Manager Oh took a smoke with Sales Team 2 Manager on the rooftop, attempting to confront him, but upon learning that Team 2's intern was a newlywed and had to marry young because he was the oldest son in the family, Manager Oh decided not to pursue the matter. He put the evidence in the shredder.
Feeling guilty for wrongly blaming Geu Rae, Manager Oh took him and A.M. Dongshik to an afterwork dinner and drank himself silly. During the drunken ranting, Manager Oh praised Geu Rae's organizing skill, saying it was even better than the method in the company's manual. Then he said the document problem earlier wasn't Geu Rae's fault, but when asked who else could have done it, he answered in a high pitched voice, "that a seeecreeet" before falling down his seat. Then he proceeded to have a drunken argument with Sales Team 2 Manager about the goddamn glue stick.
Geu Rae went home and silently cried when remembering how Manager Oh called him "our kid". Now he felt like he belonged.
The next day, intentionally or not, Geu Rae didn't hear Young Yi's call when he confidently walked into the elevator. He met up with Seok Yook the half parted hair textile intern and agreed to be his partner.
Thoughts
The moment Geu Rae sat alone musing about how he never belonged reminds me of the time when I made mistakes at work then sat down thinking I'd never make it because of my chronic pain. I had such thoughts like I was always alone, nobody gave a damn, everyone moved on with their life while I was the only person to think about it over and over, nobody would say sorry to me, and I would never get my compensation. In fact right now I have this on my phone and desktop:
It might seem like I'm angsting, but at this moment I'm not.
"Misaeng is a highly realistic, depressing drama without any tragic happening."
It details the ups and downs in a person's work life. From dealing with discrimination of academic background and sexism to navigating company policies and bosses who have frequent power trips and who only care for their own promotion.
Main Character
Jang Geu Rae: former Go player trained since young, he excelled at the game but had to quit due to his father's untimely death. Since then, he worked various minimum wage jobs (supermarket clerk, cleaning the sauna, cab driving for drunk people, food delivery). His mom got him an internship at an international company thanks to connection. Upon knowing Geu Rae only had a GED, all the other interns shunned him and his superiors did not expect much from him.
Difficulties Geu Rae faced in ep 1
Ill-fitted suit. He had to wear his father's old suit. His mom tried to save to get him a more decent one.
Assigned to Team 3 Sales, met Assistant Manager of team 3 (Dongshik) who asked him what he'd done in his 26 years of life without attaining any diploma or competency. Geu Rae stayed silent.
A.M. Dongshik was busy with phone calls and documents while Geu Rae awkwardly sat down then stood up and walked around not knowing what to do.
Finally given the task of photocopying some documents, he mistook the scanner for the photocopier.
Copier ran out of paper. The drawer was also out of paper. Not knowing what was where. Not knowing how to load paper or copy multiple pages at a time. Dropped tons of paper to the floor.
Picked up phone call asking to speak to Manager and he had no idea who he was, where he was and when he would come back, because nobody told him (no orientation or training, Geu Rae started 10 days later than other interns).
Picked up phone call in Russian and couldn't respond. Picked up another phone call in English and didn't understand. And on. Luckily, another intern was nearby and he had to bother her again and again with those phone calls.
New characters
Ace Intern, Ahn Young Yi, who was admired by everyone and could speak English and Russian perfectly. She had to come back and forth between her own duties and answering phone calls for Geu Rae. Finally fed up, she told him to tell anyone calling that none of his team was present and to write down a note. If foreigners called, simply hang up. When Geu Rae approached her again (to give back the hair tie she dropped), she mistook it as an invite to lunch, and before he could speak promptly told him she usually ate alone. Later, though, she walked by his desk and asked why he didn't go to lunch, then asked if he was a mama boy who couldn't do anything by himself. Geu Rae then answered "I'm not stupid", it was only because he was not hungry. But then his stomach growled loudly and Young Yi simply walked away.
Jang Baek Gi, who seemed to be an over-achiever, perfectionist and ambitious intern. He paid attention to things like unique fonts and format, and anticipated all of his superiors' needs like bringing coffee and reserving restaurants before asked, greatly impressing them. Everyone was gossiping about Geu Rae the new intern who got in through nepotism, and Baek Gi listened with interest but with a neutral hard to decipher expression. He then introduced himself and shook Geu Rae's hand with a polite smile, offering to help when needed with things like photocopying and commenting that Geu Rae could make himself comfortable like everyone else and take off his blazer.
