July 2, 2025, 9:52 AM
Yo.
Honestly I've been having a lot of thoughts lately so I've decided to make this section of the website so that my brain doesn't explode (or implode!). Everyone needs some sort of outlet (of the non-electrical variety) in their lives, so extrospection was made for that purpose.
So let me talk about some of the manga I've read for the past year or so and my general thoughts on them:
- Sailor Moon
- The first arc was really good! It establishes the characters quite well and the backstory of the lost lunar kingdom was introduced naturally! After the second or third arc or so it kinda fell off for me. Maybe I need to see the anime adaptation of it someday...
- Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
- As SOON as I saw the movie I knew I had to read it. One presidential election later and I got my hands on two beefy books that contained the entire thing. I highly recommend watching the movie before reading because a lot of the worldbuilding from it is changed and greatly expanded on in the manga. A lot of characters are also changed from the movie. Kushana's character is very different from it, for example. She's honestly more on the side of neutral leaning good in my opinion. The art depicting the post-apoc setting is also fantastic, as is expected. There's one spread in the second book I have of Nausicaa gliding over the herd of Ohmu that's one of my favorite-looking parts of the book. All in all, you should get it.
- No. 5
- This is a very interesting series of four books which I have. I'm honestly not sure what to make of it and it was kinda hard to follow at times but I dig the artstyle. In the second half of the series, I think the main character, the titular No. 5, takes a back seat to No. 1 which I found mildly dissapointing, but the ending of the manga feels like the ending of the game OFF in a way, though I feel that the world of No. 5 is in a much more optimistic trajectory than OFF's for obvious reasons.
I'm gonna have to make a separate entry for the entirety of Junji Ito's work because holy hell I read a lot of this man's work...
I suppose that's all for now... see you next time.
One more thing. I am EXTREMELY dissapointed that I used frickin markdown when coding this entry lmao...
July 3, 2025, 6:32 PM
Yo.
Have you ever had a moment where you're so focused on gaming that you forget about literally everything around you?
That happened when I played modded Terraria today. Made my way all the way up to the Devourer of Gods (who took the most attempts out of any boss to beat, though the pack I'm playing with is pretty easy given I'm doing expert revengeance). Anyways HOLY SHIT Wrath of the Gods has content! Solyn is a very neat character and I am very scared of the dimensional rift that is now blocking the sun and causing an ice age...
Also Fargo's souls is neat... maybe I'll use it with an Infernum playthrough next world... tho I am def removing Community Remix and the piss mod from the pack because they exist solely to be a menace.
I'm gonna get back to dtawing now.
July 4, 2025, 9:08 PM
Yo.
Ended up playing more modded Terraria today. Wrath of the Gods is a good mod, though I encountered a few game-breaking bugs... well technically one that bugs out the overlay. Shame! I guess I'll have to leave that world in purgatory whilst I wait for those to get patched... or perhaps it might be with one of the mods fuckin around with it, who knows.
Speaking of games, I finally got my grubby little hands on FRACTAL BLOCK WORLD!!!!
While the dungeons I find kinda tedious it is more than made up for in the exploration factor alone, along with the size-changing mechanic. You shrink/grow pretty rapidly via usage of green/red rings (specifically, each changes your size by a factor of 16 (or 1/16 if you're shrinking)). This is honestly what puts the Fractal in Fractal Block World; if you use the green ring 6 times, a block that said green ring was next to would be the size of the entire earth... assuming that that block is a cubic meter.
Talk about depth!
I also got Caves of Qud today... I'll try it out tomorrow.
July 5, 2025, 7:36 PM
Yo.
Ended up playing a lot of Fractal Block World today. I really enjoy it, and I especially like how the cannon's secondary (right-click) mode allows you to watch as your enemies are obliterated one by one by a homing projectile that bounces through enemies... Shame I couldn't get through the third level of the stoney caves... there are FAR too many menaces in there for me to just go in right now.
Fractal Block World, inside the yellow cube
Just look at that above image! There is so much to explore and I know I haven't even scraped the surface of the metaphorical iceberg...
Also tried out Qud today. I got stoned to death by baboons at Red Rock. The game's atmosphere is really great and I love the sound design especially. I'll have to play it more.
Another Saturday comes and goes...
July 5, 2025, 8:28 PM
Yo.
Honestly I just wanna say one more thing. Or rather, talk about one more thing.
Moriwo recently did an update on Yume 2kki and I saw people absolutely bitch and moan about it. Foliage Estate got revamped and people hated it. So I went there recently to check out what all the hubbub was about.
Verdict: it isn't that bad of a map.
Even if the music is still the same as last time, the whole map gives me a 90s PSX type of vibe which can be best demonstrated by showcasing its visuals:
For comparison, here is an image of Foliage Estate pre-overhaul:
While I do like both versions of the map, I kinda feel like people's outrage over it is a sign of how cynical the part of the community I'm in is currently. Maybe I'm overreacting a bit: people don't really like changes to things they already like, after all.
However, I am still kinda disappointed with the moriwo update. Why? Because they didn't add any new worlds. Yep. They just overhauled Foliage Estate and that was it. I was looking forward to some new worlds from them, but nothing on that front dropped. It's unfortunate, but I have to bide my time...
Now, back to drawing...
July 8, 2025, 7:41 PM
Yo.
Ended up playing a LOT of Cornerpond today. Dunno why but I am afraid to touch Caves of Qud again because I might fuck up... but fucking up is obviously a part of the gameplay. Literally there's an achievement for dying the first time in any playthrough. I will build up my courage and dive into it tomorrow.
Also played some Fractal Block World. The scale of the game is honestly something I can't get over. You should play it. Speaking of which, you can add music to the game. There's a section of the dev's website that has a template you can download which has folders corresponding to all the sections of the world which you can put mp3 or ogg files in. You can find it here. I added some Super Mario 64 music along with songs from Yugioh Forbidden Memories and the PC-98 version of EVO Search for Eden among other things. Also have some images of the environments of the game:
I should also say that the Internet Archive has a lot of gems when it comes to videogame OSTs...
July 10, 2025, 9:41 PM
Yo.
Remember that post about me being disappointed in moriwo? Well that disappointment has...
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July 20, 2025, 2:56 PM
Yo.
It's been a while, but I would like to not discard this section forever maybe perhaps!
Anyways, did you ever get the urge to do something spontaneously in a fit of ... I dunno how to describe it... but uh, yeah, that kinda happened today when I spat out an entire story today (you may find it in the short story corner.). Dunno what came over me but I had to write something.
Dunno what to call it but the closest analog is the fey moods from Dwarf Fortress. You ever have something similar?