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Stellar Blade Beat Me To The Punch
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Stellar Blade as much as I did. Last November, Shaun, a YouTuber who I’ve been following a very long time released a video called: Stellar Blade: The Fake Outrage. I’m re-watching is as I write this post, but it was mainly about how Mark Kern (it’s really hard to describe who he is in one sentence so here’s a video) created a fake bogey-man and owned “wokeness” by praising the developer of Stellar Blade, Shift Up, for giving their main protagonist a lot of sex appeal.
Shaun also provides a review for the game, which I watched before playing the game for myself, regrettably. It shaped a lot of my opinions going into the game which I had to force myself to let go the deeper I got into it.
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6/9/2025 – It’s okay to start over sometimes, you know?
Hey friends, I’ve been a little busy catching up with an old friend who really means a lot to me. I’ve also been hanging out with friend in real life and wondering a bit about the future, so a lot … Continue reading
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5/21/2025 – Privacy & Ownership, video game hardware, Streaming
The title is a mouthful this time, but I have a lot of stray thoughts that I want to talk about tonight. Sometimes I wonder if an audio log would be a better format for these types of posts, but … Continue reading
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Dolls Nest & The Automata-Core Genre
There’s this game that I’ve been playing on and off for about a month called Dolls Nest, developed/published by Nitroplus. I’ve seen the people in the Steam reviews call it a hybrid between Dark Souls and Armored Core and I think that’s a pretty fair … Continue reading
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VN Character Concept: Azuma Muramasa
Lately, I’ve been thinking about mentor characters, like Mr. Miyagi from The Karate Kid, for example. I still haven’t sat down to think what the major theme of the visual novel will be, so I decided to work on a concept … Continue reading
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5/7/25 – Life Update
IKEA / Redecorating Project I’m feeling pretty good today, well, this week in general. I finally ordered the furniture I wanted from IKEA and it’s scheduled to be delivered this Saturday. I think I’m also going to order my new … Continue reading
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Girls’ Frontline 2 “Aphelion” Event Thoughts
I just finished the GFL2 Aphelion event story as of an hour ago. Since I talked about another GFL2 event earlier in the year, I figured I’d do it again. I missed out on the Centauressi event in March (I think), so I have a bit of a gap in the event stories. Aside from that, I’ve been pretty consistent. GFL2 is not my main game so it’s taken me a bit of time to finish. My main game is NIKKE and I can typically get away with doing daillies at work. However, I do a lot of events at home on my PC. As I’ve said many times over the last few posts, March/April has been really busy so I missed out on the last couple of banners. I’ll have to pick up 416/Klukai at another time. I’m glad the events last the entire month, though! Since I’m working on a visual novel, I’m interested in learning what I can about storytelling from games I already like to play.
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4/25 – Amagi Concept Art and other thoughts about the VN.
I’m posting a couple of doodles I made between this week and the other month. These are both concepts for Amagi, the android in my visual novel. She has a very strong likeness to an MMO character I have, so … Continue reading
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Nytt rum Nytt du
The month of April has been completely chaotic for me. Little to no progress has been made on the VN and I fear that I haven’t had the chance to draw as much. It’s mostly because of work. I’m still … Continue reading
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Full Metal Daemon Muramasa
Around 15 years ago, when I was still in high school, I stumbled upon fan art of a character named Sansei Muramasa (see below) when I was browsing newly uploaded illustrations on Pixiv. There was a lot about the character … Continue reading
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