Happy Friday everyooone! We made it another 5 days to the weekend. Grab a pint or a pizza (or both) at the end of your day to celebrate another well earned victory.

Crazy news! Message might get choppy here, but BioWare is being shut down! What a collapse of a titan of the old world. Rest in peace to any more Mass Effect and Dragon Age, videogames of my childhood.

Hi all, I had some pokes to write more of my thoughts on ZERO PARADES, which I rambled about recently. If you're eager for more, I'll assume you read what I wrote there and jump straight into it.

On the world writing:
To preface, I must say that my previous statement that "ZP takes place in the same creative universe as Disco Elysium" is incorrect. I assumed it did because there are many stylistic similarities, but I...

happy monday y'all. I have a week off next week, so final stretch to some proper time off!

Best of luck to you all.

Man... post-game depression. I guess it means the games really stuck with me? Not sure what I'm going to do tomorrow! I feel full of creative juices... not sure what to put them into. Not sure when the last time I felt like this was.

I just finished ZA/UM's "ZERO PARADES" today and wanted to write some thoughts, for those interested.

The game came out after some heavy drama in the development company after the intellectual rights to their previous acclaimed title, Disco Elysium, were taken from a selection of the dev team who were fired for not-quite certain reasons. If anyone is a Disco Elysium (DE) fan, you will undoubtedly be aware of this. ZERO PARADES (ZP) is somewhat of an attempt at a fresh start for ZA/UM, with many of the...

I have a lovely co worker who is becoming more annoying than suits them. Our role is really relaxed and super easy to do tbh, especially when compared with other roles in schools I've done. Lots of breaks (although unpaid) but also lots of down time during lessons. Other staff are lovely and we get support from our team and very little observation (can easily leave early without an issue). Yet, she is CONSTANTLY complaining, often to us but also to management, about the 'useless' things we have to do, like...

I just can't help but fall asleep on the train every morning. I would like to get into reading on the 30 minute trip, but god damn I just can't stop my eyes from getting heavy and dropping off the whole time.

Well, happy hump day regardless. Im at a wedding the rest of the week so off work and celebrating something special. Good luck with Wednesday everyone!

Happy Monday everyone.

It's spooky month which makes it a MooOOOoOOonday (get it?)

Anyway I've got a fresh trim so I'm feeling young and healthy today, hopefully it will last me the week.

Have a good one!

Nivalis Nights, a game which came out earlier this week, is sadly a bit of a let down. The worldbuilding and writing is as good as their previous game, however the gameplay is really missing things or is generally bugged to disastrous levels. Despite numerous delays, it does feel like an early access game. Nothing against ea games, but its a shame this was really advertised as a 1.0 release when its clearly not. For example, farming is really useful to growing free ingredients instead of buying them,...

Girl on train,

Riding far?

Red drop on morning blue,

Saved Monday from mourning.

Girl on train,

Riding far.

A crossroad of souls,

This box led by coals.

Girl on train,

Ridden far.

What chambers do you escape to?

What world are you exploring?

Until tomorrow...

God I am bored at work today... I have a bit of a of a soar throat which sucks and I'm covering for someone else which is just really boring. yawn

Ey another appy Monday on cyberspace.

I'm feeling just fine today, not bad and not good, just fine.

Best of luck everyone!

Does anyone ever have dreams that seem so real that they effect your mood for most of the next day? People, places, events. I often find I wake up really feeling like those events were real and, even though I know it wasn't reality, it feels like a memory of the past thats still effecting me today.

Happpy Hump Day.

Mid week. How we all feeling?

I'm suprisingly awake today, which is a good sign. Was awfully tired Monday/Tuesday. Got some nice stuff to look forward to later this week, but mostly a relaxed one. I'm not even dreading the work week!

Best of luck to everyone else making it through.

Interesting vid on AI Companions by Georg Rockall-Schmidt

I've followed Georg for aages and I really like his view on things. It feels pretty real but also with research and less emotional outrage.

Anyway, the topic of the video is really interesting and definitely a modern problem that is slowly and quietly growing in the younger generations. I used Replika a little when it first came out, and Im really shocked in the direction the app once made...

Physically I'm a day walker but spiritually I'm here.

So the new Zelda: Ocarina of Time mega remake redo is coming and it looks pretty cool. Sadly, I dont own a Switch 2 and dont feel like I want to buy one for 1 game... BotW was a crazy release but I dont think a remake of an older game is really enough. Damn you Nintendo! I imagine they would get so many sales if they released games elsewhere, but thats not what they're about.

Woo finished Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex season 2. I think I preferred the general story of season 1, as the plot of 2 felt rushed at the end and otherwise exciting plot points just ended without much hurrah. Really great show though and definitely my favourite rendition of GitS so far. It'll be weird not hearing the VAs that I've grown so used to in other content.

Is anyone watching the newest show? It looks way too bright and funny for my taste.

Had a great date last night, but sadly they decided today that we weren't a match. All very nice and respectful, but it's got me pretty bummed out. I'm sure I'll get over it soon, but still not the outcome I was looking for. sadge