#BUT MY RETURN WENT FROM $500 TO $1400 SO I WAS LIKE. WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO????

[character-of-all-time]

i have done my taxes. it was terrifying.

#portension #I MADE A MAJOR MISTAKE AND COULDNT FIND IT FOR THE LONGEST TIME #BUT MY RETURN WENT FROM $500 TO $1400 SO I WAS LIKE. WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO???? #I COULDNT FIND IT AND WAS ABOUT TO SUBMIT THEN I WAS LIKE OH LET ME JUST CHECK AGAIN JUST IN CASE #TURNS OUT I ACCIDENTALLY DOUBLE REPORTED MY ROTH IRA CONTRIBUTION AND. YEAH THATS BAD U SHOULDNT DO THAT #WHY DO THEY HAVE THAT IN TWO SEPARATE PLACES #I GOT CONFUSED!!! #but now my return is back to $500. sigh. should have just committed tax fraud.

[pendulumprince]

*gross crying* we’re only 31 episodes in and Ghost Girl is gonna fucking die

RUN BINCHES, RUN

YOU CAN DO IT PLAYMAKER

Back to Rev and GG, she’s not feeling too hot about her chances

But she’s gotta win if she’s gonna let ppl know what’s going down

After the opening

REV TAKES HIS TURN

SUMMONS A 1600 ATK MONSTER

ACTIVATES IT’S EFFECT

IT ALLWOS HIM TO SUMMON A LEVEL 4 OR LOWER MONSTER

SO HE BREAKS OUT A 800 ATK MONSTER

HE ADDS ANOTHER SNFFING DRAGON TO HIS HAND

GG COMMENSTS ON HOW HE DOESN’T USE AN AI

HE SAYS IT’S FOOLISH

SHE ASKS HIM IF IGNISES REALLY ARE GOING TO DESTROY THE WORLD

“A moneygrubber like you can’t understand.”

Lol he’s probably right

SO SHE THINKS ABOUT HOW SHE’S GONNA BEAT HIM

BECAUSE HIS ACE IS SO POWERFUL, SHE NEEDS TO END THE DUEL QUICKLY

REV DISCARDS A LEVEL 5 MONSTER TO SPECIAL SUMMON A 100 ATK MONSTER

THE BITCH LINK SUMMONS WITH TWO OF HIS DRAGONS

SUMMONS TWIN TRIANGLE DRAGON AT 1200 ATK

GG IS 500% NOT FEELING THIS STRATEGY

REV PAYS 500 LP TO SPECIAL SUMMON A LEVEL 5 OR HIGHER MONSTER

HE BRINGS OUT BACKUP DRAGON AT 1600 ATK; CAN’T USE IT’S EFFECTS, AND CAN’T ATTACK

BUT THAT’S ALRIGHT

GG IS ALARMED, HE WANTS TO END THIS DUEL QUICKLY TOO

REV LINK SUMMONS AGAIN USING ALL THREE OF HIS MONSTERS; TWIN TRIANGLE COUNTS AS TWO

REV SUMMONS TOPOLOGIC AT 3000 ATK

REV SETS ONE FACEDOWN

EMA THINKS BACK TO REV’S DUEL AGAINST PLAYMAKER

SHE KNOWS TOPOLOGIC’S EFFECT IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF CRAY™

