Nintendo 3DS, to the movies, and a bad roll - W26

I usually take pictures to remember what happens during the week. This was not the case for this one, so the notes themselves may not be as long as some of you may expect! Still, a lot of things happened.

This second paragraph is being written right after I was done with everything here, turned out to be just as long as usual so, I don’t want any complaints!

• 🕹️ I am now the proud owner of a red New Nintendo 3DS XL—Why did Nintendo thought adding “New” to the name was helpful?—and I love it! Some of my oldest readers may remember the time when I beat Metroid Samus Returns on one of these—though I never reviewed it properly, I think. Now I have the chance to play some other titles in the system. Right now: Fire Emblem Awakening.

• 🏴‍☠️ The device already came with some magic installed on it, so I’ve been able to acquire quite a few games and homebrew on it. Including a cool Chrono Trigger inspired theme. I may try and get it back to stuck, just to learn how to unlock it myself, but I may just keep using it as it, honestly.

• 📦 That wasn’t the only Nintendo system I ordered though. There’s also a 2DS XL—the last of the the 3DS family—that took longer to arrive. After using the N3DSXL, I don’t think I’ll keep it, though I really like its design, maybe I’ll give it to my sister who wanted one too, who knows. I’ll go pick it up today as of the writing of these notes

• 🍿 So I invited a friend to watch a movie with me and family—if you know you know—and it went well! She really enjoyed the film and we all chatted a bit about it and life and other things after we were done with it. We’ll watch another movie next Friday, actually, probably Supergirl.

• 🎮 I updated my Anbernic RG35XX SP to the latest version of MuOS, codenamed Funky Jacaranda. I am very happy to finally have a built-in Activity Tracker, even if it is a little barebones, I really appreciate its functionality. Speaking of, I didn’t know my 3DS had one too, it is so good!

• 🚲 This weekend’s bicyle trip was all about looking for a bike shop to find the fenders and bike I want to get installed. Unfortunately, everything is closed in the morning. I had a fun time commuting around downtown though, I went up some hills which required some effort, it felt good to overcome that. I actually wanted to try and pickup the 2DS XL, but same issue.

• 🛍️ It was Father’s Days a few days ago, but I didn’t get any gifts for him at the time—other than the event at church and a mug but still—so we went out shopping for some things and we also had a coffee together. We do have coffee together at home often, but its rare to go outside for one so, it was a good time.

• 🎲 We wanted to return to Land of Eem after a very big hiatus, but in the end, we couldn’t make it happen. Our first playthrough was great but there were a couple of players who haven’t been able to return or stay for a full session… We need to set a proper time for one. We did play Survidice again tho.

Gaming

Ongoing

• Transistor - Close to the end now, the game has turned into a sort of psychodelic journey and there was this weird flip in my progress that I didn’t quite expect. The voice work, the soundtrack, everything has remained amazing, and the battles have only gotten more complex, I love the sort of real-time turn-based mix it has going and it has proven to be a true challenge as I approach the grand finale!

• Terranigma - When dusting off my Anbernic handheld, I returned to this for about twenty minutes. I have advanced to chapter 2 of the story, turning the whole plot inside out once again. I am doing the first dungeon inside of a poisonous tree! It feels very Ocarina of Time, I must say. Though this game came out first!

• Slice & Dice - Had some fun here. I am doing a pretty slow Blursed run (the same run during the last couple weeknotes), and yesterday I beat the twentieth battle at last! I used to reach 50 in a day before but, life goes on.

Started

• Fire Emblem: Awakening - I tried this game on a borrowed 3DS from a friend, but now that I returned to it, after beating The Blazing Blade, I can’t help but truly love it even more! I played like seven hours of this already, and even decided to let someone die in battle for once. I’ll keep going, adding this to my Summer Game Challenge list—which seems to be changing every week.

Reading

• Leviathan Falls - Up to chapter 9 - The grand finale continues, and it has NOT gone where I have expected it to so far, I am a little worried they are opening up new plotlines and won’t be able to be tied up by the end. Then again, they always manage to make everything converge so, I’ll just let myself be taken along for the ride.

• Shikimori’s Not Just Cute - Up to chapter 160. It’s funny how I didn’t really care about returning to this series a couple weeks ago, and now that there’s only twenty chapters left I’m a bit sad that this will be over soon. We are on our last school festival event, after an awesome volleyball mini-arc.

• Blue Lock - Up to chapter 351 - The new arc will be interesting, with one of the main players of the U-20 team out of the match, Yoichi will have to figure out a way to rethink his ego and skill as the number one striker of the team.

Watching

• Toy Story 5 - I actually really enjoyed this movie, it’s the perfect blend of nostalgia with modernity in my opinion, as it deals with the clash between technology and toys in an very nuanced way. I loved it to bits. I am glad to have Jessie as a protagonist this time, she was absolutely awesome. Everything was great in my opinion.

• Avatar The Last Airbender S2 (Live Action) - I love Toph, the actress nailed her performance. The show is entertaining, but I am not a fan of a lot of the changes they did. Things keep going a bit fast yet slow somehow. We will see how things go. I will watch it because of my sister though. She keeps shutting my mouth every time I raise a plothole lol.

Around the Web

Blog posts

There are been a lot of great posts on my rss aggregator lately, I actually read all these when they were published, instead of my usual approach, consisting of reading bunch of posts on a day to add them here.

• stop asking writers about “AI” - Just yesterday Amin shared this to me and well, it’s a must-read. If you use AI, whatever, just don’t ask me to validate you.

• Back, I Think - Syl is back! Her gaming blogposts (and other blogposts) have been a favorite of mine for almost a year now (remember Blaugust 2025?), she only really left like half a month, but I still missed her on my feed.

• Lighten up, Eeyore - isa did some personality quizzes, reflected on her posts and their themes, not liking change but having to do so, and trying to write more about stuff she likes!

• Internet works best in small dosages - This post was apparently inspired by me. Michal has done a lot to distance himself from the internet, from getting rid of most social media, to switching to an ink-screen phone. Great write-up and ramble!

• Since You Asked - Some light-hearted life advice from Musings from a Tangled Mind, one of those blogs you just have to keep on your feed, always full of fun stuff like this. Get some snacks!

• Everything Is a Computer. Nothing Is a Computer. - Jeremy decided to actually write for once, and he shared a fun life story plus reflections on technology today. Awesome to see.

• What could you accomplish in sixty hours? - A last minute addition that didn’t go where I expected. Very much worth reading.

YouTube

• Practicing intentional gaming during a heatwave (a vlog) - Laura’s channel has been one of my favorites when it comes to just chill gaming and life thoughts. This video doesn’t really have much going on, but isn’t that how life really is during those quiet times?

• Should You Really Buy a 3DS in 2026? - I watched way too many 3DS videos, and many of them were excellent, but not many recognized the alternatives like this one does. There’s plenty of devices out there that are cheaper, have bigger libraries and are more capable than Nintendo’s dual screen device.

• Why everyone’s Modding their Switch Again - The Nintendo Switch modding scene never really left, but with the Switch 2 becoming the focus, it continues to thrive! I am thinking about getting a chipmod for my own model one of these days.

• the Spider-Man CGI Tier List - A fun rundown of every Spider-Man swing in film so far! I actually really liked the final list, and saw a few I didn’t know existed at all, cool.

This is day 87 of #100DaysToOffload