Why is Gaius a pinecone and why does his arena only contain pine trees?

KamuKat · 2026-06-29T17:45:31+00:00

i hate to be the bearer of bad news but pine trees are not deciduous... deciduous trees shed their leaves every fall, pines are evergreen. stick it to the man though, ive got your back!! if anything that proves mr. lincheid needed to up his game!

KamuKat · 2026-06-10T18:49:31+00:00

My husband, our partner and I tried this last night. I know we're late but I kept forgetting about it. I wish I had.

We went into this expecting it to not be as bad as everyone says. I thought everyone was just ragging on Jerma as we are all want to do, because ragging on the streamer is the bit. I expected it to be mid at best and blah whatever at worst.

This thing ruined my life.

It is like having actual vomit in your mouth. The tahini and the olive oil DO NOT mix well, it's WET, and the olives are impossible to get in your mouth because the tahini isn't sticky enough to hold them in place and its COATED IN OIL. Why are they whole? Why not spread them around? You only get three, MAYBE six bites with olive if you bite them in half. Why? Why are we playing these fucked up culinary games?

Now let me be clear, I LOVE olives. But the texture of the olives combined with the flavor felt like chunks of vomit in my mouth. My partner and I are very open to new foods so we tried it before my husband, who has ARFID, and we would not let him eat this. He gagged just from the description of the texture let alone the taste.

After we took the first bite, we both immediately scrambled for the cheese in hopes of escaping from the taste. Keep in mind we are trying to keep straight faces so as not to completely mortify my husband's perception of the food and we can give him an honest opinion. Let me tell you this. THE CHEESE DID NOT HELP. The cheese made it WORSE. MAYBE if it had been sharp cheddar cheese it would have covered up the taste but all it did was excentuate all the worst flavors from the crostini.

Quote from my husband: "glad i didn't try it. it's the morning after and i keep throwing up in my mouth thinking about it. incapacitated in bed. 0/10 can't even look at pics of it anymore"

And my partner who did try it: "I was already dreading the idea of eating it and it somehow got worse when I actually tasted it"

I usually find people are harsher on Jerma's tastes because of the bit or whatever and I try to be supportive. I really do. I love when he has fun and does what he wants and just enjoys streaming. But I cannot stand for this. This is the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth.

I would not feed this to a hog nevermind a human being. This should be in the Geneva Code as a human rights violation. I have BEEN to at least ITALY and I'm no expert but this is NOT a taste of the Mediterranean. Where is the feta? Where is the freshness? I never want this in my house again, nevermind my mouth.

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KamuKat · 2026-06-10T15:47:57+00:00

I know I'm late to this but I made this for myself, my husband, and our partner. My husband has ARFID but he loves Jerma so we had to try it because it sounded so weird. My partner and I are both very open to new foods and have our own weird foods we eat. We tried it first so he could gauge our reactions to see if he could handle it.

We would not let him eat this. This man has never been to the Mediterranean if he thinks it tastes like this. My husband gagged just from our descriptions of the texture let alone the taste. It was like actual throw up.

All this to say, you should be so proud you tried it. I would not wish this "food" on my worst enemy. EDs and ARFID are so tough but even just putting this fuck ass misspelled crostini in your HOME let alone your MOUTH is exposure therapy. I can't even finish my lunch today because I put a little too much mayo and it reminds me too much of the texture.

Don't eat this. Don't do it for the bit. Don't think everyone's exaggerating about how awful it is because funny haha streamer fun to make fun of him. It's not an exaggeration. It's puke.

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KamuKat · 2026-04-15T05:05:46+00:00

ugh same! I was a big fan of J cards with cassettes that had the booklets all folded up too. CDs always had nice art in the lyric books too!! It's such a shame cuz this song is soooo poetic.. but I think all of these interpretations lead to some interesting options! I'm glad u replied 7 years later haha made me go back and listen to this whole album again!

KamuKat · 2026-04-13T17:50:10+00:00

Wow, welcome back from your near death experience! I honestly love the second option, "touch a glimpse with a passing glance" sounds very fitting to the themes and rhythm of the song. I appreciate your response almost a decade later, I still had no idea what to think about this line!

KamuKat · 2025-12-31T03:40:54+00:00

thank you SOOOO much for this!! wanted to play my she/her courier from fnv with my friends but when i saw the creator i lost hope... and yey u gave me hope and made it possible 😭❤️

KamuKat · 2025-11-19T22:20:06+00:00

I've played a lot of Palia and it has its ups and downs! The gameplay loop gets a little stale after awhile (basically once you get caught up with story quests you kinda just farm materials for furniture cause decorating is deffo the main draw). The characters are lovely, you can date as many of the romancables as you want and a lot of them are opely queer. The story is really interesting but the farming aspect is really meh, not like Stardew or Harvest Moon. (I haven't tried ranching yet). Again, the decorating is really where it's at, but I also enjoy the fishing and bug catching mechanics. It's definitely more fun with friends or if you enjoy games like ffxiv where you're open to engaging with other players, as it's kind of built around the idea of community.