SO SHE FIGURES SHE’S GOTTA TAKE OUT TOPOLOGIC IF SHE WANTS TO WIN

REV GOES IN FOR THE ATTACK

“ULTIMATE MALICIOUS CODE” LMAO

GG’S EXISTING MONSTER ALLOWS HER TO SPECIAL SUMMONS ANOTHER

THIS NEW MONSTER NEGATES THE ATTACK AND SEALS AWAY TOPOLOGIC’S EFFECTS

HAHAHAHA NICE

REV SEEEMS… INTRIGUED LMAOOO

REV ENDS HIS TURN

GG FIGURES SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN LINK VRAINS

SHE ASKS REV WHAT ALL THAT ENERGY IS FOR

“Something unimaginable will happen soon” WELL AREN’T YOU VAGUE AS FUCK

GG KNOWS THE KoH ARE UP TO NO GOOD; SHE WANTS TO TAKE THE GIANT HAIRBALL OUT OF REV’S HANDS

GG TAKES HER TURN

SUMMOPNS A 800 ATK MONSTER

ACTIVATES A CONTINUOUS TRAP

AND HER MONSTER’S EFFECT

A MONSTER ON HER FIELD AND A CARD ON REV’S RETURN TO THEIR HANDS

TOPOLOGIC RETURNS TO REV’S HAND

REV IS SO. ANNOYED.

LINK MONSTER’S DON’T RETURN TO THE HAND, SO

TOPOLOGIC GOES BACK TO THE EXTRA DECK

OKAY, SO FAR SO GOOD

SO GG MAKES HER MOVE

“Appear before me, the circuit that connects to the unknown parallel universe!”

Look at you and your foreshadowing ass

SHE LINK SUMMONS WITH TWO OF HER MONSTERS

BRINGS OUT A 1000 ATK MONSTER

SHE LINK SUMMONS AGAIN

BRINGS OUT HER ACE AT 2100 ATK

ACTIVATES A TRAP CARD

IT ALLOWS HER TO SPECIAL SUMMON FROM THE GRAVE

SHE RESURRECTS HER 1000 ATK MOMSTER

SETS TWO FACEDOWNS

REV THINKS IT’S INTERESTING THAT SHE DIDN’T RELY HER MORE POWERFUL MONSTER

GG CONTEMPLATES REV’S SIDE OF THE FIELD

THAT FACEDOWN OF HIS HAS GOT HER WORRIED

BUT SHE’S GOTTA TAKE THE CHANCE

SHE DOES IN FOR THE DIRECT ATTACK

IT CONNECTS!

REV IS THROWN OFF HIS D-BOARD??

LANDS ON TEH FUCKING HAIRBALL, WHICH IS ACTUALLY SOLID LMAO

BOUNCES BACK ON HIS BOARD

HE’S DOWN TO 1400 LP

SO GG THINKS HIS SET CARD CAN’T STOP ATTACKS

SHE ACTIVATES HER OTHER MONSTER’S EFFECT

WHEN HER ARCHETYPE DEALS BATTLE DAMAGE, SHE CAN SPECIAL SUMMON A LINK MONSTER FROM *REV’S* GRAVEYARD

SHE SUMMONS TWIN DRAGON

REV IS OFFICIALLY PISSED

RIGHT ON

GG HAS HER MONSTER ATTACK REV DIRECTLY

IT CONNECTS

HE’S DOWN TO 400 LP

FUCK, HE’S AT LESS THAN A THOUSAND

GG’S GONNA TAKE HIM DOWN WITH HIS OWN MONSTER

SHE SENDS TWIN DRAGON TO ATTACK REV

AND

AND—!

“I win!”

“You fool.”

Omg

I mean. I knew it would happen.

I’m still mad though lol

“I’ll show you. Cringe before Hanoi’s noble power!”

FUCK ME SIDEWAYS, WHAT’S OUR CERTIFIED OLD MAN™ GONNA DO

HE ACTIVATES HIS TRAP

THE ATTACK BOUNCES OFF OF IT, AND

Destroys all of Ghost Girl’s monsters

Fuck

FUUUUUCK

… back in the hotdog truck

“What? This energy reading is different than before. Is it a duel?”

Omg seriously, the fuck did Rev do

BACK TO PLAYMAKER, WHO’S STILL #RUNNING

This ominous background music isn’t doing my poor lil heart any favors

PLAYMAKER’S REACHED A DEAD END

NOOOOOOO

AI IS FREAKING OUT

BUT? THE GROUND OPENS UP BENEATH THE MONSTER??

Destroys it

Playmaker walks tentatively towards the fissure

Ai says the light’s gotta be dangerous…

“Let’s go!”

