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More Rain World levels made for fun:

• Insert_Crumble_Joke_Here: https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?bab8a1393eb3a874e639a9fd3d7eda32.png

• I_Sent_You_The_Script_Three_Times: https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?bab8a1393eb3a874e639a9fd3d7eda32.png

• Melting_Bananas: https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?bab8a1393eb3a874e639a9fd3d7eda32.png

(I uploaded the wrong images…)

Although my copy of Rain World isn’t on Steam, I made this level for fun:

https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?79a62c67cfc106e73c30015d78cfe18d.png

I have completed Saint’s campaign. The numbers:

Food: 142
Successful cycles: 35
Deaths: 65
Quits: 1
Time: 02:52:39

The Survivor 
The Pilgrim

One Monster Kelp killed

Ranking: 387

I have a problem. I planned to use my new iPad for art-making purposes, but social reasons and the way that my mentality changes over the course of the day are getting in the way of that. I have had many ideas for things to draw, but during the only times that social reasons allow me to use my iPad, I have internally enforced priorities that marginalize the desire to do so and makes me lose motivation.

There isn’t really anything I can do about this. I’m just venting my frustration . . .

This is my workflow for packaging and sending RW-570 broadcasts:

1. Get the raw broadcast materials. Do whatever I need to collect it.

2. Open the Siri Shortcuts editor on whatever device is available. Edit the “Metadata Moval” shortcut to contain the metadata of the broadcast.

3. If the broadcast was recorded through a screen recording & is being packaged entirely from my phone, input the broadcast material into the shortcut through the share sheet.

   If the broadcast was recorded from the Nintendo Switch, send the video to my laptop to be re-encoded before being packaged.

   If the broadcast is already in audio format & is being packaged from my laptop, run the shortcut and pull the material from there.

4. If the broadcast is being packaged ahead of time using my phone, save it to the Downloads folder when prompted, and transmit it to my laptop when available.

   If the broadcast was packaged from my laptop, or when the pre-packaged broadcast is sent there, proceed with the process.

5. Upload the file and submit it to ChanRec or Corkboard, whichever one is currently operational.

. . . While writing this, I realized that very few people would know what I'm talking about. This is a very convoluted process with some chances for streamlining, but there are some silver linings to this system, such as consistent metadata between broadcasts being packaged in bulk.

Forgot to mention this again, but I completed Spearmaster’s campaign earlier today. Upon closer inspection, my hibernation-to-death ratio is JUUUST under 1:2.

-=-(general stats)-=-
Food: 271
Successful cycles: 56
Deaths: 110
Quits: 3
Time: 05:49:10
< Met Five Pebbles >
< Met Looks to the Moon >

-=-(karma reel)-=-
Maximum karma: 8
Passages completed:
| The Survivor, The Monk
| The Saint, The Outlaw
| The Scholar

-=-(creature kills)-=-
---+
1  | Yellow Lizard, Scavenger, King Vulture,
   | Salamander
2  | White Squidcada, Infant Centipede,
   | Spitter Spider, Adult Noodlefly
5  | Pink Lizard, Blue Lizard, Eggbug
6  | Monster Kelp
8  | Cyan Lizard
10 | White Lizard, Lantern Mouse
15 | Pole Plant
24 | Dropwig
---+

FINAL RANKING: 4584

You know what's even worse than accidentally sleeping in? Sleeping in for an entire hour because your watch went into power reserve, and daylight savings exacerbating the problem.

ENTRY F - Sleeping Wayyy In

I had a dream about the campaign of a brown-colored slugcat named The Strider. From that point, it digressed into IRL events. I encountered some sort of five-headed Wither, and mounted an operation to help my sister learn about it. Further along, I was playing Rain World as The Strider and carrying a slugpup that I found, which was screaming legible words and calling me Alex. I was headed to a shelter so I could drop off the slugpup before heading off to fight something that looked like the Heart of Ender that I encountered earlier in the dream. There were some dandelion peaches in the shelter, so I ate those and hibernated.

I wouldn't have slept in if my watch hadn't gone into power reserve . . . not to mention that my left earbud went missing.

RAIN WORLD TIP: if you struggle to efficiently use Hunter’s back spear, pretend that you're playing as Spearmaster and tell yourself that you're holding Grab to grow needles. If you really think about it, Hunter’s back spear and Spearmaster's needle growing ability are quite similar, with the exception being that Hunter’s ability is limited and storage-dependent, whereas Spearmaster's ability is unlimited but slow compared to Hunter’s ability.

My new iPad arrived a few minutes after I gave a negative-acknowledgment update on it in my journal. Attempting to do a wireless data transfer resulted in multiple errors, so I'm currently backing up my old iPad so I can transfer the data that way.

