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November 2, 2025

Vol. 60 - Ninja & Samurai

Thoughts on Ninja Gaiden 4, Duet Night Abyss, and try your hand at First-Person Tetris in this week's Taniyn Newsletter!

I got a Scorbunny Kigurumi. I got good coffee in my Lon Lon Milk mug. I'm getting a burger from my favorite burger place. It is a good Sunday.

And now I will continue the good vibes by sharing good stuff!

Interesting Stuff

Tooooools

That’s six letter Os, by the way. Fun thing that lets you apply lo-fi effects to images and videos: your halftones, your gradients, your dithers, and so on.

First-Person Tetris

Exactly what it says it is baby.

God Checker

A site that has existed since 1999. It has pretty much every pantheon you can think. Been using it a lot as I write my longform story lately.

Egg

Why not be an egg? A game by Terry Cavanagh, of VVVVV and Dicey Dungeon fame.

Planted Recently

Thoughts on Ninja Gaiden 4
Finished it recently. It was great!

Thoughts on Duet Night Abyss
An interesting game that pivoted away from gacha.

Media Corner

Games

Finished:

  • Ninja Gaiden 4

  • Ghost of Yotei

Playing:

  • Pokemon Legends - Z-A

  • Duet Night Abyss

TV/Film

  • Chainsaw Man the Movie - Reze

    • Thoughts on this cinematic peak soon

  • Fatal Frame aka Lesbian Ghost Story

  • Snapcube Until Dawn Fandub

Music

  • Piano Fantasies: Music from Square Enix - Mischa Cheung

  • Emotion (10th Anniversary) - Carly Rae Jepsen

  • Chainsaw Man the Movie - Reze OST - Kensuke Ushio

  • SPACE RANGER I: DISCOVERY - Tsundere Alley

Status Update

Someone recently sent me an email to tell me how they found Taniyn Quest because it’s the first result that shows up when you google Goopy Goblin Gamer Brain. That’s pretty cool. Love to accidentally do a good SEO move, given I don’t care about SEO. I wonder if that means NakeyJakey has seen this place, lmfao.

Jokes aside, getting messages from people who like what I write is always nice, so thank you. I get them more often lately, and I appreciate them all.

Signing Off

By the time you read this, I may already be devouring that good-ass burger I mentioned up top. I hope your Sunday is treating you just as well. :D

Hit the ko-fi link below if you like and want to support this letter. Thanks for reading!

https://ko-fi.com/barquq

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