Well, it’s been a week, for sure, well ever since last Saturday.

• 🥳 Last Saturday was Luna’s 5yo birthday party
• 🛫 On Monday we woke up early, worked from home then headed out to the airport.
• 🌱 Tuesday, is field day.
• ✈️ After all day on the field, I get dropped off at the airport.
• 🛬 I arrived at midnight, slept about 3 hours.
• 🎂 Wednesday, was Luna’s birthday celebration at her pre-school. We had juice 🧃 and donuts 🍩.
• 📷 next up, downtown lunch with Luna, Marley, and Mom, street photography with Luna’s new camera (and mine until it died)

• 🤒 Late evening, Luna gets sick (sad trombone)
• 👨🏻‍⚕️💻 Thus, on Thursday and Friday I was busy working from home and being a nurse.

📺 TV shows watched

📺 Onimusha (2023) - ★★★★☆

Finished it this week, pretty cool but didn’t love it.

Started:

📺 BLUE EYE SAMURAI (2023) - ★★★★★

Only two episodes in and I am loving this show. There’s good stuff in here.

📺 Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) - ★★★★★

I am a sucker for anything Godzilla-related so obviously I was going to watch this. Watched the first two episodes and I am excited to see where this is going.

🎮 Video games currently playing

🎮 Gunbrella (2023) - ★★★★★

Finished it and had lots of fun playing it.

🎮 Assassin’s Creed Mirage (2023)

I think I am about 60% completed on this one.

🎵 Music piques

🎵 The Glass - Single - H.E.R.

🎵 New Blue Sun - André 3000

🎵 The Liftaway - Walk the Moon

🎵 Patience - Chris Cornell

Last night I finished a game that like many indie games I buy, I usually play for a little bit until I get distracted with something else. I know, this sucks and I need to be better a this.

Gunbrella

Developer: doinksoft

Publisher: Devolver Digital

Released: Sep 13, 2023

Uncover the dark secrets of a gritty, tangled metropolis and battle diabolic villains with your trusty Gunbrella, a bulletproof brolly that doubles as a firearm.

This game I would describe it as a 2D shot ‘em up platformer with some Metroidvania, and rogue-lite elements. And there’s lots of blood. At the end of the day, it is a very entertaining indie action game.

The premise of the story itself is both straightforward and a little cruel. His [the protagonist] home has been set ablaze, his wife was murdered, and the killer kidnapped his newborn child. What was uncovered after that, is pretty wild, the story is pretty appealing with a lot of what-fucks?

I love the pixel art, of course, this is probably the main reason I buy these games. The art, the noir-like aesthetic of it, makes this game worth checking out.

The gameplay in general is pretty linear, not a lot of exploration or Metroidvanianess in the sense that you may need a thing to access another area and such. Well, there is but it’s usually a password from someone or a key. The game isn’t that long either. It took me, what? Three days to finish it.

About six hours?

The game has three different difficulties you can play as, obviously I played on easy. Boss fights weren’t too challenging at first, they get a little more challenging as you progress. More in the sense that you may die on your first try and then by the second you’ve figured out the patterns making things easier.

I’m so glad I picked it up and stuck with it, it was really fun to play in between playing bigger titles like Assassin’s Creed Mirage which I’m currently playing too.

A quick note about my Defaults.

I had listed in the Podcast Category

Currently a battle between Apple Podcasts and Overcast

As of last night, the battle has been decided, and the winner is Overcast.

Believe me, I have tried to enjoy using Apple Podcasts, there are many things I love about it. It is so great for discovering new shows to listen to whereas Overcast clearly lacks in that regard, and the stuff that features are the same stuff over and over again.

Ah! Biscuits!

I think I just talked myself back into the Apple Podcasts app!

Never mind!

Darknet Diaries - EP 139: D3F4ULT

This is the story of D3f4ult from CWA. He was a hacktivist, upset with the state of the way things were, and wanted to make some changes. Changes were made.

Whoa, another fascinating episode of the Darknet Diaries radio show! It’s pretty emotionally intense, or at least it is for me. It’s so interesting and as I’ve said, so fascinating that I am going through my second listen of it.