Precision F-Strike

Once upon a time I realized I liked liveblogging. And then I did it. And then I tumbld. Not really a good example of a precision f-strike.

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reminder: stream starting in a half-hour!!

I also started rereading HS from Act 6 WHICH IS STILL A VERY LARGE UNDERTAKING WTF HUSSIE WHY IS ACT 6 AS LONG AS ALL THE OTHERS COMBINED

But tonight will be my first foray into TWITCH, where I’ll be playing Kingdom Hearts for the foreseeable future! I honestly can’t begin to tell you how excited I am for this; this is my favorite series and it’s gonna be a blast and I really hope you’ll come join me if you enjoy my general ridiculousness!

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So HERE IS A LONGER-FORM ANNOUNCEMENT BUT LONG STORY SHORT

KINGDOM HEARTS

IT’S HAPPENING

I’m starting streaming KH this Friday at 8pm (as always, my time zone is EST or GMT -5:00)!

I’m honestly super excited to restart the series from scratch, the last time I did that was when A Fragmentary Passage came out in January 2017 because my then-housemates wanted to play it but had only played KH1 and KH2 before that point. So this run is overdue!

I’ll be playing on Twitch, so feel free to head over there before then. I’ll try to post a reminder here as well but god i can’t make any promises who knows

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Who is your favorite trio?

THAT’S A REMARKABLY HARD QUESTION ANON i honestly find that while each trio fits into what seems to be nomura’s Trio Tropes, they each have their own unique qualities and relationships.

the destiny trio have been friends since childhood, they’ve grown up together with (mostly) an ignorance about the worlds outside of their own and few cares and worries. when we start the game, the biggest worries they have are who’s going to date who and whether three fish are enough to sustain them on a rafting expedition. even as the games progress, there’s still this love and trust that comes with being the best of friends for years between the three of them

the wayfinder trio is different in that their friendship was forged through their paths as keyblade wielders. we don’t know about terra and aqua’s past, whether they knew each other before they started training under master eraqus, but there’s no denying that their tutelage under him is at the core of the trio’s friendship. their roles as caretakers of the worlds and guardians of the light is impossible to separate from their friendship

finally, the seasalt trio. theirs is a friendship forged on the battlefield, the “latest” development of friendship but one that is no less strong than any of the others’. their friendship grows with the trials they face, but is also wracked by the necessity of the secrets they keep from each other. i’ll be honest; i was pretty ambivalent on axel throughout CoM and kh2 but nearer the end of 358/2 days was when he finally became a great character in my eyes

i think in the end the destiny trio is my favorite, partly because i have such a soft spot for the original game (it will always be my favorite in the series) and partly because riku is my favorite character out of the whole cast so i’m absolutely biased. but i honestly love all of them and they all give me a lot of emotions

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What about the KH2FM mods like the Vanitas one by Xaddgx? If your PC can run it and if you've done at least one Lvl 1 Crit run I 100% recommend it. Or even if you didn't, check out him out his Aqua mod is coming out early 2021

oh my friend YOU THINK I’M A LOT BETTER THAN I AM LMAO though honestly i should try a lvl 1 run one day just for shits and giggles it’d be interesting to see how far i got before i went FUCK THIS SHIT I QUIT LET ME LEVEL UP

also i am not a member of the pc master race i run on mac :’) but i’ll look up the mods regardless, you’ve got me interested to see what people are doing!

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Just if you wanna answer, no pressure: do you have any other means of communication? Discord, twitter, twitch, youtube, etc? In case this happens again, or just to follow you.

so i probably won’t do disco for a while because of many different reasons but i’ve been fiddling around with everything else to get back into everything (and this time i saved all my passwords in my password manager, so FINGERS CROSSED there’s no trouble there)

that being said though here’s where i’m currently set up:

twitter: pfstrike (i suck at twitter don’t @ me)

twitch: pfstrike (did a super short test stream on this tonight to see how it’d do!)

youtube: precisionfstrike

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so uh one thing you guys may or may not remember about me is I STAN KINGDOM HEARTS i have a lot of salt about kh3 my salt is apparently legendary BUT KINGDOM HEARTS IS MY FIRST AND FOREVER LOVE

i also happened to just get an email about the KH all-in-one pack being 70% off on PSN

so i guess what i’m considering here is being a total dumb nerdy overexcited moron streaming KH sometimes bc i clearly haven’t played this series enough in my life

any interest if i did?

