Time to read Strange Pictures (Uketsu). Much better writing in general, or at least more « written ». I like how it is cut too. It is still quite pop-corn entertainment but more like a proper show than a series of « reelshort ». The mysteries are also better crafted. Half into it, I like it better.

三年も、日本語だけで手帳に書き続けているけど、iPhoneのJournalも毎日使っている。 アプリの方が本当に便利だから、まずJournalに書く事が多い。でも、ほぼ日が大好きだし、万年筆を使うのも好きだから、毎日Journalからほぼ日に日記を書き写している。タイピングより、手で書く方が何故かゆっくりだよね。 だから、手で書く時は、もっと簡潔に書くようにしている。今になって、中国人が昔の本を書く時に四字熟語を多用していた理由が分かった。 ある意味、簡潔に書かざるを得なかったんだと思う。

A decade ago, Asher told me once that electro music is the classical music of our generation. Somehow, I grew up without any taste for it when France is one of the most important nations for this genre and mixing in general.

Took me a decade to understand why I like Dragon's Dogma (Dark Arisen) so much: it scratches that itch for traditional western adventure as it appears in D&D/TSR books. I grew up reading Dragonlance (yes, Raistlin FTW) and even now, I can still picture that tavern where all those heroes gather in.

Started reading Strange Houses (Uketsu). What a page turner. Nothing truly innovative but it is efficient, a true pop corn story that uses all the techniques from blogs and shorts to quickly captivate the readers. It serves bits of mysteries one after another to keep me engaged.

In the mood for love is one of my favourite movies. Every scene is romantic. Every word is beautiful. And every silence holds even deeper meanings. Watching it on the first day of 2026 with my better half and her sister made me realise one incredible thing: I never watched it with subtitles before.

TIL that fossils aren’t bones. I always wondered why we put the bones in compost. If they compost, how come we can see dinosaurs in a museum? I finally got the answer. Because they aren’t bones. It’s crazy. Fossils are actually rocks that replaced the bones and took their shapes. Nature is amazing.

Just played Flip 7 for the first time, with my family, and what an extraordinary game. It is so intense. It takes the best of black jack and mixes it with exploding kittens. I’m glad my in-law offered it to me for Christmas. Great gift.

Why ai won't replace us: I can find a bunch of friends who plays the guitar better. I can also find a bunch of friends who play TLoU2 better. It makes no sense trying to become good in a virtual guitar in a game. Especially when being good at it in TLoU2 doesn’t add anything to the gameplay.

Started Absolum and as expected, I absolutely adore it so far. The gameplay is neat, combat feels right, it’s tense, nervous, precise, and readable. Graphically superb, I like wandering around and learning about its lore. The animations are fantastic, the bestiary is varied and cute. What a délice.

Star Wars Rebellion is one of those board games I want to learn playing better. It’s beautiful, yet the rules are so daunting. What’s fascinating tho is how it does such a great job at creating the proper emotions and shifting the balance of the force mid game.

Today marks the first anniversary of my retirement.

Finally started watching CJ big The Last of Us season 2 (HBO). The acting is superb. I wasn’t sure about that Abby but she’s fantastic in her role. And the second episode reminded me why I never replayed the game and will never replay it again probably. Way too dark. Way too sad. Way too cruel.

Manchester United under Amorim is finally showing signs of progress. Actual progress. And interestingly enough, Amorim is much closer to SAF than Mourinho in the way he is building and driving this group. The way they talk, how stubborn they seem to be, and how they think the game are similar.

The Hundred Line is my GOTY. It is also one of my all time favourite games. It is one of those perfect pieces: one that is magnificent, unique, and crazy. An iconic piece that creates thoughts and invites conversations. One product where every piece fits together so well that none can be removed.

Clement Street, starting from the intersection with 6th, is now my favourite place in town. The food selection is fantastic. B star/Burma Superstar, Chapeau!, Arsicault, Wing Lee BBQ, DNM, or Good Luck Dim Sum are some of my dailies. The place also offers a great variety of groceries.

Since I’ve retired last year, I’ve started exploring artisanat all around the world while learning leathercrafting myself at Amblard. Ofc, I spent tremendous time in France, Italy, and in Japan. But I’ve also discovered some fabulous artisans making great products and brands elsewhere.

I like her voice so much. Still can’t believe how much she changed from her Disney era.

Just watched Good Boy (2025) because I adore the concept. Unfortunately, the film was flat. So many great ideas but the execution is poor. The writing, the shots, the editing imprecise. The movie suffers from a lack of mastery in general; the film maker didn't have the skills to enable his vision.

I was very skeptical about The Running Man (2025) but since I wasn't doing anything while waiting for my brown broth to cook, in order to make my sauce demi-glace for xmas, I gave it a shot... and it was surprisingly good. The actions are pretty cool, the kitschy look is interesting, and fun vibe.

Just realised that Bully is just a few bucks in steam so I bought it on Steam deck and been playing it a bit before bed. I still like it so much. It is funny, well paced, and it is truly a small scaled GTA. One point in particular that is interesting is how it depicts students.

Tried ma Analogue 3D and I’m quite satisfied with it. I’m impressed by its rendering, it does a good job making those old games look decent on modern 4K OLED displays. I also like how plug and play and how good it looks like. The problem is the N64 system itself: perf wasn’t a thing back then.

Xeno Crisis is such a fun game. I actually forgot my AES version comes with many versions of the official rom, including the FPGA version that I can run on my analogue pocket. Great experience. Looks so good in that small screen. What a hard game tho.

