It is, ostensibly, October. It is, ostensibly, my favorite month of the year. And we are hitting record-breaking heat. We're literally and figuratively *so cooked*. Let's get past the existential dread with the newsletter! ## Interesting Stuff ### [You Will Never Play Many of 2024's Best Games](https://www.polygon.com/459580/too-many-video-games) (Flashbang Warning) Good article about a thing I struggle with! The comments are mostly nice too. ### [The Legend of Pomodoro](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1799520/The_Legend_of_Pomodoro/) I like the Pomodoro method! **The Legend of Pomodoro** is the Pomodoro method paired with a idle / RPG mechanics! You do pomos and then use the resources you got from the pomo to get stronger and do more pomos! There's a cute little story included as well. I like it! ## Planted this Week ### [[Ayn Odin 2]] I got an Odin 2 and I love it so I wrote about it! ### [[Why I Dropped Bluesky]] It sucks! But I go into detail here lol. ### [[Hideki Naganuma is Just Alright]] A very personal vendetta. ### [[It is Hard to go Back to the PS1 Era]] Nostalgia can only carry me so far tbh! ## Media Corner ### Games Been going ham with the Odin 2, as mentioned! After my initial wild bouncing around I've now settled nicely into **Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga** on the PS2. It's a blast. I love the music and the Mantra Grid system, it basically feels like if SMT was **Final Fantasy X**. It's a very intense dungeon crawler though, so between sessions of that I've been getting time in with **Ape Escape 3**, which is the former game's total opposite in both genre and aesthetic lmao. Beyond that, been playing through **Resident Evil 6** with my wonderful pal [[Ghost]] and despite how silly the game is it's been an absolute *blast* to experience with them. We just did Leon's campaign and I'm looking forward to doing Chris' this week! ### TV/Film As it's October, I'm doing one spooky movie every day of the year! I did this [[28 Days of Horror Movies 2023|last year]], and here's this month's list: [[31 Days of Horror Movies 2024]]![^1] I'm also watching the newest season of **Love is Blind USA**! It takes place in Washington D.C. and it sure does show in the contestants LMFAO. ### Music Albums: - **Silent Running** - 65daysofstatic - **ASTRO BOT Original Soundtrack** - Kenneth C M Young - **Path of the Goddess Original Soundtrack** - CAPCOM ## Status Update Not bad not bad. Work has been rough but it is what it is LOL. But I have nothing in particular to not be happy about so I'm just gonna blame it on the weather and generalized anxiety. I need it to cool down so damn ***bad***. ## Signing Off Good luck this week and thanks for reading! Hit the ko-fi link below if you like this letter, or even just drop a comment or suggestion. 💚 https://ko-fi.com/barquq [^1]: The "X" is because I might miss days LOL