A New Year, Korean food and dog problems

Well here we are once again, starting over another year! The first set of weeknotes is coming out at last. Here’s how things went!

🎉 Happy New Year you all! 2025 is over already and we must pave the way to a new tomorrow, one day after another! 2026 is upon us!
🍚 The other day we went to eat out at a Korean food restaurant! It was a new place I had never visited before, me and my siblings were invited by family friends and it was actually rather nice, we ended up stuffed full of rice and other goodies.
🃏 During the New Year we kinda just played board games and spent the time together as family. We had a great match of Scrabble and I managed to win one of them and get a draw on the other with my father. Cool stuff!
🐶 My dog (the one that got hit by a car) was now attacked by a bigger dog. He’s mostly fine but we have to clean up the wound daily and I can’t help but wonder why he likes to put his life in danger all the time.

Gaming

Monument Valley is the first game I complete this year! It was free on the Epic Games Store for Android and I decided to pick it up alongside the sequel for it! Honestly it was a short but sweet experience, great perspective-based puzzles, thoroughly enjoyable.

Hollow Knight: Silksong saw a lot of progress! I have been exploring some nasty, ugly areas like the Petrified Ducts, and I’ve also explored some more of The Slab, finally fighting against one of my favourite bosses in the game so far, the First Sinner. This was a very fun challenge and it took me a few tries, but I emerged victorious in the end.
Slice & Dice is once again taking over my free time, just a great roguelike, nothing needs to be said.

Exit Stragegy - I finally finished the fourth book of The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells! This was another pretty fun short story that I really enjoyed, but once again like the last couple books, the chapters of these are just way too long for me. I kept avoiding a read because I couldn’t squeeze enough time to get it done, and I always felt weird leaving a chapter midway through. In the end I accepted it, but I still don’t like it. The story was pretty awesome anyway! Lots of cool action moments and Murderbot being Murderbot.

Kingdom - Read up to chapter 849. The next arc has begun, the invasion of the Zhao kingdom begins, so many knots have been tied up nicely, and the way for a new encounter starts now.
Blue Lock - Read up to chapter 329. Seeing how all the match ups begin to form is just so fun! The next match is France vs Japan, and it is going to be pretty crazy!
Chainsaw Man - Read up to chapter 224. Crazy shenanigans going on.

The Amateur - I haven’t finished Mr. Robot and maybe I should check it out again after a while. This was an interesting movie with an interesting premise! But it felt kind of random at times, it didn’t hold my attention very well, but there goes my first movie of the year!
Death Wish - A bit of an action/revenge flick where the guy from Die Hard kills the people who killed his wife and left his daughter in a comma. Very American stuff, a random pick that I don’t enjoy when I think about it but it was very entertaining nonetheless.
Dr. Stone - I started the second part of the latest season of this anime! Science Future has been a wild ride, and at this point I just have fun with the characters and how they get away from wacky situations with the power of science!

A game I am playing: BotW - Oh look, someone is playing a fantastic videogame and sharing some thoughts about it, so I have to share it.
I have had an unproductive and happy holiday - Every once in a while it’s cool to just hang out with people instead of focusing too much on personal projects and the like.
2025 In Video Games - I wasn’t gonna highlight any yearly recap post but Wouter played some games I asked him to play so he gets a pass. Besides, there are cool stats there!
Android Writing - New Tablet, Keyboard and Pen - I’ve been thinking about buying a tablet lately, for some reason, I don’t really need it, but still.
Passing Down Traditions - Traditions change overtime and that comes with some ups and downs, just a stream of thought I enjoyed reading.

I made auto-aim for mini golf - Stuff Made Here is an all-time favorite channel of mine, the kinda stuff that keeps my engineering mind going. This was a fantastic project and I want to see it evolve even more!
Made my girlfriend play Super Metroid - This was such a funny video, and I am yet to play Super Metroid myself… ~~I want a girlfriend to play videogames with smh.~~
The Best Game You’ll Never Play - Steel Battalion - I had no idea a game like this even existed, it looks kind of incredible. I will never play it, to be honest, but it’s a bit of a dream now, maybe once I’m in my 40s or something a game like this will show up again.
Something About Super Metroid ANIMATED SPEEDRUN - I had seen this type of animation videos floating around and this totally killed me, very fun stuff!