PLAYMAKER JUMPS IN

“I knew you’d do this!” lmao

PLAYMAKER RUNS TO THE LIGHT

There;s a gate blocking it off…

“That’s where Ghost Girl went!"

Okay, so he’s about to stumble on the Murder Scene

Playmaker runs over, and

There’s this weird… buzzing noise coming from the light

Playmaker looks weirdly… alarmed by this

So it’s Rev and GG

All of her monsters are destroyed

She figured it out: Rev wanted to get to less than 1000 LP to use storm access

“Since you didn’t anticipate this, you’re a third-rate cyber treasure hunter.” lmao damn dude, rub it in why don’t you

GG doens’t even try and refute it, but she wants to let everyone know what’s happening in Link Vrains

SHE ACTIVATES PRIMEBANSHEE’S EFFECT

SHE CAN ADD ONE ALTERGEIST FROM THE GRAVE TO HER HAND

BRINGS BACK MARIONETTER

ACTIVATES HER SKILL, SECRET CURE

SHE FLIPS OPVER CARDS IN HER DECK UNTIL SHE GETS A MONSTER; SHE ADDS IT TO HER HAND

AND THEY’LL BOTH GET LP EQUAL TO THAT MONSTER’S ATK

… why do I feel like she’s gonna pull a <500 ATKer

She pulls her first card, and…!

IT’S A 0 ATKER

FUUUUUUCK

“You’re third rate. Luck has forsaken you.”

GG… ends her turn…

REV TAKES HIM

DAMNIT

G ACTIVATES HER TRAP

REV CAN’T NEGATE ANY OF HER MONSTER’S EFFECTS

ONCE PER TURN, SHE CAN NEGATE HIS MONSTER’S EFFECT BY SENDING ONE OF HER MONSTERS TO THE GRAVE

BUT REV ISN’T HAVING IT

HE ACTIVATES A COUNTER TRAP FROM HIS HAND?? PAYS HALF HIS LP FOR IT

AND IT NEGATES TRAP CARD ACTIVATIONS AND EFFECTS

FUUUUUUCK

AND SHE AN’T ACTIVATE ANY MORE TRAPS THIS TURN

SO GG SETS A FACEDOWN TRAP (? okay)

But GG at least has more LP, so she figures she has a chance

BUT REV, WHO IS APPARENTLY A MIND READER, SAYS

“You actually think you’re going to survive? Only the darkness of death awaits you. Which you can’t escape from!"

HOLY SHIT

YEAH SHE’S NOT GETTING PURGED

IT’S MURDER TIME

REV ACTIVATES AN EFFECT FROM THE GRAVE

WHEN THERE’S NO MONSTER’S ON HIS FUELD, HE CAN SUMMON A LEVEL 4 MONSTER IN THE DEFENSE POSITION

HE BRINGS OUT A 1800 DEF MONSTER

AND A 400 DEF MONSTER

HE BRINGS OUT ANOTHER AT 800 ATK

“I’ll show you my new power. I an hear the pulse of an unknown power hiding in the network…"

ANNNND HERE COMES THAT SWEET SWEET DATA STORM

OR RATHER, WAVE

GG’S NEARLY KNOCKED OFF HER BOARD

REV GOES IN TO GRAB THAT CARD

AND AW SHIT, IT’S A GOOD ONE

HE SETS UP THE LINK SUMMON

USES ALL THREE OF HIS MONSTERS

SUMMONS TOPOLOGIC TRISBAENA AT 2500 LP

HE ACTIVATES ANOTHER GRAVEYARD EFFECT

HE BANISHES THREE MONSTERS WITH THE SAME NAME FROM HIS GRAVEYARD; SPECIAL SUMMONS A 1600 DEF MONSTER

REV ACTIVATES TRISHBAENA’S EFFECT

WHEN A MONSTER IS SPECIAL SUMMONED NEXT TO IT’S LINK

THAT MONSTER AND ALL SPELLS/TRAPS ARE BANISHED

AND FOR EVERY ONE THAT’S BANISHED, GG TAKES 500 LP DAMAGE

GG IS DOWN TO 2500 LP

FUCK

FUUUUUUCK

REV GOES IN FOR THE DIRECT ATTACK

GHOST GIRL GOES DOWN TO 0

REVOLVER WINS!

