links and thinks

[kallu]

In honor of the New Year, here's a bunch of things that didn't warrant their own posts:

Jon Bois is a journalist for the sports site SB Nation. He also produces more esoteric content - you might have heard of 17776. He has a YouTube channel, focused on sports, but not really. All his videos are worth a watch, but I especially like Troy State. (Some of his videos are on the SB Nation channel.) He also wrote The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles, which is... just read it and find out.

Yagate Kimi ni Naru season 1 finished up recently. If you like yuri or just romance in general and haven't seen it, highly recommended.

Commonplace books were common in the early modern era, serving as journals, scrapbooks, and compendia of interesting quotes. Many well known authors of the time maintained commonplace books. Good artists borrow, great artists steal?

More and more drained since I no longer have to socialize every day. Probably I should do something about that!

Heartcatch Precure is adorable and good. The animation style is fun - it seems more "dynamic" in it's facial expressions and movement. Reminds me of the cartoons I used to watch as a kid. They use small words, so I can understand what's going on. And the opening song is stupidly catchy. ^{saa minna de~}

I was playing Minecraft out of impulse, which I haven't done in months and haven't seriously* done in years, and I think I know the thing I don't like about it. There's no maintenance. I don't want my glorious creations to last immutable for all time unless I get blown up by a Creeper next to them, I want to have to work for it! Fixing leaky pipes, rusted beams, refilling reservoirs, that kind of thing. Maybe I should look into mods... (*I define "serious" Minecraft play as sessions of >30 minutes every day for at least two weeks, indicating concerted effort on a single project) (What search terms would be appropriate? "minecraft entropy mod" "minecraft mod inherent degradation of all material things") (Maybe I should just stick to hardcore mode.)

Comments

[youzicha]

"commonplace book" sounds a lot like having a tumblr?

[kallu]

You're not wrong