2026-06-14
Hi. Hello. It's been awhile, hasn't it?
I've had bad experiences with folks finding out about my socials in the past, so timelines and forms of talky that have a clear preference for recency bias have never really worked out. it's not you, it's me.
I reached out to a few old friends some weeks ago. Got worried about them, you know? And I don't really give a shit about keeping a Facebook around or keeping those lines open with old friends. Better to keep the good memories in my skull, it's the fuel for the stories I write in the first place.
Seems everybody I care to look for is fine, more or less. There was an opportunity to relay to a good former friend I used to spend time with in Austin Texas about the Steins;Gate PC-88 adventure game getting a translation patch and it is very good, solid fun. Truly what makes the game work is the entire presence of ASSISTANT as a game mechanic and puzzle solving deus ex machina.
Besides that Steins;Gate spinoff, I haven't been playing as many video games with wife as I used to. Black Matrix for the Sega Saturn has been the clear exception and on Advanced mode it is very well balanced and designed, as far as we can see. Maps are quite different from Cross and AD, too! We'll write more about it sometime.
Devil Children backlog and fanfic is likely to remain this website's real driving force for some time to come. However. I've got a few ideas for curveballs here and there.
It seems that I prefer to write about humanity and the way people work rather than games. Perhaps that's why the writing on "games" tends to be in flux.
Sometime we'll cover Eberouge, more of Black Matrix Sega Saturn, and maybe some Karen game moments. And of course there will always be more Devil Children, I can't seem to get it out of my head.