These are all the game titles, that I have bought over time. Some I bought and haven't even played them again. Some I started and something else came along and abandoned them. Others, well I may have just rage-quitted. Some of these I really want to play them and do my best to finish them. Some are still on my wishlist and eager to play the! Most of them are indie games, with beautiful pixel art and soundtracks. I am a sucker for pixel art. Also, most of these games have an amazing soundtrack, I'm a sucker for video game soundtracks.

• Wizard of Legend - played a bit
• Timespiner - even forgot I owned this game, played a bit
• The Messenger - played a few hours/not finished
• The Liar Princess and The Blind Prince - Unplayed
• Stardew Valley - played a bit...
• Star Renegades - played a bit
• Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortunate and the Dice of Fate - played a bit
• Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin - played a bit
• SaGa Frontier Remastered -  Unplayed
• River City Girls - played a bit
• RetroMania Wrestling - played a bit
• Penny-Punching Princess - played a bit
• Panzer Paladin - played a bit
• Moonlighter - played a bit
• Monster Sanctuary - played a bit
• Kingdom Two Crowns -  Unplayed
• Katana ZERO - played a few hours/rage-quitted
• Hyper Light Drifter - played a bit
• Hotline Miami -  Unplayed
• Hollow Knight - played a bit
• GRIS -  Unplayed
• Dungeon Limbus -  Unplayed
• Dex - played a bit
• Devil Slayer - Raksasi - played a bit
• Children of Morta -  played a few hours/not finished
• Child of light -  Unplayed
• Chasm - played a bit 
• Celeste -  Unplayed 
• Blasphemous -  played a few hours/rage-quitted

• Aegis Defenders -  played a few hours/not finished

• Legend of Mana -  Unplayed
• Hades -  played a few hours/not finished
• Axiom Verge 2 - Wishlist . I am enjoying the heck out of the soundtrack, though.
• Cross Code  - played a few hours/not finished
• Arietta of Spirits -  Wishlist
• Eastward - Pre-ordered
• art of rally -  Wishlist
• Eldest Souls -  Wishlist
• Mighty Goose -  Wishlist
• ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights -  Wishlist
  
• Touhou Luna Nights -  Wishlist
  
• Morbid: The Seven Acolytes -  Wishlist
  

I have made a list with all these titles on my task manager on rotation. I will try my best to attempt to go thru most of these, before the end of the year. Then again, it seems like an impossible task, given my tendency to buy more indie titles, especially when they are on sale, plus anything else that's coming.

We shall see...

I will be blogging about my progress, if any.

Oh! And, again, these are only the "indie" titles, not even including other games i.e. The Xenoblades or the Resident Evils, etc, etc...

Tomorrow is Marley's first day at school. I don't know who is more nervous or anxious, me or her? She did like a pre-pre-K school thing last year and she did well but this is an Elementary school now, it feels different. Not the small church, with a small group of students. She's excited, she can't wait. Me, I am... don't know, mixed feelings I guess. I am nervous, anxious, happy, there's some fear as well, all the feelings.

I hope it all goes well and that we can help her the best we can, this is new, not like last year's. 

Until tomorrow then...

Today was another failed effort to be at work on time, also, more proof that free will does not exists. I had mentioned before that no matter how I do it or what I do to me right on time, it almost never happens. Today, I woke up earlier than I have been in the past few weeks. Again, I was frustrated by failure.

Wake up, (grab a brush and put a little make-up), get the coffee ready, showered quickly, and get ready. At this point, I am making good time. Normally, it would be a matter of rally Marley to the car, grab a half-asleep Luna, and go.

Luna: I want my shoes!!!

Me: Okay, here.

Luna: No, not those ones!

Me: ugh, these?

Luna: yeah!

To the car we go. Marley gets in, Luna gets in, I buckle them - GO! That's the ideal or the norm and not what happened.

