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☆ Had work off yesterday since I worked the weekend, so I used pretty much all my free time to play Final Fantasy XVI. That's right, I finally unboxed my PS5! That alone was more trouble than it should have been, given that the little plastic legs needed to get it to stand horizontally WEREN'T WITH THE REST OF THE SUPPLIES and were in fact in a totally different part of the box that I would have thrown out if not for Reddit. So that was an excellent packaging choice. What's everyone's favorite PlayStation design? I think we peaked with the PS2 thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Anyway, FFXVI. ( + )

This makes it sound like I don't like it sjdfhksjhdf but I do! I've just gotta get further in... I've gotta bounce between this and Octopath 2 which I still haven't beaten, oops. I shouldn't have started FFXVI until I did, but what can I say, I have poor decision making skills. And with FFVII Rebirth coming out soon...

Did anyone watch the new trailer that released with the demo? The most important takeaways: Barret sailor suit, Tifa and Aerith cute beach outfits, SOME GAME THAT LOOKS LIKE TRIPLE TRIAD, the dolphin, seeing my beautiful husbands Cid and Vincent, also Cissnei seems to be there for some reason, plus Roche is back to be weird at Cloud. ♥ And there was some plot stuff I guess but that's less important. I always pretend I don't care about FFVII as much as my faves but it's all lies, I love my stupid children...

☆ Speaking of watching things, I also watched this video by Mina Le about third places and friendships that I thought was really interesting. She does a lot of videos about fashion history, media fashion, pop culture, beauty trends, etc. that I think is fun to learn about so I definitely recommend her channel in general. This video discussed a bunch of different stuff about the lack of third places in modern life, how this affects building community, social media as a substitute 'third place' and the difficulty of maintaining friendships, and some other related topics tying in to all that. Interesting stuff to consider these days.

☆ I started writing up my January book reviews but they got kind of wordy so I think I'm going to just drop them in a separate post. I also finally bought paid time for this journal so I spent like the last three days just gathering and organizing and uploading icons lmao. Kinda surprised how hard it is to fill 150 spaces but that just means I'll have to keep hunting for more!!