Hello yellow!
I'm wearing my Snorlax Kigurumi. The leaves are turning yellow. It's finally starting to feel like Fall. Life is feeling pretty good right now!
Okay, the stuff!
## Interesting Stuff
### [Hearing Things](https://www.hearingthings.co/)
This is the website everyone at Pitchfork moved on to after it got gutted. I love capitalism! :)
### [A Trip To Machida, The Real-Life 'Pallet Town' That Inspired Pokémon](https://www.nintendolife.com/features/a-trip-to-machida-the-real-life-pallet-town-that-inspired-pokemon)
Very neat collection of pics and trivia! Reminds me of my time in Osaka, which was absolutely delightful.
### [CAIN](https://tombloom.itch.io/cain)
New game from the guy who did LANCER, Tom Bloom. Can't wait to buy the pdf, look at all of it and then finally play a game of it in 2027 **LOL**.
### [Zerotype](https://zerotype.shop/)
Cool (and frankly a little expensive) apparel shop with neat graphic design.
### [HTML is for People](https://htmlforpeople.com/)
I think the intro for this page sums it up well enough so I'mma just copy-paste:
> [!Quote]
> HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.
## Planted Recently
### [[My Favorite Game from Every Year Since Birth]]
A fun little exercise I did with some friends! I want to write about each one in depth at some point.
### [[My Favorite Games - Part 3]]
Getting closer to writing about all 25. Down to the top 10 next!
## Media Corner
### Games
I started a [Backloggery](https://backloggery.com/barquq/) if you want to keep up with me there! As of late I've:
- Finished **Resident Evil 6** with [[Ghost]]! It was terrible! I loved it!
- Replayed **God Hand**! Still a mechanical marvel but the humor of this game has aged like dogwater lmfao.
- Researching the racism levels in **Metaphor Refantazio** but it's slow going!
- Beat **Black Rock Shooter**, it was a nothingburger of a game
- Beat both PSP **Yakuza** games. Very impressive given the console and time-period, but a little too self-serious for my taste given how silly **Yakuza** can get.
Now I'm getting real weird about **Metal Max**! I already finished **Metal Max Returns** and moved on to **Metal Max 3**. I have a lot to say about these games so I'll be writing a separate post about them but they're quite fascinating!
### TV/Film
Watching **Love is Blind Habibi** with the LOML and it's a trainwreck in an entirely different way from the usual **Love is Blind** trainwreck! Excited to finish that up with her.
Besides that, lots of horror movies, and also **The Wild Robot**, which absolutely broke me! Incredible film that you should definitely check out.
### Music
Albums:
- **Cozy Echoes** - GlitchxCity
- **Brat and it's completely D different but also still brat** - Charlie XCX
- **MG Ultra** - Machine Girl
## Status Update
I'm great thankfully! Feeling pretty good overall. Nothing to complain about! And it's cooling down. And I'm taking my Vitamin D! Life's good alhamdulillah!
## 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. 💚
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