December 2023: Life and links
Whew. Been a bit going on. This has been sitting ready for months, sorry.
Been a minute, hasn’t it? I’m going ahead and putting out the RSS guide, which has been sitting 95% done for ages. I hope it’s helpful to someone. Health’s been a bit wonky, been busy with work, so on, so forth. A friend died, which… I’m going to be honest, everything’s a bit of a blur in the aftermath of that, which is why this is actually going live… quite a while after I wrote it. We started playing Final Fantasy XI as a friend group in addition to XIV, a game I’ve missed dearly. I’ve done a lot of informal writing about why I think it works so well, and I should collect that and post it here, which I’ll probably get around to…
the “ai revolution”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUEXGaxFDA
Damn, this is good. Okay, so this is a channel I found recently that I’ve been enjoying, and this video was fantastic.
gaming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuszSUI_qBY
Daryl Talks Games “finished” his gaming backlog – something that I think horrifies a lot of people as a concept. This is a really neat project, and this writeup is really entertaining!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH5ohcGnRm0
Dosh dives in on Roguelikes.
This is just me pushing moving off of platforms again, but shoutout to the Bellular crew for spreading out.
music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apPqiVXJkUs
What IS Vaporwave?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtCB7vy1q2E
Noname’s second Tiny Desk Concert. This rules.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EkzTUPoWMU
Yes yes, also gaming, whatever. Piranha Plants on Parade from Mario Wonder is delightful, legitimately one of the main things making me smile over the last few months.