25/06/2023
Hello people!
I have returned once more at the expected date!
Time for the Status Update.
WEBSITE UPDATES
For website news I got not much!
I spent time optimizing and making all the secrets mobile friendly.
It was a long process that I don’t have much to show unfortunately.
Oh and also fixing typos too! There were a lot of typos.
Added 8 more images to the Home page.
I also made a page for my friend’s website KageMiyaku! Click on his name and go find the page! It’s very silly and fun!
That’s it for website news!
LIFE UPDATES
I got a lot for this one!
I have been spreading time reading manga, as usual, but also gaming!
A lot of gaming actually.
Playing Thorium Mod for Terraria, that has been a comforting time. Also been playing a lot of Bloons TD 6 and Bloons TD Battles 2 on my phone which has been pretty fun! I even got top 8 on the boss leaderboards yesterday!
But I have fallen quite a lot after a day lol. At the time of writing, I’m at 49th.
I also began a new journey of playing Super Bomberman 1-5 for the Super Nintendo. So far I got through 1 and 2. I realized something from these games though, they are very fucked up, the level design is evil for no reason! 2 in particular is very cheap, if you're not 100% concentrating, you will die and game over a lot!
KageMiyaku also gave me the knowledge of an amazing Bomberman fan game that is a really sweet and well made love letter to the series Power Bomberman. It aims to combine all things from all Bomberman games into one chaotic battle with online support! Go check it out by clicking the name of the game!
Another game I played that was a recommendation from him is a little game called Outcore.
How do I begin to describe it… I know! It’s a game that bends reality and fiction and turns it into one! There’s no other way to put it, I won’t say anything as well, go play it! It’s a great experience! Click on the name to go to the Steam page!
And last but not least:
In the last few months, I have been on a journey to rewatch all Jojo's Bizarre Adventure anime seasons! I started this journey after I learned that part 6 was finished (thanks for screwing it up Netflix…). I have been having a lot of fun with the english dub, the voice actors did an amazing job with it. So good in fact that I like their performances more than the originals lol.
But I recently finished Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean and as a big fan of Jojo you bet I'm gonna talk about it!
I became a fan of Jojo shortly before the anime for Golden Wind, about 5 years ago. I knew how Stone Ocean was going to end, everything that was going to happen. What surprised me is how David Productions, the studio behind this series for about 10 years now, did all this. They made the villain’s new ability,「Made in Heaven」an very terrifying ability. I was holding my breath at some points of those episodes! The sound design was so perfect, the animation was stellar and voice acting on point!
They even brought back the fan favorite Ending Song back for the finale. Part 6 is a little rough around the edges but, in my opinion, is a perfect conclusion to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
I also wrote a breakdown of the final version of the opening that you can find here: Click me!
That was originally part of the Status Update but It grew too big lul.
If you read all of that and never watched it, I would recommend you to do so, all the cringe memes aside, it’s an amazing series with a lot of heart put into it! Trust me, you wont regret it!
The song of the day is another duo! STONE OCEAN and Heaven’s falling down both from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, I have been listening to these songs a lot for the previously mentioned reasons!
15/06/2023
Helo!
It's me, your host Pudding, bringing you another status update!
Let us begin.
(I'm sick today, so apologies if I ramble for long times)
WEBSITE UPDATES
Continuing the streak, I have made a lot of changes to the website again! Although most will not be noticeable, things like embed link info and stuff. The ones noticeable were some typos I fixed!
I began to improve the magic secret and I really like how it ended up so far! Figured out how to use Iframes to their fullest advantage! Still not done though, I still need to fix typos and add embeds to it, but you can check it out by clicking on the word magic on the about me page or clicking here!
Now for the biggest thing I added to the website:
LETTER'S SHADOW
This is the story I mentioned back on the 25th of May I finally finished writing it and post on website.
If you haven't read it yet, Click Here to do so!
I spent a good amount of time thinking and writing it and I think the end product is good!
