J's Journal

Post Date: 6/16/2026

Damn these breaks between posts are getting longer. I mean, I kinda expected that to happen eventually but it still kinda sucks since I don't wanna leave y'all hanging... If there's even any "y'all" out there reading. Sorry, I'm just hoping to get some attention here. Anyways, all I'm doing right now is sorting through my Pokemon card collection to get rid of a bunch, and waiting for my graduation party on the 20th. I have way too many cards ever since I moved away for college, I went from 3 full binders at the end of highschool to like, 9 whole binders after I came home from college. So yeah I gotta do this, maybe I can get a bit of money for it but I'm moreso concerned about getting cards out there for the people who want them. But yeah, my graduation party's coming up and that seems like it'll be a ton of fun (hopefully I'll get some cash for TooManyGames) Although, it does mean that I'm gonna have to skip the game my friends do every Saturday since it falls on that day, and then the Saturday after that I'm gonna be at TooManyGames. So yeah we're doing another hiatus, God knows this game's had enough of those. It's kinda frustrating but it also gives me time to properly think everything over, so it's kinda whatever. That's it for now, but man it feels like this June's been flying by. Guess that's just what being out of school and unemployed is like. See y'all next time I post here! -J

Post Date: 6/10/2026

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH I FEEL LIKE A DICK FOR FORGETTING THAT LAST POST SORRY. Wow, a week without updating. Sorry about that, been balancing my job search with my real-life responsibilities with a healthy sprinkle of goofing off in between all of that. I'll try to update regularly, but I can't promise it'll be more frequent than this, sorry. Anyways DID YOU SEE THAT DELTARUNE REVEAL IN THE LAST NINTENDO DIRECT?! WHY IS ASGORE'S SHOP SO JAPANESE? GOD it looks so gooooood I'm so excited, me and some friends agreed to meet up on launch day like we did for Chapters 3 & 4 last year. Oh and that new Xenoblade was announced alongside some info on that new Fire Emblem. I like those two series but I was kinda... eh on those two. I haven't played a new Fire Emblem since Echoes 'cause all the vitriol around Three Houses did some serious damage to my friend group back in the day and Engage just didn't look all that interesting. As for Xenoblade Genesis, I'm a huge Xenoblade fan but something about this new one rubbed me the wrong way. It felt way too fantasy and there was that focus on the fantasy school thing and there's the elves and Genshin-looking monsters and it all just... it felt like a serious departure from the series' usual aesthetic. I hope it's all part of a big bait and switch twist where we're on an O'Neill Cylinder or it's all a Matrix-esque simulation or some other crazy sci-fi twist, I love that shit in Xenoblade. I'll try to withhold judgement for now since we know so little but it doesn't look promising. Speaking of not looking promising, I saw the Digital Circus finale and first off, it was a fun theatre experience, but thinking on the finale more I feel like it had some problems I didn't notice on my first watching. Waiting until the finale comes out on Youtube so I can rewatch and see if it holds up to scrutiny. The other thing that happened at that theatre felt like my toenails were being ripped out :') Okay, okay it wasn't that bad but it was embarassing. My friend Isaac ran into his coworker at the theatre, she was in a cool Kaufmo cosplay with some friends and we met and all that, I gave her a fistbump 'cause I'm chill like that. THen when we walked away Isaac off-handedly mentioned how she made some internet series he's never heard of. Anyone here know about DOG NIGHTMARES??? Y'know, that super cool and awesome internet series with the fucked up dog man in it? Yeah she made that. She made an awesome internet series I've watched and I just... PANICKED HARD. I suddenly got all flustered around her and avoided her like I was some unworthy cretin who couldn't be in her presence for too long, lest I melt away from her radiant energy. I'm not even a huge fan of the series, I just think its style is cool and was starstruck that I met someone who... someone who made something that people know. It was incredible to know she lived in my area, she knew my friend who is also an internet microcelebrity (If any Homestuck fans are reading, my homie's a big shot on their Gen2 Discord server, which may not be a good thing depending on how you look at it) And yeah, my other friends brought me over there 'cause I wanted an autograph but was too nervous to ask her for one. So they DRAGGED ME THERE AS I WAS ALL "ah uh yeah hi I uh heard about D-dog nightmares haha" AND SHE WAS COOL ABOUT IT, GOD BLESS HER FOR NOT BEING FREAKED OUT BY ME, AND SHE SAID SOMETHING LIKE "Hey, Isaac knows where you live right? I'll have him deliver a gift for ya!" And it was at that moment I felt like I was going to die. So now I'm waiting on what that gift is gonna be, I'll tell y'all when I get it. God I was so embarassed bro, I didn't realize how starstruck I got. Thank god my friends were there to talk for me so I could actually tell her I liked her series. This made me realize how scared I am of seeing Chuggaaconroy at TooManyGames later this month and just freezing up, I really don't wanna embarass myself like that. But let's move on from that, I've been doing more. I'm talking to my advisor from college about properly setting up my resume for future job applications and that's going pretty well, and my mom and I hosted a garage sale over the weekend. I got like 60 bucks out of it, and when I went to another garage sale down the street I found a whole NES with its box and controllers, which I haggled down from 100 dollars to 45 dollars! Because of that I got to playing my old games collection more, now on the NES instead of my RetroDuo (it's some reproduction console I got several Christmases ago) and that got me to play a ton more of Zelda 1. I've always wanted to play it more, but this was the push to get me there. Trucked through like 5 dungeons in one day, remembered why this is my favorite Zelda game. That's about it now, just gonna get back to writing my game for this Saturday. Been struggling with this session for some reason so I wanna get back to that and finish it on time. Until next time! -J