Social life woe
Geu Rae tried to take the elevator to go to the cafeteria, but it was pack full of other interns. One nicely invited him in to a small space left, but another blocked him and said it was full.
Baek Gi was in the middle of the interns and looked at Geu Rae expressionlessly as the elevator door closed. Other interns smiled politely, but soon gossiped about his special treatment as he didn't take the intern test. They wondered if Geu Rae went to Ivy League or Harvard to have that special treatment.
The interns ate together and were complaining about the unfair competition as Geu Rae passed by with his lunch tray. To the others' dismay, Baek Gi invited him to the table. Baek Gi then asked Geu Rae to join the interns' study group. It was clear at this point that Baek Gi's "nice" intention was to expose Geu Rae's academic background to the others as they started to ask what university he came from, and he told him he only had a GED. Everyone's faces turned stone cold.
Young Yi arrived late at the cafeteria and joined Geu Rae as he sat and ate alone while the other guys already left. She apologized for being rude earlier (calling him mama's boy) and Geu Rae replied with "yeah" instead of "it's ok", which stunned her.
Later during the day Geu Rae happened to hear the interns gossiping about him with the Assistant Manager of the Resource team (where Baek Gi was assigned). Baek Gi listened quietly as everyone complained. The Assistant Manager told them to be nice to Geu Rae since he wouldn't last long anyway.
Geu Rae walked home silently thinking about all the talk he overheard. He blankly looked around his room, then picked up his Go pieces and threw them into the drawer, remembering his past when while praised for having exceptional talent, he kept failing to become a professional Go player because he was distracted with part-time jobs to support his family because his dad was ill.
Flashback to when he was stocking goods in a grocery store when he received a call from mom, and the scene switched to him kneeling silently at his father's funeral while his mom cried audibly. Geu Rae quietly thought to himself: "My journey... ends here." Still, he blamed himself for not having enough effort.
Geu Rae's solution
Geu Rae arrived early at work and saw a list of names and contact infos. He soon memorized them and was able to quickly make calls on Assistant Manager's demand, which stunned him.
As team 3's Manager just returned from a business trip with bloodshot eyes and was still stuck in traffic and the A.Manager had to go on a trip of his own, Geu Rae was sent to meet a foreign client. The A.M. thought their team was doomed because "this kid doesn't know anything"
Manager arrived at the cafe to see the client happy and occupied because Geu Rae taught him to play Go during the wait.
Still, Manager told Geu Rae he couldn't accept him because of poor qualification. Geu Rae said he was a hard worker upon being asked to sell himself. Manager said it wasn't enough. Geu Rae said his work had better quality... and quantity (didn't know what else to say). Manager gave him a task of classifying documents to test his work quality.
Geu Rae used his childhood method of classifying Go articles to classify the documents Manager gave him.
Meanwhile, Geu Rae's mom spent a fortune of her savings on buying him a nice suit. She immediately went to meet him in his company lobby.
Geu Rae put on his new suit in the washroom and sniffed back his tears with a smile.
Manager saw Geu Rae's work on classifying different files into folders and asked if he had friends.
Manager also walked by Young Yi's department (textile) earlier and eagerly asked her to work for his team after internship.
Day 2 problem
At a factory, squids were mixed up with baby octopus and thus would cause quality problem for their dry products.
Interns were assembled to go to the factory and manually separate the baby octopus from the squids. They complained that this was dirty work and that someone else should do it, while eyeing Geu Rae, who was sitting in the same room with his new suit.
(In)conveniently, there was no protective factory clothing left for Geu Rae to cover himself, so he went into a freezing truck of seafood with his new suit. No intern wanted to partner with him either.
Despite being portrayed as having taken numerous part-time job, Geu Rae seemed slow. Viewers pointed out that he could've asked for trash bag/plastic bag to make a poncho and cover himself.
Geu Rae managed to find an octopus in a container as his phone rang. His gloved hand slipped and dropped the phone into the container of squid and liquid.
