12/27/25
Made this page just as something fun to work on in my spare time. I'm thinking about using this as an excuse to post my backlog of art and even just some stuff on my mind. Also, maybe reviews of games and films? To get to know more about me, here is a list of my general interests:
12/31/2025
Here's a picture of my dog! Her name is Suzie, but unlike "Susie" from "Deltarune" she's nothing but sweet and timid. If she looks a little blue in the face, don't worry, I had a blue light on nearby to light up the dark hall at night if I ever wake up and need to go somewhere.
Also, depending on what place on Earth you see this at, Happy New Years! Let's all hope it's better than 2025! Really.
1/5/2026
A model kit of a 1973 Corvette! At least, only partially assembled. Got this over christmas as a gift, been working on it off and on. Will post pics of the finished product when its ready.
1/12/2026
At last, its done! Never a huge car person, but I do like tinkering with things. The parts were simple enough to assemble without much issue. Alot of patience and delicate handling though. The paint didn't come with it, so I had to run to a hobby shop. Seeing all of the tiny pieces and parts make you admire the mechanical complexities that go into the day-to-day machines and vehicles we use.
As for what I'll post next, I plan to post a review of "Gamera the Giant Monster (1965)" soon. Something more in-topic to my interests. Stay tuned!
2/1/2026
Review of GAMERA THE GIANT MONSTER (1965) - Directed by Noriaki Yuasa and Produced by Daiei Films
This is my first time doing any sort of review, so excuse me if things are abit disorganized. I also watched this film a little over a month ago with a buddy, so some of my knowledge opperates on memory.
What better way to celebrate the winter cyclone ravaging the U.S than by watching a movie about a big turtle that breathes fire? If you're at all familiar with the kaiju genre, you've heard of Gamera, although nowadays he doesn't have as much of a standing with the king of the monsters Godzilla when it comes to the western popularity. He was naturally made to ride off the success of Godzilla, but in a much different way.
The late 60s kaiju boom was all about marketing to children, so Gamera was made with this approachability to a younger audience in mind in his debut film. Although this might be a film for younger audiences, its gray atmosphere and depicting Gamera as an antagonist is just a hair shy from how later films in the Showa era would go completely off the rails when it came to colorful kiddie entertainment.
This film starts off with an unidentified jet being shot down over the arctic, and just like that, the ice cracks open and our chelonian pal appears! The film wastes no time getting into the action. Gamera here isn't as intimidating as some of his other kaiju contemporaries, so there's no need to hide his appearence until the big shocking reveal. I must say, the american military men reporting on the incident of Gamera's awakening to the world sound awfully unimpressed or unmotivated. I wonder how much they got paid to read the script.
While the film features a japanese biologist Dr. Hidaka and his reporter Kyoko who he calls his "good luck charm", much of the film centers around a little boy named Toshio and his obsession with his pet turtle "chee-bi", but alas his parents force him to get rid of it because, in their words, it'll make him "Become less fond of humans", which is pretty stupid. But, it only helps kickstarts his obsession with Gamera so we get to see him up close and personal more, so whatever works!
What follows are various scenes of scientists and military personel grouped together to try and figure out just exactly what Gamera is and how to stop him. What makes him unique here is that not only is he immune to convention tank blasts, missiles, and bombs, but that he consumes firepower and fossil fuels for sustience, and his warpath through a geothermal power plant, a shipping yard, and oil refinery is motivated by such hunger. The military use this hunger to, after a series of failed attempts that are conveniently resolved by a volcanic explosion, lure Gamera into the good old fashioned Big New Superweapon to take him down. Or rather, take him up! I really like how the end-all be-all solution to stopping this giant menace is to simply put him in a jar and shoot him into outer space, as if to say "Screw it! Lets just shoot our problems to another planet!"
I will say, a clever plot point I liked is the "waves" on an ancient atlantian carving depicting Gamera being built as a mystery, only to later reveal that these waves were meant to depict clouds, as Gamera's iconic ability is shown before everyone when he's flipped on his back; that he can pull himself into his shell and fly through the sky with rocket jets! Tying this ability to the then-recent real world sightings of UFOs was also a neat touch, but I feel like this twist was abit too predictable given that they show the "UFO" earlier at the start of the movie that very clearly looks like Gamera's shell. Maybe the filmmakers assumed kids wouldn't notice :p
What would normally be the highlight of the film, that is the city destruction scenes, run short, I do like the use of dolly shots as we see Gamera move through buildings and over highways. Generally the special effects are pretty competent for the time, excluding some accidental shots of an exposed flamethrower pipe in Gamera's mouth when he goes to shoot his fire. The films black and white colorization makes the night scenes look great, especially when Gamera is contrasted against the flames on the water during the fire-eating scene in the movies third act.
