Things are going okay.  I wrapped up a fun/busy weekend full of activities and am feeling thankful that Monday is a off-day for me to just chill and maybe work on Rhythm Quest a little, maybe play some ALTTPR or other stuff.

It had been a long long while, but I finally got around to making my own shoyu tonkotsu ramen again.  It turned out great!  Some components definitely could have stood to be slightly better, but the broth itself turned out excellent; bumping up the pork bone quantity definitely was a good call.  I've still got probably enough leftover for another 4 servings, this time I'll definitely make myself a simple miso tare because it's been way too long since I had a proper bowl of miso ramen.

The ALTTPR glitched mentor tournament continues and we've just finished week 4, where I became the only undefeated runner after a super jet seed that I finished in only a little over an hour (jeez...).  Although the seed itself was not super "rewarding" in terms of the fact that we only made one or two real decisions (and I don't think the would have mattered a ton in the end; I would mostly be on the right path thanks to general good routing principles and non-botched glitch execution regardless), it was satisfying to have yet another tourney seed turn out well, particularly after I had struggled with a lot of my practice seeds over the past week or so.  There are two more weeks left, so I'll still try to lock in for those, but at this point hopefully some of the pressure will be off (?).  It sucks because despite being completely prepared (more and more each week, even), I still struggled with a lot of anxiety.  Competing just isn't natural for me, I guess.

I'm finally back to development on Rhythm Quest, though again it took a little bit of a backseat over the past half week or so.  But it feels better not having any devlog posts since I don't have to worry about seeing people ask "when is the game going to be done" every couple weeks.  I'm finally working out the publishing / artist copyright flow, which is probably going to involve multiple big chunks of work, but at least I've started on some of them, including trying to set up a verified artist system and submission page for that, as well as in-game integration.  Another big part of that will be handling unverified artists where the user needs to provide their own audio, and that's a whole other can of UI worms, but I digress...

I played through an indie game the other day and it really strikes me how every time I go like "oh hey a game that was made by an indie dev" I get to the credits and actually there's like a team of people who helped out, plus often a whole bunch of kickstarter backers or whatever.  And in my mind when I think about the "credits" for Rhythm Quest it's more along the lines of "Hi everybody, thanks for playing the game, so this is usually where you'd put the names of everyone else who helped work on the game or make it possible but uh, it was literally just me (and a bunch of community translations I guess)".  Maybe Stardew Valley is that one exception that proves the rule...

I could talk about some of the other stuff but honestly nothing seems that interesting to me to recount or drill into.  I'm apparently headed to a short trip in MEX coming up so that should be interesting; at least it's less far than the other trips in the past if nothing else.  Bon Bon Ball and VBall are coming up; a TODO item for me is to make sure I have my makeup routine figured out since I got one or two new products I need to work in.  My hair care routine is actually kind of undergoing revision too, as a long while back I figured out that the shampoo bars I was using really weren't doing great things for my scalp, so I've been trying to find something else to settle on.

Besides ALTTPR I'm mainly just trying to achieve various challenges in Hades 2 and then here and there making some attempts at nightmare difficulty in Ravenswatch.  It's all been going just fine...it was good to have a break of a couple of days from the ALTTPR practice as well, since I was really grinding quite hard, but it'll be fun to get back at it this week too, I think.

I could talk about the dating apps stuff but there is nothing to really say about it.  It's about what you would expect, the main thing that's different is my attitude I think, in a good way.

But yeah.  Overall, I think I'm doing okay for myself...