Grats on the clear!

Candi Carpenter - Inside The Simulation (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Candi Carpenter

Current earworm: Candi Carpenter - "Inside The Simulation"

My brain really feels happy with this one. Lots of stuff in the lyrics to unpack and be self-reflective upon.

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what if i tried to play Balatro real fast?
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This last point might be a bug, because it's shown up a bunch with other updates. But the drop table feels weird. I'm used to running an hour or two and getting a few blueprints from the table to offset the cost of buying things from update vendors. But so far I've only gotten a single bp.

Which is a shame because I can see the effort that went into it. Aesthetics are top notch. Soundscape is great, and the level looks pretty before the mayhem starts..

But once things start rolling it's not super fun to navigate. The limitation on movement feel bad in the small space they provide.

The new Warframe game mode feels... eh? I can handle it enough to get the new frame and such, but it doesn't feel super fun and I'll probably not run it enough to get the cosmetic mods. Not until they update it at least. I get what they're going for but visually it feels more confusing than horror.

Long emotional night. Best end cap it with an album that gives my brain lots of buzzies. Revisiting Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses.

Mmm, existential crisis robot beings. I can't imagine why I identified with this so much...

Why is it words for fiction come to me now just as I'm crawlng in bed? Is the part of me intimidated by writing already asleep and the word gremlin can sneak out to throw a paragraph at the back of my head?

Not actively working on the albums a week thing this year, but still working in differing my music more. New this week was getting introduce to Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter, and haven't listened to in a few years, The Offspring - Ixnay On The Hombre.
Those are some quite some differing energies.

Sitting here contemplating starting a feed for my XIV blorbo, and then looking at my main feed and realizing just how much I'm just a fly by night shadow. Maybe, I dunno, interact a little more instead on the full feed first before taking on a side project?

As they once said, if you see me online this late and I said I was going to bed, it's not that I lied. It's that I failed.

Sharing half a pint of ice cream while rewatching Abstract (season 1) again. It doesn't erase the woes of the world but it's a nice hour escape.

A pixel art image of a lalafel from FFXIV. It's poorly made, but is animated. The character is wearing a yellowish green armor, and has a floating card before them. The card bobs up and down and the character blinks as part of the animation.

I dunno, I haven't messed with Aesprite in like, five years. But I wanted to make something. Have a poorly made version of my older sibling's lalafell. He's got an AST's card. I don't know which one!

Finally got a new phone. I guess having a 9 year old device with the power button literately falling out is a sign that things should be updated.

Meanwhile I'm sitting over here with a mountain of achievment tokens, eager to spend them on something. I wish they'd put older cash items into the achievement store to act as a reward for folks who spend alot of time in game. I understand it not being the latest stuff from the last 5 years or so.

Biggest thing I wish we had the money for (besides properly working smoke detectors) is to have them reinstalled at an accessible level. Too disabled to climb a ladder, and the detectors are installed as high as possible.

Second night of smoke detector chirping and going off randomly. Already had someone over to change the batteries. Checked appliances and outlets in the problem room. Nothing. Just random alarms. Someone who can do maintenance cant be here I till late Monday. Woo.

The bike! Truly the most efficient contraption in TotK. There's a lot more fun things to do with building in game, but gosh that thing is so useful.

Shadowrun and Cyberpunk were always political and anti capitalist.

Legacy of Kain. Any of them. Although I don't know how one would manage with the loss of some of those amazing voices. It would be neat, but certainly a different beast.

What an amazing creation. Beautiful defiance.

Cleaning my office space tonight since the brain worms are being mean. A little tidying the space to help the mind find a place to be chill. Audio is WUSF news.

Randomly loaded up Megaman for the first time in forever. Used rewind a bit but felt nice to get back into a game I haven't played in probably twenty years. Managed to remember the order, mostly.

A screenshot of Kiki from Animal Crossing: New Horizons. She is a black cat with large yellow iris eyes and pointy ears. She's wearing an argyle sweater and is smiling. The room she's in has several wooden pieces of furniture adorned with a radio, a tea kettle, and paint supplies. The wall paper is a 70's retro yellow-green wallpaper, and there's a window behind Kiki.

Kiki. She's the one villager I remember from the original Animal Crossing way back, and I just about cried when I saw she was the first new villager to want to move into my island after the initial set.

A friend made some neat tunes, free to a good aural processing center!

All I need to do is recall the Primordia theme and I'm crying and throwing my arm up in the air. Legendary game.

i’ve been saying this a lot lately so i’ll put it here:

if you’re struggling with despair (for entirely understandable reasons!) i cannot stress enough how important it is to do whatever you can to feel like you’re being productive towards a goal.

it’s cliche but the only way out is through… (1/?)

That said, this thing is fixed: bsky.app/profile/null...

Took two weeks but I finally slammed my brain against it enough. Hiddengrid.com is back online, but the old theme is dead. Which means a lot of the old posts need work to properly play audio again. A project for the new year. *grumbles*

I swear, the more I interact with Wordpress, the more it feels like it's designed to annoy the low-skilled user. Every time I come back to it, feels like something got changed that I was using that just makes the experience so frustrating.

Going to use this project to get back on with doing things that fulfill my creative needs, while not holding too tight to things that blunder my sense of worth.