I’ve got one episode left in Yuri On Ice and now I want to watch figure skating? This is an unexpected outcome. Also unexpected is that I would be so invested in the relationship between Yuri and his coach. I just want those boys to get married and be happy and skate together. I love all these skating boys. I want them all to win gold. Except Jean-Jacques. That arrogant Canadian doofus. He has a warm-up jacket and the logo on its sleeve is literally an upside-down Canadian Tire logo. I assume the producers googled CANADIAN and the first thing that came up was our stupid sporting goods store. Apart from that, it’s a very good show. I am looking forward to finishing it and the eventual movie.

So, there’s basically nothing going on this week. The tiny anarchists who live in my house are wrapping up the last of their schoolwork. A shame that they have to do it here as the final weeks of elementary grades were always the most fun. Fortunately they’re in pre-school and grade one so they don’t even know about the fun they’re missing and they seem pretty happy regardless.

My boat-wives are doing well, lots of levelling going on. I’ve always found grinding experience and farming materials very relaxing in video games so this stupid gacha game has been sort of perfect for me. I can watch my degenerate animes while I farm epic gear to outfit my boat-wives to my heart’s content.

Ahoy! From the deck of my battleship, currently docked on the shores of the Bow.

Yesterday was a very busy day. So busy in fact that I didn’t notice I hadn’t blogged until I was nestled, all snug in my bed.

I… I started playing this gacha game called Azur Lane. In it, as you do in most gacha mobile games, you collect pngs of waifus, but THESE waifus is boats. Battleships to be precise. What has become of me? I used to spend time thinking about art and slow cinema and reading challenging works of fiction. Quarantine has broken me. Now I just grind battles to upgrade my waifu boats. It’s only a matter of time before I start having opinions on various and sundry hentai and doujinshi… I regret nothing.

Currently Playing: Weird Al Yankovic – “Mandatory Fun”
Currently Reading: FLOWERS OF EVIL COMPLETE EDITION VOL 2, Shuzo Oshimi

Greetings from my hovel on the shores of the Bow

I took a look at the nutritional information on my favorite instant ramen. It has 25% more sodium than a big bowl of sodium. So, that’s not the best. I guess I will start using half a packet when I make the broth? It’s either that or I’ll be down with another kidney stone more’n likely.

I finished the first season of Fire Force in preparation for the second season starting up in a couple weeks. Now I’m onto season one of Re: Zero. It’s been on my Plan to Watch list for a while and the second season starting soon gave me an excuse to finally start it.

In an attempt to make up for some of the lost time during recovery I’ve been spending too much time each day in the chair. It’s beginning to take its toll, might be time to start looking into some kind of hybrid standing desk situation again.

Currently Reading: THE INSTITUTE, Stephen King

Greetings from my hovel on the shores of the Bow.

Here in week 8,000 of confinement we’ve reached the stage where time has stopped. I’ve been working at this desk now for the last 864 hours and it’s apparently not even 3 pm? Outrageous…

Biggest source of excitement today was discovering my favorite ramen noodles were back in stock when placing my online grocery order. I’ve got enough Gourmet Spicy Nongshim Ramen now that none of us will have to worry for a loooooooooooooooooong time.

Spending some time in the evenings with my backlog of manga and anime, will likely have some stuff to talk about in friday’s Read Icculus. Today I’ve been going through the back half of the first season of Fire Force. I stopped at episode 12 as it was first airing for some reason and with season 2 starting (barring Covid delay) next month I wanted to get it finished before then. It’s a good show to have on in the background. The story and central mystery is *fine* but the big stupid shonen action sequences are a lot of fun. Pretty decent little action show.

Currently Playing: Grove of Whispers – “Borderland”

Currently Reading: THE INSTITUTE, Stephen King

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Greetings from my hovel on the shores of the Bow.

Today I am thinking about the MSDOS games I loved as a lad. Commander Keen! Crystal Caves! Jazz Jackrabbit! Duke Nukem (and later, Duke3D). Hugo’s House of Horrors! God, there were so many. Primitive, obviously, but I spent hundreds if not thousands of hours on them. Eventually there were CD compilations of hundreds of shareware games and I’d spend entire weekends just scrolling through those discs, occasionally finding some gem and spending hours playing the first installments.

I think of this mainly because one of the tiny anarchists who live in my house watches a lot of youtubers who play, what can ONLY be described as utterly dogshit advertisement delivery platforms in the guise of computer games. These “games” are janky, ugly and boring. Occasionally, I will cave and allow him to acquire and play one of these wretched things himself. Without exception they turn out to be garbage. One assumes the youtubers are being paid by the con-artists who develop these “games”. (the anarchist in question is also a devotee of Minecraft, lest you think he’s completely without taste). I hate that the software targeted at him are at best such lazy pieces of shit and at worst slot machines designed to deliver ads and extract money (shit’s locked down, he can’t actually spend any of my money).

I know every generation says “things was better in my day”, but in this very specific example? I think they probably were.

Currently Playing: LEIDUNGR – “Odainsacre”

Currently Reading: RECORD OF LODOSS WAR: THE GREY WITCH, Ryo Mizuno