Summer Blog Post - #10

I also provided a bi and non-binary flag for myself. Someone found it and called it "cool :)".

My friend from Denmark added The Overweight from Gang Garrison 2 to compliment my Healer. I found his larger Overweight in Denmark and added a small Healer to go with it.

I plan to add Magnemite and Porygon in this collection, as that'd round out all my favorite Pokemon. Then my partner and I will be making a Konata in a lake we used to go to as kids!

As for anything else this week, I've done nothing. I've played no games, I've read no books. I did start watching the sequel series to ToHeart, called  ToHeart: Remember My Memories.

With this, I've come to realize how much I adore Multi, and she has quickly jumped up my list of favorites. She's waifu material alongside Konata. Shiho is close too, but I have bias for her sharing a VA with Tomo Takino, another favorite of mine. I also just like spunky girls.

Yesterday, Friday, my mother let me onto her SiriusXM subscription, just because they offered her another spot for a dollar. I appreciate it, and have been using it mostly inside to listen to on my computer. After I cancelled my Spotify subscription, stuff like this is nice. I also kinda appreciate having the radio over Spotify.

Today, I sat down to clean out my school backpack. I wanted to swap back to my high school backpack, as I desired to use a messenger bag again. For the last eight years, that backpack has been forced to store important documents instead, but because I always sling a backpack over one shoulder, I figured it'd probably be better to go back to the messenger bag. It's also black and blue, which is pretty cool.

Inside of it, I found one of my smart phones. I had no desire to keep it, and figured I'd go toss it in one of those Wal-Mart machines where you sell phones and get the five bucks it'd throw back at me. For shiggles, I thought about putting my SIM card in it and seeing if it'd even work, as they're from the same company. It turns out that it does, and the phone popped back to life in an instant. 

What great news, right? WRONG! This poor this started calling to me like the Green Goblin's mask to use it. I was instantly reminded why I got a flip phone again in the first place. They're addicting as all get out. It's like showing an addict drugs after they won their first award coin for a year clean, although I've had a flip phone for maybe two or three years now.

Still, knowing I had a spare phone that works, my partner and I decided that it'd be best for me to keep it as an emergency spare if my main phone were to ever die. I'm starting to think that's a bad idea now, because the damn thing is in my head. I hate it. It's actually giving me a headache. I can remember how agonizing the first few weeks were when I went back to a flip phone. It really was getting off of an addiction. I worked really hard to disconnect, and to regain the right to be bored again. 

Some people might argue "just manage your usage of it," which sure if you can do that, good on you. I'd also argue that they're unaware of how much they use their own smart device, or they've just given up on how bad they are. Maybe I'm just too terminally online—I am disgustingly terminally online—for my it isn't as easy as management. This is why I took the more strict path with a flip phone. 

There certainly are limitations to having one. Those limitations I'd actually argue are very stupid, and not everything needs to be an application on your phone, which 96% of the time just redirect to a webpage. Pretty stupid, right?

I feel almost like I should trial it for a month and see if I can mange. Maybe I adjusted well enough and can live with one, all whilst being able to live a functional life. This seems like a lot for something stupid. A $200 Samsung Galaxy J7 Sky Pro has this much control over my life? Pathetic. You must understand though, I genuinely find smartphones one of the worst things to happen to the society. This is big enough of a deal to me as whatever mundane bullshit you also find problematic. First world problems that we both suffer from. I'm allowed to bitch about mine like you do yours.

I think I probably will trial it, just to see if I can actually live with it. Given, I'm curious to see what 4G-- or I guess 5G? I don't know. I'm curious to see what that will be like. Having a flip phone, I have no use for any of the features that they come with. I've done nothing but use my phone for calling and texting, as they're made to do. I'm almost convincing myself to not trial it by saying that.

I like my devices to have specific uses. My iPod plays music. My CD player plays CDs. My computer monitor is just a monitor. My game devices are just game devices. My televisions don't come with any special gimmicks, they just project pictures.

I don't want a phone that's needlessnessly massive and does everything my computer does.

I usually figure stuff like this out myself in this same fashion, arguing with myself. Sometimes talking aloud, like this. Given, these blog posts are my unfiltered stream of consciousness that you get to read. I just think a mile-a-minute, and am very verbose. I apologize. Given, I don't write these for you, I write for me.

Before I ramble on any further, I should cut this off.

Uhh... What to say....

Multi is best girl. That'll do.

EDIT: Lol nah fuck that, smart phones are for losers. To think, I almost let myself fall for that.