2025 has concluded. Sayonara 2025. Much like the year itself, I'm starting over this year. Not from scratch, but maybe atop old foundations. Elaborate! Late last year I picked up a new hobby, 3D printing. That's been going well, still. I'm messing up measurements less often, and printing usable
I started this blog primarily because it is fun to start things. Therefore for the same reason as I had started my previous blog, and the one before that.
I got around to reinstalling Linux on the laptop. Sayonara, Manjaro. As I alluded to in the previous post, my usage was limited enough that Manjaro had been perfectly adequate and I had not run into any problems. But it wasn't shiny and new anymore.
My first playthrough of Silent Hill f did not leave me entirely satisfied. It left me fairly confused, but hungry to comprehend more of it's themes, to be able to speculate from a more informed position.
My friend Austin Schaeffer released this demo in the summer, and after the occasional repeat listen it turns out I actually love it. Fav track: Primordial
Before I transitioned to Arch on my desktop, for about a year I was running Manjaro on a clapped out Microsoft Surface 1. I think I was trying different distros and Manjaro just worked nicely out of the box, so I stuck with it. I avoided most Manjaro-isms, no pamac, just used pacman directly. It
Playing this really shocked me. Spent 15 minutes sidling through the tutorial, which the game helpfully warned me was very important and should probably not be skipped. I felt it was technically competent, with some interesting elements, but it didn't really make sense as a game to me.
Early in the summer of 2025, I impulsively decided I would switch my primary OS from Windows to Linux. The inciting factor was, I believe, Windows mysteriously removing the date from under my clock, again.
Here we go again. This time around I'm trying out HTMLy, which seems easy and convenient. My motivation to get a blog going is mainly a desire to more thoroughly interrogate, discuss, and reflect on media. We'll see how it goes!