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I'm not very good at remembering what I've done across a span of time, so I will try my best to offer little updates of what's been going on in my life (maybe I'll even aim for a weekly or biweekly updates). Maybe I'll have a little archive later on of what's happened for my own sake. Inspired off Bechno Kid's layout!

Last Updated: July 27, 2025

What's Been Going On?

  • I didn't even realize how quickly the time passed, it's almost August now ... last 3 weeks of school to chug through, and it's over
  • I visited my IRL friend just yesterday and slept over at her place!! It was really nice to see her again, considering it's been years, but we get along really well. Her fiance cooked us all dinner :]
  • I began working on a Genshin wiki in Obsidian and it's been fun to create built lists for all my characters so I know who I'm working on/what artifacts they need. It does mean my focus is a little drawn away from here though
  • Got up to 2016 in my art gallery, though I kinda burned out a bit; 2016 is going to have the most art to list for now, so I'm not mentally prepared yet to sit through it

Games

  • Finished Deltarune CH 3 and 4 completely, and I need to update my media log for that
  • Picked up playing Palia again while I was at my friend's, since she and her fiance have been super into it
  • Picked up playing Touhou 8: Imperishable Night and Need for Speed Most Wanted again since those are childhood games to me

Watching / Reading

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July 12, 2025

What's Been Going On?

  • Blargh, back to school. Nothing of major note has been happening outside of project work and annoyance with my career class that I do not need as someone who's done resume and job applications before
  • I ... think I'm basically in on the one VR development opportunity I got offered, though he did mention if work was to come, it'd be more in the fall
  • I've kinda gotten a hang of using Obsidian now to take down learning notes + daily offloading of 'in the moment' thoughts
  • Progressing further with doing the little mini RPG Maker game for my friend's book promo
  • Mostly site work, made Sylvie's genshin game kit + made an art gallery

Games

  • Deltarune chapter 2 is being worked through slowly
  • Pulled Phainon for HSR a few days ago (in like 30 whole pulls??? and without guarantee???) so I've been building him slowly
    • In terms of Genshin Impact, mostly been working on Skirk and getting her to 90, as well as trying to get better artifacts for her
  • Finally got a chance to make a new Spore account, though it was like pulling teeth since I had to re-buy Galactic Adventures ... again ... I own these games 3 times over now ... fucking hate EA Games
  • Started playing Imperishable Night (Touhou) again since it's what I grew up on during high school, though I'm so out of practice ... annoying when easy is too easy but the normal is too hard
  • Started a Rags to Riches challenge in Sims 4 using my Sylvie and Zhongli sims, though I think I hit my burnout now that I'm at the point of a stable house + needing to wait to save money

Watching / Reading

June 28, 2025

What's Been Going On?

  • On the cusp of ending my school break ... the day before I went to a mixer for my school, although I was invited as a guest (since it's a program for people wanting to start freelancing or start-up companies), I got to meet some really cool people there including a fellow Genshin-er
  • Almost been doing journaling for a month straight!! Surprisingly the 'note a single highlight of the day' has been working really well for me; I can just leave it at that, or expand on it if I want to with no pressure. Sometimes I miss weekends because there's no comfortable time to write alone, but that's ok
  • Began trying to learn Godot following Brackey's tutorial, though I'm only like 20 minutes in because I'm trying to note things down
  • I may ... ? Have found some job opportunity ... ? Or well, my teacher recommended me to someone, although it's for programming, it's in Unity which I'm very familiar with. I'm not too sure of the details, but I already signed an NDA and got sent the software to work with so ... ? It's only freelancing/contract work for now and gathering a pool of talent, but who is to know about the future ...
    • It's a little scary because I've never considered offering myself for any developer/programming jobs; I know how to code in C#, but I'd never consider myself confident enough to say I know it enough for a job ... even though y'know, I have coded games in it
  • I think I'm getting a hang of using Obsidian, though mine is very boringly for just noting down my learning in programs like Godot for stuff

Games

  • Finally finished with Undertale, and slowly going through Deltarune (I'm streaming it for my friend, so it's when we have a chance to play)
  • Got gifted the entire Bioshock series (I already had 2, but the bundle included the DLC), so I'm beginning to play the first Bioshock
  • Got back into Bleach Brave Souls, though very casually (I miss my Ukitake)
  • Downloaded Reverse 1999 and the new Persona 5 spinoff mobile game, though I haven't dabbled much in either beyond half an hour (a bit more for Reverse 1999)
  • Unlocked the room expansion in Neko Atsume 2 💖

Watching / Reading

  • Sadge, last episode of Apothecary Diaries season 2 next week ... at least I am planning to dive into the novels eventually
  • Picked up slowly reading The Hounds of Sisyphus and god Pyo Guwon is so hot. Even if he ends up (maybe) being a black flag MC, I'm all for manipulative murdery guys that don't resort to non-con (which is so prevalent in manhwa/manga in general 💀) so um ... hopefully it won't go there
  • Still trying to get through The Hollow Places, but I think I'm on a bit of a burnout
June 11, 2025

What's Been Going On?

