Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

My new year's resolution was to play 6 games to their end this year.

I'm going to see if I can do it. I've finished 2 games so far this year, which means I have to finish 2 games in November and 2 in December.

I'm currently playing Pseudoregalia, which I know is relatively short.

This month especially: there are 2 games that I would want, and the bundle is cheaper than buying those two games just on their own....

But I don't want any of the extra games. And I don't think I would actually play either of those games this month, so... what's the point in paying for them?

I've also put my monthly humble subscription on indefinite pause. I started itn to try and reduce impulse spending on steam sales, and it worked!

But looking back at the past year, I've played almost none of the dozens of games I've gotten out of it. I would have been better off just... spending the money on a game I was actually going to play.

I've decided I don't want any more games in my steam account. There's too many already, and I'm not comfy with the DRM.

So, I have gone through my steam wishlist, and added everything I can (and still at least somewhat want) to my GOG wishlist.
This gives me a baseline of a place to get a game DRM free.

I'm also going to make an effort to get stuff from itch more.

Good good morning, beasts & beings!

Hey, you might not know this, but... I am a creacher!

I've been wanting to cancel it for months, constantly thinking "I'll cancel it once I get better at spending less time on it".

It's time to stop waiting. It's time to do things that I actually want to do.

But I've realised that I've wasted too much time on youtube. I think it was a habit that grew out of a period where I only had time for an occasional short video, and couldn't engage in something involved.

But I spend too much time each day watching youtube and feeling miserable. Instead, I'm going to try and work on my hobbies and engage with fiction I actually enjoy.

Yesterday I closed most of the youtube tabs I had open on my comptuer.
And today I cancelled youtube premium.

In December 2022, I started paying for youtube premium.

The main reason: I had found some videos which helped me go to sleep, but being interrupted halfway through with a loud ad was causing issues.

After some time, this reason went away (I found other ways to get to sleep), but I kept it around because I like watching videos on my phone on the way to work, and not having to deal with ads or the video stopping when I switched to a different app was nice.

I'm so glad I'm a mollusc

What if we were both creatures
And we slept beside each other on a mountaintop under the stars

Real sleepy hours

Previously, only planeswalkers could travel between planes, and they couldn't take anything or anyone with them. Now anyone can travel between planes, if they find an omenpath that links the two.

On top of this: most of the old planeswalkers have either lost the spark they need to planeswalk (leaving them stranded all over the place) or are dead.

And I think it's great: it shows a real change to the status quo in the stories they can tell!

I'm also way more interested in the stories now that we're in a new arc.

The end of the last arc (the Phyrexia arc) saw the titular villains invade the entire multiverse all at once by tearing holes (omenpaths) between the different planes.

The phyrexians were defeated, and have left several interesting storytelling hooks in their wake...

It also is clearly inspired by strong understanding of mesoamerican mythology & society, including parts that are less well known:

* Things are discovered by going DOWN, rather than outwards.
* Time is counted in sets of 20.
* The importance of the sun, and the idea that this is not the first sun.

Plus, the story also prominently features a sapphic couple - Huatli, a warrior-poet from Ixalan, and Saheeli, an inventor of gadgets from Kaladesh.