I almost had a new cat finally, I found a kitten at the pet store that actually made me think it was meant for me as it was so loving and it seemed to genuinely want to come home with me but sadly you have fill in an application in order to adopt the cats and someone had filled out one before me so here I am...still looking for my new cat.

After my Dad's passing recently, I took his old handicap tag so I can have something from his car in mine but since it's not legal to hang it in my own car as is, I decided to Stickerbomb it (Stickerbombing things is what I do) so now I shouldn't have any issues hanging it in my car.

Lets see something new-something new...

Well I'm still working on my Rolling Start folder over on Redbubble and I'm working on more Stepfiles now that the Stepmania machine at my local Arcade has opened up to user submissions from the local DDR group, I'm currently on 3 with a 4th done I just need to make the art for it

I've got another one with the art done but I haven't charted it yet.

Other than that I'm not sure what else to say, one of my local Retro Game Stores had a outdoor sales for some of their excess loose disc games and some other merch, I had to wake up pretty early for it but I got a nice satack of games for dirt cheap including loose disc copies of Strikers 1945(PS1), Final Fantasy Anthology(PS1), Ridge Racer Type 4(PS1), Daytona USA(Saturn), Twisted Metal 3(PS1) Dark Cloud(PS2) for $1 each and while $10 for it was a bit much I also grabbed a Burgerking Gold Plated Poliwhirl card complete with the Pokeball display case which I'm very happy to have one of these again.

I stopped using tumblr for awhile and went back to Deviantart after the whole NSFW art ban even though my art is 99% safe for work since most of my friends left and what remained of tumblr was the stereotypical "tumblrites"

I'm checking back in and its sad to see most of the people I follow no longer post anything, (tumblr really f@%ked up) I've scoured many of their vlogs for links to other sites to find them but most seem to have stopped Arting for some reason and it's honestly depressed me.

I'm going to try and use tumblr again so if you'd like to follow me over there aswell, you can find me at " Skellart.tumblr.com though I'm not leaving Newgrounds by any means while I haven't garnered a huge following here or made any friends just yet, I'm happy here. I like Newgrounds.

finally got around to clearing out the weeds in one of the front yard flower beds and I'm slowly starting to take it back.

One of my local Retro Shops got Gauntlet in for their Arcade so thats pretty cool though now I got to actually get my friends together to go play it.

I've been getting less fuel mileage in my car and I noticed a lack of acceleration so I swapped out the spark plugs with some fresh new Bosch brands and it helped but I'm still noticing some performance issues, I know its a just under 3400lb car with just over 150hp but still it should be better than what its at currently (wish my car was lighter)

What else? The Xbox showcase happened and Ballan Wonderworld might actually be the first game in awhile that I actually buy full price as I swear I'm in love with it. BW gave me serious 5th/6th Gen Platformer vibes and beyond that there was just something special about it.(if you can't tell, I love N64 era platformers)

Psychonauts 2 is still coming and I'm still looking forward to it, The Phantasy Star Online 2 update looks beautiful, we're finally getting the Dragon Quest games on the Xbox(it's about damn time), The Gunk could be interesting, Ori is getting updated for the Series X to the surprise of nobody(still need to play Will of the Wisps though) Everwild could be ok but I wish Rareware would do something with Banjo like maybe get on that rumored remake.

I wish we could've gotten some actual gameplay footage of the next Forza instead of just that little snippet and I wish Microsoft would remember that they have other IPs that they could bring back, I mean honestly they have a line up to rival Sony and Nintendo in fact they have more than either of them but they just don't use them, even if they don't have games come out regularly atleast show off the characters by putting them in other games or kep their old games readily available on Xbox Live(like Ninty USED to do with the Virtual Console) SOMETHING just to show consumers that you have something and to show fans of those series that you actually give a shit!!!!!! (hoo getting a little too angry here) *sigh* they could have Blinx or Banjo be the Xbox mascot, or bring back the Midtown Madness series to be their Arcade counterpart to Forza and they own the rights to Hydro Thunder and while they DID make a new game for the series on the 360 which is indeed backwards compatible on the X1 they still haven't put the original Arcade/Dreamcast version on Xbox Live or atleast make the Midway Arcade Treasures disc that it's on be backwards compatible...

