Vol 5 - All About Tunes
Hello-yellow! Man, remember when I claimed that I'd try to do these weekly? Everyone knew but me, huh.
Regardless, it's better that I just throw the concept of strict timing aside - that's actually one of the pieces I wrote since the last time! Nice. I'll send one of these out whenever it's ready, and let y'all subscribe to the RSS feed if you want everything as soon as it's up(dated).
On to the stuff!
Interesting Stuff
Breaking the Videogame Loop
A nice little Rock Paper Shotgun piece on loops in games! It's a good breakdown of what makes loops engaging.
Music
Some albums I've been listening to:
Musings
Love is Blind - Different Gendered Perspectives
I wrote about how the straights are not alright. Enjoy.
Hawaii Trip
Brief thoughts on the trip to Japan!
Thoughts On The Steam Deck OLED
Did you want 600~ words about how great the Steam Deck OLED is? I gotchu.
Thoughts on YouTube Music
Chronicling my attempt at trying the replacement for the greatest music service in the world.[1]
My Smart Playlists and Marvis Pro
I wrote about how I use Smart Playlists and the app Marvis Pro to resurface and rediscover my giga bonkers huge music library!
Time Tiering
I once wrote about Time Blocking. I've since adjusted and built a more flexible system that works best for me.
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
A review of my favorite movie of the year!
What I'm Playing
This is going to make me sound like the biggest dweeb, but I'm pretty proud of myself because I've been focusing on finishing one game at a time lately. I cleared out Worldless, which I highly recommend. I devoured WitchSpring R, which ended up being a lot better than I expected. And I just finished Tevi, which was a blast. Click through for brief thoughts on those last two.
Now I'm just working on knocking the backlog out in reverse chronological order as much as possible before January hits and big releases start hitting again. I haven't decided on what yet. It's probably going to be Lunacid assuming I'm not being a huge coward, Coromon, or Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia.
Also my Switch broke[2] - through no fault of my own, mind you! - so I'm considering replacing it with an OLED. If you have one, let me know what you think of it!
Velvet Album
This volume I'd like to recommend the Ace Combat Series (Special Remix) Soundtrack, by Project Aces. It doesn't matter how many renditions of Zero's theme get created - I'll listen to them all.
Status Update
I got a promotion! I'm pretty happy about that, not gonna lie. It's come with some nice perks, like the fact that I can maybe get some braces. I dunno if you knew this, but apparently eyes and teeth aren't important enough in America to be part of a healthcare plan. Which is good, because I definitely don't use either of those.
One thing that also sucks about America is that it's so focused on the family that you might create over the familial bonds that already exist, that I can't put my mom on my health care plan at all. The only way is if we got married, LMFAO. Great country!!!
Anyways yeah I've had some good energy these past few weeks, I hope to keep it up as the winter hours get darker.
Also, since it's December, I'm hitting reflection mode, so get ready to start seeing a lot of that in the next volume - whenever I end up posting it in your digital mailbox.
Signing Off
Hope you've been doing well! Hmu on Cohost if you wanna talk, and I'll see you next time! đđž