Using a blog redesign to try to get you to write more? Who would do such a thing?!

The same spirit is there, but in moving over to blowfish theme as the foundation hopefully means a theme stack that’s a bit more up to date (and as a bonus still actively maintained). I’ll have to figure out how to manage upgrading the core theme while maintaining my tweaks, but that is a project for another day. So far I’ve been impressed with the stack – it’s well organized and doesn’t feel like a spaghetti project. There are a few shortcodes that need updating, so I’ll have to go back through old posts to make sure things still work (should be fairly manageable).

I’m still working on my POSSE extensions, so expect a longer post on that soon (hopefully)

Horizon Zero Dawn (w/ Frozen Wilds)

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I know I’m a little late to the party with this one, but this game was magnificent. The story and world building were especially on point. I tried really hard to take a stealth approach to combat but it only get’s you so far before it’s an all out melee. I can’t wait to dive into Forbidden West

9/10

This. The Constitution means something.

Hank Green on The Constitution

Quick test case for the video short code.

Kekkon Suru tte, Hontou desu ka: 365 Days To The Wedding

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Cute little story about two incredibly shy and awkward people. Enjoyed the fact that it was workplace romance.

6/10

I made a thing.

I finally got a keyboard stand so I could move my nice midi controller under my desk upstairs and create little things like this. Hopefully just making it easier to noodle I can spin out a bunch of one-takes like this. Maybe it will inspire me to work on some larger Logic projects again.

A visual novel style horror “sequence” very much in the vein of “The Stanley Parable” (with a bit of “Doki Doki” thrown in). The art by Abby Howard steals the show, in what is more a non-linear experience, rather than a story. I kept trying to find hidden loops, but as far as I can tell, the story is a straight fanout with narrative building on iterations through the story. Solid game if you’re a fan of the prior art.

6/10

Despite the production issues, I’m so glad we got this adaptation. The manga is one of my favorites and the anime feels like a complete story (and there is still lots of great story left for the manga to tell). The middle third suffers a bit from the production crunch, but the final third ultimately delivers on the promise.

8/10

In adding my pixelfed account to Ivory, it drives home that it really is just another ActivityPub server (no different from any other Mastodon instance) where the users have collectively agreed (for the most part) to post images instead of text. It really is an ActivityPub client rather than a different service. I think I’d rather just boot posts from my main account instead of bifurcating things.

A Fate production not done by ufotable? Call me skeptical but A1 is probably one of the studios that might be able to do it justice. This is just “Episode 0” and very much a shotgun-style introduction of everything rather than the beginning of the story. The full show is airing now for Winter 2025.

7/10