I want to write more blog posts here. Or in the very least, it's something I feel I should be doing. The blog section exists for sharing some long-form thoughts and more textual parts of my projects, but I've barely touched it and I fear that may give an impression that I've neglected this place. Or if not that, my neglect leads to falling out of habit of writing things here.

That latter point is where I think several causes may lie.

This post admittedly become something of a vent. I'm not really sure if it's a productive vent in the end — I'm sure there's a non-zero number of visitors to my website who barely know me, and maybe there's stuff in here they don't actually need to know. All that said, it's the best way I felt I could elucidate these feelings.

Content warnings: mentions of death, harassment

With the unfortunate closure of Cohost, the internet is once again looking a large and unknown land where it is very difficult to find your way. However there is some amongst us trying to fight that and bring back the classic 88x31 personal link buttons.

We went through an era of forgetting about linking to personal websites, because everyone was all on Twitter or the like. There was no buttons — heck no RSS either — Twitter took that too. It's so bad honestly — I went looking for new button images to use and some webcomics that I know did have buttons to use no longer do.

Being a creative is a curse, I swear, sometimes.

I was talking with a friend about Witness to Unity, and struggling with some mechanical and structural thoughts I had for it. Specifically around its calendar/day-night system.

I started thinking about it again after watching a little of Metaphor's demo gameplay, and I saw it had a five day calendar system. If I was going to extend WTU's gameplay loop to try and balance out some pacing issues I was worrying about, maybe I didn't have to even have seven days in a week! However this gets into other tricky factors about WTU, and that is by its nature of a world-hopping story.