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Wow I take a break from Tumblr for a few days to get away from politics and come back to find my favorite old liveblogger back! I still watch your old reaction videos from time to time whenever I'm having a bad day and they always cheer me up. Anyway just wanted to tell you "have a nice day and keep being great."

honestly can i just say that the number of comments i found that had some form of that they’d go back and watch my old reaction videos IS DEFINITELY A PART OF WHY I KIND OF WANTED TO COME BACK because like

holy fuck you guys

just the idea that my sitting and being a dumbass yelling at my computer screen and chattering on about tiny nuances that only i cared about was something that people not only enjoyed, but REMEMBERED and specifically went BACK to after years had passed...

that’s really fucking cool.

i hope you’ve been doing well too, anon, and all the rest of you guys here on tumblr. thanks for sticking with me so long and i hope i can bring back some of the fun for you all

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Haha whoops amirite /post/13659468753/dude-its-a-whole-legit-flash-animation-also

YEAH I WASN’T EXPECTING NEARLY 10 YEARS TBQH........................

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What are your thoughts on liveblogging VNs or VN like games? (Like Ace Attorney, Danganronpa and the like)

i’m down with that! (i LOVE ace attorney honestly, though i need to.... finish spirit of justice....) i’m pretty much open to any medium; the only thing i’ve got is that you will p much never catch me playing sandboxy games like animal crossing or minecraft or reading/watching super slice of life things. a lack of plot slays the pfs

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Will you only liveblog webcomics (Such as HS), or are you also open to other kinds of media (Anime, VNs, books, games, etc.)?

i’m pretty open to anything honestly though i WILL warn you that i am NOTORIOUSLY bad at watching stuff; i find it really hard to just sit and watch something for long periods of time (my friends know that if it’s longer than 5 minutes it’s probably going into a tab for some ambiguous period of time until i finally decide i’m ready to sit down and watch it)

liveblogging tends to help with that since i can furiously type into a word document while watching but if it’s something stupid long that i have to just Watch and not actively interface with, it’ll be a little less likely for me to go for it (though not outside the realm of possibility!)

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Dang, this is a throwback. I remember I started following you and a bunch of other liveblogs back during the megapause (hard to believe a 2 month hiatus felt like a long time for HS back then). So many, most really, just stopped posting and disappeared, every now and then I still wonder how some of them are doing. So it's really cool to see you pop back up!

YOU KNOW I DO THE SAME THING TBQH back when i was like 13 or so there was a group i was part of on an ancient set of forums and i was pretty close to a couple of the members. it’s been a stupid number of years since the last time i talked to any of them but I STILL WONDER ABOUT THEM and i hope they’re doing well

(also the idea of 2 months being a long time just makes me laugh....... laugh in my sad bookworm ways and waiting 4-6 years for the next installment of a series...........)

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I’m just gonna go ahead and say I do not expect you to submit yourself to the epilogues and the sequel for homestuck. I mean you don’t even have to finish homestuck if you don’t want to. I’d actually love to see you liveblog some other things instead, your analysis of media is so fun to read.

honestly idk if i’m going to do the epilogues/sequel, but i think i’ll probably try to power through to the end of the original just because i really was having a blast liveblogging it here with everyone. i’ve heard... oh god i don’t even remember what i heard but i heard SOMETHING about one of the sequels that had everyone all up in arms???? BUT I LEGITIMATELY CANNOT REMEMBER WHAT I HEARD WHICH IS PROBABLY A GOOD THING FOR MY ATTEMPTS TO STAY CANONBLIND BUT

is also kinda hilarious now that i’m trying to remember what i’d heard

but don’t worry, my tendency to note tiny things and go off on wild tangents is still absolutely A THING and i’d love to try and see if maybe i can get back into the swing of liveblogging again! it’d probably be a little more casual than before (i’ve got a full-time job that actually requires me to do things.... i love it though) but it’d be fun for sure

SO UH....... i guess that’s an invitation to drop shit in my asks that you’d like to see me potentially blog through!