Oh fuck no

She slams up against the wall; falls conveniently in front of Playmaker and Ai

He tells her to hang in there??

Ghost Girl calls herself pathetic (BABY NO)

PLAYMAKER 100% INTENDS ON SAVING HER, BUT

HE CAN’T GET THROUGH THE GATE

Besides, Ghost Girl thinks handing off her info to him is more important

“This treasure is incredible. The best i’ve ever acquired.”

She sends one of her fireflies (?) over to him

“You must take that data out of here. As you said, something is happening in Link Vrains.”

“Okay. I promise.”

And… Ghost Girl is glowing red…

SHE DISINTEGRATES, KOH STYLE

“What’s happening to you?!”

“Be careful of Revolver. He has a terrifying card—“

And… her data goes inTO THE HAIRBALL

“The way she vanished was horrible!” I AGREE AI

AND AW SHIT, HERE COMES REV

“You’re late, Playmaker.”

“Revolver! What did you do to Ghost Girl?”

“She became the foundation to save the world. She won’t come back.”

“What are you doing?”

“The Tower of Hanoi has already activated. If you want to stop this game, you must defeat me, Playmaker.”

Okay but that didn’t stop your bitchass before, so

Suddenly, the hairball starts freaking out??

Tentacles shoot out and into the ceiling

Rev goes to check it out, ignoring Playmaker’s pleas to Come Back

“Hey, Playmaker! You promised Ghost Girl that you’ll bring back the data!”

Playmaker isn’t listening, he just wants to avenge Ghost Girl’s UNTIMELY DEATH

Ai looks… worried…

DEBRIS IS FALLING EVERYWHERE

“Playmaker, we’re in real danger!”

PLAYMAKER DEADASS DIDN’T REGISTER ANYTHING AI JUST SAID

And Ai, looking extremely conflicted

Does the one thing he probably should’ve done from jump:

“LOG OUT!"

… back above ground

It’s Frog and Pigeon!

“Ah, Link Vrains is still at peace.”

AND RIGHT WHEN HE SAYS THAT, SHIT STARTS DISINTEGRATING

WAY TO TEMPT FATE, ASSHOLE

THERE IT IS

THE GIANT TENTACLE

BACK IN THE HOTDOG TRUCK, YUSAKU RUNS OVER TO SHOICHI

LOOKS AT THE MONITOR

SEES WHAT’S GOING DOWN IN LINK VRAINS

ANNNND

THERE IT IS

THE TOWER OF HANOI

FUCK ME SIDEWAYS, THAT IS BEAUTIFUL

PREVIEW TIME!

So people are turning into data

Everybody’s freaking out

“The time limit to demise is six hours”

WAIT

SIX HOURS

WHAT

HERE WE GO, TOWER OF HANOI TIME

#yugioh vrains #vrains episode reactions #vrains episode 31 #revolver #ghost girl #yusaku fujiki #playmaker #ai #shoichi kusanagi #knights of hanoi #link vrains #den city #my posts

[justalittlemango]

Entry #16 - 21/01/2020

Well, it’s safe to say returning back to Cheltenham and the whole dorm life has been fairly bittersweet! I guess I adapted very well when I was back home (and I mean, who wouldn’t when you are blessed enough to not worry about money for that period, and great parents who are willing to help you out as much as possible!) It was quite sad on the final day of coming back here with my dad dropping me off, but at the same time it feels quite nice. Nice to have my privacy back, my own bathroom schedule and be able to use my gaming PC again!

It’s currently 6am as I write this, sadly my sleep got interrupted by a phone notification, turns out a friend was spamming me on Steam so now I am awake. The power of the internet right there folks, being able to wake someone up from thousands of miles away. However, I am not too fussed. My semester starts again today, and my lecture is at 11:15 so it’s not all too bad.

