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culture

I’ve been playing Hollow Knight: Silksong

It’s a challenging game but very very fun.

Can’t recommend it enough for anyone who love 2D adventure games like Metroid or Castlevania, Ori, etc…

On the side, I’ve also been playing Dragon Quest 3 HD2D which is basically Team Asano’s remake of Japan’s favorite RPG ever.

I’m not old enough to remember playing these oldies on the original NES but I absolutely love the minimalism of the design, even if that ofc means a very simple (barebone) story.

You’re basically thrown into a vast world full of mysteries, treasures and quests, and nothing really to tell you where to go or why. You, as the player, have to figure out most of everything.

Weirdly refreshing in 2025.

meta

I added /resume to my site 🤓

Thought it would be easier to share and update going forward.

Work portfolio next hopefully 🤞

I don’t produce a lot of shareable design artifacts

So I need time to storyboard this, create assets and put it together

culture

I’m in France atm

I watched Scavengers Reign and it was awesome

The whole ecosystem they created was fascinating

The plot was simple yet gripping

The characters were great, my fav were Kamen and Levi

The show was sadly canceled but it’s so good, I’m sure there’s a little hope a follow up can be made one day.

Also Common Side Effects from the same creators was great and was renewed for a S2 so there’s hope.

meta

This morning I started thinking about how I could take this message-to-self idea further.

I am quite convinced already this is a great format for me to get the writing started.

It’s also great at sequencing ideas in very simple sentences.

And really, that has always been the biggest blockers to writing blog posts to me.

Blog posts are usually short essays with a beginning, a development and a conclusion.

Writing a good blog post, in my view, is more cognitively loaded than writing a few texts.

It’s a little bit like writing a plot vs writing a dialog scene:

Writing a dialog is quite organic to me while…

… writing a plot requires a birds eye view and a greater discipline I find?

Not sure if this is a shared “universal” experience or a case by case.

But the amazing thing with blog posts and longer formats in general is that they have better staying power.

A chat bubble is very ephemeral by essence while a post or an essay can stay a reference forever.

So now I wonder, what could I do that would help me to turn small chat bubbles into longer posts.

A few ideas to develop later:

I could write answers texts that ask me to clarify (a little bit like playing chess solo)

I could create a tool off some LLM API that do a reverse prompting off my texts (asking me to clarify everytime it detects ambiguity)

I could fork down from a specific bubble into other chats, like “threads” (this doesn’t solve my text to essay problem at all but it does help expanding and creating more material, which is also worth looking into)

This was way too long. Ok bye.

hardware

Quick update on the Trimui Brick situation

This thing is awesome!

Well, the ergonomics are quite bad but vertical handheld always had this issue to me, and it’s made worse by the fact this specific handheld is tiny…

Having said that, it does fit in any pocket

And it can play anything comfortably up to the PSX

I even managed to run Crazy Taxi (Dreamcast) on it with no issue…

Right now though, I’m replaying Zelda Minish Cap and just started Mother 3 (fan translation).

Bye

hardware

I just bought a second-hand emulation handheld device off Mercari

It’s called the Trimui Brick

It looks like a slicker GameBoy

My plan is to install MinUI on it as well as some essential classics.

I’m sure the device will become an Apotris machine at some point but it will be interesting to show some old games to my kids and see how they respond to them.

workouts

One thing may be hurting my strength progression:

I’ve been on a calorie deficit most days of last year and this year

Which honestly has worked great for fat loss, I went from 97kg to 81kg

But my strength progress has been very very stagnant

In the best case scenario I’ve been able to add some reps here and there

Legs in particular are not growing even though I squat every week

I think I need to go back to maintenance diet

That means pausing fat loss even though I’m still probably at 20% BF

venting

Note to self

Do not ever eat anything from an all-you-can-eat buffet

Ever, in any under circumstances

Don’t do it!

It’s a trap. It will make you sick 🤢