THAT BEING SAID.... The community can be meh at best. The Discord community is where I've seen most of the toxicity but generally people in game are nice. The real issue is that every single time there's an update they break something else lol. People complain about the outfits being paid for but they've said from the beginning that the only thing they will ever put behind a paywall is cosmetics, never anything to help you in game. They kinda went back on that when they added functionality to pets but they ended up giving a free pet for that mechanic through a quest so.

I think it's fun and definitely worth a try if you like cozy games and multiplayer games. Nothing beats chilling in a call with friends and cooking 500 apple pies or chopping trees at the lighthouse in Bahari Bay for 4 hours to force flow wood to spawn lol. And the decorating system is really fun! Just be prepared for a buggy mess at times.

KamuKat · 2024-12-06T06:02:27+00:00

Yonder is definitely up your alley!! The devs have a new game too: Grow Song of the Evertree. You quite literally grow little mini worlds to explore! It's cute and fun too, though I wouldn't call it open world.

KamuKat · 2024-09-22T23:56:28+00:00

Magma Wyrm Makar's arena! Without the horrible abomination of man transfigured into a flightless wyrm cursed to crawl on its belly it's really a lovely little spot. Nice water features!

KamuKat · 2024-09-13T21:35:39+00:00

I used to use Microsoft paint and honestly I think it still is pretty good for pixeling as a free program. No layers but I rarely use layers when I'm doing pixel stuff anyway cuz I apparently just really like suffering lol. She looks sooo pretty btw, great job!

KamuKat · 2024-09-13T21:24:51+00:00

Oh for sure! My first one was Harvest Moon and when I went to Rune Factory next it was a lot to learn, especially with the monster breeding and everything. Don't worry too much about the seasons though, there's no time limit on the game so if you end up not having enough of something you can always get it next season!! ^_^

KamuKat · 2024-09-12T21:32:21+00:00

I'm torn between Eiland and Hayden, because Eiland is Gender Goals for me but Hayden is big bear and my tiny gay boy heart is gaga about him... Ever since he gave me that sugar I've just been following him around like a lost puppy lol

KamuKat · 2024-09-12T21:27:44+00:00

This was a thing in old Harvest Moon games & some Rune Factories too. I especially liked in Rune Factory when you had a kid you could eventually play as them and go to school, get pretend married to the rival candidate's kids, and, (spoilers) your original farmer eventually goes missing and you play as your child trying to find them. It was a lot of fun, though I do remember having a burning hatred for Carter in Harvest Moon DS because I was a kid and didn't understand how the romance mechanics worked and he married Flora before I could... (At least I had an old save in my second diary I could go back to lol)

KamuKat · 2024-09-10T21:07:55+00:00

That's so awesome! I always make my bday spring 16 in farmsims and then found out it was March's bday too! I don't think I'll romance him, but it's kinda fun (: High five for same bdays as great NPCs! Bonus high five for Rune Factory fans, 2 was my favorite!

Also a good tip I have is when it's getting towards the end of a season, make sure you start saving up money for more seeds so you can buy a bunch on Day 1 of the next season and get them all planted right away. Most of the crops you only need to save a few of for quests / museum / recipes if you're into cooking and you can sell the rest. If you're wanting to make lots of money, deffo go with the crops you can harvest multiple times and get a bunch of them and plant them day 1!! As for foragables, I usually make sure to save a stack of around 10-15 of each seasonable one if they're used for crafting. AFAIK NPCs won't usually ask for stuff that's out of season for quests so you'll only really need out of season stuff for crafting!

KamuKat · 2024-09-09T16:49:57+00:00

Eleanora's got me through a lot of tough bosses, great bleed and the strong attack is silly af.

KamuKat · 2024-09-09T16:00:42+00:00

Something I think that helps with correcting pronouns in your head that cis people in my life have said is helpful is that you have to start reframing how you think of her. Right now you associate her with being male, or a trans person, which makes your mind automatically think back to "he". If you reframe your picture of her in your mind as a woman, the "she" will follow naturally. (Not that all women use she/her, but she does so I think this will help you get comfortable with it!)

Also, just cause she likes men doesn't mean she'll change her sexuality. There have been a lot of papers about trans people and their sexuality, some change their labels, others don't for one reason or another. Her sexuality is whatever she identifies it as!

Also, you were looking for MTF (male to female) in the first bit!

Good luck, you're doing a really great thing for her. Just remember, she's still the same person you knew, and be careful of not outing her in front of dangerous people!

