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.
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.
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
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.
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 🤢
Added RSS to this site 🌈
Here’s the feed
Elden Ring Nightreign about to drop!
Going to jump in with 2 tarnished friends
Maybe I’ll write a small bubble-chat-based review
See how it goes… 🤞
I’m about halfway done with my Kyoto guide
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)
That new Fantasy Life game looks like…
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 🤭
I added dark and light modes.
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
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