In the meantime, have this scenario from a movie that I was watching during the failed setup attempts:

Two characters are sitting on a glacier. One of them is an expert on glaciers, and the other knows next to nothing about glaciers . . . including the fact that they're sitting on one.

Character #1: “So, is it true that glaciers are stealthy?”

Character #2: “You're sitting on one right now.”

The camera zooms out to confirm this.

Character #1: “Haha! Sneaky glacier!”

I forgot to mention this earlier, but I completed Rivulet’s campaign earlier today. The numbers?

Food: 210
Successful cycles: 42
Deaths: 88
Quits: 7*
Time: 03:01:52
< Met Looks to the Moon >**

The Survivor and The Saint achieved 
Two eggbugs killed

FINAL RANKING: 624**

*Most of the quits were caused by a softlock bug I encountered, in which the game would randomly tick-freeze while the rarefaction cell was running.

**I did actually meet Five Pebbles, but due to a tiny proto-rot cyst outside his chamber swallowing me on multiple occasions, I ended up skipping over him to save time. Correcting this discrepancy in the ranking would bring it to 664.

Does anyone else feel allured by networks? Like, have you ever looked at a maze, a transit map, or a network of pipes, and just felt a strange pleasure from it?

ENTRY A - Backlog Overflow

After receiving a GT-180 broadcast containing a video file encoded in a way that Finder couldn't interpret, I tried putting it against Firefox, which actually managed to interpret it! The video was a recording of someone playing a game called mMetro, which attracted brief interest from me. [SENTENCE REDACTED]

There's just something about the irresistible allure of networking . . .

CONTEXT: I sometimes refer to myself as the Icelandic Water Dragon in my journal. But more specifically, I am the Icelandic Water Dragon of March 5th, 8:22pm . . .

ENTRY D - Swaggiest Spears Ever

[wall of text regarding development of a new original character]

Who knows! All that and more is up to further development! Do this concept justice, Icelandic Water Dragon of March 6th, 2024!

"The apple juice jug will have dwindled to negligible mass by the time it reaches your head." -Icelandic Waters

ENTRY E - We’re All Waiting!

While taking my bath, I the Icelandic Waters remembered Rain World's passage system and suggested that [removed due to a lack of relevance]. The Icelandic Water Dragon doesn't think much of this idea. Besides that, the Icelandic Water Dragon of March 5th, 8:02pm has done nothing to appease the Icelandic Water Dragon of March 5th, 7:26pm. I promise, the Icelandic Water Dragon of March 6th, 9:14am, or the Icelandic Water Dragon of March 6th, 6:21pm at the foreseeable latest, will have better news for you.

(While I'm at this multi-timeframe Icelandic Water Dragon thing, please ask the Icelandic Water Dragon of March 8th, 4:43pm about when my new iPad will arrive!)

My thought processes while troubleshooting a @State variable and an onTapGesture property:

how do we handle this?!
hmm
*tries the $binding thing*
how did I do this last time??
here!
uggghhh
*turns on the explosive ipad*
*turns off the explosive ipad*
A ROT CYST
ooh!
it changed color!
you know you're doing something right when the text changes color
it still doesn't respond to my prodding
none of these breakpoints are doing anything!
WHAT?!
IT WAS THE COLOR?!?!?!
h,,,

In the end, the reason for the dysfunctional variable was the fact that I had put its declaration in the content declaration instead of the view function declaration. And the dysfunctional tap events were caused by a coexisting .foregroundColor(Color.clear) modifier . . . for some strange reason.

TIP: when programming in SwiftUI, never forget that the ZStack view function exists. It may turn out to be more important and useful than you think!

ENTRY F - Close Calls

I had a dream that I was playing TLoZ:TotK . . . in Rain World's expedition mode. The menu listed two open save slots; one Artificer expedition, labeled "Pursued", and one Hunter expedition, labeled "Remembered". There was also a Spearmaster slot and a completely empty spot, but I assume those were unopened files. I started the Artificer file. I woke up in a skull rock near a bridge and a stable. At the very start, the scavengers had already caught up with we. I hitched a ride on a conveniently placed horse and went on my way. I was planning ahead for a Lynel in the way, so I think I was traveling west, on the road that leads to the Lanayru Road's east gate. However, if that were the case, then I would be on Mount Lanayru, which I clearly wasn't!

When I reached my destination on horseback, I had arrived at a building, which was some sort of living space-treasury combination? The house comprised of rectangular rooms connected by sliding glass doors. There were people living there. In my time there, I saw a few art installations in the building, as well as some clothes on display that I liked and might have worn, if the house's permanent residents and my parents weren't watching me from an adjoining room through the sliding door. And thank goodness I didn't, knowing what happened the last time I tried on clothes in a dream . . .