All in all, the film is a decent watch if you're interested at all in the kaiju genre, and the adventerous plot, fresh ideas, and competent movie making make it clear why Gamera was a breakout hit. If you're interested in actual human drama with any stakes though, maybe skip this film.
Rating - 6/10
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Musings about A New Half-Life Game
Half-Life is a very interesting franchise to me, and it feels like something I almost certainly missed out on as a kid, but its influence on my life certainly didn't miss me. I'm sure you've probably heard the same story of how "Oh I grew up with GMod and the memes and never knew who the character models were until I sat down and played the game they came from.", but my familiarity wasn't really from that. The first time Half-Life ever entered my life was from a youtube video that showed a rare G-Man encounter from a beta build of HL2. And then I just...never decided to see where it was from. Like a distant vague memory. Guess it makes sense that it involved the G-Man then, the guy is known for being cryptic and mysterious.
After that undefined gap of time of me not knowing anything, I kind of osmosis'd information about the franchise over the years, partially through Portal, until one day, both games were on sale and I was like "What the heck, why not?" and got them. And let me say, at least on Half-Life 2's side, the art direction, story, gameplay, and game design still hold up remakably well, but I really shouldn't be the one to tell you that. I sucked at the game! As someone who wasn't acquainted with first person shooters until this point, I failed and died again, and again, repeatedly. But, does my lackluster skill make me any less of a fan? Someone who is more of a "poser"? I'd wager not. I got that 100% save file on both the main story and its episodes, and never had to use cheats! Play the game bad? Well then finish it bad. And yet, my enjoyment never decreased. Someone who isn't a lifelong fan and someone unfamiliar to the genre this game is part of can pick it up and have fun because its just that good. So what?
Well, I am a newcomer to the scene. If you've been living under a rock, you probably don't know about Half-Life: Alyx and how it ended off on a strong note of "We want to continue the story of this franchise after we left our fans wallowing in mud and sorrow". But can it be true? Can the hype be real? Do the constant, consistent, and intriguing source code strings labled "HLX" and trusted gaming sources really mean the mythical Half-Life 3 is on the horizen? By all accounts, if you care about the series even a little bit, you know that its an inevitability. To a newcomer, this is great news! Something amazing to be excited for! Everything BUT an official announcement is all there needs to be. And yet, I am not the lifelong fan. Maybe I am the poser. I was not someone who had to wait over a decade having their hype engines be burnt through, teased with, toyed with, and being put through all five stages of grief over the number 3.
Above are very rough mspaint scribbles of what came to mind when envisioning what some of the new enemies could look like based on the string leaks, purely from my cerebrum. The creature and alien designs for both half-life games are top notch in my opinion, and HLA's assortment of new foes proved that even with new blood in the team, they could create something that looks just as good. Half-Life is something that only comes around when there's a new jump in technology to take advantage of, and serves as a way to push it onto the market. The first game lit a match with what you could do with story in games and interactivity, the second was a marvel when it came to facial animations, physics, and much more, and HLA has proved to be one of, if not the most impressive VR games of all time. So, what is the next step? Could it be the game with the best dynamic environment interactions the world has ever seen? The game that pushes environmental simulations to its limit? All these questions I'm asking, and more, will be answered with an official announcement trailer! The Steam Machine and its release this year is our bright shine in the dark. And yet. The game, it's being held back, like with the Steam Machine, because of those stupid RAM prices!! As if you didn't hate GenAI enough, its holding Half-Life 3 hostage, quite literally! We gotta make like Gordon in his mission to rescue Eli and go teleport HLX out of the Google Prospekt. But, once you do, please give it to me first. I promise my computer can run it.
Bye bye chao!
3/23/2026
Soot Cookies
I don't have much thats new to provide at the moment, except maybe this rpgmaker thing.
I'm not sure what this "thing" could be. And It's up to me if I decide to get it off the ground or not. All of what you see is placeholder, especially the GODZILLA.
