So it's been a while since I've put out a site update and I don't really have any reason aside from I forgot and didn't exactly set aside time to do so (even just a little "this is on hiatus" would've been enough but I just didn't). Honestly a lot of my side projects got put on hold while I was adjusting to my new position at work, and dealing with other irl stuff.
So to just run down the list, using ACE to get a shiny misdreavus from Green into Crystal not happening, I got crazy burnt out because I tried to force learn it and I was not in a great spot nor did I exactly have time to do so, that and I ended up finding copies of english Red and Blue for decent prices and picked those up, currently misdreavus is set up in Blue and I've been on and off hunting it for the past month.
My Crystal living dex has also been mostly on hold, I got an itch to go at it again recently and currently I'm just past Ecruteak, I mostly got side tracked because of burn out and I wanted to play through Platinum again that also ended up stalling out a while back just past Candice but I'll get back to it I promise it'll just be a minute...... ANYWAYS, I finished up my RNG manipulated Black playthrough which was nice to finally finish, I needed something mindless to do for a while and exp grinding off audino was perfect so I got that done.
Also the RNG video at this point probably isn't happening or if it does it's getting a full rewrite and recording because I don't think it matches what I would even want to make videos about at this point in time.
Away from the topic of Pokemon!
I have been keeping up with the manga of One Piece, it's been a great time honestly, I'll go back and watch the anime episodes in chunks later, especially with how they have pushed it to being bi-weekly releases for both manga and anime. I don't really want to say too much just because of spoilers for people just in case but it's good go read it.
Now, the real topic I want to talk about, UNBEATABLE (because it's either all caps or no caps) is genuinely one of the best games I've played in recent memory, I won't say it's flawless it's absolutely not but I haven't played a game with as much soul (heh..) in recent memory. Genuinely this game is a work of art, I could gush all day about it but I will refrain and keep it simple. This game is one of those experiences you either understand and resonate so damn much with, or you don't get it and it's not for you. I would say its very akin to something like FLCL which makes sense as they very much make it apparent that FLCL was a huge inspiration from the beginning. Highly recommend very worth your time! ALSO PLEASE JUST HIT THE CREDITS EVEN IF YOU DONT VIBE WITH THE GAME IMMEDIATELY!!
Moving on from my GOTY, I started reading Umineko and it's pretty neat so far, I'm pretty sure I'm still only like 1/3 of the way through episode 1 but I think the writing is really good overall it's gotten me hooked already even though I haven't been able to dedicate the time I want to reading it. I want to hit Battler over the head with a baseball bat but thats beside the point, I hear he gets better so we shall pray.
I've set a goal for myself this year to read more VNs because a lot of my friends have recommended me them over the years and a lot have just been sitting in my backlog for a while of "Oh that's neat I'll check it out at some point" and that was like years ago so we getting to them now. On top of that I also want to catch up to a ton more manga, I've been meaning to read JoJos since I fell off watching the anime so I think I'll start with that and catch up while I have time at work or something.
On to site plans, I don't exactly know what I want to do at the moment, for now it's just going to be more of the same and do little backend updates on occasion when I have the drive to do so and we'll see how that turns out in the future. I will however update Niche Oddities and rename it because I have many more figures to show off AND I scanned in those Yu-Gi-Oh! Toei VHS covers so I can post a link to that since I uploaded them to archive.org. That and I just have other cool stuff I can talk about in depth, like I got a Samsung Galaxy Folder 2 flip phone and I've been using it for about a month now so I want to talk about my experience with it and see if I eventally drop my Pixel 7 to use it as a daily driver phone. So we'll see when I get around to updating that page.
