Independence Day, War of the Worlds, Final Fantasy - W38

The weather was comfy this week, not a lot of rain, but the chill is starting to be noticeable. I still haven’t worn anything on top of my regular t-shirts though. These weeknotes will cover September 15 to 21, 2026.

Honestly, the stars stars aligned, and I pretty much wrote about every interesting thing happening, or any thoughts that sparked during the week on separate blogposts! Of course, most of the real life events don’t get posts, and those are mentioned here, plus a link here and there.

• 🇲🇽 It was Mexican Independence Day! On Tuesday my church had a fun event where we had food and played lots of games together. I ended up quite tired. My outfit was rather barebones too, just the jersey for the Mexican team, it was fun to see some friends dressed up with more traditional stuff. The food was absolutely delicious as well. Viva Mexico!

• 🎮 Completed the Summer Game Challenge, completing a total of 6 games, and making progress in so many more.

• 📽️ During Wednesday, I got the day off from work, so my family went out shopping and we also went to the movies, we picked a film blindly this time, By Any Means, which was quite something. We also had another coffee… I’ve had a lot of coffee lately. After the movies we went shopping to a supermarket, where I decided to play videogames despite being in public.

• 🌐 Joined The Worst Webring, a webring started by Brent (a.k.a. TK) that should contain members of people from the TWG Community, so that’s fun. This event also inspired a blogpost.

• 🍿 On Saturday my parents went on a date and I stayed with my sibling and we ordered some chicken wings at home and watched a movie and it was pretty cool to just chill, eat wings and have some snaks!

• 🕹️ I was not feeling well on Sunday, so even though my friends stayed to play videogames, I didn’t really felt like playing along. They decided to try Gunstar Heroes, a classic of the Sega Genesis, and went through the whole thing in Easy mode, it looked incredibly fun! I was just watching laying on the sofa.

Watching

• War of the Worlds - Another Steven Spielberg movie! This is a retelling of the classic novel by H.G. Wells. It honestly really, really worked for me. The tripods are terrifying, the situation is catastrophic and humanity is helpless. The horror and tension and inability for us to do anything against the aliens who didn’t even consider us an threat really had me on the edge of my seat.

• By Any Means - This was a crime thriller film based on real life events where a black FBI agent and a mafia hitman are forced to work together to get to the bottom of some civil rights murders. There were plenty of gruesome moments in this where I just closed my eyes tbh, but I enjoyed what I saw of it. The score was jazzy and kinda cool, and even though the movie has a slow pace,it kept me intrigued.

• Mercy - This is one of those “main character stuck in a room reacting to things without doing a lot” movies. Some guy forced to solve a murder case for an AI judge that will kill him because he is actually the prime suspect according to evidence. The plot itself is kinda great, but doing it in this way was boring, and talking about AI and not doing much other than say “AI and humans both make mistakes” is meh.

Reading

• Blame! - Chapters 1-9. This is a new sci-fi manga I had on my “plan to read” for a long time. It follows Kyrii, a human with a very powerful gun that is travelling through a giant seemingly endless megastructure, looking for other humans possessing a special gene. There are many unanswered questions, but the atmospheric storytelling of this manga is through the roof. The architecture and mystery of the whole thing hooked me. Kind of a terrifying concept.

• Centuria - Chapters 67-72. I continue to enjoy the adventure here, the story got rather dark all of a sudden. The mix between kinda slice of life and life-or-death scenarios is kinda crazy on this one.

Gaming

• Final Fantasy IV - Out of nowhere, I decided to return to this gem of a JRPG. Last I played I had unlocked the Lunar Whale and didn’t make much more progress. More than a year passed since then. Now that I returned I decided to follow a bit one of those old plain text guides. I ended up defeating some extra bosses, unlocking summons, and then continuing the story, defeating the Giant’s core (I didn’t remember that was supposed to happen), I also beat some extra dungeons with trials for every character, unlocked the ultimate weapons for most of them, and I’m making my way to the last dungeon of the game! I have found plenty of chests there and right now I’m about to battle one of those difficult bosses: Dark Bahamut.

• Kirby and the Forgotten Land - Barely touched this game during the week, I only tried some of the side levels that let me unlock upgrades for my powerups. I didn’t get to play with a friend during the weekend because I got lazy.

  Around the Web

• 30 Days of Gratitude - A whole list of great wholesome posts you should check out.
• A Relaxing Vacation - Syl went on a short vacation and shared some of her adventures with her family!
• When we didn’t know everyone’s politics - Interesting points brought up by Ruben, definitely worth a read.
• Lofi phone - This looks kinda neat, but it’s also very expensive and I’d rather get a proper phone.

YouTube

For some reason space horror made its way into my YouTube recommended (which I enabled for a day during my break just to see), I have to admit I was entertained! Interesting stuff and books that I kinda wanna read. It’s why I started Blame!

• The Best Depictions of Infinity
• Measuring the BIGGEST thing in Science Fiction
• The Horror Of Dune’s Spaceships

This is day 41 of #100DaysToOffload