Happy Switch 2 Launch Day!

PlayStation 4 (released 2013) -> 1 million units in 24 hours

Sega Dreamcast (released 1998) -> 225k in 24 hours

PlayStation 2 (released 2000) -> 500k in a weekend

PlayStation 3 (released 2006) -> 197k in 2 weeks

Xbox 360 (released 2005) -> 326k in 2 weeks

Wii (released 2006) -> 600k in 8 days

Game releases are always big days for the gaming community. When people can, they enjoy staying up all night long and waiting in line overnight to become the first to get their hands on the flashy new toy. The launch of the Switch 2 has been no different. 

Gamers flocked to stores over 12 hours before the launch of the system and had overnight parties in stores waiting for the chime of the bell signaling the official release of the latest addition to the history of gaming consoles.

Not everyone may believe that this latest release is an actual improvement, but sometimes we set our expectations too high and fail to realize where we started and just how far we have come.

I unfortunately have not gotten my hands on this latest system just yet, but I hope to someday.

Have you gotten one for yourself?

Diet soda is a lie. I am outraged!

I was having a chat with Rambo on one of her streams, and somehow we got to discussing soda. I said I was drinking diet cola, but the conversation progressed to the point that diet soda lies to you. It isn't healthier than regular soda. I went away and did some research, and sure enough, almost every drink brand that markets its diet soda has way more sugar than a regular drink. The specific diet soda I was drinking (and will stop eventually), has 90 grams of sugar. The regular version has 27 grams. I even looked at some bottles of Lemonade my dad has one is full fat and one is diet. Diet soda contains supposedly artificial sweetener and full fat contains normal sugar. If you do enough digging you can find so many articles on how artificial sweetener is actually worse for you than regular sugar. One artificial sweetener is aspartame this has been linked to causing cancer and can be found in many diet sodas. It was discovered in 1965 and is around 180-200 times sweeter than sugar from sugar cain. This specific sweetener was only approved to be used in dry food in 1981. Thats a whole 16 years that it took for the sweetener to be approved for use in dry food by the FDA. Aspartame is marketed to have zero calories but yet it can cause you to gain weight, you can obtain a mood disorder by consuming this sweetener. While there are many articles online telling you it has not been conclusively linked to serious side effects and health issues, these articles still tell you to be careful ingesting this specific substance. Its like they want to lie to you and just give you a glimmer of the truth. Be careful what you put into your body because anything could cause you a problem. If you have any health issues that have arisen since drinking these diet sodas please consider switching. When doing your weekly shop watch out for purchasing anything with the words; diet, low calorie, no calories, low or no sugar. Yes shopping just got a lot harder but maybe something health wise will improve. 

There is not much research on the topic of benefits of diet soda. It does say it reduces fatty liver and detrimental effects of normal coke. However it doesn't list these supposed 'detrimental' effects of regular cola if they wanted us to know the truth you would not have to do so much research on a specific subject to come up with a small pile of answers. You are left with way more questions than you are answers. Does this feel like a cover up to you? 

Thank you for reading my most technical post I have done so far who know I may be more outraged in the future be safe out there peeps <3

Did You Know You Can Control Your Dreams?

Welcome to my very excited segment of how I had my first lucid dream after trying for years to manipulate my dreams. 

A little backstory, quickly, I stopped saying good night to people and started saying sweet nightmares because I would have nightmares way more often than dreams, it felt like a little secret that was mine and mine alone. I was hoping that their nightmares would be sweet and nothing like what my brain was coming up with. 

For years, I had dreams of being chased by clowns, drowning, seeing everyone I loved die in horrific manors, and the worst one SPIDERS. I do not like spiders one iota (one 'bit' for my American friends). 

My first lucid dream was me exploring an abandoned caravan. This place was filthy, covered in dust, and had large cobwebs everywhere. The last location in this caravan I explored was the bedroom. This was where the nest of black widow spiders lived. I went in and found a huge female spider; she told me she was the queen and controlled all her children. She continued on saying I would not get out alive. She tried sending her children to feast upon the meal that stood before them (me), but none of them moved more than a few centimeters. I told her I was in charge and that they would do what I wanted. I controlled them, and it turned out we liked each other's company. I would let her children crawl up my arms and into my hands just to hang out. That's when I realized I was in control of my own dream. 

Spider dreams often end up with me waking up sweating after they have crawled up my body and cocooned me to save for later. But I'm so happy to have finally achieved a successful lucid dream, and I can't wait to see if I will be able to do it again in the future. 

Thank you so much for reading. I know this one was shorter, but I wanted it to have its own time to shine with nothing overshadowing it. 

Have a great rest of your day and stay hydrated, you wonderful beans <3