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!
2/20/2026
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!)