Writing this story made me realize how I work as a writer. I usually take months to think about the story and like, 6-8 hours to write it lol. The story was originally meant to be a horror focused story, the shadow but some sort of torture for aroon and the story would revolve around those two. But after writing, I started to despise it. Why? Well, when I experience a story that presents tragedy and misery, I always try to look for the "Heart" of the story.
"Heart" being the soul, the purpose of the suffering, was it to inspire a good message or was it just to inflict misery on the audience and nothing else. When the story falls into the second option, I begin to despise it.
I don't like stories whose sole purpose is to show the worst of humanity and make you miserable, life is not only about suffering. Letter's Shadow was falling into that, suffering justto make the audience feel terrible and I began to despise it. But this time was different, I had the power to change it and give it a soul.
And so I did, and turned to something I'm genuinely proud of! It changed from horror to a tragic love story in the process and I'm okay with that!
Apologies for the rambling, I wanted to get my feelings out while writing it. Hope it was clear!
Letter's shadow is done but I'm still making chapter 4, it will be more of an epilogue chapter, so look forward to it!
LIFE UPDATES
Now for what I have been doing!
I have been doing more of the usual!
Been reading manga and rewatching anime I really liked to put it on my anilist. Has been super enjoyable!
In video games, I made great progress in Genshin Impact, there's only one region left to achieve 100% and stop playing it for the next 6 months! I got pretty lucky on my rolls on the Kazuha banner too!
Aside from that, I finished the community Mann Vs Machine and managed to complete the hardest mission it had. It took about 3 hours, super tough but it felt good to overcome that challenge!
Lastly I been playing more of Gunfire Reborn and spending 7+ hours straight playing Terraria on a sunday! Yup! Terraria is that addicting to me! I was playing the Thorium Mod and it has been serving as a calming and comforting experience for me to cool my head of all worries~~
The song of the day is a duo but also not a duo! The song is Synthesized Angel and the remix Synthesized Angel Ghost both made by Sakuzyo! I loved Synthesized Angel, so imagine my shock when I saw there was a self-remix for it and IT'S JUST AS GREAT AS THE ORIGINAL!!
05/06/2023
Salve!
I Hope you, yes, YOU! READING THIS! I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A NICE DAY!
It's time for another Status Update!
Let 's begin.
WEBSITE UPDATES
As promised in the last update, I have gotten back to doing silly goofy things on the website again!
I have added a few more pixel arts I made recently and organized the page from big to small pixel arts.
Also added a new secret to one of the main pages and did a few improvements to the previous to be more silly.
Phoenix Club now has a French translation! Made by a good friend @KageMiyaku for reasons I don't even understand, but I appreciate it!
The Bloons Tower Defence 6 Tier list was updated because of the new tower that came out and change of opinions from yours truly.
I also figured out how to reply to the signs on the guestbook! I'll try to reply to future ones quickly!
To finish off, my socials were added to the misc page and there were a few minor tweaks and additions to other pages!
LIFE UPDATES
Not much happened this past few days so this will probably be shorter!
I was recently blessed with knowledge from a steam friend while I was using Retroarch. It's called Retroachivements! These are community made achievements for older games that couldn't have them. And it works flawlessly! It gave me reason to revisit old games I have played to get all achivos. I recommend checking it out!
On the topic of video games in general, As you may have noticed, gaming is my favorite hobby on this planet and so, I enjoy the vast and ever growing history of video games. To my surprise, a good channel I followed for a long time made a video about it, "The Entire History of Video Games". If you have any interest in the history of video games, watch it! It's a 6 hour journey presented in a very informative way!
Still on video games, I've been playing the new DLC for Gunfire Reborn and a community made Mann vs Machine event on Team Fortress 2. Both are very fun!
And one last thing to finish off the status update, the spookles story is still being written, I have finished writing part 1 and part 2 is very close to being finished. When they are done I'll put it on the website.
Music of the day is Uncontrollable From Xenoblade Chronicles X, very underrated game you should see!
