FrancisJeremyXavyer

Well, this is the end for an era of us Nintendo fans. Tonight, the online servers for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U will be shutting down forever, marking the end of online multiplayer across the beloved platforms (yes that includes the Wii U, shut up). And to think this happened during a solar eclipse no less. (I didn't see it all the way cuz I was at work, but I took a break during the apex and snapped a blurry image of it while looking at it myself through a pair of the special glasses they were selling at my Kroger).

With all this change around, it's hard to remember the biggest change heading my way: my roommates and I are not only moving out of this crummy rental... we're moving apart.

We all felt that it was coming for a while, what with more people living in one place and friction growing among our household over dishes not being done or clothes being left out... Hop Pop was right, good friends may not make good roommates. "Ya think ya know someone until they're in your space and you're in theirs." And in my case, they wear their political opinions on their sleeves and shame me for mine almost every day; gets grating after long.

And with my budget, there was only one option: I'm moving back in with my parents.

But I won't be living in their basement (cuz they don't have one, lol), cuz they have an "in-law suite" that I'll be moving in to. I'm still paying them rent and have other responsibilities (mostly finishing college ASAP), but I'll be sure to be saving A CRAPTON of money than sharing a house with 5 people who don't really financially contribute beyond rent.

...quite a lot for my first journal in a year, i need to do a more consistent basis... a lot happens in a year. Like me finally finishing my FR Nuzlocke! I am gonna try and do more going forward, but there's so many shows to watch and games to play to deal with the stress of my crazy life!

I hope you've all got my backs as much as I hope to have yours, thanks for being here for me!

-Francis Xavyer logging off!

My roommate and best bud Justin... his cat Bruce got pancreatic cancer and they had to put him down since it could not be cured.

I was hoping the Nintendo Direct today would send some positive energy our way...it didn't.

Please send your prayers. We need them.

I'm in a bad place right now.

SO, I was downloading one of the games off the 3DS eShop (Team Kirby Clash Deluxe to be exact) before it will close this March... and all of a sudden my home screen was blank, all my games and themes were gone, and I get a message in data management telling me that "the microSD card software management information is corrupted" and that resetting it would erase my save data and all my downloaded games.

Needless to say, having caught a shiny Spinarak (now an Ariados) in my Crystal game and having caught Articuno in Yellow (and dumped hundreds into Shuffle before it closes), I don't want my data erased.... so I called Nintendo and they told me to send it in, and it may take until the first week of March to get it back.

And I don't even know if my save data will be saved.

...I'm not OK.

But I'm not laying down and rolling over, I'm sending this thing in because they made it clear they wanna fix this problem too. I've been a loyal customer for years and I am praying that my loyalty will be rewarded.

Please keep me and my 3DS in your prayers as I'm going through this...just my luck.

At least my shipping fees are being waived.

Again, please pray for me. I need it.

Okay, so something pretty amazing happened to me yesterday, not gonna lie. One of my followers on Twitter, out of the blue, just asked if he could DM me and give me a whole game as a gift. For free. (Real person btw, not a bot, he's actually pretty chill.)

And that game...HOGWARTS LEGACY.

Now, I don't need to be online all the time to know that this is a highly anticipated game, and from what I've seen it looks drop dead gorgeous (last HP game I ever played, not counting that one-off stint with the Mystery mobile game back in 2018, was Chamber of Secrets on the GCN in 2002 at my childhood best friend's house and I never got past Harry and Draco's duel) and I asked myself, "What could go wrong?"

Well...never doubt the internet.

Now, I don't keep up with everything about JK Rowling these days, but I know of an abridged version of what she has said and done, and....I think some things are just unfortunate accidents (I don't know if she meant to be anti-Semitic with Jewish goblins, but it is in very poor taste...but not as much as Watto from Episode 1 though.) but as for her comments about how trans women can't get periods....if transwomen themselves say they can't get periods, why is it transphobic to repeat what they said? I don't mean to be rude, but I don't see any form of logic.

Anyway, boycotting for your rights is fine, but attacking those who still buy products on social media or even DOXXING people for it is inexcusable. I know someone very close to me once who engaged in that behavior...and I'm glad I cut them off. We're not here long enough to be that hateful. And the game still ain't out yet, and if it's getting all kinds of pre-order money in...oh well?

I, however, choose to stay largely out of the mess and just play the games for fun...but as a wannabe streamer who finally has a gaming PC (an HP Omen I got from a lease almost 3 years ago when I moved into this rental house with my friends)...I'm really thinking about streaming this on Twitch and kicking off my channel, at last.

But I'd like to know....would anyone be willing to watch me play it? More to the point, I would greatly appreciate it if I had donations and subs when I play that game because I've been wanting to take a vacation to Universal Orlando since I first went back in summer of 2018 (Florida in August, NEVER AGAIN AY-YI-YI...) and all of my money is going to some fierce bills and whatever is left is going to gas and food (I can't even get another broom to sweep this mess in the living room it's that bad)...would anyone be willing to help me?

I don't normally like asking for this, but I always assumed that if I was nice here and did nice things that I'd be rewarded somehow....am I crazy? Am I phrasing wrong?

Well, anyway, I hope you'll all tune in this February to see me make some magic. And if anyone wishes to help me out....thank you. I really mean it, thank you.

Well, we're over a week into the new year, and things are....changing. Slowly.

My job at Kroger still sucks, but I'm making an effort to be more energetic and less abrasive while also telling my boss to lay off of me and my co-workers more.

But also I started a gym membership at Planet Fitness yesterday, and I do feel a small change (aside from the stiffness in my muscles, obvi), but I still need to work on diminishing my food intake so my calories can catch up to my actions....I think that's how it works.

I'm also making progress in Pokémon Scarlet after putting it off for weeks, which is good, and I've taken in a sixth roommate, who has just gotten a job. As for my wanting to make more videos or write more....sadly nothing has come of it. I keep trying, but....it's not easy. When nobody else seems to clean or do laundry at all while I'm away at work, it keeps adding to my stress which is already huge when I'm at work, and I can't lose my job, even if I hate it, this is the only job I have.

If I could only ask one thing, if anyone on here still watches my stuff, please pray for me...I wanna make things, I wanna create....but it's so hard with life constantly getting in the way.

If even just one person watches me...I think I'm doing something right.

Happy New Year, fam.