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Spotted this beautiful dog at a pet shop. His/her name is Hanako...I think. Too bad, he's/she's sleeping. Gentle giant :)

I recorded and posted a video (with comments in bubbles :) )of a match where I used my RR 1m medic . As stated in the youtube, I was happy for our team when we won this tough match until I realised that the opposing team had 1 fewer member. Meh.

There were a number of significant patches since my last post on Robocraft . Aside from buffs/nerfs to various cubes, a major change was the abolishment of tiers and, instead, robo ranking (RR) plus a fraction of level are used for battles' match making. In my opinion, this is a positive change as it allows greater flexibility in building and yet the match making (in theory) is not much difference than before. Since then, I had dismantled Rosefall's Juggernaut and my 2 SMG tanks. I find that I much prefer plasma bombers at higher RR (>30m). I did, however, created a RR 44k SMG tank as it's great at lower level and in the Pit. Oh, yes, the Pit is a new game mode where it's everyone for themselves :) The first to reach 20 points win the battle. Points are earned only upon killing a craft. Oh yes, you have to learn to kill steal hehehe. If you don't like that, then this mode is not for you. In general, gunbed SMGs dominate the lower RR while plasma bombers domin...

Happy 6th Anniversary dearest Ban :) Goodness knows whether you'll read this or not but I'll record this anyway :) Although we're still a clueless on how to celebrate this day, everyday with you is special, in spite of the annoyance that we sometimes threw at each other :) Thanks for (still) making me laugh every single day and trying your best to make me happy. I feel loved and I hope you feel the same way too. I love you very much!

I'm consciously trying to get back to the "try new food once a week" routine. It's been quite difficult because Groupon hasn't been offering food that both Ban and I would like to try. So it was great that I remember to try this restaurant :) This is Honey Black Tea (RM6.90). I don't know how they made the foam...and out of what? Tea? It wasn't too sweet, which is always a plus. The overall taste was quite nice but unfortunately I couldn't detect black tea...until after I finished my my main meal. So strange @@ I had their Chinese Herbal Chicken Noodle (RM19.90). When they served this, I immediately could smell the aromatic herbal spices. The herbal soup was on the sweet side. A little unusual for noodle. It was pleasant drinking the soup. Hmmm it vaguely reminded me of Bak Kut Teh soup but sweet? *shrug* The noodle itself was springy, chicken was not too soft and surprisingly retained some taste. It would be great if there was more veg...

One day, while having dinner at a Japanese restaurant with Ban and Simonlover... Me: Wahhh their agedashi tofu is expensive. Simonlover: Yah lor. Me: Maybe you can fly after having some. Simonlover: Maybe your skin will become as smooth as Azzuro Hyperion's! Ban: Impossible! It can never be that smooth. Lol. You see, our friend, Azzuro, has one of the smoothest skin known to man :)

This was either at Aeon Big @Tropicana City Mall or Tesco @Paradigm Mall. Birds feasting on loose rice :) I wonder how they got into the mall.

In the previous post , I had to do something to stop the split of my realm. The Tanistry electors voted for different heir for my 2 kingdoms. In the end, I chose to switch succession law to Elective Monarchy: The ruler and each lower rank vassal (i.e. dukes if the ruler is a king) can nominate a successor from among themselves and legitimate children and siblings of the ruler. Dukes are valid electors in both Kingdoms and Empires. Elective Succession is very popular with the vassals, but they will not approve if their liege personally holds too many elective titles. The applicable opinion bonus/penalty are as follows: Oldest child -30 Other children -10 Members of dynasty -5 Vassals +20 Yes, there is a huge opinion bonus from vassals. In fact, it's the largest given by any succession law and I believed that contributed significantly to the stability of my realm. Unlike Tanistry, you know the main reasons for electors choosing your nominated successor or not. They are: ...

Taking a break before posting the next piece on Crusader Kings 2 . Remember Baconsauras ? Well, here's another advertisement from Three Little Pigs & The Big Bad Wolf restaurant. Not as funny but it's still quite 'well done'. Get it? Hehehe.

Previously, as soon as possible, I always switched to Agnatic-Cognatic Primogeniture succession law i.e. all titles go to the eldest son (eldest daughter inherits only if there is no son). However, I ended my latest campaign  with Elective Monarchy succession law but I didn't immediately start with that. An earl by default starts off with Agnatic-Cognatic Gravelkind succession law i.e. titles are divided among all son (to daughters only of there is no son) with the primary title going to the eldest son. There is no way to change this law until you become a duke (or above). At the outset, I had planned to try Tanistry (only available to Celtic culture): The ruler and all vassals at one and two ranks below can nominate an heir — the Tanist — from among members of the ruler's dynasty. Vassals will tend to favor older members from other branches of the family, especially claimants. The applicable opinion bonus/penalty are as follows: Oldest child -40 Other children -20 ...