It’s just one bar for now because I DON’T GO OUT bar hopping that often.

But I can think of one or two more I’d like to add later.

Mina the Hollower is incredible.

The world is filled with secrets and fun, unexpected interactions.

The attention to details is remarkable.

And the sprites are gorgeous.

Get it now!

I started playing Saros.

I’m not sure what to think yet about the structure of the game compared to what Housemarque did with Returnal a few years which I thought was mesmerizing.

First, if you never played before, this is a roguelite type game.

When you die, you start over from the start.

Saros does offer checkpoints though, so it’s a little more manageable than Returnal.

But the moment to moment gameplay is superb.

This game feels like all the good parts of video games.

Beautiful art direction, extremely crisp 3D sound effects, uber tight gameplay.

It feels new and it feels old.

It feels new because of the haptic feedback in the controller.

The beautiful graphics of course.

The cinematography of the bosses.

It feels old because it reminds me games from the amiga era almost.

It can be part action, part platforming, part bullet hell.

The difficulty makes it go from extremely frustrating to immensely satisfying.

Finally killing a boss after X failed runs feels so so good. Liberating almost.

It’s the simply joy of playing good ol’ video games.

(which has been stuck at the same level for 10 years)

1/ watch and read more stuff in JP every day (easy)

2/ take an online class weekly (doable, small budget)

3/ homework on app or book (hard routine to maintain, still got to find the right app or book anyways)

Capcom has been cooking so far this year.

Did not play it but heard great things about RE9. Horror is not my jam though.

I got Pragmata at the top of my wishlist.

We’ll get that Onimusha reboot somewhere down the line this year.

Somehow, I cannot believe GameFreak (the studio behind Pokemon, mind you) is also making this absolutely crazy looking game.

Another great year for Japanese games?

And all I can think of is:

I cannot wait to check out all of the todo, fitness tracking and note taking apps my LinkedIn feed is about to come up with!

It’s gonna be epic!

(NOT)

Via Apple Shortcuts

But now I found a pairing that I really love looking at.

PP Fraktion Mono for body text.

PP Editorial New for headings.

Lots of contrast which I like a lot.

Such an awesome foundry that allows free personal use.

Also the color scheme has been “harmonized”. I had a solarized-inspired light mode and a space blue, super techy dark mode which felt like 2 different publications when I swapped back and forth which was jarring almost.

I think that I found a relatively good balance between the two.

I deleted this section a little while ago.

But now I am bringing it back.

Snip snap, snip snap!

I just missed it, I thought maybe I could simplify it a bit

I removed categories, it’s just one long feed of texts now.

If you read this, you are awesome.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 🤢

Here’s the feed

Going to jump in with 2 tarnished friends

Maybe I’ll write a small bubble-chat-based review

See how it goes… 🤞

I will publish it here on this website

I’m so excited about it because you see

After you’ve lived in a city for a while

Extended family and friends will sometimes message you to get your tips and tricks…

And actually most of these are not even direct

It would be like my mum or my sister bullying me to help their friends

And at the beginning I’ll be like, ok fine, and write a whole thing that’s personalized

But after 10 years it got old

So now I’ll have this link ready to go muahaha (machiavelic laugh)

A grinding good time!

Level 5 used to be one of my favorite game dev

Then mobile games happened…

But, with this, it seems they are finally back!

I love watching tons of little progress bars go up

I don’t know, it’s a condition with me at this point 🤭

But then I got a bit sidetracked and added other themes.

Right now I’m just swapping colors and fonts but maybe, maybe in the future I will also change the layout slightly.

Also updated the colophon

I’ve been playing Remnant 2 coop with a friend lately on Gamepass

It’s really great!

It’s Resident Evil and Dark Souls had a baby except it’s coop.

I expected nothing from it and I am kinda amazed by how much fun we’re having with it.

Maybe that’s the secret ingredient to enjoying games again.

The lack of expectations…

Trying out another Markdown app called Markdown Pro right now

I also made a script that detects changes to my messages folder on my iCloud Drive and pushes to GitHub automatically

Maybe a bad idea?

Synced Obsidian via iCloud

Now I wondering how I could push from mobile…

What did I do, you think?

I removed tailwindcss and postcss and converted everything to vanilla CSS

Péter dans un verre d’eau, tu connais ?

So I did ended up waiting for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2

It’s just as amazing as the first one so far

There’s really nothing like it, 10/10

Should I pull the trigger on DA: The Veilguard?

Or maybe wait til Kingdom Come Deliverance 2?

I loved the first one

A medieval RPG where you go from peasant to hero

Yeah let’s wait, it’s just 4 more days…

I think it’s the trackpad and the keyboard

I have the Glove80 in my office. Typing without it feels wrong now.

I could maybe buy a portable mouse for when I’m on the go at least…

But I also want to show some of my work stuff.

I find it pretty hard to conciliate both lives together on a website.

That’s why for the longest time I always had two sites.

A personal fucked up one.

And a professional portfolio.

I wonder if I could merge both of my worlds here…

I want my website to help me think.

I don’t want to have to think to help my website, if that makes sense.

Blogging… never really worked for me.

Blogging assumes you already did all of the thinking and are able to formulate it, grrr; I have attention deficit just thinking about that

And then I stumbled upon this blog by artist and designer anhvn and I thought the chat bubbles format was genius.

I reached out to her on Mastodon and she kindly told me it was ok to borrow the idea

Actually, she wrote about this in a post from 2022

One of her inspiration, Max Krieger, who also seems brilliant BTW, and ends up his post quoting The Tools for Conviviality from Ivan Illich 😎

I’m not very good at writing formal English, but I’m a pretty decent chatter

So I’m gonna try this and see.

Lolololol

Shit’s about to get omega weird in here!!!

For posterity, I’m leaving my test messages. I’ll deal with the embarassment later.