Initially I was kind of freaking out, predominantly due to the fact that my first lecture this week involves group-based work... and I guess I’m not really satisfied with the input that I had put in before Xmas for the group, but oh well. I am hopefully willing to change that with this next lecture coming up.

I want to try and get some organisation into the group. Sort out roles for each group member so we know what we’re doing and contribute more ideas together. I think before Xmas I was just so drained, tired and stressed with all the other assignments that my mind just went completely blank. However, it’s a new year now, new semester and that means I gotta be back on my A game.

So I’m feeling relatively optimistic about that, albeit nervous.. but hey, I’m still here and I’ve managed to get through all this shit before in my life, there’s hardly anything stopping me, other than how negatively my mind perceives me. In all fairness, my mood has been quite good ever since Christmas and my last post. I’m hoping it stays that way! I’m satisfied with the long break I had, and now it’s time to work hard again. This project should be fun anyways.

I don’t imagine this project/assignment will be too time-consuming regardless.. we’ve got 4 months to do it and we’ve got a very very basic concept that runs... I guess we just need to keep adding stuff to it over the next 4 months and see how far we get into it. Least that gives me hopes about time-keeping for the other assignments I’m starting this semester which I’m sure will be just as stressy as the ones I’ve just done :^)

Talking of assignments, my creative skills assignment got graded, the one which heavily involves Photoshop, Illustrator and all that graphic design stuff. I got 68, which was 2 marks off the top criteria.. So I’m happy with that! Considering a pass grade is 40, an extra 28 marks on top of that I’m chuffed with. So that’s kept me very positive recently that my work isn’t utter crap!

I am sorta worried for my other two assignments that are yet to be graded. One assignment which is the creating a game in Unity that I had to request an extension for, I feel like I’m going to get a low grade or not pass at all... trying to write the code myself was so difficult so uh, some sort of it was uh, “referenced” from online, i guess. My 3D modelling assignment I’m also sorta worrying about as I rushed it towards Christmas as I requested an extension for that too. Oh well, I’m going to try not to let it play on my mind...

On a more positive note, I decided to get this student housing thing sorted once and for all. I can’t afford to go back into student halls, and I’ma be real with you, but the flatmates you get can be obnoxious as fuck. Not saying that my current flatmates are like that, but uh, we just live and let live and we don’t really speak to each other. But they like to hog the kitchen a lot, and that annoys me. So I don’t really want to put up with that again next year. 

I organised a Discord group thingy between my bf and a friend from the course, so we could get a 3 bed house that’s close to the campus. Thing is, this student house is ideal for me because the rent is so cheap compared to student halls. So if I can get this student house, I’d be able to keep and spend so much more than I get right now. Lets put it this way, in student halls at the moment, I only get £300 to spend across the 3 months. If I was in a student house, on average I’d have just over £1k to save/spend over the 3 months. Yum fucking yum!!! So I really hope to fuc that we can get a place sorted!

I ain’t really got no fear of anything going wrong tbh... we still got quite a bit of time, and there’s still some good choices going around in the area near the university- which is convenient as currently where we stay it is an hour walk to campus, and yeah.... not worth it. I might also mention it to a few friends on the course if they want to also come live with us, but it looks like everyone is sorted... so I think it’s best that we just find a place, inquire, see if we’re happy and then slap the deposit on it.

Conveniently, my dad just got his redundancy money from work and has offered to pay my deposit for me which is a MAJOR help, otherwise I simply would not be able to afford it and live at the same time. So I feel very blessed knowing this. Of course, once we get to the house I am not going to blast any of the money, in fact I might just spend it how I do now, very minimally. Reason being? Overdraft. I gotta get out my overdraft. My bank has started to change the limit of how much is fee-free, and at the moment I can take out up to £2000 and it’s fee-free, but at the end of this year it’s going down to £1500, then the year after it’s £1000, year after is £500 and then so on.

So realistically, it is absolutely in my best interests to go for a student house. I need that money. I have also been looking at costs about doing an internship in Canada, and yes, it is fairly expensive once you count the application fees, flight fees and the fact that the Canadian government want you to prove that you have 2400CAD in your bank to prove that you can sustain yourself in Canada.

