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My phone was supposed to be better at taking photos than a regular iphone but why is the quality of my photos and lighting always so bad? Or am I not as good taking pictures as I used to be? đŸ€”
 
Maybe it’s the self-critic in me, but whenever I hear about media that’s universally despised, like Velma or Foodfight! I worry that my writing is just as bad and I don’t realize it. Though realistically
I know that’s not true. But still, I feel that itch from time to time.
 
Sonic 2 doesn’t exactly have challenging bosses for the most part, but when you get to the Hill Top Zone boss it actually feels like a 2D Mario game boss fight. Actually, even Boom Boom has slightly longer invincibility frames than that boss. Look at this:


This is why Sonic bosses usually have gimmicks that prevent you from attack spamming.
 
Trying to finish my admin course assessent 1but god its hard to stay focus. It is mainly retyping the stuff I already read in the pdf file. Doesn't mean its not informative, its very interesting. There;s like ten diff type of meetings that a business would do.

I think after talking to my sister now, I feel a bit better on focusing on it again
 
Yo, I think I just found my uncle’s brother or something on pinterest XD He’s my biological aunt’s husband so I don’t know his extended family but they have the same last name and look suspiciously similar
I hope this doesn’t sound creepy, i’m not gonna stalk him, it’s just
 what are the odds? XD
 
We had a field trip to Six Flags yesterday for the fifth time. The roller coasters were fun and free as always, but there was a claw machine and one of them was PokĂ©mon themed. And one of the prizes was a Phanpy so I needed to get it. I don’t know why so many people like these games since they’re almost completely luck based and the only skill is moving the crane to the right place, but I know the only reason I kept playing was because there was a Phanpy and that destroyed my self control.

If you pay $5, you can get 3 attempts. So I did that. And I got nothing. I also found an arcade with the same claw machine, but instead of paying money you have to use tokens. For $10, you can get 26 tokens, and it costs 4 tokens to play once, so you can get essentially 6 attempts for $10. And every attempt I lost. At this point it was actually getting depressing. I wasn’t even trying to get Phanpy anymore, I wanted to get this Treecko plush they had. And I still couldn’t do it. Common sense would tell you to give up, but I played the original game again. This time I asked my friend to pay for it because I didn’t want to imagine how my parents would feel looking through my monthly transactions, and I still lost.

So that means that if you add together the $26 I spent on food, the kind of unnecessary $10 I spent on ice cream, the $10 I spent on another game earlier to try to win a Gengar plush (spoiler alert: I lost), and this, I spent $61 in total and I’m $5 in debt đŸ« . Well, technically, none of it is my money because my mom gave it to me, but still. They had games where you could win Mario and Sonic plushies as well, but apparently I actually learn from the past and decided not to play. I guess I re-learned that amusement parks are great at getting you to waste money, and also that I should never step foot in a casino. I’m so glad that roller coasters are free at the very least.

I actually have won at a crane game once in my entire life. I got this Shy Guy from it:

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Lately we've passed by a few Tesla Cybertrucks in my area. To me, they looked like they were plucked straight out of a 3D game from the 90's! My mother, on the other hand, says they look like "the car of alien."
 
My grandma grew up in a small town, but I didn’t realize how small it was until I a news article about her birthday party lol. (as a kid)
 
A romance where the characters meet after a fender bender.
I know it's not a new meet cute concept, but I just couldn't stop thinking about it. lol
 
I just closed my StarGlow Horizons blog. It was originally going to be about my island of StarGlow, but it eventually became a mess, filled with irrelevant blog entries. Not only that, but my wordpress sites aren’t gaining very many views.

My most popular blog entry is the hourly music’s extended review. Of course, I would discuss this on every Animal Crossing blog I create.
 
I really wonder: when you shoot Star Bits, where do they come from? Does Mario just


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Or is it just airstrike?

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Looking at the Kentucky Derby pics and wow, Dannielynn Birkhead (Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter) looks almost exactly like her!
 
I hate the Wing Cap Stage. It’s easy to get the switch, but getting all of the red coins is sanity destroying. I know how to control using Wing Cap, but this Star pisses me off so much. Especially because of the way the Wing Cap works. If you miss a single red coin, it’s nearly impossible to gain enough height to get it again, so you practically have to restart. This star is just so **** and not fun. The only redeeming factor is the fact that if you fall off a cliff, you get respawned in Peach’s Castle at the exact angle to enter the stage again (you have to look up at a certain part of the ceiling to get to the stage, and when you die, you’ll respawn at the exact place you have to look up).

This stage, Wing Mario Over the Rainbow, and Rainbow Ride make me have to ask: what is it with sky stages and extreme difficulty in this game?

Also, it seems like it’s gotten to the point where a lot of the stars I hate are ones other people also hate or think are annoying. That means I really am actually good at the game now.

Edit: let’s gooo I finally got this stupid star. I also did the Secret Slide under 21 seconds and the race against the Big Penguin, so I’ve beaten a lot of the ones I was struggling on before. Also, can you tell I was mad when I made this post? I actually don’t really think Wing Cap is even that bad once you get the hang of it.
 
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The sliding scale of 3D Mario Platformers from the most open-world to the most linear:
  1. Super Mario Odyssey
  2. Super Mario 64
  3. Super Mario Sunshine
  4. Super Mario Galaxy
  5. Super Mario Galaxy 2
  6. Super Mario 3D World
  7. Super Mario 3D Land
If you want to make a good one, try to keep it at 2-3 on the scale.
 
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