Baek Gi then got a phone call and was told that the Chinese exporter accepted their fault and that the interns no longer had to separate octopus and squid. Slyly he told another intern who clearly hated Geu Rae to inform Geu Rae to stop working and come back with them. Asshole interns left after making a faint call to Geu Rae which he couldn't hear while still working hard with the squid container.
Geu Rae stayed in the truck late until the factory worker came to tell him the others all left. He came back to the office drenched in squid juice. All the workers already left since it was late, but Young Yi was just leaving. She gave him her phone to speak to the other interns who were relaxing at a Korean sauna. They asked why he didn't pick up his phones, laughs audible in the background.
Still Geu Rae came to the afterwork dinner and met the other interns without washing. He stood stoically while they made fun of him and his smell. Then told Manager he was going to return to the office to finish the classifying work he received. He walked away telling himself, "I'm abandoned because I don't work hard enough."
Thoughts
People like the interns are everywhere. One could say that it's almost normal, as heartbreaking as it is. Once when I came to a restaurant asking for work, I was given a trial shift. A waitress was told to show me what to do. She told me to clean the toilet with only my hands and gloves and said that was how they did it there. Then when I asked her about dining table numbers she told me there was no number. It came back to bite her in the ass when I directly asked the boss if there was really no numbers for tables, which was fucking impossible. I bussed tables before. Then, the boss hired me and let someone else trained me. They were full of praise, to my surprise.
Being played like that was my biggest fear. In my first job when I bussed tables the boss constantly told me to come on days when the restaurant was closed. To be fair, it was holidays but I was oblivious and didn't check the calendar. I came to be a paranoid person, always afraid of being played, which was why I dealt a little better with the waitress bitch. Still, I constantly was called naive and not aware whenever I was played. The truth was, I was completely aware, but I started to "kill them with kindness." For a while, I got everyone to reciprocate, begrudgingly or not, and I usually indirectly expose their deeds in front of others. But my social capacity had its limit and soon weirder problems arose like someone thought I was a manipulative user. It was unintentional and I genuinely liked him, but due to the misunderstanding I was uncomfortable and quit after working for about half a year. My chronic pain also caused underperformance, but it's something I can never explain to anyone.
(Why do I call her a bitch? Because everyone else does.)
Fresh hard mode lv1 cap makes everything extra difficult. The zombies that normally take 1 Secare hit, now take 2, because you're stuck at lv1 forever and your strength will not increase. Adding to that, you have limited MP to perform actions. A few weapon swing and the bar is depleted, thus you can only frantically jump to avoid enemies. But then, a bone-throwing skeleton appears and blocks your jump with a bone that can hit for half of your HP bar. You dodge the piece of bone and try to jump over the skeleton, but it either throws another or it jumps itself backward and you'll land on it with half of your HP damaged. Behind you, horde of zombies appear from the ground. It's risky to slide backward, and you must watch your step if you go forward, as they can also randomly rise from the ground right in front of you.
How does this relate to the bitch? She makes everyone's life difficult. Nothing is ever right and you're always at fault even if you're not. A simple act of placing a bottle on a table can lead to her firing her mouth off at how you're placing it too far to the left, then when you replace it to the right it will be too far right, and when you put it in the center it will be too center. When her assistant does his work at their station, she'll send him to the back, but when he's in the back, she'll make him go back to the station, all while talking her nasty mouth off. The worst, is when she has no idea what she is saying, but you're still wrong. She does not know how to use a tool, but she'll yell off at you about how to use it the right way. That is, I assume, something that makes her feel powerful and important in her nasty life. Holy fuck, she never shuts up and everyone complains about having a headache around her (it's so hard for me to stay neutral and not join the discussion, but I'm also wary around these people). She will also try to dig up your secrets to hold power over you. Someone warned me before, that if you don't gossip with her she'll make your life even more difficult, so there's no winning.
Just nasty.
Though Castlevania is still fun. I've built up my patience and concentration for this game.
