This week was a rather cold one, it rained on the weekend and the days have been much chiller since then. It’s winter so it’s to be expected, but the region where I live isn’t often this cold!
In any case not a lot of things happened this time around, but I do feel like writing just a bit more, so there you go!
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💪 I didn’t go to the gym this week, but that’s perfectly okay. My parents went on a trip the whole week and I prefer to enjoy my time home alone!
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🍿 Instead of playing a lot of videogames, I decided to do something a little bit more passive and just watch movies! Like my previous runs with Tron or Alien, I decided this time to just watch films from the 80s, and also Megamind, but whatever, more about this in the section below! Maybe I should keep watching the Terminator films though…
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🕹️ This weekend was one of the few where my friends didn’t show up to do some multiplayer gaming, it was a pretty chill time, to be honest. As great as it is to play together, I am an introvert at heart, and I appreciate being by myself with no outside pressure to do anything else! I played a bunch of Silksong.
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😴 I continue to procrastinate on writing blogposts… I have this one post about block-pushing puzzles on videogames that is pretty much done and I am yet to publish for no real reason, it’s actually rather long, and the reason is I feel I should take screenshot but I am too lazy to do it.
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🖥️ Work continues to be pretty chill, no real complaints, but I’ve noticed an increase in the amount of time I spent sitting on my desk instead of standing up. I can adjust the height, I just started to get lazy…
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🧥 Maybe it’s because of the season, but I’ve started to feel very good about my body lately, like, I have even worn buttoned shirts and left them tucked in because I like how I look. I somehow lost weight during Christmas time, so maybe that’s helping too. Point is, I will keep going to the gym and I will try to stay healthy, but, I am quite content with myself.
Gaming
I’m rather surprised at how much gaming happened this time around, I’m glad I got a nice balance going.
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🪡 Hollow Knight: Silksong - I returned to this beauty and since I want to do 100% of what this game has to offer, I have faced against some new bosses in some hidden areas. I am also making my way through Bilewater, the worse area in the game, and got to one of the most hideous boss fights against a gauntlet of enemies followed by a rather tedious boss. I managed to defeat it in the end though, achieveing ultimate glory!
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🏫 The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - I ended up returning to this game for quite a bit! I completed a boss fight and progressed through the alternative route I’ve been playing for a while. It continues to be extremely interesting and engaging!
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🚀 Outer Wilds - I didn’t get to play as much this time around, but I explored a bit and found some more clues about what is going on in this world, progressing through the game, gathering knowledge and stuff. Amazing game in every sense!
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⚔️ Slice & Dice - I had an extremely good run of Blursed Mode where I managed to win 140 times before I messed up badly, such is life someitmes.
Watching
Lots of movies were watched this week! Actually kind of sick, all of these absolute masterpieces.
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The Terminator - I had never watched this movie from start to finish, maybe the finale a few times, I was familiar with the story, but the film itself was a bit of a blur. Honestly this was surprising. I always heard Terminator 2 was the better action flick, but the thriller and the chases and the violence of this one had me on the edge of my seat. I didn’t expect to see much of the future at all, but showing the despair and the dire situation in those flashbacks—more like flashforwards?—was very, very interesting. The set pieces, the visual effects, everything here was amazing to watch.
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Back to the Future - This movie is my childhood, showing up on Canal 5—a public mexican TV channel—quite often. Watching it myself without many distractions or advertising was pretty fun! Can’t belive I took so long for that. This movie holds up super well and it’s a masterpiece of its time. These characters and moments are simply iconic, I got the Casio calculator because of this.
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Megamind - Its been years since the last time I rewatched this, and it still holds up amazingly well. Definitely one of the best animated movies, with great writing and fun, but a genuinely good message and lesson as well. Quite a bit of nuance and thought provoking moments that are rare to see mixed in with the comedy and action this has.
Reading
I keep on without reading as much as I could, ugh I gotta step up in February…
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Persepolis Rising - Finished chapter… 1. Yeah I’ve been slacking on this one, my bad! But at least I’m seeing a couple of returning characters at last, which has been fun.
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Blue Lock - Until chapter 332. Just following the weekly release at this point! It’s fun!
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DanDaDan - Until chapter 202. Finally decided to catch up a bit on DanDaDan which I kinda stopped reading for a few months, still fun!
Around the Web
Not videos this time around! Just some neat blogs I thought I’d share.
- It’s not procrastination. It’s a side quest - Dave is doing Dave things and trying to justify himself about not doing things he should do.
- What is the oldest thing you own? - This genuinely seems like a very fun theme, I should try and write about it, but I haven’t even finished my yearly recaps.
- Talent can be quiet, if you want it to be - It’s nice to just enjoy hobbies without monetizing everything, but we live in a society…
- New format for digest posts - Sam decided to change the style of his weeknotes and now it’s truly a log of posts and things that happened in real time! Interesting.
- Being positive about tech right now - Things seem to go bad all the time, but it’s good to stay hopeful, I truly hope things will get better soon.
