(Posted 2026-03-22)

Table of Contents

  1. Random Thoughts
  2. Art
  3. Music
  4. Programming/Gamedev
  5. Tabletop RPGs

Random Thoughts

  1. I might start making slush for different categories, rather than a single page of them.
    1. Might make it easier to tag without filling one tag with irrelevant data?
    2. worry about overcrowding with needless posts. could decide on a low frequency to mitigate (something like every few 3 months)
    3. I could also just link a table of contents so people can jump to the relevant section and multi-tag? Would have to decide if segmenting my inspirations vs my posts is worthwhile.
  2. I could make combo-tags, since I don’t have a search system…
    1. Stuff to show which art is mine vs links to others
    2. Personally I don’t like doing that, since the utility of tags is to combine them as needed IMO
    3. could just add a tag search library? something like this simple-jekyll-search
    4. splitting slush per category as above could also make sense, as it allows an easy scan of what’s slush in a tag. Just would to name the documents

Art

  1. ArtStation - Dave Rapoza - Wizardry & RPG concepts
    1. VERY good balance of classic fantasy + modern technique in these.
  2. ArtStation - pixel cat - Small hotel outside the village
  3. reddit u/thomden’s valkyries
    1. VERY well done with just pure black and white!
    2. Hjorthrimul—Valkyrie of Shield Maidens : r/osr
    3. Skuld - Seer of the Valkyries : r/osr
  4. AFK Journey characters
    1. a fun balance between sexy and adventurous
    2. solid enough balance of body types
      1. a few stocky women, which is a rarity for mobile games.
      2. lots of guys with varying shiloutettes in my memory. mostly in costume design, but hey.
    3. Didn’t really enjoy the game enough to keep going, but ah well

Music

  1. Netsubi What the ████ - YouTube
    1. theming is fine, but MAN those melodies are good.
  2. Melt Banana - Fetch
    1. Heard about melt banana so much from people older than me (including my dad, oddly enough).
    2. Yeah, I REALLY like this so far.
  3. 雨良 feat.初音ミクVS重音テト (Amala ft.Miku VS Teto) - ダダダダダル(DaDaDaDaDaru)
    1. Sequel to DaiDaiDaiDaiDaiKirai
    2. Love people noticing details in the music video. Stuff like how Miku’s character playing white in the chess implies she initiated the conflict
    3. Production quality on the animation went up!
  4. Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (Switch)- Opening (Japanese) “Kane wo Narashite”
    1. Vesperia was fun when I played it a few years ago
    2. In the mood to play another tales game now…
    3. I had NO idea that Patty wasn’t in the original release of the game!
  5. Tokyo Manaka - Brain Rot feat. Kasane Teto
  6. akem - 【Kasane Teto】 レクイエム / Requiem 【SynthV AI × UTAU Cover】
    1. Re-visiting this one. Still super good!
  7. Daytona USA (Arcade) - Let’s Go Away
    1. clever re-use of syllables to make the lyrics on arcae hardware

Programming / Gamedev

  1. Github - vsys-host/shkeeper.io
    1. Crypto is looking increasingly useful in the face of the censorship-styled laws the current administration is passing/banks are enforcing
    2. Really wish I didn’t have to investigate this. Still, if worst comes to worst I guess I’ll set up a WooCommerce shop for my relevant friends to sell spicy art or something.
  2. Github - Silejonu/bash_loading_animations
  3. Splatterhouse (NES Port)
    1. A super charming platformemr!
  4. Saving games — Godot Engine (stable) documentation
    1. I had to do something like this recently
    2. ironically, the library for .ink dialogue files I use is able to sidestep the whole need for this. Still, it’s good to know how to do it manually

Tabletop RPGs

  1. Project Gutenberg - Books by Howard, Robert E. (Robert Ervin)
    1. Been studying the roots of D&D a bit lately
    2. Finding out that THE author of Conan the barbarian was mostly available in public domain was nice.
  2. reddit u/thomden’s valkyries (as noted in art)
    1. Hjorthrimul—Valkyrie of Shield Maidens : r/osr
    2. Skuld - Seer of the Valkyries : r/osr
  3. Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition (Switch)”
    1. Really like the balance between danger and whimsy Vesperia had. Want to push more for that in my home games.
  4. CarrionGods: Modernist spell schools of the nine rivers
    1. LOTS of good flavor
  5. I Cast Light!: DECLARE ACTIONS: Communicating The Stakes For Interesting Combat Choices
  6. Return to Cataclysm
    1. More digital dungeons should utilize the medium (i.e clickable maps) IMO

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