What Now?
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Todo Around Here
- Setting up a login system for the site.
- Considering making something fun for the people who keep probing my site's API. (Pro top, it's not in python. I take performance way too seriously for that.)
- Working on ideas to refresh my recommended games page.
- Adding a <dialog> modal to my carousel component to let you view large images on the same page if you have JavaScript enabled.
- Working on a tool to bake static CSS
var()andcalc()calls during my site build to better support NetSurf and Dillo. - Going through the back catalogue of old programmer talks now in my TIL page to add my usual commentary on why I think they're worth watching and/or what I learned from them.
Finding a few more webrings that seem like a good fit for the Hyperport.Lined up The 1.44MB Webring, XXIIVV, and nownownow.com. We'll see if the feeling is mutual.Checking out twtxt.Meh. I don't use social media. Don't see why I'd start now.
Media
Dandadan: The animation is incredible! The story is cute. The drama is palpable. From the very first scene you know you're in for something amazing. The use of smear frames again! It's delightful in the age of cheap rigid computer models. I've never enjoyed aliens, ghost, and kaiju this much.Cyberpunk 2077: It's so bad. 100 hours and nothing interesting to say about the world or do in the game. Like nobody had any idea why they were making a game in the first place besides marketability. Just a bunch of press F to pay respects set-piece nonsense. I finally quit hoping it would get better when I was tasked to save the president of the New United States of America after Space Force One crashes. 🙄The Nightmare Before Christmas: I love when you think about it in the context of '93. How this would have been a completely insane idea for a movie. Now it's just seen as normal among the milieu of Gen X cynicism and modernist abstraction. For the time though, this was both transgressive yet endearing. Think about how it fits alongside the tradition of stop motion Videocraft Christmas specials.Plato's Symposium: I get why people say all of Western philosophy is a footnote to Plato. Everything you think of Christianity is here. It's all in Plato. Christianity became what it was because Aquinas, Augustine, Luther, and Calvin each managed to further bridge paganism into the emerging Christian church by showing how the nascent and mailable Christian theology was entirely compatible with the existing platonic thought that permeates Western society. Medieval embrace, extend, extinguish. Clever!Dorfromantik: A lovely puzzle game extending a landscape through random tiles. It's become a franchise hydra so I don't want to give it too much praise. The core gameplay here is still a couple hours of fun.Batman: Arkham Asylum: Many people smarter than me have noted how this game is to Scarecrow what The Dark Knight movie is to The Joker. Scarecrow's writing and game design really is something worth trudging through the rest of it for. Maybe a bit harsh. The lame ending really had me reflect critically on the whole thing. Hopping gargoyle to gargoyle stealthily picking off baddies is pretty fun. Love how later in the game they nurf that mechanic in one scenario to toy with you.MortSome interesting concepts here. Great characters. I just think the ending could have been stronger.YojimboThis is an excellent movie. Completely holds up. So much fun to watch. The best part has to be how the sequel, Sanjuro goes in a completely different direction. Both excellent works. It's one of those magnanimous hero pulp function type deals. Just cut and dry good versus evil, completely outnumbered and still rising to the top. Loved it! Kurosawa is a cinematic genius (duh).