Witterings and ramblings
New notes 7/8/2026 Been doing a bit of night shooting at farewell drinks etc, need to jot down a few things: EP7 with pancake is pretty good. The 20mm Lumix AF is just too slow, but the 14mm worked out, thank god. Now shooting in 4:3, might swap to that for everything. 20mm colours are probably better but at pub nights it's best not to have a slow AF. Best to shoot shutter priority between 1/125 -…
The zoo is a great place for a telephoto, but it sucks for a fixed prime; you really don't have the freedom to 'zoom with your feet' when there's loads of fences or you might get eaten by a tiger or whatever. This probably goes for sport as well (less chance of being eaten by a tiger). Really need to remember to set to Continuous Autofocus when shooting birds birds. And change the focus point. And…
Spent my Bearblog perma subscription money on this tbh but Bearblog can wait for a bit (sorry Herman) I've been rocking my wife's Olympus E-PL3 for a few months, but it's pretty old. It was always the budget brand camera of its day anyway (the L stands for Lite... I think) but in 2016 the 13MP sensor isn't super hot, not to mention the pretty slow autofocus. I'll still keep it around, for reasons…
Capcom's latest new franchise entry after the less well-performing Kunitsu-gami, which I have yet to play. This one could be best characterised as Glad Dad and his Adorable Hacking Robot Daughter and, somewhat to my own surprise, I really enjoyed it. It's an exceptionally tight and well-crafted game. The backstory seems to be that it took nearly nine years or so to see the light of day, so there's…
Decided to start a monthly log of stuff I was happy to obtain. It's pretty consumeristic of me, I guess, but I like it when you get something that solves a problem. Especially when it's cheap, or at least a good bargain. Who knows, maybe it'll help you solve some issue in your life, dear reader. I think you can learn a lot about a person through the stuff they value. Hopefully this doesn't get…
Since I posted that last thing about where to blog, I've been thinking even more about blogging... which is leading to a bit of analysis paralysis. Although to be honest, I've mostly decided what I actually want to do, which is to stick with Bearblog. The main things holding me back from using Bear more are a) I like images and I don't have hosting on the free plan, and b) the plain text editor is…
I've been thinking more about blogging recently. More to the point, I've been exploring note.com, the Japanese social media site, and it's sort of reinvigorating my desire to blog. I actually started an account and desire to one day blog there, but given my written Japanese is - to put it mildly - kind of shit, it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. The problem, as is usually the case, is where to…
This is one of those games where other people like it way more than I do, and I still liked it a fair bit, but there's also bits that bug me a lot. Gameplay Much ink has been spilled over the game's QWOP-like climbing system, in which you move individual limbs slowly and meticulously to try and lever yourself up cliffaces. I generally like it - there is nothing quite like meticulously sidling…
[Repost from other site] What the fuck was that ending? I feel a faint dissatisfaction with this season and it was mostly on the writing side, mainly that it didn't really feel like there was a lot going on conflict wise. like characters would have challenges sure but there was like a constant feeling of 'oh actually nobody feels that way you were just imagining it' and no, idk, sense of emotional…
It's been an astoundingly shit year. Let's talk about video games.