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Watched the PS5 reveal...it was ok, I don't think the design is horrible but the memes are funny

I'm still going with the Series X though. I prefer the Xbox ecosystem, it's going to launch with Halo, backwards compatibility is more than just an afterthought and Microsoft is doing more to get Japanese games on the platform now I don't know if it'll get to the point where we finally see Senran Kagura and Visual Novels on the Xbox but if they do come to the platform I know they won't have content cut like the Playstation versions have been seeing as of late.

As far as the games from the Playstation reveal go, Sack Boy: A Big Adventure looks genuinely fun,they took Little Big Planet and turned it into a 3D platformer that looks like it's taking cues from Super Mario 3D World

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Ratchet and Clank is one of my favorite Playstation series and seeing that it's getting a new game made me happy though that happiness was dampened when I learned that one of the writers they took on for it was the asshole responsible for a lot of the BS in Mass Effect Andromeda. R&C is a great series based upon ridiculous cartoon weapons, plenty of fodder to gun down with said cartoon weapons and cheesy tongue'n cheek dialogue packed with immature and sometimes below the belt humor and I just know that humor is probably going to be absent from this one.

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Then theres Gran Turismo which looks like a sequel to Gran Turismo 4 and it promises to be a standard Gran Turismo (Meaning no GT Sport online only bullshit)

I'll get the PS5 but it'll be after I get the Xbox(same as it was with my PS3 after my 360 and my PS4 after my One)

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Stores are starting to reopen here though most places are either still closed or only open for curbside, my store is one of the only ones that is fully open and what thanks do we get? People waltzing in and trashing the place and bitching that we don't have as many products in stock just yet(the hell do they expect? Most things are made overseas which is a big uh-uh right now and the few things that are made here or other places that aren't china are being held up by issues with shipping) I try my best to explain the situation and give people estimates and most people understand but I still get that one POS that can't handle the fact that we don't have the item he wants and since he's too lazy to question corporate customer service for when we might, he instead chooses to bitch at the kid who sells the shoes...

At least the Arcade has opened back up...mostly. Every other Game is turned off so that people aren't standing next to each other and Dance Dance Revolution is currently out of order but I still get to play Initial D and Pop'n Music

I haven't gotten a new cat yet as the pet stores are still closed from what I can tell but I still have Alex the stray cat that I've been feeding for about a year now though shes an outdoor cat and while she's warmed up to me enough for me to pet and brush her, she still won't let me pick her up and is still pretty skittish(If I make any real sudden movements or if I'm standing she'll jump back a bit : ( (we'll get there eventually)

A virus has been spread

Just about every store is closed

Countless people have lost their jobs

And now my cat is dead

So uhh...when is good stuff supposed to start happening again?

My hours at work have been cut but at least I'm still getting SOME hours, my store has unfortunately had to furlough many of my coworkers(they aren't laid off, they still keep their jobs and will get hours again once this crap blows over) but the few days that I am there I'm covering half of the store which gets pretty stressful since we do still get customers. I'll be glad once this is done and everyone gets their jobs back

I bought Animal Crossing: New Horizons I like the new additions(being able to make new furniture items and use them to decorate your town is pretty cool) but it definitely has less starting content than New Leaf and when you finally get the Able Sisters so you can share your designs online and get others you find that it's locked behind the subscription service I thought ninty learned by now to stop that crap, seriously their still locking away little things to fluff up their lackluster online offerings(no-no calm down, don't go into that rant again, you'll just scare people away from the Switch) *sigh* nintendo charging you server fees for peer to peer online aside the New Animal Crossing is nice but I think New Leaf is still a better value atleast until they add in more content.

I'll be glad when I can go into the Arcade again..I think that should be part of the reparations that china has to pay, alongside the unemployment for american citizens I think they should be forced to pre-order an Xbox Series X and a bag of quarters for the Arcade for every American citizen...Oh! And a Polymega for everyone too!

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