Turn-based games do not require reflex and quick situational problem solving skill since they give you all the time in the world to ponder the problem and come up with a counter measure. In some games like Fire Emblem you can even manipulate the "luck" factor (RNG) and control the outcome exactly as you need, whether it's a speed bonus on level-up or even enemy's AI. You do take into consideration your opponent's point of view, bait and trap them but real-time games take it to another level as it takes only seconds to react and decide when to go forward and when to step backward. In turn-based games I can sometimes ignore enemy phase completely, thus it's all about my own turn and how I can get what I want. In real-time game there is no moment to zone out, as inconcentration leads to a gameover screen immediately. It also trains patience as you cannot bulldoze your way through everything. There must be a wait time before the reaction, step back, dodge, go forward 2 steps, go back 1 step, in accordance to the enemy's simultaneous action.
In conclusion I guess the most important thing I've "learned" from real time games is to wait and to step back when needed.
This all sounds pretty funny. I need to play sports. When I used to play badminton my reaction was actually pretty good. Some think it's a game for old people to play in the park but when the pros play a badminton match sounds quite loud and somewhat more violent than expected.
Last time I ordered a delivery worth $30 of half-half chicken (fried and sweet-sour), which while fresh, crunchy outside, moist inside and non-greasey, made me regret spending knowing I could get something similar from my nearby grocery store at the end of the day at 50% discount about $10, but obviously with lower quality. For $30, you can also have an all-you-can-eat at a sushi bring-your-own-wine restaurant, so there's that regret.
This episode is about a high school student (about grade 10) who is the only working person in the family after her mom became sick and her dad was laid off and became alcoholic. She berates her father every day for not having a job and pretty much acts miserably to her plight. The father does secretly try to look for jobs every day but due to his age in the 50s, has a lot of difficulty (first question he's asked is always his age). He silently suffers his daughter's insults every day without explaining his action and struggle. In the end he's able to land a job at a construction company while filming the show.
This ep is a reminder to me that no one likes somebody who acts miserable. The daughter is understandably a teen with a lot of burden, but acting angry, angsty and woe-is-me has some kind of off-putting quality. Perhaps it's not fair, but that's how it is, and it seems one must stoically faces one's challenge. That doesn't mean you should not communicate or explain yourself, like the father who keeps building misunderstanding with his daughter and doesn't bother showing her his efforts to not be a lazy alcoholic.
Can probably be described as the Chinese counterpart of Sherlock Holmes/Elementary. They even address this in one of the scenes with background Sherlock Holmes theme, though the outcome of the scene leaves viewers amused.
Minestrone is a thick soup of Italian origin made with vegetables, often with the addition of pasta or rice. Common ingredients include beans, onions, celery, carrots, stock, and tomatoes.
How to make:
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Follow the package direction, makes 4 servings. Add your own fresh ingredients.
I'm wearing a dental splint on my lower teeth. I can think and concentrate better mainly because it provides my jaw and teeth with support. My problem started when I had braces, originally intended to treat underbite.
Anyway the cost of this splint coupled with sessions at the dentist, x-ray, etc reaches more than $2000. I'm not paying for this (long story) so it's alright, but money isn't the only thing costly about chronic pain. Relationships, years of my life, my happiness, education, career, my family, my self esteem and pride have all been costly. How much compensation does one think is enough?
Chicharrón is a dish generally consisting of fried pork belly or fried pork rinds; chicharrón may also be made from chicken, mutton, or beef. The Grilled Pork Garlic package is more crunchy, with slightly smaller pieces. You can taste the pork fat in the Old Fashioned Style package like it's not completely fried. That concludes my recent fascination with chicharron.
Hitting 'em notes, actually succeeding with these songs, though my voice is not stable or able to project like professional singers or anything. Originally I just wanted to do this to improve my speaking voice, which seems to work a bit. Bang Bang and Chandelier were the hardest so far.
Webber Naturals Omega-3 Fish Oil $11.27/210 soft gels
Centrum Forte Essentials Adults $9.97/100 tablets
Centrum for Women $10.77/90 tablets
Equate Tea Tree Oil $14.97/100ml
Centrum's effect on my work performance is noticeable not only by myself but by others. This proves 2 things: either Centrum is very effective and/or my diet is terrible.
"A deep and addicting game once you've scratched the surface"
(a squaresoft/square-enix series)
I myself would give this game a 3.5/5. It is a game with endless freedom and customization and gets very enjoyable once you understand the system. The downside is that this very own complexity and openness can be overwhelming and off-putting to new players.
