u/DarlingBri

Thank you to the Paralives team for fixing the name on this building. It's appreciated!

(About 8 months ago, I made a post about the punctuation of the name on the brick building, at the time written out as Edwards & Co's, asking if it could be corrected. Some people had Big Feelings about my post because it was mild criticism, or because they thought the mistake was like McDonald's, and a post about a grammar error is the most downvoted post I've ever made on Reddit.)

Anyway, really looking forward to EA Day.

Someone posted that Beacon Pines was on sale for $1.20 at Instant Gaming so I hustled over and added some more cosy games on sale for less than $5 to my cart:

1. Minami Lane / $1 It's been on my Steam Wishlist for a while but I never like builders (Hozy, Tiny Glade, etc) as much as I think I will so I was hesitant to drop the full price even though it's like $5
2. The Last Campfire / $1 Holy MOTHER do I suck at puzzle games but everybody talks about this all the time so I wanted to give it a go but it's like $15 on Steam for a game I will 100% completely fail at.
3. Beacon Pines / $1.25 I know nothing about this game other than that it is cute, involves changing a story with charms (which is charming) and Steam wants $20 they will never see from me for this title.
4. Strange Horticulture / $5 I really pushed the boat out here and spent a whole $5 because I played the demo and liked it and and it has been on my Steam Wishlist forever.

I had only used Instant Gaming once before for a SIMs DLC but you get a code when you buy the title and when you click on Instant Gaming to see code you just bought, there's a link to send it directly to Steam. And then the title appears in your Steam Library like magic!

So thank you to whoever that was, I love you <3

I am really enjoying my incredibly slow, plodding meander through Arcane Library, but this is by far my favorite title of all 3,072 books!

It looks really fun and kind of different, but I'm curious if any of you have played through and if you have thoughts on whether it's worth buying or not. Especially interested in any steam deck experience with it.

It is on a new release sale of 10% off at Steam and I'm sort of thinking about it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2582320/Mixtape/

This color was a last minute addition because Boots was having a massive sale on Essie and I was ordering a couple of colors. It is now my favorite nude.

This is two coats. One coat is very sheer. Two coats gives this semi-opaque finish. I think three coats would be fully opaque.

However many coats, it has this very subtle gold iridescence finish from the absolute teeny tiniest gold shimmer particles. The effect is very pretty.

(Also, yes I have very ridged/striated nail beds. No I cannot be bothered to use ridge filler. They've been this weird my entire life and I'm used to it!)

Products:

Essie Gel Couture Last Nightie

Essie Gel Couture Top Coat

I have no idea how I found this other than "desperately searching Steam for cozy games at 1am on a random Tuesday" but the demo had just come out when I stumbled across this.

Pros: The art style is so cute but I also love the game play. The dialogue is not too much but also progresses the story. The areas you can go to are gorgeous.

Cons: There is a notebook that records information gained and the demo instructions are not great on how to use it; I am on Steam Deck so I dunno if it is more intuitive on other platforms. (Basically you have to select and click every piece of data added to the notebook before you can close it.) Once that's figured out, it's such a cute time!

Pros: Absolutely incredible and beautiful animation style, well-paced and un-annoying story telling, and the cutest characters ever.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3355070/Ambroise_Niflette__the_Gleaned_Bell/

Cons: Learning to deal with the notebook on Steam Deck was unintuitive and the controls are not well-mapped to be honest but once you figure it out you just keep doing that so it's fine.