Marley gets in, Luna gets in, and takes her time to get on her car seat. Once she's on the car seat and buckles her, I get in, seatbelt on, turn the car on.

Marley: I don't have my snuggle buddies, I want my snuggle buddies.

Me: Uhg! Where are they?

Marley: on mama's bed, there's Baby Fred and Papa Fred.

I run to the house, get the Fredeses!

After all that, I still made it to work by 7:15, the same damn time, I have been, in these past few weeks.

I give up!

The other day, a good friend asked me about the benefits of using Ulysses. Instead of trying to convince him of why he should be using Ulysses as his main text editor, I listed the reasons why I prefer it. In the past, I have used Drafts and iA Writer to compose and publish to my Micro.blog hosted site. My main problem with Drafts is that it doesn’t handle images well. It always felt like a hack to try to make it work. iA Writer was fine, but I don’t like seeing all the markdown and wasn’t a fan of “publishing” and then opening Micro.blog’s draft window and then publish.

Ever since Ulysses added Micro.blog support, I immediately paid for my yearly subscription.

Reasons why I prefer Ulysses;

• I find Ulysses much more cleaner. I like a clean canvas when I write.
• I like how it hides most of the markdown stuff. I don’t like seeing a bunch of URLs when adding links within my text, I find it messy and distracting. I guess that doesn’t bother most if you’re using a big screen but, I mean, my MacBook Pro is only 13”, my iPad is 11” and if I am writing on my iPhone, bruh! I rock an iPhone 12 mini!
• I like how it formats the text in the way I’d expect the text to be shown/formatted on my site. I feel like Ulysses does most of the formatting job for me. I don’t have to make sure there’s a line in between lines when for example posting a quote. (Make sense?)
• I can add images in between text and publish and don’t have to worry much about it.
• No extra steps when publishing. You just publish, it doesn’t go to Micro.blog’s drafts. I am not certain if iA Writer got rid of that or not.

The impression that I get, is that most markdown purists don’t like Ulysses as much because of the way it handles markdown. I think? And probably those are all the reasons of why I love it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is the way I can best explain it. I hope all of this makes sense. 😎

I ❤️ Ulysses.

IN OTHER NEWS:

I have no idea where I’m going to put my MicroCamp sticker on. 😅

There’s a new game in this house. Guessing which movie Marley wants to watch and with very vague (to almost no) clues.

Today, she wanted the one with the balls… (colored balls)

After a few questions with also very vague answers, I, somehow, guessed. How did I connect balls and the movie, Inside-Out, is beyond me? Perhaps the fact she said, colored?

The other day she wanted to watch the movie with the green fury and lives in a rock, and has a dog.

That one was easy, The Grinch.

Gaby, back in 2015 wrote,

Song covers

The interesting thing about song covers is that you either love them or hate them, and for many reasons. Maybe you grew up listening to the original or maybe the cover is just plain bad, whatever the reason is we’re always going to have an opinion about it. In some cases, though the cover can sound even better than the original, but that’s rare -or so I think- but they can be fun, they can be a new refreshed version of that original song that we at one point fell in love with. For example, most people don’t know this, but I have become a huge fan of The Rolling Stones. I’ve always been familiar with them and heard their stuff, but as my taste and appreciation in music has changed I’ve been listening to them more lately and one of my favorite songs for some reason is “Can’t you hear me knocking”. I don’t know what it is, but that song just rocks, and this week I found an album by Bernard Fowler — The Bura. And it has a cover of the Stone’s song and I have got to say that even though, I hold dear to the original song, this one was pretty solid and enjoyable. It felt like a modernized version of it. Then again, nothing like the original, but he made it his thing in a way, and I’m fine with it. It could be that I’m more open to this kind of things. I’m sure they’re people that will hate it, but I liked it, and it was a fun listen.

Found this in my Day One, it came up in the “on this day” thingy. I remember writing this and nowhere to post it, didn’t have a blog back then, but this was the beginning of the idea of having one.