Vol. 31 - Cooling Down
Hello yellow!
I'm wearing my Snorlax Kigurumi. The leaves are turning yellow. It's finally starting to feel like Fall. Life is feeling pretty good right now!
Okay, the stuff!
Interesting Stuff
Hearing Things
This is the website everyone at Pitchfork moved on to after it got gutted. I love capitalism! :)
A Trip To Machida, The Real-Life 'Pallet Town' That Inspired Pokémon
Very neat collection of pics and trivia! Reminds me of my time in Osaka, which was absolutely delightful.
CAIN
New game from the guy who did LANCER, Tom Bloom. Can't wait to buy the pdf, look at all of it and then finally play a game of it in 2027 LOL.
Zerotype
Cool (and frankly a little expensive) apparel shop with neat graphic design.
HTML is for People
I think the intro for this page sums it up well enough so I'mma just copy-paste:
HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.
Planted Recently
My Favorite Game from Every Year Since Birth
A fun little exercise I did with some friends! I want to write about each one in depth at some point.
My Favorite Games - Part 3
Getting closer to writing about all 25. Down to the top 10 next!
Media Corner
Games
I started a Backloggery if you want to keep up with me there! As of late I've:
Finished Resident Evil 6 with Ghost! It was terrible! I loved it!
Replayed God Hand! Still a mechanical marvel but the humor of this game has aged like dogwater lmfao.
Researching the racism levels in Metaphor Refantazio but it's slow going!
Beat Black Rock Shooter, it was a nothingburger of a game
Beat both PSP Yakuza games. Very impressive given the console and time-period, but a little too self-serious for my taste given how silly Yakuza can get.
Now I'm getting real weird about Metal Max! I already finished Metal Max Returns and moved on to Metal Max 3. I have a lot to say about these games so I'll be writing a separate post about them but they're quite fascinating!
TV/Film
Watching Love is Blind Habibi with the LOML and it's a trainwreck in an entirely different way from the usual Love is Blind trainwreck! Excited to finish that up with her.
Besides that, lots of horror movies, and also The Wild Robot, which absolutely broke me! Incredible film that you should definitely check out.
Music
Albums:
Cozy Echoes - GlitchxCity
Brat and it's completely D different but also still brat - Charlie XCX
MG Ultra - Machine Girl
Status Update
I'm great thankfully! Feeling pretty good overall. Nothing to complain about! And it's cooling down. And I'm taking my Vitamin D! Life's good alhamdulillah!
Signing Off
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