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Passed Skyward Sword for the first time on the Switch (HD version). I’ve passed almost all Zelda games and this game is horrible.

1. The forced motion control did not age well, and this game didn’t deserve a remaster. This game’s controls are fucking horrible. You’re locked into basically 1 way to kill anything with the sword - forced to use directional swings, stabs, etc. The first boss fight is like a fucking tutorial on swinging. Ghirahim will just stand around with his arm sticking out - you can literally stand in front of his face doing nothing but moving your sword around and his hand will follow. It’s extremely pathetic. I almost quit the game rolling my eyes that a fucking boss is standing around waiting for you to use motion control.
2. Monsters also parrying a lot of attacks is extremely aggravating. And it doesn’t help the stick sometimes doesn’t register the direction if you’re using a Pro Controller. There are so many forced sword battles that require directional swings - it’s just so annoying.
3. Since the right stick takes the sword, no camera. You have to hold down L to use the 2nd stick as a camera. Really annoying.
4. Item selection fucking sucks. Main issue I have is selecting an item immediately uses it. You can’t just select an item to prepare to use it because it will use it immediately - which is annoying because Link immediately turns around to use the item. As in, if you have Link staring at you, and you use an item hoping the camera will reset to the direction Link is looking at - no. Link will do a 180° and use the item in the direction the camera is looking at.
5. Item selection sucks even more for items that require holding because you have to tap the item button twice to use it. Want to use the gust bellows? Well you have to tap once to take the item out, then hold to use it. As opposed to just holding it to immediately use it. You can’t do that because the item selection opens up and it’s extremely annoying. Even worse when not all items work like this.
6. Item selection fucking sucks and if OOT remake is like this, I’m going to fucking scream.
7. Forced motion control for some items sucks. A lot of items can be used with the item button but then there are some special ones like the whip or bombs to work using motions. And it’s an ugly experience using a Pro Controller having to use the item button to take it out, then the right stick to use it in a direction.
8. Because of the non-consistent usage of items, I’ve accidentally opened up the item selection by accident too many times in the middle of battle because I hold down the item button to use an item but of course you need to tap twice to use an item.
9. I’m not a fan of the pouch mechanics. Upgrading bags (seeds, bombs, quiver) seemed like a let down since at the start you have limited spaces so a shield and bottles at first takes priority. And then when I finally have enough pouches for all the upgraded bags - I didn’t even bother with them because you don’t actually need them. The game always has seeds, bombs, or arrows available when necessary for a puzzle. I ended up just selling any bags I upgraded.
10. The pouch selection is also kinda annoying because you can select things you can’t even use and I just find it odd. You can select the medals and nothing happens obviously but they are kept as pouch items so they are there to select.
11. Fi is fucking annoying. I read she was toned down from the original game but she’s still fucking annoying repeating shit I just saw with my own eyes.
12. So much fucking repetition: visit the 3 lands 3 times, get 15 sacred balls 3 times, gather 20 tadpoles, fuck Ghirahim 3 times, fight Pirate twice, fight Imprisoned 3 times - why is all this filler shit necessary??? Several forced sword directional battles and surprise - the last boss is also a forced sword directional battle.
13. Ghirahim is the biggest loser of an enemy I’ve seen. Could they have made a more pathetically looking villain? Every time I saw him, I cringed.
14. Constant traveling back and forth back and forth back and forth in the air. Like at least give me something to fly faster.
15. I’m not a fan of the musical instrument. Some games use directions as notes. The harp? Well stroke it left and right. And you don’t even play any of the songs you learn - they’re all played automatically in specific spots forced by Fi.
16. Item selection fucking sucks still.
17. I hate having to push the left joy stick for shield. You can’t use the L button since it’s used to control the camera with the right stick.
18. The game felt like it just kept dragging and dragging on. 3 tablets? Good. Now 3 flames? Okay… oh 3 trials? Okay… oh 5 songs… fuck it felt like this game would never end.
19. I’m not a fan of items that break with use such as the shields, but the upgrading mechanic was nice.
20. Stamina wheel is annoying. Especially with directions swings, sometimes I accidentally used a spin attack and found myself getting beat the shit out of because I have to wait. Especially in the final hoards.
21. I passed the game with 2 hearts left and 0 bottles. The sword fights with parrying are extremely aggravating. Swinging in specific direction only for Demise to parry them anyway. And it got more annoying with the electric sword. I legit wanted to rip my hair out. The shield was useless here because attacking after blocking got parried anyway. It was basically luck if your hits landed. Jumping back or sideways didn’t help when the swings still hit you.
22. Dowsing was just added for the motion control pointing functionality. Boring mechanic. And Fi would activate what to look for. If she could already do that, the fuck is the point of me doing a lot of work to get to a point only for her to say: uhhh actuAllY you can dowse for it. Why not tell me from the start?

