shamefully havent been reading. i think ill. read abit now. hope youre good 🌞

I remember playing the Penumbra demo way back in they day. Mostly because I was into free-ware games at the time and that was one of the ones I'd seen on the wiki. I'm not much of a horror fan but it was a nice looking game.

in Penumbra: Black Plague, there's an infected man, Wilbur Frisk, who will attack you from holes in the wall if you pass by them with the lights off. You never see him, he has no model. You're basically just going to get got if you're in the dark. Very similar to monster in The Bunker, who burrows through the walls and tries to avoid the light, I hope they were thinking of Frisk when they designed him.

Frisk is also revealed to have been behind a death that you *hear* in the first Penumbra game, but you never encounter him in the game beyond that. I nowww remember that there's an old Penumbra tech demo game that was REALLY really good, I wonder if I can get it running...

i forgot a bunch of stuff i wanted to say :') ttyl, pls haveagood day. UFC Serbia starting in 2 minutes lol

(da-- Penumbra tech demo still holds up after all these years)

getting that stuff from the previous desktop was a freaking trial. tell you next time

Silk looks like he's 50 in this, but really he's probably only in his early 30s max. finished Ys 2. Zero damage taken on final boss using the shield magic. ridiculously easy. idk what's next. maybe continuing Ys V. kkkkkkkkk

Patera Silk about to go on his Father Brown arc and solve a murder mystery.

Idk how much I really want to write about, but Jeremy Dewitte, the police impersonator -- i love, so much, that his gf plays him like a fiddle while he's trying to manipulate her. She's just totally immune to it because she's on another level. It's like a white belt trying to judo throw a black belt. Moron's calling from prison and she's literally laughing at him. Get him queen, take everything 👑

Very guilty pleasure listening to these calls 🫣just sooo funny RANIA!!! WALLAHI IM NOT CHEATING ON YOU I SWEAR It's really fun saying his lines as Mickey 🐭

was there something else? ... I'm almost done with Solomon Temple in Ys2. I'm actually tempted to play the PC remake, too. but I don't want Dark Fact to abuse me again because of my *monitor refresh rate*, so I have to look into that... the DS version being *SO EASY* really does make it comfy. But the pc remake does have stuff that makes it rrrrrreally cool, like the uh... encyclopedias with all the monsters and NPCs

idk what it is about these games, they're just so pleasant. such simple, repetitive combat. Such a *small* world, really, especially Ys1. But it's just somehow so delightful. The SNES version of YS IV was really, really, really cool--it felt like it had a zillion different towns. It really did feel so much like Memories of Celceta. I think I'll really enjoy the PCE-CD version.

want to finally try King's Field too 🫣 but you know, there's a million things i want to try. there's just not enough time :')

The "Ys Eternal" games are really impressive. Those are the Win 95 versions, back in the day of "big box" PC games. They came with bonus music CDs, massive hardcover color instruction booklets, the disc even had the Ys sheet music on PDF (or some format).

Hardcover 😩