As for anything else to share, here is a cookie mug recipe that I found courtesy of tumblr. May your tastebuds be satisfied.
4/3/2026
Some kind of...Space Godzilla?
If you're as much "in the know" about the Godzilla franchise as me, particularly on the american "Monsterverse" side of things, its abit of an open secret that a certain crystal godzilla-doppelganger has been trademarked to appear in the upcoming film. And, because it seems that a "monster cameo which will break the internet" will appear in Apple TV's new Monsteverse show "Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Season 2)" as reported by online news articles, I just wanted to post this to be potentially ahead of the curb. If the cameo at the end of the season turns out to be Spacegodzilla to tease the upcoming film, I'll edit this post to say I'M RIGHT and gloat about it.
Details are within the image. Months ago I drew my own take on Spacegodzilla, and with the mounting expectation of his grand return, now is as good a time as any to post. To the left is my drawing, and to the right is the original design from the debut 1994 film. When Godzilla X Kong: Supernova reveals the NEW modern design, I'll be excited to see what creative liberties they take with it.
5/4/2026
Delta-funnies
Hey! I planned to post this around a week ago but I got sick, and I wasn't in the mood. Well, now I'm better.
With the release of Chapter 5 imminent, I thought I'd commemorate it by posting a year-spanning batch of MS paint doodles, mainly featuring FRIEND, that weird smiley black cat that fandom theorists go nuts over. Some are theories, some are predictions, all are stupid nonsense. Except for the Catterpillar one. That's definitely real.
When Chapter 5 drops I plan on doing a review of it shortly after my playthrough. Will it be before or after my next planned post on this blog? I don't know! What is my next post? Wait and see... (I don't know!)
5/24/2026
Review of - Twilight Zone - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963) - Directed by Richard Donner and Produced by Rod Sterling
Today is Memorial Day Weekend in America. I didn't intend to make this post today, but it just worked out that way. But today is also World Schizophrenia Day, which is more befitting of the topic at hand regarding mental health. Season 5 Episode 3 of The Twilight Zone, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", in which a man in an airplane sees something nobody else seems to notice. So, shoutout to this episode.
One thing I immediately noticed about this episode is that the camera quality was top noche. I could see every pore and every sweat droplet pouring from William Shatner's face. I always did like how old black and white features like these knew how to expertly light the scene so even an entire episode in dark doesn't obscure or blot out clarity. Fitting that this guy plays a character who spends all his time in the air, because his role as Captain Kirk in Star Trek sees him go up even higher into space.
This episode makes it abundantly clear that our character Bob once had a nervous breakdown 6 months ago while on a plane, and so naturally, his only way of going home from the sanitarium he was placed in is of course, another plane ride. How unlucky. This would prime the viewer for the assumption that the things Bob sees are fabrications of his paranoid mind which, mind you, involve a fuzzy man-shaped creature outside his plane window during a storm trying to tear apart the engine. But the episode leaves things ambiguous within the events of the story itself, at least thats what I thought before watching, but maybe not? One of the flight attendants directly tells Bob that what hes seeing out there is something the pilots have also taken notice of, which is not referring to not JUST an engine malfunction, but a very clear "him". Although it could be possibly that the attendant was just trying to, say, feed into Bob's percieved delusion to keep him calm and reassure him.
Strangely this creates a new question of, what were the pilots and staff intending to do with the damaged engine? Maybe they had no idea themselves, and just prayed things would work out and that they would land in time before things went awry.
I know I'm rambling on about this part, but its just me acting like my old critical self. Not a knock to the integrity of the story, because its overall good, and is so simple yet standout that remains to my knowledge one of Twilight's more popular episodes. The acting from both Shatner and White feel very believable, and it combined with the slow desperate crawl of tension and musical score make you almost feel as anxious as Bob is. It feels palpable, brutal, and real.
Side tangent about the "Gremlin" that shows up here, its depiction is interesting. Its woolly fur makes sense for it since it lives in a high altitude area thats freezing cold, but its upturned mouth almost reminds me of the nose of a bat. I wonder if its time in the cold has caused its facial extremities to shrivel, which is why its lips are in such an odd shape. Future designs like in the movie adaptation make it look like a ferocious banshee, which while definitely scarier, can't beat the iconicness of that things weird derp face.
Rating - 7/10
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