A week that felt rather short. Like, I don’t even know what to write as an introduction for this one. Oh! The weather! Things are starting to warm up again at last, all I need to wear in the mornings is a hoodie, no extra sweatshirt or jacket anymore.
Other than that, I’ll just leave you with the notes, I guess.
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🌃 Because of the situation happening in my country, I really didn’t want to be outside once night time happened. I went straight from work to my house everyday, so no gymgoing or anything for the whole week. Just the gym, to be honest. I admit I didn’t do any excercise at home either.
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💾 For a few hours, I was panicking because I could not find my set of game card cases with dozens of Switch games in them. I searched far and wide without success, until they showed up on my laundry basket for some reason… that really got me pretty worried!
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📖 I am happy to announce that my reading slump is finally over! I don’t know what got to me these past couple months, but it seems to be mostly gone now, and I couldn’t be happier. I read so much more this time around, will mention it later on the proper section.
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🍔 I went out with my parents for lunch, and had some chicken burguers from KFC! I enjoyed the change of scenery very much, and the food too. We also got some apple pies which I ate later for dinner once I had a cup of coffee. It was a quick run to the mall and back this time around, so we didn’t do much shopping, although I’ve been looking for a sling bag. Feel free to share any recommendations EDC people!
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📦 Another happy development, my Land of Eem Deluxe Box Set finally shipped. It was stuck for quite a while due to some problems on the warehouse related to weather conditions and suff. I got a support ticket and they quickly got to me right on time! I am now just waiting for it to show up to my house.
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🌐 My blogpost about setting up phones being a nightmare made it to the front page of HackerNews. It got a lot of very funny replies, so much so I kind of want to do a continuation. But honestly it’s pretty simple, so many people saying things without reading in full, without any sort of respect and acting like know-it-alls. Don’t worry, I laughed so hard at all of them and don’t really feel letdown at all. It’s just so funny to me.
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💻 My coworker asked for a very long vacation period, like, three weeks in a row. This has put me in a bit of an interesting position, but I should be more than capable to deal with any scenarios that may happen. Sometimes I feel like I don’t do enough, or that others may think that, but this is a chance for me to prove myself.
Reading
Reading is back on the menu, and I am super happy about that fact.
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Persepolis Rising - Up to chapter 40. I flew through 30 chapters in a week. At this pace I’ll be able to finish this by next week, which is really awesome. This book started a little slow, but the pace has been going up, as well as my willingness to actually read for once, and I’m happy to be in a better headspace to enjoy it. The crew has been having a very rough time, but the tables are finally starting to turn a bit…
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Planetes - Up to chapter 16. Some of what I’ve read of this has almost made me cry. The stories and the way the plot has moved forward have been really thought-provoking, and this is really going up among my favorites, it’s really, really good.
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Spy x Family - We are getting some fun action thriller stuff with Yor and Loid this time around, it’s fun stuff so far and an enjoyable read. It’s nice to go back to the adults and their shenanigans for once.
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Blue Lock - Up to chapter 337. Okay so the Japanese team is actually struggling this time, and France is not backing down. The mental conflict here has been very, very intense, as the values of Isagi and his team are being challenged like never before. I am loving this one so far.
Gaming
I didn’t touch Grapple Dog this week, and since I finished Resident Evil 2, I guess I just needed to laze around on the gaming side of things.
- 🏔️ Peak - A new game that I bought on a whim—to play with friends more than for the game itself—and so far it has been an incredibly fun experience. I played it a couple of times with Jeremy as well as with members of the TWG Discord and my time has been simply phenomenal. So much fun, so much chaos! Playing with my friends and trying to make it to the top. We even tried a mod to play as more than 4 people, and it went very well until the very last area where things only loaded up for 4 of us, and I was left behind. Still continued as one of us made it to the peak! Will keep playing it, it’s just a nice way to chat and chill.
- 🥐 CrossCode - After Amin told me that he would finally play Chrono Trigger once I beat this game, I had to gear up and dust off my Nintendo Switch—I barely touched it at all this month. I only played around an hour because I was busy reading, but I had fun and really look forward to continue more of this adventure by next week. Apparently the plot will thicken quite a lot so, we’ll see.
- 🏰 Lost Castle - I let myself be fooled into buying this roguelike 4-player game, but honestly, it wasn’t that much fun, the variety was there for the enemies and weapons but it still felt samey to play, just dungeon crawling rooms and defeating goblins and all. This ended up being a bit of a meh impulse purchase that I may never touch again.
- 🧛 Vampire Survivors - Instead of that, my friends and I returned to this gem for a bit! We started the Ode to Castlevania stage and had an amazing time unlocking portals and a new character and similar things. We played rather well and almost made it to 30 minutes. However, we were rushing through enemies and got careless trying to unlock one more thing. Ended up dying with 30 seconds left for victory… Still had fun!
Around the Web
Nothing like introducing a section to my weeknotes only for me to completely ignore it the next week. Yay!
Here’s the usual stuff for you!
Blogposts
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the exquisite pleasure of being back home - tiramisu was in México and I completely missed out on it, but there’s a few posts before this one talking about his visit! I feel bad about some things he said (like how he got tired of the food) so I may write about that!
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What I pay for this website - Elena decided to the cost of keeping her blog running! I found it interesting and made me want to do the same thing for my own page.
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revive me - A blogpost from Elle catching up on a lot of things, being disillusioned by the current web, yet inspired to keep working on her site, trying FreshRSS and other neat things.
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Have We Forgotten How to Design? - An amazing rant about services, technology and start-ups not designing something well from the start and patching things up in absurd ways. Lovely.
YouTube
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Custom firmware saved the Anvernic RG DS - Apparently there’s some new firmware for this handheld that makes it actually usable for DS emulation, and I’m a bit interested on it. But not for now, don’t worry. Plenty of games to complete first.
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Resident Evil 1–4: Should you play the Remakes or Originals? - The title explains it all! I found this comparison to be quite nice. I think I’ll personally play all of the originals first before even trying the remakes, my laptop can’t run them anyway so.
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These 3 Next Fest Games are GOTY Contenders - Brendon, from Into The Aether shares some incredible games with demos available right now, these look incredible and you may want to check them out as well!
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Resident Evil 2 — How failing school ruined a Survival Horror classic - This is just a very nice life story that wasn’t very relatable to me, but I enjoyed it, especially since it mentioned the game I just played. I was ready to hate on it but nah, we good.