Post Date: 6/3/2026

OH FUCK I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT MY BIRTHDAY WAS THE 31ST! Sorry about that, it's been a busy couple of days. But hey at least I'll have a pretty beefy update to share. Birthday was pretty good, nothing crazy just a little meet-up with some family and my girlfriend. Got the new Tomodachi Life, a cool prop dagger, and a new bed as gifts. My mom insisted on the bed, she thinks it'll help my back recover and I've had the same bed since I was a kid. Tomodachi Life was the stand-out gift though, if you've never played it you should it gets absolutely wild. Or you should at least watch Vinny Vinesauce play it and the first game on 3DS (Yes I know there was one on DS before it but it never came overseas). Anyways, 'cause of the new bed I was going through my room to get rid of some stuff, we're having a garage sale later in the week to sell it, and I found like 80 dollars in Gamestop giftcards. So naturally, I went to Gamestop and bought a bunch of crap. Got an Axew plushie, a new Gamecube controller, some Pokemon cards which were like, most of the gift card money (I am very frustrated with scalpers) and the first three volumes of Dandadan. Did you know Gamestop's actually a really good place to buy manga? They accept pre-owned ones and you can buy 'em for half the retail price, it's great. Anyways I read those Dandadan volumes as a brief break from Dragon Ball. Wasn't that into it at first, I feel like it has the problem a lot of modern shonens have of moving at a breakneck pace at the start, but I got to that part with the Aida girl and her backstory with the Acrobatic Silky yokai and... God it was gooooood. Also I just really like the main duo, reminds me of a duo me and my girlfriend played as in a game we did forever ago. Maybe I'll go into detail on that, but not right now. Outside of that I've been trying to help my back recover and I think it's been going well. Hopefully I can get back to the gym, I wanted to bulk up my arms a little bit for TooManyGames. I'm going in a Casey Jones cosplay and I wanna have some real "guns" for it. But I'll have to ask my mom if she thinks I'm ready, I don't wanna hurt myself by accident... Let's see what else is there to share..? Uh, tomorrow I'm going to see the Digital Circus finale in theatres with my friends, and before that they're gonna come over and add their Miis to my Tomodachi Life island... Fuck is there something I'm missing? I dunno, I guess we'll call it here. Oh wait! Anyone know how to do that thing on a page where you hover your cursor over an image and a blurb pops up? I saw it on a website of someone's kinlist and I wanna do it myself on a page, it was a cool effect. Okay now I'm gonna go, I wanna get to work on that. -J

Post Date: 5/30/2026

Sorry this may be another bummer post. I forgot to mention this earlier, but I had a pretty nasty back injury from like, a year ago now when I overexerted during some exercise. It was pretty bad, think it was a slipped spinal disc or something since I felt it pushing on my nerve cord and extending that pain all the way down my leg. Luckily my mom's a trained physical therapist so she's been helping me manage it and I've been recovering really well... until a couple weeks ago when it just started coming back again. Today was especially bad, woke up in a lot of pain and it hurt to even walk. Had to cancel my Saturday game to treat it, which sucks since that game's been delayed so many times now. I think it's getting a little better, but these things take time so I'm just letting it take its course and doing whatever I can to treat it. Outside of physical therapy and putting ice on my back, I haven't done much today. Only really interesting thing is that me and my mom went through a bunch of my stuff to sell at a garage sale we'll be holding either next week or the week after that. Gotta get some extra money, I'm going to TooManyGames in a month. Ever hear of TooManyGames? It's a big video game convention with Youtuber spots, games, a retro game and merch market, stuff like that. I wanna go so I can finally meet one of my favorite Youtubers Chuggaaconroy in-person. I'm excited about that, but I gotta keep getting money so I can buy some stuff there, I'm hoping to find some old TMNT figures there since I've been collecting them for a year or so now. Not too much else to say, wish me luck with recovery though. I've done it once, so I'm sure I can do it again! -J

