This week went by quick again, I even forgot some things mentioned until the last second right when I was about to hit publish.
In any case. I hope you enjoy! Quite a lot of links scattered around this time, and lots of new media making an appearance!
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✍️ Have you ever read Good Internet Magazine?, it’s a wonderful project that aims to show articles about the small web, blogging, accesibility and internet stuff. And guess what? I somehow managed to make it into the Fall/Winter 2025 issue! You can read my article online, which talks about Markdown. Thanks Amin for reminding me I did this in the first place… I literally forgot after submitting my post.
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🎵 There was a Bandcamp Friday this week! and I made full use of it to acquire a couple of great soundtracks for Gris and Plants vs Zombies! I actually thought I’d listen to Gris a lot, but the nostalgia of Laura Shigihara’s work completely won me over.
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🏋🏻I only went to the gym once this week, I feel bad about that but I’m not gonna punish myself much about it, I basically fell asleep on the bus on the way and ended up back home by the time I realized, whoops.
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📱 After finding a really good deal on Costco, both of my parents have upgraded their phone devices to the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE, I paid one of them—won’t tell which! I often enjoy setting up new devices, but I had a hard time enjoying this one, there were so many checkboxes that I had to uncheck. I finished setting up my mother’s device but I’ll work on my father’s this week, thankfully he is patient.
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📕 I keep on learning about being a Game Master for Land of Eem, and Dave has recommended me a different book which I got titled The No-Prep GameMaster, which looks rather interesting. I rarely read non-fiction but, it looks like this contains some good advice!
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⚽ Went out with some friends who are from different cities during Saturday and we had a blast. Played some games outside, like Soccer and Volleybal, had some good snacks, had some good food, and catched up with each other, it was a wonderful time!
Reading
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Overscan - As I mentioned on my reading recap, I really want to write a review for this anthology that I completed last year, so I just reread it, and it was even better than my first read. I flew through the pages after I bought the digital edition. Writing a review this week, but rest assured, you should give it a go.
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Persepolis Rising - Read quite a bit more of this, but I am still very slow, I can’t believe I’m the one keeping my book club behind! I never thought this would happen. I need to lock-in and rush through this book now!
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✨ Planetes - Okay, this was a surprise. This Manga is INCREDIBLE, I started it on a whim and after just two chapters I was hooked. It’s basically a sort of slice of life science fiction series with some astronauts cleaning up the skies from the debris of old satellites and space trash. Some great commentary and moments have been had, looking forward for more.
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DanDaDan - I finally caught up to this one! And the new arc has been rather interesting! We returned to a villain that has been teased for a while, and I’m interested to know how it develops.
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Blue Lock - I caught up again on the match between France and Japan, and it is a real challenge, Blue Lock can barely react now and all of their plans circling around Isagi have been stopped, a new evolution is required for victory to come.
Gaming
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Final Fantasy VI - I’ve been making quite a bit of progress on this at last, recovering Edgar and the Figaro Castle, and making my way towards Setzer’s quest to recover his wings! This should be very, very fun, as the world begins to open up for me once again.
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✨ Ninja Five-O - This is a very interesting and fun game! I basically finished it on Easy Mode today, but I want to try Normal Mode too, which should include extra levels as well, that make matters quite interesting. At first it seemed like a rather average GBA title, but the simplicity shouldn’t fool you, this game does have some really interesting mechanics, like a hook that lets you swing around, some stealth and kinda neat bosses.
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✨ Resident Evil 2 - This is the Low Key Gaming Club title for this month, and I decided to join in once again. I played a bit of it on my Anbernic handheld and it has been quite good! I need to keep playing some more though. I started with Leon’s route, and I’m currently inside the police station.
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✨ Land of Eem - I was told I should put this on the gaming section so here it will be now! This weekend we didn’t actually play though, we spent a long while creating characters together and coming up with backstories and relationships! It was very interesting to actually learn how the system works better by doing everything ourselves.
Around the web
Blogposts
- Introducing My Recommendations Page - Stephanie’s site has been a new discovery of mine, and her recommendations page is absolutely amazing, she inspired me to update my bookshelf section usin
<details>to add summaries to each entry. - Scrolls #28 - It’s been a while but Scrolls is back! A wonderful compilation of links and cool people to check out, I highly recommend following it!
- Some Changes and Blogging Thoughts - Syl has added a guestbook to her site and continues to complete and work on some great personal projects.
- Addictive gameplay - Robert shared some great thoughts on addictive gameplay and the conflict and similarities it has with more negative, harmful things like gambling.
Videos
- Check out my “Five Game Handheld” - This is the video that got me to order the Miyoo Mini Flip, and an interesting system that I kinda already use…
- Kaguya Sama Love is War reaction - This YouTube channel does the best anime reaction videos in my opinion, the guy has a way with words and providing actual commentary of the themes dealt by each episode, and Kaguya-sama Love is War is top tier either way.
This is day 14 of #100DaysToOffload
