(Warning: Nothing as this is a very short one, where it has me rambling about life and mentions some self-ableism and negativity.)
There is something special about this day. I don’t know why though.
Is it because this was the day my parents got married, which was back in 1992? Where, they remained married for 15 years (despite them arguing due to money issues and lifestyle difference) before my daddy died on Hallow Eve’s in 2007, which (for me) marked the end of my childhood.
Or was it back in 2008, where Total Drama Island first aired on Cartoon Network in the States, (even though I didn’t like at first), which it later became my special interest for the next eight years of my life. It was the show got me though (most) of my teen years and the first half of my university years before it got cancelled in 2015. Funny thing is that last year, the show became my special interest once more, after it aired its new season for the first time in ten years. And it aired four days before its 16 year anniversary since Total Drama first aired in the States.
What about the time in 2010, where I attended the 8th grade prom with my classmates back in Germany? It was the only time I felt “free” as the two autistic girls in my grade (whom I didn’t like for selfish reasons) didn’t show up. Yeah, that sounds a bit harsh, but this was back then I was self-conscious towards my autism and had to mask in order to blend in and not be accosted with those two, who didn’t mask and was (mostly) bullied because of it.
Or was it back in 2018, I finally beat Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (one of my favorite visual novel games and my special interest for a while) on Steam after a year because I had controller issues and I didn’t feel like continuing. It also didn’t help that I already saw a Let’s Play of the game (back in 2017), so I knew how the game is going to end. Then there’s the fact I had to deal with school and suffering from executive dysfunction, which kept me from playing this game when I wanted to.
Heck, I can even go back to 1995 where it was the day that Nintendo's quirky (and somewhat) underrated JRPG, Earthbound was released in North America (as it turned 30 years old in the States)! I said that because it was one not only the second JRPG I have been, but it was the second Let's Play that I watched when I first got into the LP community back in 2013! It was this game that later inspire various games such as Costume Quest, Okami and even Undertale and Deltarune (which is kind of fitting since chapter 3 & 4 of the latter came out yesterday).
Whatever is going on to this day, it’ll be my favorite day. No matter how bad it gets…
Then I remember today is the day that Nintendo Switch 2 comes out. After seeing the mixed-to-negative reactions on the internal announcement and the Nintendo Direct from two months ago, I think it’s going to flop and I fear for Nintendo’s future. I said that because no one wants to pay $450 for a console that has minor changes other than it’s bigger with HD graphics and that the first party games are now $80/$90. It also doesn’t help that a few months ago, our government put a huge tariff against the world, which means everything is more expensive than it should be! I’m expecting that we’re going to be in a Recession by the end of the year because of the tariff!
But maybe a good thing about this is that if the Switch 2 DOES FLOP, then Nintendo should bring down the prices, like they did when the Wii U and the 3DS flopped back in 2012! /s
Still, I hope today is a good day for me as it (mostly) did in the past.