  • Ughhh ughh ugh school assignment stuff UGH (I just have gotten rusty with doing assignments so it's always like something looming over my skull); we have been learning cool coding things though
  • Picked up journaling again, or I'm trying to anyway by keeping it simple and doing a single highlight a day at the bare basic, and writing more only if I need to. Honestly it's been nice, especially since I have a lot of stickers and enjoy decorating the pages, though I'm trying my best to not get overwhelmed
    • I found out all along I had a double sided tape roll from college that I completely forgot about ... I've been trying to use glue sticks 🗿
  • Picked up using Obsidian to try to keep notes of stuff I'm learning, especially for things like Unreal or Blender, or when I decide to learn Blockbench modelling. It's hard because I tend to watch/do rather than take notes of the process, which can bite me in the ass. Heavily inspired from JayTheDevGuy's video on it
  • Mostly just been focused on helping my friend with her author livelihood and book editing for her
  • Site wise, it's mostly just been back-end stuff cause right now that's more appealing to me than making new content. Creating my media log though has been really cool
  • I'm trying to carry my 3DS around more with me to have as something to do that's not on my phone

Games

  • Finished my coop Baldur's Gate 3 run and ... promptly uninstalled to free up space; I'll return at some point to do Gale's run and finish my final few achievements for 100%
  • Replaying Undertale (especially for my friend who never saw it played in full before) in prep for Deltarune
  • Got back into Bleach: The 3rd Phantom on my 3DS which has been eating into my life (good way)
  • Replayed Imperishable Night (Touhou) cause I grew up on playing this during high school lunches
  • Been slowly going through the FFXIV ARR story with my friend since we have set times for her to sit and play through while I'm there for moral support/body doubling
  • Found Elite Beat Agents again for my 3DS ... issue is it keeps crashing 🥲

Watching / Reading

  • Waiting for Apothecary Diaries S2 releases
  • Paused on Laziness Does Not Exist for now, though I'd still like to get back to it
  • Picked up reading The Hollow Places and I see why T. Kingfisher's writing is really appealing to me now (simplicity, humanness, it reads like how I think)
  • Finished Thousand Autumns / Quan Qiu fully (minus the short stories, no real plans to read them anytime soon)
May 25, 2025

What's Been Going On?

  • Approaching the fourth week of the semester, and we finally settled on a group game we're doing for a charity that's teaching kids about African history and culture, and we're going to make a cooking simulator teaching 1-2 cultural relevant dishes; I'm really excited for it!! I do worry about some of the classmates that aren't consistent with showing up, but because we're a full group of 8, there's at least 5 of us who are consistent with work
  • I finally took the plunge to upload my old project Electrobit fully on itch.io; the version that was up was an old alpha version, but since the game has been off the App Store for at least a few years now, I decided to add my finalized version (which was different than what was uploaded)
  • The tomato plants in the nursery downstairs are finally going to be moved out tomorrow or the next day, poor things grew so much that they're pushing against the ultraviolet light but it's been far too cold to plant them
  • I've been making progress on my RPG Maker MZ game to help promo my friend's book, and getting close to finishing the first edit of the book itself
  • Ate homemade hamburgers for the first time in a few months :)

Games

  • Still in FFXIV hell, I've been using my backloggd to keep a running track of what progress I've done, considering I have a lot of mini projects to do
    • Finishing leveling RDM + associated quests
    • Bullying my friend lovingly to play more
    • Making BiS gear for my gatherers and crafters
      • Which means working on the Namazu society quests because Stormsap fucking sucks to desynth
    • Finishing all crafter storylines
  • Approaching the end of my co-op OC run in BG3, we're in act 3 now and just kicked Raphael's shit in
  • Replayed a bit of Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer on my jailbroken 3DS 🤣

Watching / Reading

  • Still doing The Apothecary Diaries, did pick up one episode of Witch Watch which is pretty funny so far
  • Halfway through reading Laziness Does Not Exist and it's really drilled in how society really pushes for people to be overworked and punishing them for listening to their own mental health and bodily health. A good read for some tips to try to break out of society's toxicity of punishing 'laziness'
  • Finished volume 4 of Thousand Autumns / Quan Qiu and I'm so excited to get to the last volume
May 12, 2025

What's Been Going On?

  • Starting my new semester ... last semester too, which makes me mildly worried about all my courses and all the assignments that we need to do; I'm gonna try to stay on top of them this time
    • It doesn't help that halfway through the course we're swapping three (three!) classes from online to in person ... we're probably gonna try to complain about it since many of the students here travel by transport and don't live in the city
  • With summer being here ... ish ... I've been going out on more walks and playing more Pokémon Go, which is nice
  • The seeds my grandma put in the nursery we borrowed have been growing super well, though I had to rip one root that was reaching out to the other seeds
  • I got the books Atomic Habits and Laziness Does Not Exist which I'm looking forwards to reading

Games

  • I've gotten back into FFXIV which SIGHS ... now it's taken my attention away from Minecraft, but it's ok. Got it to boot up on SteamDeck
  • Still going through my co-op run and gale story run in Baldur's Gate 3
  • I've been mostly working on updating my Backloggd

Watching

  • Mostly been on a Minecraft YouTuber binge, Aust has been my comfort watch when I go to bed
  • Finished with FMAB, still waiting for Apothecary Dairies to keep airing and releasing