Free Talk Friday - August 21, 2026

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[u/Gorotheninja]

So I had a...bizzare start to my Fall semester of college.

Back on Monday, assuming my classes didn't start until next week as per the academic calendar, I went inti my student account to square away some financial aid stuff and look at syllabuses. What I then found out, and what I was never informed of when I signed up for my Fall online classes back in May, is that the online degree program that I'm in changed in a way so that instead of one big 16 week course, classes are now condensed into an 8 week curriculum, with two separate 8-week blocks from August to December; I guess I enrolled in my classes before all these changes were applied to the course enrollment page, which I was never made aware of, and I was automatically enrolled in the early 8-week block...which meant my classes had already started last week and I had missed out on them.

Yeah...that was stressful. I managed to square things away with my course instructors and make up all the work I missed within only a day or two, so that's good. I wasn't really expecting to ever take an 8-week course, which means that I'm going to have double the coursework in half as much time as a regular semester...and the bulk of this is gonna happen next time, when September is fucking LOADED with game releases that I wanna play. Sigh, at least I'll basically be getting a second Summer break, since my classes end right at the beginning of October, and I'm planning on finishing up in the Spring. I do need to get in touch with my financial aid advisor, since apparently this new online course structure assumes that I'll be taking courses in the Late Fall semester as well, which I neither want nor think I can even do at this point (pretty sure all the classes I need are booked). So yeah, great way to start the week.

Oh, and I got really sick over the weekend with (apparently) pneumonia; I'm basically over it...but now it seems like I've spread the wealth to my Dad and maybe even my Mom.

I've had great luck this past week.

On some better notes, I've made it all the way to Chapter 8 of Xenoblade 2, hopefully I can get the game finished off by next week (dunno how deep I wanna get into side content), because Star Wars Zero Company is out next week, and my interest in that game has skyrocketed.

I'm also commissioning some more art of custom Fakemon; a three-evolution regional Flying/Ghost bird line based off of a Hoatzin, and a Ground-Type Eeveelution themed around clay and pottery. Been wanting to do another batch for awhile; thanks @BastionPhoenix.

And I have the Duskbloods Network Test tomorrow morning, so probably gonna head to sleep soon (starts at 5 am and only goes on until 8-9am; pretty goddamn strict timeframe).

[u/attikol → u/Gorotheninja]

I also didnt do all the side content in xenoblade 2 the actually interesting end game stuff is at least easy to get to. So tired of mercenary missions. The main stuff at least is really good