New Leon Phal album
Over the last year I've become very fond of Leon Phal, a French jazz artist who leads a quintent and releases music constantly. It's great stuff. I always knew I loved jazz, but I didn't really have m...
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收藏I am in Minneapolis
I am now in Minneapolis!! I am going to eat a lot of good food and enjoy myself!! I have family in the area and am hanging out with them. We're also visiting various museums and theaters and hanging a... 
Other bad photos I took at the beach
This is what it actually looked like when I was taking those pictures of the darkened trash removal barge I posted yesterday. I needed a flashlight to avoid tripping off the top of the quay: This is a... 
I took pictures of the trash removal barge down at the beach
I think I've written about this before, but the closest LA-area river to my house - Ballona Creek - ends near Marina Del Rey, where an automated barge designed to remove trash from the river is consta... 
I recommend checking out the latest PMG video
This is not really a hidden find or anything - PMG are very high profile and if you're interested in this stuff you probably already know this video exists. But I do think it's worth taking time to wa...
I took a bunch of pictures of Baldwin Hill at night
I am trying to get better at taking pictures with a camera!! So I took the camera I use to photograph plants and bugs and headed to Baldwin Hill, a large and native-plant-heavy park in Culver City whi... 
Check out this interview with Paul W.S. Anderson
Post Games, a podcast by Chris Plante, covered the new Resident Evil movie - which I really liked - by interviewing the guy who made all the old Resident Evil movies. I really liked this interview! Pa...
Give my friends from Heart Machine a job
I haven't posted about this yet, but last week my friends and old coworkers still remaining at Heart Machine were all laid off. As far as I know, the company no longer has any development staff. I don...
Reminder about which Pokemon is currently worth One Money
I was recently talking with friends who play Pokemon Champions about my earlier blog post about Pokemon trading. They were trying to trade some Pokemon online and wanted to make sure they were using t...
Attended Bob Baker day a second time...
Last year I posted about going to Bob Baker Day, a kind of puppet/clown festival at a park in Los Angeles. I went again this year! I had a much more interesting time this year, honestly - mostly becau... 
I saw a ukelele performance
I recently had family in town, and one of the things they came to see, besides me, was a ukelele festival in Torrance. At that festival, I saw the guy in this video play this arrangement of Billy Jean...
I saw Cregger's Resident Evil
I have enjoyed most of Zach Cregger's previous few films, so I was absolutely locked in to see Resident Evil... even though I've never played a single one of the games, or even watched a single one of...
I visited the new Geffen gallery at LACMA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art just added a monumental brutalist new gallery made up of giant concrete forms which swoop literally across the street. If this excites you, you should go. There is... 
I visited the James Turrell Skyspace at Pomona College
James Turrell is a US artist who works primarily with light and architecture. He's designed an extremely large number of installations and physical spaces which use LEDs, smooth white surfaces, or win... 
Finally, a survival/construction game forced me to go journeymode
For a long time I've talked about wanting to make a survival/crafting or survival/construction game (like Minecraft, Terraria, Valheim, etc) about traveling rather than building a base. It seems like ... 
Check out this fictional forum thread
Spinning by blackle mori is a short story told in the form of an archived forum thread. I read it in less than half an hour (using my PC). It's a very neat experience! You should check it out. I won't...
