Less so a specific game and more so hardware for my PC, specifically a better GPU than the one I currently have. There are a lot of games that have gotten my attention which as of now I meet the minimum specs for, but the one contributing factor to me not meeting the recommended specs is that my GPU is severely outdated compared to what's available on the market right now. Needless to say I'm very adamant this time with trying to get my PC upgraded at long last so I can begin to have an increased interest in Steam once again.

Also, as for a specific game? Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX for Steam which I'll also probably get the Switch version later down the road as well. I already know Metroid Dread will be something I will work on getting a hold of later as well, but so far my biggest priority above all others is the aforementioned GPU upgrade.

Over a year later, about time for a status update. Let's start with the big one.

I got my GPU upgraded. However, that was about all that was changed with my PC because it was the cheapest option available without having to modify just about everything else with the hardware. However, because most of the games I already had simply needed a better GPU for me to run? This doesn't hurt as much as you'd think, and it's overall a good improvement.

I also got Monster Rancher DX on Steam, but I haven't played it yet.

I hadn't gotten Metroid Dread yet, sadly, but I'm actually pleasantly surprised of the post-release Free DLC the game wound up addressing a lot of issues I myself either saw as potential problems or other people had been wanting from the game to be addressed somehow. I actually like the fact Metroid Dread wound up breathing new life into the franchise, especially with how Nintendo just shadow dropped a remaster of Metroid Prime roughly a week or so ago from today.

Specifically the Glow in the Dark Digital Monster Ver. 20th. It contains all five of the main Digital Monster line DigiEggs which can hatch into the respective Digimon associated with said Digivice version, and some of which can now achieve Mega Level with some in particular being able to DigiFuse into an even stronger Digimon. This Digivice was also the debut appearance of BlitzGreymon, CresGarurumon, and Omegamon Alter-S in the whole franchise, with me having aimed to acquire both Digimon to DigiFuse into the latter as I was beginning to learn the ropes with how to best acquire the individual forms of whatever Digimon I needed to go into the Digivolution paths for BlitzGreymon and CresGarurumon specifically.

It was quite an acid trip with CresGarurumon, as the easiest route I wound up going for was Elecmon and Whamon as the Rookie and Champion respectively, with the only choice in Ultimate being MetalMamemon. Even if you had went with the harder to accomplish Gabumon and Garurumon, you'd still go into MetalMamemon in-order to get to CresGarurumon. I had an easier time with BlitzGreymon, meanwhile, as the requirements of Greymon were stupidly easy for me to meet which meant I pretty much just had to do battles for both Digimon to have them achieve Ultimate Level before they would later hit Mega Level. Thankfully the Ver. 20th rectifies at least two issues with the older models it's based upon. First is that the save file on the Digivice is not tied to the battery, meaning you can have the same save file kept intact spanning multiple battery replacements. Second is the fact there is an option to battle opponents in a single player session, as I don't believe the original Digital Monster Digivices had such an option.

Also I find it absolutely ironic with the Digivice I got regarding its exclusive Digimon which I will more than likely never get a hold of because of how you unlock it. Each Digivice in the Digital Monster Ver. 20th line has an exclusive DigiEgg you can unlock by communicating with at least 5 other unique Digivices, and it depends heavily on the color of the Digivice which Digimon you get from this. The Digimon I get with my Glow in the Dark model is ironically a Digimon I rather heavily detest; Meicoomon, which had first appeared in Digimon Adventure Tri.

Hello everyone, this is MF217. Certainly has been a long time since I was last active wasn't it? A year, maybe two years, at this rate, was it not? I can't recall exactly which case is more accurate, might've even almost been three years if I'm not mistaken.

I know one thing is for certain, though. I had a bit of an emotional and mental breakdown during the final days of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 onward to this day. My grandfather had passed just after Christmas of 2018, and two of my most beloved dogs had passed since then as well as the surprisingly sudden passing of an uncle I was very close to occurring earlier this same year in 2021. The pandemic afflicting the whole globe and pretty much destroying the status quo of society for a good while last year also did nothing to help my overall sanity issues at the time, as while I do enjoy typically keeping to myself in my bedroom on my PC, I never felt so restrained with how the pandemic more or less forced me to be like this a majority of last year. I developed a sort of cabin fever type of madness that lasted for a while, which was one of several instances I had initiated a mass exodus of various servers I used to be a part of. I unfortunately cannot recall exactly when it was when I had bailed from the Discord server for this place, but I am at least glad my overall wellbeing has improved to the point I can say I'll be sticking around here a while so long as y'all don't mind.

I am looking forward to reconnecting with all of you here, and I hope to speak with y'all sometime soon. Thanks in advance, MF217.

Spoilers for Metroid Dread within the spoiler tag below.

Mabinogi appears to be the game I have with the most playtime ever recorded for any of my given games on Steam, although considering for the longest of time I wasn't even using the Steam version despite having the same activity on the game before and after relocating to the Steam version? It's kind of saying something when over the past two years I've accumulated over 4,000 hours of playtime recorded on the Steam version alone.

Virtually any boss fight in which you're just barely a ways off from finishing it off only for the boss to basically sucker punch you and win against you instead. Happens a lot to me more in RPG type games than anything else.

1: Summer Wars
2: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
3: Aladdin
4: The Incredibles
5: The Great Mouse Detective
6: The Lion King
7: Rise of the Guardians
8: Recess: School's Out
9: Kung Fu Panda
10: Disney's Tarzan

I was 21 when I had first joined, just a little over a month away before I would turn 22 at that.

I had many high hopes for the sequel trilogy to say the least... up until Snoke gets the axe in which all hope disappears for me in terms of the writing competency of the new trilogy. We have no backstory for Snoke, we have no distinct personality for him, and heck even Palpatine had much more to work with in the original trilogy than Snoke ever did. Snoke, in hindsight, was built up by the writers and cast members as this huge threat, but it's ultimately a very bad case of Show, Don't Tell considering Snoke doesn't even get dignified an actual fight as Kylo Ren ultimately kills him without any real amount of effort.

Palpatine, meanwhile, is only hyped up as the Big Bad by the entire plot and characters of the original trilogy concerning the mere idea that someone like Darth Vader has someone higher up in power than him in the first place is naturally a scary thing to consider, and when we finally see Palpatine in the flesh, he more or less proves exactly why he's such a threat by demonstrating to Luke that even if Darth Vader could ultimately be redeemed, there is no salvaging Palpatine at all by comparison, hence why Darth Vader ultimately has to throw him to his death to save Luke from his potential demise at the hand of Force Lightning.

Late to the party with posting this, but I figured I'd post this anyways:

-$70 in cash
-Nintendo Switch with Gray Joy-Cons (whole family's)
-$50 GameStop card
-$50 Nintendo eShop card
-$25 Karma Koin card
-Little Caesars gift card
-The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch version)
-Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (whole family's)