Last year someone mentioned making a /now page on mastodon. Basically a page I can update every so often to let folks know what I'm up to.
Ehhh.. idk but I'm easily frustrated these days. Like if a lose a game too badly I take it pretty hard and I'm not sure why. Gonna maybe play less games where I can lose and do more sim games
School is going well. Making pretty good grades so far. The Doctoral class is taking up way more of my time than I'd like, but I'm handling it ok i suppose. I have to do a prospectus for a dissertation I'll never actually do.
Last Month was combotober. Me and some other folks from FGCN have been posting clips all month. I have an idea for a complilation I think will be funny.
Something else I like about combotober is that it reminded me of all the great games I wanna give some more time to. Hoping to make those changes sooner rather than later.
Sicne the last time I updated this, I've finished both Code Reactors and Sorry, We're Closed. I keep saying I'll do another run of SWC, but it hasn't happened yet. Right now I have maybe three or four-ish main games I'm playing right now...
Oh my old now text reminded me I was playing River City Girls II and I should return to that eventually. I also wanna play more typing games to improve those skills.
Stopped watching Hajime no Ippo for some reason, not fully sure why.
This past weekend i was pretty depressed so I spent most of it binging "The Fable", about a talented hitman from Tokyo who has to lay low in Osaka for a while. Overall a good show, but it puts alot of dmasels in the distress of sexual violence and that's a little off-putting. It's not done all the time, but it's something to look out for if you don't like that kind of stuff.
LHHATL ended a while ago, so I guess I'm waiting for a new season of that or Miami. Also Sumo still hasn't happened in a while and this feels like the longest gap between sumo tournaments. And this next one is the last one of the year. Looking forward to the finale in Fukuoka.
I started reading some of my manga from Kinokuniya. I read the first volume of Yotsuba to and that Kirby gag manga. I didn't understand everything there, but they were both funny in the parts I could understand. The last panel or so of Yostuba made me cry. Now I'm sorta slow-walking through Doraemon Vol. 1. This one feels tougher, but maybe that's cuz it's technically a much older book.
One part of japanese grammar that trips me up is the -n da ending. I know academically it's an explanatory tone, but I still can't fully parse it in action when I see or read it. I should re-read Kirby cuz that manga uses it alot.
While looking for a TV for Library locals I found a copy of Candice Owen's "Blackout" a 2020 book about leaving the Democrat plantation. I look forward to reading this book, but I'm gonna sve it until after I finish the AI book a coworker got from a work Assembly.
Speaking of, my coworker got a book about Generation Alpha & AI from the keynote speaker for our yearly staff day. I've only read the preface + some of chapter 1 but it's pretty bad. The guy is clearly a clueless white guy but also doesn't really use graphics in his book very well, and isn't the best saleman for AI. I think that's why the county could afford him as a speaker.
I have no pressing editing projects except compiling my combotober clips.
I said I would write about potential Lumines meta, and then I didn't. Lumines has a demo until its release on November 11th, so maybe I can do it before then, maybe not. :]
I'm attempting to host an FGC local at my library. This upcoming date will be a test-run, but I have high hopes if people can show up. I want the space to be very beginner and casual friendly.