Reflections on social media, technology, science, and video games.
This is my monthly update post, cross-posted to both Patreon and Cohost, detailing the progress I've made on my Let's Plays. Due to the closure of Cohost, this will be the last time it is cross-posted there. Instead, I will begin cross-posting these to my personal blog. More below!
Continue reading...The following is a repost of an essay I wrote in special interest induced delirium one night while hanging at the RP bar run by one of my girlfriends in FFXIV. It was originally posted to cohost, but with the website shutting down, I wanted to be sure it was preserved.
Anyone who's been following me for a bit may have noticed that around the end of December 2023/start of January 2024, I became absolutely obsessed with an indie game called In Stars and Time. I wanted to spend a little time talking about why.
Before that, if you haven't played the game yet, I urge you to at least give it a try. There's a demo available, and you can purchase it on Steam, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch.
Spoilers ahead, as well as content warnings for discussion of mental illness, trauma, self-harm, and other similar warnings. Any warnings will generally match those for In Stars and Time itself, which has a convenient Content Warning page (the website is a tad glitchy and may redirect you to the pre-release CW page - just click the "content warnings" link at the top of the page if that happens!)
This is all personal musings and should not be taken as medical or nutrition advice, nor as a statement about what other people should do. This is just me thinking out loud about what I've been doing for my health. Every now and then I get…
Continue reading...First, a few definitions. Alexithymia is a condition, very common in autistic people, where one cannot identify their own emotional state. They do feel emotions, but expressing those emotions, identifying what those emotions even are is extremely difficult at best. Dissociation is when one feels…
Continue reading...With my preferred social media platform shutting down, I am not particularly a fan of the idea of finding a new social media to replace it. What made cohost so great, or at least have so much potential, was that it actively abhored the "traditional"…
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