W11debloater is fantastic.

Just watched Zootopia 2 and really liked it. Sure, it could have gone way further with their topic of colonisation and other heavy subjects. But as a piece of entertainment, it is great. The polishing is insane. The bar at Disney is so unbelievably high. The arts of storytelling is second to none.

The Bear S3 is good but it doesn’t show any cuisine no more. Sad because all those scenes in the kitchen are amazing. The first season is still the best one, by far.

I just watched a clip someone put together. Someone used clips from 187 movies and turned them into a remix of Eminem’s lose yourself. It is mind blowing.

I bought all the mags from @apwot.bsky.social, solely based on my friends’ suggestions. « you gonna like it ». That’s it. No additional context. Nothing. I got the collector edition every time because they are so beautiful. Tho I didn’t know how they’d actually look like before receiving them.

Just started Alan Wake 2. Been years since I’ve played the original one on my X360. Completely forgot the story, only remember that the author got trapped. The game starts slow and does a good job setting everything up. Graphically, it isn’t as impressive as I was expecting, but great direction.

🚨DISCO EPISODE TWO IS UP❗ Getting to explore & document the original ZA/UM studio was a surprisingly eye opening experience. As was talking to so many of the original developer about those days. I really like this episode, I hope you do too. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrVW...

Just watched Predator Badlands and it wasn't what I expected at all. It is a buddy movie that is so far from what I imagine when I think of Predator... and somehow, I liked it. It has so many weaknesses but it is also full of fun ideas. Starting with that planet where everything kills. So cool.

Read We Are Legion (Dennis E. Taylor) again. I forgot how much I like the beginning of that book. For reasons, I always liked reading about people learning new skills and becoming some sort of experts. It's a bit like Ender, I really like those "at school" part. Maybe because I was bad at school.

Je viens de découvrir Serge le mytho. C’est extraordinaire. Et cette fin, ce dernier épisode, est absolument dingue. C’est ce que la télévision française fait de mieux. Et ça me manque.

Macron ferme le deuxième bouton de son costard et ne porte pas de cravate. Je suis choqué.

Back home and finally got to start playing Astro Bot. I already liked the previous one (tho I still gotta try the PSVR one) so I had a good chance to appreciate this sequel. And yes, it’s splendid. It’s playful, it’s colorful, it’s delightful. What’s also quite amazing is it’s technically mastery.

Always wan trees to read A man’s place and realised that it’s written by Annie Ernaux, so I got the French version. What a beautiful book. The author crafts such a profound and emotional relationship with the readers through simple words carefully connected together. Meticulously chosen.

The Making of Disco Elysium - Part One: Foundations www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH6m... A huge thanks to everyone who has talked to us for this series, both on and off the record. It's been a massive effort on our part to ensure we tell as accurate & heartfelt story of this game's production as we can.

Content d’être de retour à Tahiti. Surtout qu’il commence à faire froid en Californie. Par contre, j’ai passé la nuit à jouer à la console et je suis complètement décalé. On va aller dormir sous le soleil du coup. En espérant ne pas finir comme la dinde de l’autre soir.

I knew it would happen. Now I’m playing those old consoles, I’m seriously considering getting a Retrotink 4K pro and the Sony BVM-20F1U/20F1E. It’s stupid but it’s cool. It’s stupid though. But so cool.

Despite how much I like the beautiful colours and the vibe of old CRT with RGB cables, dealing with all those old standards is such a pain. Trying to plug my PlayStation, Wii, XBox, or Dreamcast to my PVM-8045Q is an adventure. None of them use the same cable, not even for power.

Started playing Broken Sword, the original one. I still call it « les chevaliers de Baphomet » because I discovered this game in France as a kid. My best friend’s father was playing it and we watched him playing. We tried ourselves but it was too hard. Time to finish it after almost 30 years.

We started playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with my best friend more than 2 years ago and we have finally arrived at the city. And something amazing just happened. Before getting here, I was frustrated because somehow, we couldn’t complete the quest with Halsin. I really wanted to finish it.

Since I never played Pokémon, I tried the original GB Red cartridge on my Analogue Pocket. I do it in Japanese so I can also learn the language. I just finished the intro and I can already feel why this game has been so popular. And it must have been such an incredibly innovation back then.

I consider myself a purist and I usually play games on the original console, using as much as possible the « intended » settings. But last night, I got curious about Duckstation and I’m absolutely blown away by how good it is. More specifically how flexible. The level of control is insane.

Played tons of Neo Drift Out on my AES. This is probably my favourite rally car racing game. It delivers that rally fantasy perfectly: solo, intense, fast reaction, extremely precise, and requires both adaptability and knowledge. Despite being so simple, and short, the game is full of candies.

Valve’s new controller is so ugly.

Spend the entire flight playing Super Donkey Kong 3: Nazo no Kuremisu Shima on my Analogue Pocket. Somehow, I never finished the game before. I don't even think I've played it more than just a few hours. Now I think about it, I bought the game way after the time of the Super Famicom.

Started playing Super Metroid on my SFC. I can’t believe the game still looks so gorgeous and is still so pleasant to play. But after spending time on Zero Mission and Samus Returns, playing this is really hard from a control standpoint. That wall jump mechanic… come on.

Just watched The Mask of Zorro with my sister and her husband last night. I realised, 10min into the movie, that I’ve actually never watch it before. What a great adventure film. The introduction is fantastic. We immediately get what the movie is all about. The bad guy is so cruel: revenge time.