With comments like "Lunacid sure isn't that much like King's Field or Shadow Tower" there was a lot of "Okay so when are you going to play Tears of the Moon?"

Lunacid: Tears of the Moon, is a breezy prequel to Lunacid, notably made with the ancient Sword of Moonlight: King's Field Making Tool. It's janky, it's hard to get to display right, and it was one of the few times I was happy about Steam Input profiles(Though when I turned it on for this game, the universal 'control windows' chords became active and I wish I could tell Valve and Microsoft that no, I NEVER, EVER want to control my actual PC with a controller, please fuck off). Look, it can't be helped, these are primitive tools from a primitive yet beautiful age.

Inglorious Basterds was famously a hard movie to end. How do you end a WW2 period piece that so diverges from real history? How do you come up with a believable ending, without throwing away all the credibility you've built up? How do you untangle the knot that you yourself created, without undoing your story and your creative voice?

Well, you stop caring and shoot Hitler in the face with a tommy gun.

Faux retro games hit this problem a lot too, as I would know from experience. Whether you're doing a tribute/revival game or a period piece(No, really, we should start calling games like this 'period pieces', I'm serious. That's what they are.), there is a personal line you have to decide on for how much are you serving the past, and how much is the past serving you. How much do you owe the things you take influence from to represent them, and their item, with care and accuracy. How much do you owe your inspirations?

Lunacid, for its part, would choose to shoot Hitler in the face.

I've known about, and even wanted to play Uncharted Waters ever since I was a kid, but given how many games there are, I had never gotten to it. In fact, I may have never gotten to it. Often games like this just fall slowly down the mental list, until they become forgotten.

It it can feel weird and arbitrary what old game I end up going back to. I don't go back through a queue of games, based on which I think would be the best, or most important to play. It almost ends up happening thro...

I've been putting a lot of my wrestling feelings on my side blog these days, but I cannot justify it here. I'm not going to explain everything I should. I'm not going to give all the context this all needs. I just need to get this out.

On April 27, at All Star Grand Queendom 2025, my favorite wrestle wrestler in the world, Tam Nakano, lost her career-vs-career against Saya Kamitani(🪨), in what was the conclusion of an emotional and dramatic trilogy of matches(I cannot write well eno...

For reasons I don't even entirely remember (just generally musing about old RTSs), I felt compelled to load up Warcraft 2 and just... click around. Then I thought "No, I should play Warcraft 1". In my mind, Warcraft 1 is exactly like Warcraft 2, just without all the ships and boats, but my mind likes to lie to me.

Instead it is some weird Game Gear ass looking game with even less options, road requirements for buildings, and... surprisingly a lot of neutral units(Oh Ogres?? I g...