Overall, this game is fucking horrible mostly due to controls + repetition. A good story ruined for no reason but to force motion controls on you. 10/10 would NEVER play this garbage again.

PS: the item selection still fucking sucks. Also, wth was the point of all the dowsing slots?? At most only 2 were filled in.

Originally I had a weekly schedule where my dinner was at 7. I work from home, so when I finished at like 5:30, I figured I would relax from 5:30-7 (catch up with phone, games, etc.). Although I mostly just doom scrolled. I didn’t wanna be productive right after work.

However, since I ate at 7, and finished the break at 8. My break sometimes was just gaming or doom scrolling. Normally I didn’t workout because I thought to myself, by the time I workout and shower, it’s bed time and I’ll have no free time to be productive. I also didn’t want to workout on a full stomach.

Last month I changed my weekly schedule to put dinner at 6. That way, I only relax after work for 30 minutes. Not only that, I started going on a walk after dinner (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday). Nothing intense and sometimes I do bodybuilding after coming back. So by the time I come back and finish showering at 9, I have time to be productive before bed (at 12).

Because of that, now on the other days I don’t walk, I am even more productive. I am single and live alone so this schedule change isn’t a problem.

I sticked to this schedule consistently in August and did:

* read 8 books (physical, audio)
* 23 workouts between 18 days
* Completed a lot of my iOS app

Posting here as it was removed from preppers.

A lot of reading I see for get home bags is like unexpected weather, civil uprise and you can’t drive back, etc. I don’t live in the city, I’m in the suburbs. Since I work from home, many of those scenarios don’t apply to me.

For go bag, I’ve read where people suddenly have to leave their house. Which makes sense as anything can happen here. But then why can’t I just drive away? I’m in the suburbs, so there really isn’t much traffic even if my whole neighborhood fled. Especially when there’s all kinds of roads in different directions.

And if driving wasn’t an option for some reason, am I expected to run between neighborhoods until I find a forest? There aren’t any nearby. Driving makes more sense to like go to a family house (15+ min from me). So a bug out bag seems useless. It’s not like I’m gonna pop a tent by the sidewalk?

I do have an emergency bag I keep in my car (in the trunk so no-one can see it so no breaking in anyway), but I don’t have anything in it for the expectation I’ll need to live in the woods or change of clothes.

So any of you who live in suburbs, what scenarios did you have to where the bag was important? Or what do you keep if you also work from home.

In what scenario, except living in the woods, is a fire kit supposed to be used for? Why not just stay at home. Or do they plan on building a fire in their backyard??

I was very productive at the beginning of the year. And these past 2 months I started noticing that I’ve been slacking.

I just noticed that when I’m always doing some chore, etc. I’m always putting something in the background relates to useless content. Even for things that won’t take long. A few examples:

1. Time to fold clothes after laundry? Tv.

2. Building furniture I ordered? Tv.

3. Unbox Amazon deliveries? Tv.

4. Drill holes to hang pictures? Tv.

5. Lunch? Dinner? Tv.

Basically, I am always trying to watch something which likely caused me to keep doing that even when I’m done with those chores (scrolling videos on my phone).

I started listening to audiobooks again instead of putting on mindless content. At least that way I can work towards completing something at the same time I’m working on something else. It’s odd that I had this habit just fine at the beginning of the year - but I think I fell off this habit when I finished a book and didn’t have any audiobooks next.

Why do I need to link it to my switch 1 to load virtual game cards? Both switch are signed into the same account. And the game cards were NEVER loaded to the switch 1 since they were on my lost switch 2 that I already unlinked. And I can’t unlink my switch 1 since it tells me to wait 1 year since I just unliked my lost one.

I ignored the linking and then when to options > download data and can play the games just fine with internet.

So why do I need to link my switch 2 with my switch 1 to get virtual key cards that were never on it to begin with? Like Mario kart world.

The song is Enjoy the Silence by Anberlin. This song is playing in the bar when they’re trying to figure out what is wrong with Damon in S8E10. Vicky is also seen in this episode.

In S1, when Damon was partying with Vicky at his mansion, this is the exact same song that he was dancing to.

Just thought it was a bit interesting.