The past 3 weeks have been pretty awful. On Tuesday, three weeks ago, I was experiencing frequent heart palpitation (skipping) throughout the day. On Wednesday, of which I wrote an entry that day, the heart palpitation was at its worst with heavy skipping, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, blurry vision, constant hunger, and a bad headache. I continued each passing day with problems and then on Sunday that week, my father looked up my symptoms and found that they all led to hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). I realized I've been avoiding sugar for a while since I thought it was the cause of my stomach problems. I've also been staying up late a lot without eating in-between the night which lowers blood sugar. Whether I really was low on blood sugar is unknown, but my condition improved the following week when I was regulating my sugar count. But I was still having trouble maintaining my hunger. I had to eat more food and more meals a day. I went to see the doctor which I had made an appointment with over a month ago for a body check up since I haven't had one in 10 years. After checking with a blood test and my physical check up, the doctor said I was healthy and that I should be fine. That was just this past Friday when I went to see him again to review my blood test results. It seems I've been suffering from anxiety as well. By that point, the main problems I had left was always feeling hungry with a lot of gas generating and occurrences of heart palpitation whenever I was hungry or stressed. The doctor gave me a prescription for Omeprazole to regulate my stomach acids so that I won't constantly feel hungry throughout the day and stop it from creating so much air (which made me feel sick). So the past 3 weeks, it's been a roller coaster ride of feeling okay and feeling miserable. I generally feel a bit sick in the morning, then good during the day, and then awful again by evening. Yesterday, I felt pretty good throughout the entire day until night time. I felt so good that I did some recording for my remix project. Today, I've had some occurrences of heart palpitation again because the feeling of hunger won't go away for some reason. It's leading to a slight headache. I also have random body pains throughout my abdomen, arms and legs. It might be a culmination of stressed pent up from the past 3 weeks. But I'm slowly feeling okay again. I really don't want to experience the past 3 weeks ever again. I wasn't bedridden or anything, but I felt so abnormal and nauseated that I couldn't work, couldn't play games, couldn't do anything except watch videos. I tried playing games, but I felt nauseated after a short while. Watching videos allowed my mind to be distracted from all the maladies I've been suffering from. I started playing games again yesterday since I was feeling better. I've been mostly watching videos from Cinemassacre, some Super Smash videos, and a lot of reaction videos to Cloud's reveal in Super Smash Bros.
If I could contain the emotion and feelings I had when they revealed Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII to Super Smash Bros. in a bottle where I could open it and experience it all over again, I would do it and use it every time I felt disappointed or lacked excitement for videogames. This trailer was revealed at the end of the Nintendo Direct stream on November 12, 2015. I watched the 45-minute broadcast feeling mostly unimpressed as a lot of the updates weren't that exciting, announcements were further discussing games they've already revealed, or the new surprises they showed didn't get much of a reaction from me (such as Zelda: Twilight Princess HD on Wii U or Linkle as a new character, although I think she is very cute). So when it got to the end of the broadcast and Reggie says he "senses a trailer approaching", I was thinking "ooo, new game?" And then it started with the first three notes from the opening of Final Fantasy VII's bombing mission and I'm thinking "are they bringing the FF7 remake to Nintendo NX?" It was a very similar reaction to this year's reveal of the Final Fantasy VII remake when I heard the first note from Advent Children in the trailer where I went "Oh hey, it's Final Fantasy VII". And then all of a sudden, the logo for "Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Wii U" showed up and I freaked out going "NO WAY, ARE THEY REALLY GOING TO DO IT?!" And then I saw the "x Final Fantasy VII" logo pop-up. I fell over on the couch screaming "OMG, THEY'RE ACTUALLY DOING IT!" By the time it revealed Cloud's name, I was already sobbing and awestruck with the news right in front of me. FREAKING CLOUD STRIFE IN SUPER SMASH BROS.! This was something I talked and laughed about with my friends back in Super Smash Bros. N64 and how it was "impossible because Final Fantasy VII was on Sony Playstation". I honestly think this made me happier than the Final Fantasy VII Remake reveal. And just in time too since I'll be (trying) to get a Nintendo Wii U this week bundled with Super Smash Bros. and Splatoon. The following week after the announcement, I ended up watching a lot of reaction videos to see if anyone was as excited as I was. I never watch reaction videos because I find them mostly silly. But seeing the raw emotion coming from Final Fantasy fans has been wonderful. What I didn't expect is some very negative reactions from fans of Smash Bros. Comments like "Who's that?", "No, not Cloud, why him?!", or "Ewww, Final Fantasy?" weren't as rare as I thought. I was reminded that there were a lot of people that didn't like Cloud. I can understand why so many people didn't like Cloud for the same reasons people don't like Sasuke from Naruto, but I've always admired the character design of Cloud wielding his iconic Buster Sword. Anyways, here's some of my favorite reaction videos to the reveal of Cloud in Smash Bros.:
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This is probably my favorite reaction.
EDIT: Just found this
(Timestamp: 1:46) We can't even joke about this anymore BECAUSE IT'S REAL!
In any case, I hope to make a 100% recovery in time to play some Nintendo Wii U and work on some more remixes along the way.
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