I spent the last three weeks working on these two posts. They are part devlog about a project I was allowed to serve as designer for at the company I work for, but also kind of an excuse to grieve a year of really stupid decisions resulting in half of my coworkers being laid off. The first part is more of a summary of how it felt to work at the company at that time, and the second part is more measured and about how I tried to make an event in a stupid mobile game speak to the feeling of being a pleb without influence or wealth in a system where that is all that grants you power.
The second one is really long. So donāt feel obligated to read. I think itās just fun to share things Iāve completed. I hope someone else will hire me. And I hope I never have the occasion to write about this fucking game again lol
hopefully zines count for this thread? this is one i made a while back, in word 97. i upgraded to word 2000 and am using that currently, but am torn if i want to stick with it or go back to 97. canāt decide between 3d clippy and 2d clippyā¦.. anyways, this zine is just some nonsensical ramblings about the internet spliced between random wordart and low-res images. also me being a clippy apologist. listen, i just like having a little critter (paperclip in this case) moving around my screen while i workā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦. maybe i should get into shimeji sometime.
Incredible that clippy used to be shorthand for āinvasive bullshit no one wants or needsā and now heās positively adorable relative to all the llm chatbot psychosis generatorsā¦
Decided to start a static website on Neocities to serve as an external dump of brain contortions caused by playing videogames and watching TV shows and reading books and doing real life stuff.
Started doing this because:
I miss making HTML/CSS on the old internet and this seems like a decent way to shake the rust off
Journaling sites like Backloggd are okay for single all-encompassing reviews, but terrible for granular stuff like reviewing individual episodes or levels
I wanted to put these thoughts somewhere that I can easily export out and host elsewhere if need be, and which is only beholden to me.
So, thatās what I did. Iām probably going to migrate my old tryhard essays to the new site and then redirect my domain to it and put the old site out to pasture.
I have quietly been keeping up with my site, writing on average 1k words a day and 40k+ since I started the thing. The biggest page is on Heat Guy J, followed by a close dissection of Diablo 4ās rewards design.
