End of an Era, Part I

Sounds kind of dramatic even though nothing too exciting is going on in life. I graduate in a month or so in mid-June and still don't really have a job set up.

I watched MaiDragon and I guess I liked it. Things were awkward when ep13 tried to make things heavy though. Kanna and Saikawa are still too small but still cute I guess; Lucoa and Shouta were really just there for fanservice and not really funny either, so I would have wanted to see more of Elma and Fafnir. Still enjoyed K-On and Haruhi more back in the day, and for that matter YuruYuri. I don't know what I'm going to watch next really.

Attack on Titan S2 is pretty well-adapted. I still remember the first season feeling dragged out with so much recap at the beginning of episodes and stuff. Like most fans I disapprove of the CGI used for Colossal Titan. I read up to the current chapter of the manga and I guess I also like the story there. It's not enough to inspire me to overcome the creative slump though.

Been playing some more Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, mostly as Vanguard with poleaxe. The servers are still active enough and the gameplay's decently fun even if simple. Tried to play some Smite games last week, they all were losses.

Aside from Plato's Republic and maybe the Being and Time class, our current class on Theory of Justice is probably the deepest we'd get into particular philosophies. I guess we also did do a good amount of Mill's essay Utilitarianism, but overall utilitarianism is a philosophy that needs a lot more supporting texts and definitions to quantify/calculate net happiness and such. Although both Rawls and Mill have more imperatives than speculating with Kant.

I also took a pretty fun literature class and the essays I had to do were Euripides' Bacchae, a comparative between Ovid's Metamorphoses with Jupiter and Tamame-no-Mae, and lastly The Island of Doctor Moreau which was short but quite an interesting sci-fi book.

I guess in June I'll recap what I exactly did the last 4 years, and my shortcomings as well. Right now I was thinking of recording what time I felt wasted in college. I probably only wasted around 1/3rd of the time I did in high school with all the moping, Lost Saga, and Homura fanboying I did then.

For freshman year, I probably wasted the most time on Lost Saga especially since I knew that the game was just going to keep going downhill. I played it until the end of August 2014 pretty regularly, even though I did take a small break or two. I abused grinding OP gear and Hazama and it worked decently for a while. I watched random Youtube videos a bit too you could say, and ended up hanging out with the wild kittens in the dorms' courtyard a bit too much too. But overall my roommate was a bit annoying, and depression and anxiety was pretty bad this year too especially due to SJW indoctrination.

For sophomore year, it was probably Smite. Granted I didn't think I would get tired of it that badly and thought that matchmaking would improve, but still averaging 4+ games a day of a MOBA, and often a couple more than that on Fridays and Saturdays, really is a decent chunk of time. I probably should have fleshed out my art, animation, and writing more with sketches even rather than trusting the inspiration/momentum I got from 2014. I also did a quick EBF4 replay in October-November, and booted it up in April as well, but I never learned to abuse Revenge that much. Summer was very sad, and I tried to do some escapism with reading books.

For last year (junior) it wasn't anything in particular. Probably a combination of watching Starcraft 2, watching/playing SSBM, and regularly browsing /pol/ on 4chan. I still remember how brutal the animation was on me then, along with having to deal with boring school stuff as well, so it was just trying to find some relief in life. I also did spend a bit more time on basketball during Spring Quarter, even rewatching old playoff series. Until around late April it was decently fun, then for 5-6 months it was pretty awkward as I had nothing I really enjoyed. The writer's block for 2016 was pretty overall brutal as well.

For this year I'll probably recap it all soon enough but I haven't been too productive either. I'll probably regret it depending on how long I'll have to live with parents, eh.