Vol. 27 - Escape from Newsletter Fate
Hello hello!
Hope you're enjoying a long weekend (and if not, stay strong my friend). Fun fact: I always open the previous newsletter in a second tab when I write the most recent one, because I forget the layout every time and do it from scratch. I should probably make a template, but I'm already certain that I won't do that until my ADHD decides that it's finally time to. Neat!
And now for your prescribed newsletter!
Interesting Stuff
RetroShoujo.moe
My fiancé, who is the coolest person ever, got me these sick stickers from RetroShoujo!
They are very cute and high-quality! But now I'm going through the dreaded process of deciding where to put them...I know some of them will be on my PC, and I want one on my phone and notebook, but which ones where??? We shall see...
Entertrained
Remember typing games? Those were so sick. I dunno if they make new ones, but this one lets you practice touch typing by typing out existing novels! It's neat and well-designed. I like it.
Public.Work
This is an endless canvas in all directions of various publicly usable works! Nice compilation without you having to go in and dig through it all yourself.
Strudel
A website that lets you make music via coding, if you're that kind of nerd!
LL x TLDraw
A site that lets you draw lines which interact with a bunch of liquid layers (hence the name). It's fun and silly and reminds me of those sand games you used to be able to play on the browser. You know the ones.
Planted this Week
Thoughts on Exceed Fighting System
I unplugged yesterday and played a tabletop card game! It was a ton of fun. The game's called Exceed and it's a great representation of fighting games in a card-based format. I wrote my thoughts about it in detail!
Media Corner
Games
All I've been doing is playing Gundam Breaker 4 and Visions of Mana, as promised LOL. I'll have more thoughts on both once I've finished Visions of Mana and put a bit more time into GB4 but needless to say: I am very much enjoying them both!
TV/Film
I'm finally catching up on Make Some Noise! Kind of. I've finished maybe a single episode this past week. But honestly that's good, 'cause there's still many episodes to come out!
Also if you remember I mentioned that Love is Blind: UK was kind of boring. I was lying, it absolutely goes wild by the reunion. I knew that toxic, poisonous show wouldn't fail me!
Music
My copy of the Bomb Rush Cyberfunk vinyl came in! I managed to snag a copy from the recent restock, so that's great.
Besides that, I grabbed a buttload of music from Bandcamp. I won't post the full list, but here's some faves:
gadgetronico! - tonchi pickles
I Know - koji itoyama
Escape Scape - Akito Tabira
The Summit of the Gods - Kazuki Koga
Status Update
Feeling good after a long break, but I know that's gonna collapse into itself once I get back to work and have to start catching up again, LOL. Oh wellllll.~
I've been kinda hard on myself as far as output lately: I've only been able to write one post a week, not including this newsletter. But! Even excluding these 27 volumes, I've written 50 posts this year so far! That's not bad!! And with the newsletter that's 77! That's like, half the year![1] Not bad when you look at it holistically - something I'm terrible at doing!
Signing Off
Good luck this week and thanks for reading! Hit the ko-fi link below if you like this letter, or even just drop a comment or suggestion. 💚
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