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Excerpts from my forty-fifth recorded session of externalized, verbose thoughts . . .

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BZZZZZZ
I'm back
the difference being that I'm using windows this time
this is going to be harder to log
but that's tommorow's problem
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the bounce house has ears
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WHO PRESSED N?!
no hints about that here!
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we went into this with zero planning
let's just fake it...
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4 3 2 1
432
43
we are legally obliged to do this
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how do I move the floor again???
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Firefox had some massive issues this morning. On WiFi, most pages would instantly experience an NS-BINDING-ABORTED or NS-ERROR-FAILURE error upon trying to load. On cellular, the issue was less present, but some websites didn’t function properly, some images didn’t load and the page-loading problem was still present for some websites.

Oddly enough, it seems to function perfectly fine on Windows . . .

ENTRY 1.29.D

I spilled the beans to my family about Rain World. Everything seems to be going to plan! I wish I had more to say, but it was nothing but eventful.

My sister took the chance to call in a Hollow Knight review. I've seen a meme that joked that Rain World was the sequel to Baba is You, and HK was the sequel to that. Maybe we'll become owners of the entire BBIY trilogy?

. . . I just discovered that I opened Prestige Tree in a private tab, and all that progress is gone. Again. Oh well, I have a backup.

I decided to start a new Prestige Tree playthrough after my old one got deleted. Here’s how it’s going so far:

Time Played: 2h 4.00m
First p reset: 3.79s
First b reset: 3m 29.03s
First g reset: 15m 20.39s
First t reset: 38m 33.12s
First e reset: 53m 59.32s
First s reset: 1h 4.00m
First sb reset: 1h 21.00m
First h reset: 1h 57.00m
First q reset: 1h 26.00m

I’ve been having the recurring idea to invent some sort of text-based encryption/encoding scheme, so I can become more comfortable with sharing things that I normally wouldn’t openly share.

In the meantime, try to decode this instead:

ø-oooo-o-õ-ø-oooo-oo-oøo-øoo-õ-øøø-ooøo-õ-ooøo-o-øooo-oøo-ooø-oø-oøo-øoøø-õ-oo-ooo-õ-ooooo-õ-øoo-oø-øoøø-ooo-õ-oø-oøø-oø-øoøø
oo-õ-oøo-o-oø-oøoo-oøoo-øoøø-õ-oøø-oø-øo-ø-o-øoo-õ-ø-øøø-õ-ooo-oooo-øøø-oøø-õ-ø-oooo-o-õ-øoøo-øøø-ooø-øo-ø-øoo-øøø-oøø-øo-õ-oo-øo-õ-ø-oooo-o-õ-ooøo-øøø-oøo-øø-õ-øøø-ooøo-õ-øoø-oø-oøo-øø-oø-õ-ooo-øoøø-øø-øooo-øøø-oøoo-ooo
ooø-øo-ooøo-øøø-oøo-ø-ooø-øo-oø-ø-o-oøoo-øoøø-øøooøø-õ-oo-õ-øoo-øøø-øo-oøøøøo-ø-õ-oooo-oø-oooø-o-õ-oø-õ-øoøo-ooø-øooo-o-ooø-oøøo-oøoo-øøø-oø-øoo-õ-oø-øoøo-øoøo-øøø-ooø-øo-ø

I'm bored. Here's one of the few things that my open social filters are willing to let me share at the moment:

ENTRY 1.28.C

Icelandic Water Dragon: "If the Memory Crypts are underground but the rain is still a threat, then they must flood. And it's already confirmed that the Miros Birds can survive underwater. But why and how . . ."

Icelandic Waters: "MIROS DUCKS."

I’ve made more progress decoding Rain World’s primary script system. (I understand that there is also an axiom-style method of using the script system, but I’m decoding how it’s used in a certain image.) Here’s how my decoding progress reflects on my primary piece of evidence:

https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?23fbbe7a648f4b0f3d1f508a175d0846.png

Here are the characters I’ve deduced so far:

      (LUST) -> A
  (VOCATION) -> P
     (SUB-E) -> R
 (BACKTWIST) -> E
 (COMPANION) -> F
    (SLAYER) -> T
    (MARTYR) -> I
      (URGE) -> L

And if you couldn’t guess, this is the evidence that I’m using: https://rainworld.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Devtool_Thumbnail.png

After returning to my first piece of evidence with a different strategy, I am proud to say that I have made progress towards decoding Rain World’s primary script system! The progress isn’t particularly big, but it’s more than nothing!

      (LUST) ->
  (VOCATION) ->
  (SUB-MONK) ->
     (SUB-E) -> R
 (BACKTWIST) -> E
 (COMPANION) -> F
    (SLAYER) -> T
  (SUB-LUST) ->
  (VIOLENCE) ->
    (MARTYR) -> I
      (GRID) ->
      (FORK) ->
      (URGE) -> L
   (SCHOLAR) ->
      (MONK) ->
 (ASCENSION) ->

Tomorrow, when I have all the time in the world, I’ll pit my findings against my secondary piece of evidence and hope to uncover more connections!

I took a second attempt at decoding Rain World’s primary script system. Using tentative data from my first attempt and working off a different piece of evidence, I didn’t manage to pick up on any obvious words. The alphabet that I fished out of the pre-release development log only listed 14 characters for the primary and tertiary script systems, so it’s possible that I’m trying to uncover nonexistent connections.

https://chiroyce1.github.io/image/?6a2757c41fa441fd5ac3e3a5f126ee3f.png

(If you’re wondering, the censored project name on the whiteboard refers to a completely different project.)

<< /* I got the idea to start making posts in Kielbasa-style
again, just out of boredom.

<< /* In other news, the IRL event that I've been waiting so
long for is happening next Saturday. I've been building my
knowledge base for this event since the start of the month; I
can't let it go to waste . . .

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ENTRY F

HR ae father a dragon B nice former
Too many reColors!
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This is what all of my in-the-moment-logged dream logs look like. Typing legible data onto a blindingly bright screen at 2am with heavily glazed eyes is not easy. Surprisingly, the hardest part usually isn’t figuring out what I was typing, but rather what I meant by it. The only thing I can remember of the “too many recolors“ dream is a very tall grid of small colored squares, against the backdrop of a high-altitude location in Rain World.

This afternoon, I remembered my physical notebook and decided to check when I had last used it. While looking through it, I found some forgotten plans.

FACT: While The Lunch was at large, I made plans for JMF&TS: Archival Materials, a release of Just the Mineral Fish and Their Soundtracks designed for handling general audio files instead of music. Planned features included the ability to choose soundtracks to view from a list, closed captions, and more advanced key art movement effects. Ultimately, it never made it past the planning stages.

A scene of a Miros Bird writing emails at the speed of light while chasing a slugcat at an equally fast pace sounds EXACTLY like the kind of thing that I would absentmindedly think up.

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"(If you imagine the bird responding to 50 emails in that stretch as well)"
that sounds like something that would've come out of the icelandic waters . . .
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https://candlesign.github.io/Rain-World-Devlog/Pages/070#1388

This is Landon, speaking from his phone!

I don't have much to say besides that. I got my external drive working, transferred the necessary files, and downloaded the app needed to use it on iOS. Things are fine!

Preparing to copy to "MAIN FOLDER"
Preparing to copy 14,317 items . . .

Preperation complete.
Copying items . . .
\(progress) of 30.35GB - expect 25 minutes

Copy to "MAIN FOLDER" complete.
Ejecting storage device.