Post Date: 5/28/2026

Having friends that're smarter than you is difficult sometimes. I'm writing the next game session for this Saturday and I'm realizing "damn, they're gonna UM AKSHUALLY me for the entire freaking in-game trial". Okay so, in an earlier session one of the players killed an NPC in a really gruesome and brutal way and one of their main ally NPCs is this ghostly lawman who caught wind of this and is bringing that player in for a trial, so we're doing a bit of a legal session. Problem is, my friends know way more about this stuff than I do and I just know I'm gonna slip up on some shit and they're gonna rip into me relentlessly. I'm already feeling a little tuckered out from this party so far and I'm not ready to handle 2 hours of that in a 4 hour session, so I'm probably gonna keep the legal stuff to a minimum. Probably could've avoided this, but I realized what they're gonna be like after I introduced the arrest plotpoint so I gotta do something with it at least. Eh whatever, I got a good feeling about session regardless since we're starting to deal with the wackier and more mysterious stuff in the game after some bizarre fights last session, so it's getting fun in that regard. I'd love to go into detail about it but they may see this so I won't. If they do see this, hey guys I'm glad you stopped by! Outside of that, I've been re-reading Dragon Ball for the first time in a few years. It's a favorite of mine and after the bad taste Solo Leveling left in my mouth, I wanted a palatte cleanser with one of my favorite manga. Been fun so far, may read all the way into Dragon Ball Z, may not. I've been trying to read more books instead of just comics and manga, so after Dragon Ball I may go to something like... I dunno actually. I have Frankenstein on my shelf, maybe that. Got a couple classics I wanna read, so it's sorta hard to just pick one right now. Alright I'm gonna call it here, I wanna start adding stuff to my Other Shit page, got a couple ideas for what to put in. Stay tuned for that! -J

Post Date: 5/25/2026

This is probably a weird second post to make, but this is my journal so I get to write whatever I want. Been feeling kinda down on and off for a few days now. It's weird, it feels like any little thing'll just make me feel bummed out for hours or even days afterwards and I don't know what's setting it off. Wasn't that excited to do my game the other day until I actually got in it and it was fun. I mean, I've been feeling for a while that I'm not getting along with some of my friends since we're very different people but it's a weird thing to bring up since I feel like it's just me and therefore it's something I just gotta get over but like... I dunno this is a lot. I gotta figure this out eventually, but I'm not sure how. I'll just bring it to my therapist and see what he says. It's even worse since I think stressors like this make me handle bad news worse, even though I'm usually pretty good about handling stuff like that so it's like, god fuck I'm re-frustrating myself... Sorry for all of that. I don't mean to bum out anyone reading, I know stuff's tough right now and spaces like this are usually an escape for people, but sometimes it can be helpful to just rant about whatever you're dealing with in the real world. I mean, it does feel a little good to bitch and moan about stuff like this here. Uh, anyways that's not all I wanted to share, I don't like being exclusively negative when I post. I'm seeing my girlfriend Emiley later today, and she's probably one of the only people I could legit spend all of my time with if the circumstances demanded it. Got a few things we could do today, not sure what to start with. We've been talking about making these stepping stones from a kit my friend Setanta got Em for her birthday, but I was also thinking about going to the mall with her so I can sift through the Pokemon card bulk bin at this one store I love (It's cheaper than buying packs, and fills out the card Pokedex I'm making quicker). But also, I got Wii Fit Plus from Goodwill yesterday and I wanna play that with her, so we may have a pretty busy day ahead of us. I'm not gonna complain though, as I just said I've been feeling kinda weird so maybe this can slap me outta my funk. I may post again later today if anything weird happens, but don't count on it I may be busy. Thanks for listening to my woes. -J

Post Date: 5/23/2026

Finally I was able to get this stuff up, HTML's both harder and easier than it seems. Anyways hello, as you saw on the front page you can call me J and I am starting a blog/journal on my new website. Just posting random musings or full-on paragraphs of what I'm feeling or what I'm doing at that time. Currently I'm just hanging out, waiting for my friends to come over later today for our tabletop game we do every week. I've been running it for a while now since I haven't run one in a while now and it's a game style we havent' done in a long time. Oh that must sound weird, basically we don't sit down for normal DnD or Call of Cthulu (think I spelled that wrong) or any traditional tabletop game. We usually make our own fairly rudimentary system to tell our stories through, they're closer to online roleplays than proper DnD games and they're usually played online. I've been running a custom system for a while called the J-Verse, its a superhero setting based heavily on My Hero Academia, at least early on. It has the basic "Most of the human population are born with some kind of power" premise of that series, but it has gone in some very strange and... unique directions since then. Previous stories in the J-Verse have been the players working with a washed-up hero to defend an alien child from being taken and used for raw materials, an evil genius with an army of stolen robotic animals trying to take over the world until a drunk Power Ranger, a robot and a dwarf from Dwarf Fortress stop him, and a shadowy cabal of people LARPing as politicians from the 1960s trying to take over the state of New York via TMNT-style mutagen and political conquest. Currently my player group is in a strange chain of towns surrounded by a gigantic sandstorm and culturally locked in the Old West, so they're trying to find a way out after drawing the anger of this big scary crime lord ruling the place through fear. I'll probably get around to properly archiving my games' stories and characters here one day, but I don't wanna take on something that expansive when the website's still a major work-in-progress. Other than that I'm not doing a lot, taking a bit of a break from my Pokemon Emerald Nuzlocke and have been playing a lot of Punch-Out recently thanks to my friend Jack getting really into it suddenly. Probably gonna call it here for now though, sorry about that big rant about the games I run, I just felt like I needed to give some context to that since it'll probably come up a lot down the line. See you whenever I post next! -J