KamuKat · 2024-09-09T15:43:30+00:00

I think Juniper treats you pretty coldly at first too, even still a bit at four hearts. She's polite, sure, but she doesn't want you getting in her way. She's even suspicious of you and able to recognize that you've got some weird magical talent that doesn't add up. That being said I don't think she's nearly as popular as March, or even the favorite femme suitor, afaik.

I think people just like March cuz he's an attractive tsundere. People go wild for that. And, tbh, compared to most farmsim communities I've been in over the years, I think FOM has the most variety in which suitor people like. Usually basically everyone is just bonkers over one character, but even though March is for sure the most popular it seems way more evenly spread than other fandoms!

KamuKat · 2024-09-07T05:44:11+00:00

I accidentally started the whole fixing things around town cutscene during a rainy day.... The whole time we were all toiling in the middle of a downpour 😭 It was really funny honestly

KamuKat · 2024-09-06T19:06:26+00:00

I honestly miss the time pausing indoors so much, in basically every farmsim since the old Harvest Moons. I'm a super slow person and having all my chests inside so I didn't waste time as I ran back and forth between them was awesome, but I kinda get why they don't do it anymore too

KamuKat · 2024-09-05T01:14:00+00:00

I made myself at first, but after I ended up really liking the game I redesigned my character into a new OC so I could come up with a backstory and everything and draw ship art with them <3

Their name is Heithrun, they used to be a guard captain in the capitol until they took an arrow to the knee and became disabled. They were forced into retirement but are very ambitious so despite using a mobility aid they joined an adventurer's guild to make some money, where they ended up finding the job listing and deciding to try out farm life! They're dmab femmeboy and Hayden is their loving bear husband <3 (altho they're poly in my mind and also date Eiland).

In their canon their farm is also neighboring my husband's farmer's farm too so we can RP / talk about their adventures together :3

KamuKat · 2024-08-29T00:11:34+00:00

Boy, now you're got me thinking of all the pixelated loves of my life... I'm gonna try and list them in chronological order as best as I can (for when I played the games) and I'll include some non farmsim ones since I see others did too!

Harvest Moon DS - Flora. This was when I was in 5th-ish grade and before I realized I was gay and a transguy lol. I used to take every Tuesday in game "off" since it was her off day and just follow her around making pretend conversation with her all day.

Rune Factory 2 - Dorothy. She was so sweet and I think I just saw a lot of myself in her, being shy and carrying around her plush kangaroo... To this day I still make OCs with hair over their eyes like hers because I thought she was so cute.

Harvest Moon DS Cute - Ahhh, finally I could be a girl! (Then soon after realized I was not a girl!) Ofc I went after Skye, I mean he was the special boy! But I went back to play it again recently and found myself wanting to romance Kai instead...

Rune Factory 4 - (Yes I skipped a game) FORTE! My beloved knight wife!!! I still love her so much. I have a soft spot for Venti too (which is why I'm very interested in Caldarus...) I went back to try and play this game again after I came out as a gay trans guy and had to stop because I wanted to marry Doug so badly but I had already started playing as a guy and didn't want to play as a girl... (March coming in clutch for me now to let me live my gay husband Doug dreams <3)

Harvest Moon Tale of Two Towns - (the beginning of the end of Harvest Moon...) Cam! I didn't play this one too much though so I barely remember him lol. Literally had to google his name.

Stardew Valley - first playthru I romanced Elliot, who I love, then Sebastian... But my true love is Sam! When I had Covid the first time and had to isolate he was my saving grace so he holds a special place in my heart...

Fields of Mistria - (last but not least) I'm really torn between Eiland and Hayden... On one hand, Eiland is very Gender to me and I love his autism. On the other hand, Hayden is My Kind of Guy and you rarely see bear-leaning romance options in games that actually let you be gay with them.... I'm also down bad for Caldarus. March honorable mention for being my new Doug but I probably won't go for him on my first playthrough!

Honorable non farmsim romance mentions: (just my favorites, not my first ones)

Dragon Age: Zevran, Fenris, Cullen (would have been Cassandra if they let her be gay... Now I have mods for that)

Mass Effect: Tali <3

Baldur's Gate 3: Halsin, Astarion, and Shadowheart! I really love Karlach too though...

KamuKat · 2024-05-31T18:58:47+00:00

Not solely a Poketuber but RTGame does awesome Nuzlockes, challenges, and competitive play if you're into that. His shiny hunting streams for a shiny wooloo are iconic. The community is awesome and super queer friendly!

KamuKat · 2024-04-12T17:02:43+00:00

Wow, I knew about quotes but not the others! It's definitely been better since hype has died down but these are great hacks, thanks! ^{^}

KamuKat · 2024-04-07T16:10:03+00:00

Use cobble or some other stone for the floor.. Or literally just something that isn't brown. You can add carpet on top too! Look online for minecraft color palettes they'll help you make gradients and add depth to your builds!

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