(I SHOULD ALSO SPECIFY THIS ISN’T A 100% GIVEN I’M GONNA TRY NOT TO DISAPPEAR INTO THE ABYSS AGAIN BUT I HAVE A BAD TENDENCY TO HYPERFOCUS ON SOMETHING FOR THREE DAYS AND THEN FALL HEADLONG INTO A DIFFERENT RABBIT HOLE

I’M WORKING ON IT OKAY)

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Damn holy moly 2020 is really bringing EVERYTHING back. Hey F-Strike! You were the first liveblog I ever read, and it’s freaking great to see you again!

2020 IS A WEIRD-ASS YEAR LET ME TELL YOU WHAT just as long as my swimming out of the depths of obscurity doesn’t result in another nov 5th with E V E R Y T H I N G that went down that night I THINK IT’LL BE OKAY

MAYBE

WE’RE HOPING. IT’LL BE FINE

(but no shit i’m so sorry i was your first liveblog lmfao I DON’T KNOW WHETHER I RUINED IT OR IF IT WAS A GREAT INTRODUCTION BUT REGARDLESS I HOPE IT WAS AT LEAST FUN)

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No WAY MY FAVORITE LIVEBLOGTER IS BACK no WAYYYYYYYY

DEAR GOD I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH LMAO i’m negl i think my favorite part of doing this shit is getting to (HOPEFULLY) bring some entertainment into other people’s lives; i 100% believe that if i can make people smile or laugh that is one of the best things i can do in this world AND SEEING COMMENTS LIKE THIS JUST MAKE ME YELL LOUDLY BUT IN A GOOD WAY

SO HI

THANKS FOR STICKING AROUND ALL THIS TIME AND HOLDING OUT HOPE FOR ME I WAS LEGITIMATELY SHOCKED WHEN I LOGGED IN AND SAW ALL THE COMMENTS MY SHIT HAD GOTTEN EVEN THROUGH YEARS OF INACTIVITY

(it’s apparently sap hour with pfs i make no apologies i’m fuckin’ exhausted but excited to reach out and not physically touch somebody but prop my chin in my hands grinning like a dumbass bc i didn’t expect this at all

also i know i’m way late to the party here but what the fuck has happened to tumblr in my absence)

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OMG so good to have you back!!! I hope you keep going with Homestuck and potentially the post-canon content, because stuff has gotten Crazy over here lol (and also I just wanna see your reactions to the last few flashes). How are you doing with life? Have the last few years treated you ok?

Oh man so THAT SURE IS A CAN OF WORMS but the summation is that things are pretty all right! the computer i’d been doing all my liveblogging from wound up in storage for much longer than expected (i’d expected a couple months, it wound up being a couple years... same difference right) and I wound up moving to the east coast with my SO. there’ve been some struggles for sure and a lot of personal growth in the past few years (and frankly just since i started working from home in March) but all in all things are better than they were before and that’s really all i can ask for!

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Welcome back. I think one of the last things you posted about was going to a renfaire, so I assumed you got crushed by an oxcart or something.

I think that’s right! I think my exploits on that front have mostly been limited to being remarkably Not Great at fencing (it probably helps if you’re actually consistent with practicing though; I should try that at some point). No oxcarts for me, but I do have a couple hilarious stories about middle-aged men riding red flyer wagons down steep hills screaming!

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Welcome back, F-Strike. 5 years is a hell of a wait, but still good to see your username grace my dashboard again. Now to watch you absolutely lose your shit as you catch up through the rest of Homestuck, the epilogues, and Homestuck^2 thus far.

oh god I HADN’T... ACTUALLY... THOUGHT ABOUT THAT homestuck in the year of our lord 2020

...

actually 2020 has been cursed enough that might be on brand

honestly it’s been long enough that i’ve probably forgotten a stupid amount bUT IF PEOPLE WANNA SEE IT I WILL. CONSIDER. DELVING BACK INTO HELL AND FINISHING THIS MONSTROSITY