boring words from a boring person. my name is j and this is my blog.
hi. haven't really had much to say for the past few days, but here's some words from others that i enjoyed.
staying fresh, by no happy nonsense this newsletter, by mike grindle this poem, by dyshope everyone's having a good one.
2024/09/17 10:25 AM EST
i'm sure everyone knows about this game because it was super controversial when it was first released. but for those who are unaware, the coffin of andy and leyley (hereby abbreviated to tcoaal) is supposedly a horror rpg about two siblings, andrew and ashley, who are trapped in their apartment without any food. the controversy comes from the incest.
i honestly don't care what people depict in fiction, nor how "romanticized" it is (romanticization serves a narrative purpose), so i was drawn to this game in spite of its reputation... i wanted to see if it was actually any good, if people were just making a big stink out of something just for having "problematic" content in it or whatever
but, as it turns out, the game's just bad...
i played the first chapter of the game and streamed it to my friend so we could both experience it, and it was... just... there's certain experiences that are so bad you have a lot of fun just laughing at them, but this wasn't one of them.
the biggest failure by far was the writing; the overarching story was... fine i guess, if a little trite and boring. the characters were absolutely the worst aspect though, holy shit. i have never played a game with such an unlikable cast. i was begging for the chance to be able to kill them both, and it never came.
each and every dialog was a drawn out scene of the two siblings bickering, with some vaguely suggestive comments so that you wouldn't forget about the incest part, and it was rife with inconsistent characterization, annoying "quirky" jokes, and a complete and utter lack of emotional depth. a character literally cooks and eats another person and apparently feels nothing about it. her only response is to crack the most painfully bad jokes i've ever read. like, why the hell would you write about stuff that's "fucked up and evil" if not to at least try to portray characters' reactions with some depth???
seriously, if there's anything to criticize tcoaal for, it's the writing. if it was well-written, i'd be completely fine with the actual content, because who cares? it's supposed to be a horror game, right? but tcoaal's just so... cringe... it's awful.
the only saving grace was that some of the art was kind of cute, but i really do hate the way the artist behind the game draws certain expressions, so it doesn't give it that many points.
art bonus: vashti if he was andrew.2024/09/13 8:19 PM EST
recently bought a shirt from plastiboo's teepublic and it arrived today, to my delight.
click to view imagevery cute, the print is sized nicely on the shirt and it fits as anticipated. also, usually printed shirts have a strange stiffness to the print but this doesn't, which was a pleasant surprise. 10/10
2024/09/13 2:47 PM EST
added a dark/light mode toggle. it was broken for a bit and i couldn't figure out why, but it turns out i hadn't capitalized a letter and it broke the whole thing. dear god i hate javascript.
on an additional note i have been working on something today that i'm considering putting here, because it'd be the easiest way to post it— we'll see, but you can stay tuned if you don't mind potentially being disappointed lol.
2024/09/13 12:48 PM EST
hi. i keep trying to remake this website, or even make a whole new one, but i haven't been really motivated... the idea of styling a site and coming up with content to put on it is really daunting. and i'm sure those who follow this site on neocities know that very well haha... if you took a shot every time i've said "new site layout" or something to that effect, you'd probably die. no more of that, i hope. i'm leaving this mostly unstyled.
to the point, though--- i really want to have a blog on the internet somewhere because i like to share my thoughts and i like knowing that someone could read it. so i'm gonna try updating this website more, using it as a digital diary of sorts. i have some ideas of longer, more detailed things i want to write, but i plan on this mostly just being stream-of-consciousness with no rules or limitations, or pressure to be "good."
wish me luck lol, i'll be disappointed with myself if i just end up deleting this and dropping the "new layout" spiel on everyone again.
2024/09/13 9:57 AM EST | Edited 12:46 PM EST
