[ a blog for musings and thoughts ]
2022. What a year. I started off strong (/s) with some health scares then moved 500+ miles to the other side of the country, met a ton of new people and friends, picked up some new hobbies, got engaged, lost my job in a round of layoffs, and then joined a sub-20 person startup. Phew. … Continue reading My 5 Favorite Games I Played in 2022
Part 1 because I'm still working my way through my backlog. As some may already know, the 3DS eShop is closing in March 2023 (which quite frankly sort of sucks and is not a very good thing in my opinion but that's a whole other conversation to be had). While it will still be possible … Continue reading 3DS Exclusive Highlights (Part 1)
Pokemon Legends: Arceus was a fun enough game - fun enough for me to want to do a full playthrough, but honestly, I don't think I would have played the game if it weren't a Pokemon game. I played a game from every set of Pokemon games from gen 1 to 4 and then 6 … Continue reading Thoughts on Pokemon Legends: Arceus
Pokemon's 25th birthday is a day that I've been anticipating for two reasons. The first is that I've been playing Pokemon my whole life. The second is that my birthday happens to be the day right before the day Pokemon was first released which means that I'm turning 25 this Friday and that's a little … Continue reading Reminiscing on 25 Years of Pokemon
Hello, and welcome to the post that literally no one asked for but now exists I guess. Pictured above is Malamar, a Pokémon with an objectively stupid evolution method. How do you evolve it? Well obviously you just have to raise an Inkay to level 30 with the 3DS held upside down. So I started … Continue reading The Pokemon Gen With The Weirdest Evolution Methods? – A Numerical Breakdown
The idea for this post came to me while I was agonizing over my classes/romances/recruits/whatever in Fire Emblem: Three Houses because I remembered that I had a whole page in my planner for Fire Emblem: Awakening. I also recently went through all my diaries about a month ago (which I would not recommend as it … Continue reading Planning My Way Through RPGs Since 2006
Games (and Other Bits) 