《大步行》里的 25 分钟
作者推荐独立游戏《Big Walk》原声带中的 B-Sides 专辑，重点推荐其中一段 25 分钟的混合曲目，认为它对应游戏第三幕里最令人惊叹的多人大规模场景。 作者已听完游戏三周，听完该曲目三次，强烈建议完成游戏的玩家再听一次以重温那段"奇异而空灵"的时刻。文章为个人体验推荐，信息量集中在一段具体曲目上。
《Blood Dungeon》上手体验：吸血鬼幸存者+平台跳跃的新组合
Blood Dungeon是Messhof的新作，将吸血鬼幸存者类玩法与2D平台跳跃结合，玩家在敌群间平台移动而非开阔地漫游。游戏通过宝箱机制强制玩家不断移动，搭配跳跃、贴墙、吊绳等动作手感扎实。 作者认为游戏难度曲线合理，多种build可行，平台跳跃体验优于同类型游戏。
我每天写博两年了
<p>该死！我已经两年了！我还是不推荐这么做！</p><p>我从2024年开始每天发帖，正值世界上最棒/唯一有价值的社交媒体平台Cohost宣布将关闭的时候。你可以看到2025年的回顾，那是我连续写博客的第一年之后，</p><p>2025年我提到，2024年开局很顺利，并且保持了4-6天的预定发帖时间，持续了好几个月。但这种状态在2025年底和2026年初被裁员时完全消失了。<br><br>事实证明，午休是我生活中的负重习惯，让我的博客（和博客阅读）变得轻松有趣。当我重写时到了2025年，在长时间写作日里有别的东西可以写或读，真的让人感到耳目一新。<br><br>我发现你写得越多，想表达的话也越多。写博客是一个很好的蒸汽泄气阀。</p><p>九、十月被裁员（我忘了确切日期???哇！）对我的生活造成了极大的影响，虽然不是你想象的那种。我早就准备离开公司了——在发布《Skin Deep》后，我和丈夫达成共识，想一起做下一款游戏，我本来有长期计划去做。<br><br>被裁员只是加快了我本来就大部分经济准备的时间线。</p><p>然而，经过15年一直为老板工作，终于不再为老板工作，感觉非常奇怪。此外，我们目前在Blendo制作的游戏还处于前期制作阶段，这也是我不太熟悉的领域。<br><br>大多数游戏编剧在前期制作期间都不会被录用。现在，我作为兼职制作人参与那款游戏，几乎不做任何叙事工作。我很难知道如何安排时间在一款还不需要我投入太多时间的游戏上。</p><p>这一切的结果是，我在2025年底和2026年大部分时间…</p>
嘿，皮卡丘——那个小时候求而不得、长大后发现一直很烂的游戏
<p>小时候，我和主机游戏的关系主要是限制和渴望。我不被允许拥有主机或掌机，只有朋友给我游戏时才能玩。但在小学时，我最亲密的朋友们大多也没有主机或掌机。<br><br>所以我通常从一些不太熟的人那里借GameBoy——通常是在去郊游的公交车上。我通常能让别人帮我玩他们的宝可梦，方法是帮他们刷对战。</p><p>宝可梦是我最想玩的游戏。我是这个IP的超级粉丝，面对这种否认，我的行为变得相当奇怪。我实际上买了Prima的金银攻略，从头到尾读了无数遍。<br><br>我会买一叠方格纸，<em>图解</em>我会用哪些宝可梦队伍来玩我没有也不能玩的游戏各个关卡。我父母知道我在做这件事。我完全不知道他们怎么想。</p><p>有一次我父母给我订阅了我猜我就是在那里了解到的</p><p>这里有一段去年夏天的《嘿，皮卡丘》GDQ速通视频：</p><p>如今，这款游戏真的看起来相当糟糕！很明显，语音识别技术并不好，游戏玩法本身也相当浅薄且无趣。</p><p>不过小时候，我记得读过这款游戏时，心中涌起复杂的情绪。我既敬畏又困惑，愤怒，同时极度轻信。我感觉世界在我门外飞速掠过，朝着我无法去的地方，走向那些我不被允许体验的疯狂科技体验。<br><br>我以为如果有一款宝可梦游戏是关于和皮卡丘交谈和照顾的，那你<em>真的会去做那些事。</em></p><p>我从没想过有人能卖一款基本上没法运行、主要由低互动性“自动卷轴”片段组成的任天堂64游戏。</p><p>总之，看这次GDQ连载对我来说非常有趣。我已经好多年没想过《嘿你，皮卡丘》，但我发现它依然占据了…</p>
我们通关了《Big Walk》
Laura Michet 玩完了《Big Walk》这款游戏，认为它是多人游戏中对"合作沟通"主题探索最深刻的一次体验。游戏要求玩家物理隔离后通过特定工具交流，需要完全投入规则才能体会到最后关卡的效果。 她因大量剧透风险未分享截图，强调这是个只能亲自体验的游戏。 
参观养乐多工厂：从发酵罐到灌装线的实地体验
作者参观加州Fountain Valley的养乐多工厂，看到细菌培养室、巨型发酵罐、灌装和贴标生产线，全程免费需预约。作者原本不喝养乐多， tour结束后决定下次购买。 工厂禁止拍摄生产线，但提供虚拟导览。 