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Review: Memoirium's dreamscape creates a more reflective souls-like Been a while since I actually wrote a proper piece (I've been so busy). Memoirium is really cool! Very good souls-like with a fascinating addition of room decoration as a prompt for introspection. If I had more time, I would have loved to dive deeper into that for the review, but I already lost most of my lead time to other…
Been trying to get into the habit of writing something about whatever games I finish. Hasn't gone as well as I'd hoped so far (lack of time and energy, mostly), but I managed salvage these from some larger, messier drafts and posted them on Backloggd. Figured it would make sense to host them here as well: Idols of Ash Idols of Ash is a climbing game where you descend into a vast, underground…
I started playing some Parasite Eve a couple weeks ago and one thing that’s stuck out to me is how it presents dialog. Parasite Eve displays text at the bottom of the screen like you would subtitles for film and television, or really any kind of voiced dialog. In almost any other context, I wouldn’t give it any thought – that’s the natural place for them, after all! But in the context of Parasite…
Ever since I got my first mechanical keyboard, I’ve been able to turn caps lock, one of the most useless functions on a keyboard, into something actually useful. The keyboard came with a switch on the back that allowed it to act as another control key. It was great! Made for an easier ctrl+s shortcut since my left pinky already sat next to the caps lock key. Been using it for 12 years now. It’s…
Spent the last weekend in Seattle hanging out with friends. Had a wonderful time. I don’t get to do things like this very often and every time I do it’s such a restorative experience. I spend so much of my life at home going through the same routines and hearing the same conversation topics that it gets dull. A change in scenery and people is a good shake up. Makes all the mundane moments feel…
Incredible essay here from Renata Price on pain, expression, disability, and more. Renata's writing has always been excellent and this is no different. A beautiful, beautiful piece. Very excited to see the rest of this series and whatever else Crit Build creates. Relatedly, if you haven't seen her piece on Elden Ring from 2023 , you should watch that too.
Saw this documentary on the Tetris the Grand Master series being shared on Bluesky and ended up watching it in full over the course of the day. It's really good! A fun and extensive look at a particular area of Tetris history that is often overlooked. Also worth reading this excellent piece on the Grand Master series from Amr Al-Aaser over on Canonfire. Covers a lot of the same material, but it's…
I should probably just be making individual posts for these rather than trying to wait and gather enough links to make a round-up with (or stick to two or three at most maybe). Been sitting on some of these links for a month now. Gotta stop trying to make higher effort posts. "token anxiety"; or, a slot machine by any other name AI Agents are the new rage for tech workers and, as jae writes,…
I've recently been tinkering with old drafts for pieces I shelved for one reason or another (usually time). I've got that burning desire to write, but starting new projects is hard and intimidating. Going back to try and finish things I've left partially written is a good solution right now since it skips the hard part of starting something and instead moves into "how do I proceed past where I got…
Set up a page with links to some of my work over on my website . Picked quotes to include for three of them. Wanted to add one for each link, but it's hard to choose an excerpt that works. I feel like most of my writing isn't really quotable in that way. I could just choose a graf at random, but I feel like a lot of them don't really work without the context of the greater piece. That or they feel…