Which one? I donāt drop spoilers if Iāve read it.
Iāll try some from the Foreigner saga.
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Yeah, the accidental difficulty is what gets me, since Iām not expecting it as a disabled player. Like not auto saving before a boss so I have to fight it while tired or stop and then redo the level next time (and then get too tired for the boss again). Or auto-progressing dialog too quickly for me to read and consider options, in a game I assumed would be slow and deliberate. (Although that one was partially due to frame rate differences in a PS4 game being played on a PS5.)
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Darn. Life has been beating me into a pulp.
So things have not been going great, Iām gonna be honest. I was debating whether or not to make this post, but I might as well find a way to release something. I guess I just wanted a space to talk about it. It has some heavy stuff, but doesnāt get into specifics. If youāre currently struggling with disassociation/bad mental health struggles, it might get triggering idk.
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I really enjoyed the first five episodes of Alien: Earth, minus some minor quibbles, and unfortunately felt the last three episodes sent things downhill really quicklyā¦ Content warning: spoilers for the series, and references to fictional horror. (No gory images, but some of the external video clips linked in the post lead to scenes from the series and the original Alien film).
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I see a lot of familiar things in your post. Anger can be such a big motivator to write and put stuff out there, but the things written in anger feel so different donāt they?
One thing that I find concerning in general is the assumption that we must write and publish from a place of positivity or even neutrality. Self-limiting thoughts about how weāre supposed to engage with the process destroy the creative flow. Why should you silence your own voice if whatever is coming out is authentic and genuine (even if angry)?
I should note here that thereās a big difference between transmuting anger into a piece and directly channeling it into aggressive texts. The latter, I find, can be a detriment both to the self and others. The most authentic expression for me is not a yell but a quip.
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The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include making art by melding ASCII and public domain images, artificial eyes and the intersection of Sailor Moon and haute couture. I talk about my weekend visitor and moving (probably) from Windows to Linux. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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On the last day of the month, I post a short recap of what I added to my website over the previous four weeks, namely: blog posts, personal library additions, and bookmarks. I posted five blog posts in September (one personal reflection on the value of higher education, two indieweb-oriented web building tutorials, and two very different takes on Alien: Earth). I also finished reading Adam Beckerās More Everything Forever, and visited some cool sites (including this one!)
More on all of that in the rewind. 
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hey everyone, im doing an āeventā (very lose use of the word event, just me blogging every day for a month) about 31 teen horror films from the years 96-05 on my media blog: Halloween 2025! 31 Days Of Teen Screams ('96-'05) ~ videoclub2000 . if that seems like something interesting to you please pop by and tell me ur thoughts. i made a little banner and stuff 
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Cool! I look forward to reading this: Halloween is my favourite holiday. 
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I love this idea, Iāll definitely read it!
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blabbering about books, ig?
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To hell with AI shortcuts, we need to start thinking long-term when it comes to education and software development!
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sorry for sandwiching, but i kinda wrote 3 posts yesterday and im posting one each day (bc my url structure only allows 1 a day)
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Problematic coping methods go brrrrrr by way of Colin McCrae rally 2.0 for the PS1.
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Some reflections on a mentality that Iāve observed a lot since coming back to the United States.
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I agree with you, and youāve got a nice clean design for your site. I did notice something strange, however: youāve got the entire text of your page in its description meta tagās content attribute. Was that intentional?
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Check out Book ā Rachel Z. Arndt
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Noā I wonder if it came with the theme. Thanks so much for pointing that out, Iām using Hugo and when I add a ādescriptionā line to the frontmatter, it resolves the problem. I think my theme just defaults to including the whole text.
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That sounds like something a SSG like Hugo would do.