Tales From Behind The Blog

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My search for the perfect template marches forward. I spent most of today venturing through WordPress.org and the four corners of the internet to find a template that doesn’t completely piss me off. When searching I get bombarded with e-commerce, portfolio, business, and anything NOT A BLOG. The current one would be fine if I could get the YouTube links to display properly on smaller devices, but no matter what settings I play with it’s never the proper aspect ratio. Of course, most of the templates I’ve been looking at don’t display YouTube videos on the front page. Why not? Another irritating trend I’m seeing is AI being built into some of the themes… Jesus Butt Fucking Christ, I don’t want AI in my theme suggesting to me how to write a post!

There are still multiple search terms I haven’t tried yet, but I’m getting tired of just searching for “Blog Theme” and having it also pull up business templates. It would be ideal if they added an option to uncheck options like e-commerce and the others just so I can find something that doesn’t make me look like a business corporation. This is a personal blog that shares videos… how is that so hard to accommodate for?

Let The Good Times Roll

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On tonight’s Resonite exploration, we went frolicking in a forest, went to a world where we could watch shitty VHS tapes, and ended the evening in a couple of party worlds.

Also worked on some more Resonite footage, since that seems to have become the latest behemoth in my game footage collection since Skyrim. I’ve already come close to piecing another video together, though I probably won’t release it until November since it lacks anything spookworthy. In fact, most of the video work I’ll be putting in between now through October probably won’t be released until November or early next year. Unless I happen to come across some video footage befitting for the season…

This Is My Final Form?

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Every night before I go to bed. I’ve been playing some form of Castlevania, or Shantae. There’s just something about playing these games at night, during the witching hour that brings out the perfect mood in me to commence the grinding. I even got an achievement/trophy the other night for destroying a druid at midnight! I didn’t even know that was a thing! Now that I’ve achieved Shantae’s final form for this game (that I know of) I’ve been circling back and looking for all additional items that can only be received with the proper abilities and power-ups.

If I finish this before they release Shantae Advance: Risky Revolution I’ll probably have to shell over a few schmeckles on launch day.  The release date has yet to be announced, so who knows? If I finish the game and it still hasn’t been released I still have plenty of other Metroidvanias to tie me over. 😛

More Reso Adventures On The Horizon

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It was another lovely evening of exploring the four corners of Resonite. We transitioned from summer like isles, into autumn, and eventually hell and a couple Halloween themed places. One of these nights we’ll do something other than Resonite, but we keep finding so many different things it’s hard to really get bored of it. I was telling my friends that I’m up to 450 GB in footage now. Also went through one of the sessions today in Shotcut – already have a video planned this weekend that kinda sorta fits with the upcoming spooky season. It does involve a visit to the spirit realm, so I hope that counts. It also involves a cat, making it perfect for Caturday!

We Are Taking a Rescation!

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Vacation has been going great! Guaranteed to have over a week of amazing breakfasts, and waking up to new adventures with friends! Today we flew planes and helicopters (depending on your definition of “flying”), visited some Japanese Gardens, went to a Roman Bathhouse, and even did some meditation and watched YouTube videos together. All but the latter documented later for future possible viewing potential. :v

Letting The Fun Commence

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Another fine day playing on my Steam Deck. This time we had a heat wave, so I enjoyed some more Shantae while drinking iced chai in the shade. It looks like I picked a good time to start my vacation!

When the evening struck, and everything cooled off enough I ventured into Resonite and did some exploration with Yutram. Found a few chill worlds, and one that made us really grit our teeth… then we ended our adventures in this night club.We played music and videos ranging from talented to what the actual fuck. All in all it was a good evening, as usual we had a fun time!

Shantae Sunday

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Spent some time in bed today with my Steam Deck to keep me company. Finally getting around to playing Shantae: Risky’s Revenge. One of the many games I kept starting but never really did anything with it. I used feeling unwell in bed as a good reason to delve into it. 😛 So far I’ve unlocked the Monkey Dance, and a couple of other buffs from the item shop.

It was a toss up between this and Pirate’s Curse. But since I’ve barely touched this one, and I’m a good ways into Pirate’s Curse I wanted to explore new territory. It looks like it follows a similar playstyle to Half Genie Hero, in which you collect different power dances to explore new areas. My only complaint is remembering to press the B button to confirm menu options, usually it’s A. I’m guessing that’s because it was originally released for the DS? Either way it’s not a deal breaker for me.

The Dopefish Lives! (Quake Edition)

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Quake was calling my number tonight like a good ol’ friend in need of a chat. Even managed to get a few achievements! Rare ones even! So far I’m half way through the second episode. Still finding all of the secrets, maybe I’ll finish this ep during vacay. :v