Story
As someone who has completed more than one playthrough now, I'd say I regret looking at a guide and spoiled myself some major plot points - yes, there are plots! But you have to find little pieces of them through seemingly non-related sub quests and put them together. The general idea is to find the fatestones and save the world from the evil god Saruin, even though most characters just start out doing their own thing - some are treasure hunters, some want to avenge their family, some have lived a secluded life and now want to go explore the world - and acidentally stumble on a fatestone or two on their journey, then gradually realize something sinister (Saruin's awakening) is going on. As you take on quests, usually from notes and people in pubs, and progress through the game, the Minstrel will tell you tales about the history of the world. Some characters may have their own secret background that you'll only find out when you pick them as the main. Some storylines will need 2 or 3 playthroughs to play out.
Design
The world design is varied, there are snowfields, desert, mountains, numerous towns and cities, and certain characters can travel around with their horse or wagon adding some fun variety. You also have map skills, like climb, jump, pick herbs, mine, detect hidden chests, dig up treasures, you can also see monsters roaming about and decide to fight them or to dodge and run away from them, which is an art in itself. You can also trade items and cash with some monsters. However, most dungeons look too much the same, the castles are just empty hallways, if you're in a cave eventually you can't even tell where you are and which cave you're in since they all look the same. Some dungeons require specific map skills that you have no way of knowing beforehand, so you may find yourself unable to proceed because you haven't equipped "Jump" to jump pass a hole on the ground. In this case, you'll have to trek all the way back to town to equip Jump. One dungeon is especially punishing, as if you leave it, the quest is marked as failed. For some others, if you fought too many monsters on the way, you may find an empty room at the end, since the time requirement (called the "Event Rank" system) has passed, and the quest is marked as failed. This is why it is a bad idea to "grind" battles in Romancing Saga. However, 80% of the quests don't have time constraint.
Graphics
Graphics wise, some people are put off by the character model, thinking they look weird or creepy. I myself don't find it bother me at all. I enjoy the FMV style, especially the Barbara dancing cutscene. Looks like waterpainting, very colorful and artistic. Sadly, there are not a lot of those.
Music, sound
The music is amazing (except for the South Estamir theme). I especially love Gray's theme and sometimes listen to it on repeat outside of the game. Battle themes are exciting and very pleasant to listen to. For this aspect I'd give a 10/10. There is voice acting for every dialogue, sometimes they're ok but sometimes pretty hammy.
Replayability
The battle system is what makes the replayability of the game. Besides the 8 main characters, there is a wide variety of side characters you can recruit. This means that you can start every new game with a new set of party members, each with their own strength and weakness, though their weaknesses can be improved by using the right weapons or magic. For example, using a lot of martial arts will make your character more sturdy and faster, using bow and foil will improve their accuracy. Anyone can equip any weapon or magic, and each type of weapon or magic comes with their own techniques and spells. There are hundreds of techniques and 8 schools of spells with around 10 spells each, out of those you can also fuse them to make new spells. These techniques and spells can combo with each other depends on your character's skill, speed, order of attack and their row placement, to form flashy team attacks and vortexes. You can pick different classes for your characters, each with their own specialty - Castle Knight can deflect attacks for others, Rosalian Mage can fuse 3 spells together to make 1 new spell, Swordsman deals extra damage, Rosalian Officer has extra defense, Estamirian Rebel inflicts status ailments more easily, Herbalist can tell apart different herb types etc. With this complexity, coupled with the non-linearity of the game, it's possible to make no two playthroughs alike. You can have a team of purely fighters or purely mages or a combination of both, exploring dungeons in any order, even finding a way to get past super powerful bosses and gain access to tough dungeons early in the game with the right customization. With each New Game+, the number of jewels you earn from quests are multiplied, which makes upgrading classes easier.
All in all I'd say Romancing Saga is a good game, with some flaws. The learning curve is steep, the turn-based battle system can get dragged out at times, the slow running speed and little direction given during the game can turn some players away. The randomness factor in learning (called "glimmering", or "sparking") techniques and increasing stats can be fun or frustrating, though there are also tricks you can exploit in the game. If you want a unique RPG experience, try Romancing Saga.