I have been looking at the invitation pools for UK residents to take the working holiday visa scheme in Canada, and right now it seems 3k people have signed up, and there’s 6k slots... so... that’s filled some hope in me! I just really hope I get a place!! It is absolutely my dream to work in Canada for the year. I just gotta be on top of my game on December 2020... as I believe that’s when the pools next open. I just hope they don’t mind being there for only a year when the visa grants you two years! But uh, they don’t need to know that hehe... or maybe they do. lol idk.

But yes, a student house is needed in order for all this to be accomplished. I know for a fact I would be more comfortable staying with my bf and a coursemate rather than more random people that I have to awkwardly say hi to when I want to grab my noodles from the kitchen. But yes, I’m estimating that over the second year, I’ll have about £800 or so to spend. That’s amazing. And I want to invest £500 into my overdraft so I can go down to the fee-free amount (£1500), and then do the same for the next instalment so I can go down to £1000, and then save whatever is left from the final instalment to try and sustain myself for if & when I go to Canada. They ask for 2400CAD in your bank, and that’s £1400... I guess as long as I have that in my bank they’ll accept me, and then once I get in I can focus on paying that overdraft off.

I’ve heard internships in Canada pay minimum wage, so if I have extra money in the month that I don’t necessarily need, I’ll send it to my UK bank account and help me get out of that overdraft, as when/if i’m in Canada, the fee-free amount will reduce to £500 or so, therefore I need to get that paid off. I don’t think it should be too difficult, but I’m super relying on these things working out, and lets be real, there’s a very high chance of all this not working out. Though, I won’t allow myself to. I will find a student house. I will save the money I get when I’m at said student house. I will pay my overdraft bit by bit. I will try to save up 2400CAD so I can get accepted into Canada, but the most important part: I will try my best to entice Canadian game studios to accept me.. 

That last part, that’s going to be tricky I think... I hope I am good enough that they will accept me as their intern. I don’t know really. I still don’t know where I wanna go , but anywhere in Canada I’m happy with: particularly if it’s Toronto or Montreal. Hell, I have still been learning French for just in case I do get a place in Montreal. They speak French there? well heck, so will I with all this time I got to do it. Plus, I’ve been wanting to learn French for a while, but just needed a sort of kick up the butt to say “ok, here’s why you should ACTUALLY do it!” and yea :3

That being said , I would also be happy if I got accepted at a studio in Vancouver.. a bit far and very much behind time-wise from the UK, but hey it’s only for the year, I may as well live it up aye? Of course, I am still banking on myself to get accepted into the pools and be invited by the Canadian gov, then consult jobs/studios all over Canada with my work and stuff, then save up the money to get into Canada, all simultaneously while trying to find a roommate in whichever city I get to (however, this seems like a rather simple one as I’ve already seen many apps that can help find roommates and offers seem to come & go A LOT.)

A roommate would definitely be ideal for me, as it would help split the rent. If I’m going to stay in a city like Vancouver or Toronto, it isn’t really possible for me to sustain myself on minimum wage in these cities. So a roommate is ideal. Besides, I need friends when I get there anyway! lol

I wonder if I’ll look back at this post in a few years and think... “Wow Kurt, you thought it was that easy?” - part of me thinks this goal is far-fetched, another part of me sees it as perfectly accomplishable with the correct amount of time, planning and finances. So really... I don’t know. I would say at the moment, probability is low in the likeliness of me getting in, because my work is still a bit.. questionable, as I am still a fresher after all. So I gotta rely on producing really good work that catches the eyes of employers, host a website with my portfolio on it and send it to just as many Canadian studios as I can and then hope for the best. I just really want this goal, it’s an even more motivating goal than thinking of graduation, honestly! 

Welp. I posted a lot on this one, but everything I said here is 100% the things that run through my mind a lot of the nights. I am going to stay optimistic, I’m going to work to the best of my ability and make my creations look appealing, I am going to get that student house so I can be happy financially and secure myself & my goals. Til next time

~mangie