All The Updates of 2025
2025-06-07 - Tough Cookie
No update in a long while... Well, unfortunately this year's hasn't been very kind to me or others. But oh well, life goes on. So, what have I been up to during this time?Not much, admittedly. I've had big plans for the year, but then things started happening and I lost my rhythm and just ended up feeling super unmotivated. Doesn't help that, for some reason (maybe long COVID, but who knows) my tastebuds are now quite messed up. I've already had issues in that regard, but now they're so bad that even pizza is no longer a safe food. My sense of smell is fine, but my stomach issues got worse though. It's really bothersome when I just want to eat a food and if it's not a food I know, there's a chance it'll just taste like soggy dirt and cause my stomach to sound like a neurofunk track. Cool, great. At least I can still eat curry, so that's nice.
I've also been doing a Dutch course. Still studying the language, still finding the word order to be quite pijnlijk (Translator's note: pijnlijk means painful). However, I am definitely getting better at it.
Also, for some reason, I've been playing more Payday 2. No idea why. The game feels like it was evolved rather than created. It's weird, but addictive, but also kinda annoying? I play with bots because I don't have anyone to rope into the game, and the entry level is quite incomprehensible. Bizarre timewaster, that game.
Ah, but speaking of gaming, I am quite excited for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4! It looks like it'll be good, and yeah, I'm aware of the whole THPS4 Career Mode situation, but that was always gonna be divisive. After all, the original THPS4's Career Mode had (and still has) people complaining, so unless they could do both approaches (Unlikely, would require one more year of development at the very least. Good luck convincing your higher-ups for that!), they had to make a choice that would leave some people upset. To celebrate and get ready for the new THPS game, I've gotten 100% achievements on THPS 1+2. Yes, I had to grind (haha) to get that Level 100 achievement.
Anyhow, I have retired my Twitter / X account because that website's a complete garbage fire nowadays. So, if you want to be up-to-date on whatever it is that I am doing, make sure to follow me on Bluesky!
Oh yeah, the website got some fixes done. Turns out that Google Chrome no longer supports my weird trick which made <br> tags a bit larger. So, I had to refactor a bunch of things. The biggest one is that instead of <br> tags, I'm now using <hr> tags, just invisible ones. Yeah, I know, hacky solution, but it works. As a side-effect, the website is more readable without a stylesheet now! Admittedly, it would be better to completely restructure the layout, but that'd be quite difficult considering the technical debt. But ah, if it works, it works.
Anyways, apologies for lack of any new content, and I hope you're doing well in these messy times!