Guides
How to build a Rosalian Mage with all fusion spells
How to make fusion spells with 0BP cost and with status effects
How to build an Imperial Scholar with all fusion spells
Spells needed:
Flame of LifeReviveHoly WaterFold TimeFreeze TimeStrengthen PullSnowstormTremorPhantom WarriorEnhance SpellMind BlastCosmic TideWay of FocusSong of Souls (pyro, out class, Blazing Foil)Flame of Life + Self-Immolation+ Summon Elemental (Fire)+ ReviveHasten Time (hydro, in class)Fold Time + SnowstormPetra Delta (terr, out class, Earth Foil or Feather Spear)Pulverise + Freeze Time+ Mind BlastTremor + Freeze Time+ Enhance Spells+ Mind BlastAnti-magic (dem, out class, Eule Staff)Enhance Spells + Armor Blessing+ Bind to Earth+ Way of FocusGalactic Rift (cosmo, in class)Cosmic Tide + Strengthen PullRain of Life (bew, no opposition)Way of Focus + Holy Water
Imperial Scholar - Fusion Spells with status effects:Energy Bolt + ReviveLower STRShockwave + Mark of Awakening Lower DEXStarbeam + Earthen Grasp Lower WILBird of Fire + Fold Time PlantWater Blast + Summon Ele (ae) Lower DEXTremor + Summon ele (pyro) STRTremor + Wave of Life STRLightning Illusion + Fold Time AGI Snow Storm + Fold Time AGIBlood Curdle + Fold Time Lower AGIBlades of Wind + Fold Time Lower AGICosmic Tide + Freeze Time Lower AGIBlades of Wind + Freeze Time Lower AGIBlood Curdle + Freeze Time Lower AGISnowstorm + Freeze Time AGISunray + Mindblast Lower INTStarbeam + Mindblast Lower INTCosmic Tide + Mindblast Lower INTWave of Life + Mindblast Lower INTHellfire + Mindblast Lower INTBird of Fire + Mindblast Lower INTBlood Curdle + Mindblast INT
Status effect spell combos in a team of Imperial Scholars:
blood curdle → sunray → hellfire → wave of life (lower INT)blood curdle → lightning illusion → blades of wind → lightning illusion → blades of wind (lower AGI)blood curdle → blades of wind → lightning illusion → blades of wind → lightning illusion (lower AGI)
Channeling weapons:
serpentbrand (hydro)phantom sword (illu)flamberge (pyro)icesword (aero)axe of king (pyro)eternity staff (dem)serpentstaff (terr)khellendros (aero)yucomb (hydro)featherspear (aero)malystrix (pyro)chalice (hydro)
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It's quite something, when I realize that I used to play Fire Emblem straight for more than a year. I've played and replayed FE4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a bit of Shadow Dragon and some of its sequel. The time spent on each stage can take up to an hour or more, not to mention when I went "hardcore" and started to play for minimum turn count, which took a lot of thinking and reseting. I can't speak with utmost certainty, but playing for LTC (low-turn-count) strategy did something to my mind and problem solving skill, which translates somewhat to real life problem solving skill, even if it can't be compared to real life learning from experience.
I didn't finish Shadow Dragon for some reason, but I tried again today on Merciless Mode, and it was hard, but tedious and unfun. Aside from the fact that I'm probably over Fire Emblem, the rescue/drop mechanic is not yet present in this game and on this difficulty mode you're basically just hoping your units don't miss when attacking enemies, which doesn't leave much for strategy. There's the diversion tactic by using your flyer to lead enemies away, item trade chain (instead of rescue/drop chain) and then there's forging super weapons and later warping, but when forging's available is when the game gets much easier and warping simply breaks the game.
Son is able to break the fabric of time and talk to his now deceased dad from 30 years ago through the radio frequency affected by a rare aurora occurance. By alerting his dad and saving him from his supposed death, a chain of events from the past is altered, leading to a serial killer of the time surviving until present days.
Minestrone is a food item that recovers health in Castlevania. It is available in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia at Jacob's shop once Shanoa gives Aeon the Chef some Salt during one of his quests.
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