So in what to me was today but turns out was 2 days ago(???) I spent my last day in Tokyo at the National Museum. Never been, discovered it's absolutely my shit. People made this. The king of hell statue is WOOD. People wore those kimonos. Look at this peefed kingfisher! Art is rad

My luggage isn't overweight, it's just big-boned

During check in, the woman from ground staff said "you have do many visa stamps, why don't you just move here?" Thanks, why indeed😭😭😭

The Kyoto Wife has wifed her last day in Kyoto. Less than a week is not enough Kyoto! As usual, I'm sad. But I'm also exhausted, which is why (hinthint) it would be nice to live here and not try and fail to stuff everything into a finite number of days.

I really didn't have a good time at Osaka Expo, but I FOMO'd myself into going and sunk cost fallacy'd myself into staying, on my last full day in Kinki and the last day with good weather. Angry at myself.

Pon de SuffeRING

Needed to take easy-ish today in order to have a fighting chance at the Expo tmr. National museum was closed, so I just visited two nearby temples I didn't know yet and chilled by the Kamogawa

Ok everyone, I'm putting it out into the universe that I want to be a narrative designer in Kansai. I've not quite given up! If you have any ideas, pls let me know. Attached a picture of Inari-san for good luck

Arashiyama can be very busy, but it's nice and tranquil if you know where to look. I'm having a bit of a time™️mentally, but some green and nice fluffy clouds always deliver

"A premium game made for premium gamers" is so funny though, pls

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

"Giving critics code post-release lets them have a conversation with players on eye level" The conversation: git gud lmao, that's why no one trusts journalists

So today sth mildly weird happened: a Japanese teen approached me at home in Uji and said he took a picture of me because I look 'unique'. Didn't want to talk to me or nothing. Just wanted my consent for the picture. Unique where? The first two are his, last two mine

Honestly the best picture I've taken today

I think I'm just gonna disagree with shifting the blame to journos when this is all just a long tail all the the way from GamerGate. I'm still waiting for anyone to say blame the execs for keeping silent, both media and dev. Sony did this when Sony should've done better, easy as that.

I'm trying to be better about buying stickers since I don't use them, but loook

So being caught in a thunderstorm in shorts and a windbreaker while scaling a mountain at 3000m is emphatically not it. But it does clear up the clouds at altitude!

Trix is a great artist and the loveliest person you could have in your team! Hire her!!

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Weird day today in that none of the planned stuff worked out too well, but the unplanned stuff was neat. Case in point: my unplanned trip to Zenkoji in Nagano

I don’t think there's many better things in life than getting yourself a cookie gift set and then omnomnomnom

Actually I'm also pretty proud of my hiking process. I've done 70km so far this holiday, will get to at least 100. I think I've increased my elevation gain in a single hike, too. Great effort for a disabled person with a desk job

Bit of a disappointing hike today, but it made me happy that someone told me "Normally I'd be worried about a lone foreigner out here, but you speak Japanese, so you're going to be fine"

I'm kind of proud. The Swiss woman I met on the highway bus had dinner with me every night, and today she asked if we should hang out before she leaves and it was a banger day. All just because I saw she was alone and thought she wouldn't mind some company.

My mentor queued for an autogram from Ray Chase for me, what does yours do for you

Harris, what can I say, it might have been the best one yet.

Wanted to say sth discourse-y, deleted it to get ready to go up a mountain

Met a very nice Swiss woman on the way to Matsumoto and now we're having dinner in town every night. I made it three nights before wondering if I'm annoying and she hates me, but we keep meeting? Voluntarily? So I guess it's fine?

I want to live here, have self-replenishing wealth, climb mountains and eat satsumaimo cookies all season long, is that too much to ask for

It's like in that famous video game, Death Stranding

Can someone please employ me, I need to keep doung my silly little hikes🥲

I wouldn't travel to Matsumoto for this specifically, but the castle park was genuinely the loveliest I've ever seen.

Held my tippy toes into the lukewarm sea today. Visited a cave. Saw some cool jellyfish. Pretty perfect day in the life.

Huge fan of life today

I wonder what he's thinking... ...Nothing

Let's gooooo we're off tomorrow!!! ready for this to be me on a mountain peak just without the fashion crime

That's my baby boy right there

Genuinely thinking of taking my reusable Starbucks cup, which says PSL on it, to Japan with me because it's pumpkin spice latte season, the only time I go to Starbucks, and the only reason I'm a Starbucks club member in 3 countries

my dog won't stop FRACKING he spends all of his free time FRACKING

Now that I don't have work, I'm trying to blog more. Content! Branding! Turning my humanity into my hubrandity! Anyway, here's the piece on Tetris I've had in the holster for like, 6 years malindy.medium.com/how-tetris-e...

If you've known me for a minute, you know Tetris Effect permanently changed my relationship to Tetris. After playing the Lumines Arise demo, I know I'm gonna be unbearable about that one, too. Oh. My. God.

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Went walking in search of serotonin. Didn't find it, but the cows were mooing and the geese were geesing.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for work from October onwards. Game writing, narrative design, narrative consultation, mock reviews, any kind of copy, German↔️English localisation. Any and all leads to [email protected], thank you!

😭😭😭 I really want to know if there's actually any overlap in player base between these two, though

Tim Curry on the set of The Three Musketeers (1993), in costume as Cardinal Richelieu, holding an original GameBoy.

Just saw that Roadwarden releases for Switch tmr and double dipped immediately. One day I will admit all of this money buying games twice could have simply been invested in a Steam Deck. Not today, though

Got compliments on the wrapper today, picture for posterity