August 2025 Summary

Oh yeah here comes another media recap of everything that happened throughout the month of August. This was a very interesting time of the year. Filled with a lot of details you can find on my weeknotes. Here’s an overview of how things went.

Podcasts

This month I listened to 67 hours of podcasts! Pretty alright and normal to be honest.

✨ Wolf 359 - Up to episode 24! Again, huge recommendation for this show. it is what got me into Podcasts in the first place many years ago.
Into The Aether - This includes Any Percent and the new Port Aether Short Leave shoes in the Patreon feed. Awesome stuff!
Revolutions - The French Revolution takes a very long while, I am still at it!
Avatar: Braving the Elements - I’ve returned to this show to listen to Korra’s and Zuko’s VAs just doing their thing, interviews with different people who participated in the show, and retrospectives of every episode!
The Ten Minute Bible Hour - The show finally reached the parables from the gospel of Matthew and it has been incredibly interesting to listen to the different ways to interpret the meaning behind them.
Talk Ville - Clark and Lex talking about the Smallville show! (the actors, I mean), only listened to a couple, but they’re fun.

Movies

Movies were everywhere during August, the highlight is definitely the Alien franchise! I have talked so much about movies on my weeknotes that this time it’ll just be the list and a super short summary. I even did a post specifically about the Alien tetralogy.

Aliens - Alien but more of them, with soldiers and mechas.
Alien 3 - Aliens happy ending gets ruined, in a jail planet filled with prisoner zealots.
Alien Resurrection - Alien but Ripley is cloned and has Alien DNA.
Prometheus - A prequel to everything, it seems. Actually kind of liked it a lot!
Alien Covenant - Alien before the original Alien. Seems to have received mixed reviews, but I still enjoyed it anyway.
Overcomer - Just another meh christian sports film.
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Best Lion and CGI than The Lion King’s remake, epic soundtrack too, pure nostalgia.

Anime & Shows

Alien Earth - I decided to watch this on a whim and it is what triggered to just watch the whole Alien franchise while I was at it. I am really enjoying it, not as something like, fun, but it’s intriguing and very interesting, filled with science fiction concepts everywhere, which I kind of like. I have a feeling that it has lots of mistakes or plotholes but honestly I don’t care because it works for me.

Books

Nemesis Games - Almost done with this book, right now I’m on chapter 42, it has been a really thrilling journey, and everyone is in danger, and everything is in chaos, and I am pretty hyped as to what is going to happen next!s
All Systems Red - This has been a new read I just begun. I bought the Martha Well’s Humble Bundle and the Murderbot series was included, so I decided to give it a go! Only 2 chapters in, but I am enjoying it.

Games

Completed

Hollow Knight - What if this if not the best indie Metroidvania Soulslike ever? or at least, until Silksong comes out? Review coming soon!
Jet Lancer - Super bombastic arcade shooter which I really enjoyed and got hooked by, give it a go! My review is up
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade - Strategy RPG that goes straight to the point, with extremely epic animations I’ll never grew tired of. Review here!

Ongoing

Slice & Dice - Extremely addictive and masterfully designed dice-builder roguelike. Totally loving it.
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy - Progressed through my second run, some very fun moments, even romantic ones too, the fights are the most repetitive part now!
Ridge Racer 2 - Absolutely mesmerizing racing and drifting experience on the go, I finally embraced the first person mode too, you are not the driver, you ARE THE CAR!
Faster Than Light - I tried a few runs literally yesterday, and had a lot of fun doing so. I really gotta get back into it.
Final Fantasy VI - I tried just a couple of fights in the overworld and a mini-boss fight. Cool as ever, gotta play it more.
Advance Wars - Returned to this little game and discovered that I was only playing the tutorial! Will definitely play more of the campaign now.
TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge - Just one evening of pure arcade beat’em up fun with some kiddos.
Mario vs Donkey Kong - Decided to have this for those short moments where I can’t really focus on anything else, fun levels!
Portal 2 - Still only playing co-op mode, aaaaaaah.
Marvel SNAP - Just some matches here and there against online strangers.
Ultimate Chicken Horse - Fun time with friends.

Manga

Ariadne in the Blue Sky - Up to chapter 80. Having a blast with this fantasy adventure, fun, chill and with pretty good fight sequences too. Liking it quite a bit.
My Wife is from a Thousand Years Ago - Up to chapter 261 - Kind of a spoiler but the title already does so, they are officially married! Although there’s no wedding event yet.
Komi Can’t Communicate - Up to chapter 449 - Mostly just short stories with side characters since I went back to this, I hope it gets to the main couple again soon.
Usogui - Up to chapter 63 - Quite a lot of action and fights for a gambling manga, I’ll see what happens next.
Spy x Family - Up to chapter 120 - The story telling of these side character stories has been superb and really emotional, I am up for these kind of moments over Komi’s comic relief as of late.
Sakamoto Days - Up to chapter 223 - It kind of feels like a finale for this Manga is coming soon, but I can’t tell, I just know the action absolutely rips.