invelica

in my quest for Floor Chair Life I have identified the primary two pain points in Floor Chair Life

• getting up is more effort both on my body and in terms of things I have to move

• all the hot air is up there and I am down here

will I correct these points in my life? I don't know, but now you know these Floor Chair Life facts. Floor Chair Life: it cost 0y to put together (plus rent) [tm]

today on the train ride home I played the 2013 iOS game Hundreds (by Finji, who you may know from TUNIC or Wilmot's Warehouse), since I was thinking about it once again due to its proximity to game ideas I conceptualized a decade after its release

Hundreds continues to be an excellently compact game design: there are circles on the screen. Hold your your finger on a circle to make it grow. When the combined size of the circles is big enough, you win. If a growing circle touches anything else, you lose. That's it!

it's a fun action/puzzle game you can do a good chunk of in an hour - it is not a necessarily Smartly Designed action/puzzle game, as the majority of puzzles feel more like "here are some elements we thought were fun" rather than a handcrafted path leading you to a single solution. the fact that level starts are randomized is a sign that the developers might have known this, haha.

but the Flash Game Energy of it is excellent and since it's not really a thinker, it has a lower barrier to just kind of having this really simple risk/return action (in the words of Sakurai Kirbyairride's youtube channel). and in the vein of the developer, there's some secret cryptographic stuff going on behind the scenes probably? have fun with it

anyway that's my game of the day. I kind of forgot to keep a Game Log so far this year again

saw a good friend from california I hadn't seen in years! he has a nice shirt that matches his watch and hair now. we went to a Footbath Bar on his friend's recommendation (soak your feet in some hot water while sipping on tea) and despite my hesitancy toward foot baths, it was a really nice warmth that contrasted with the incredibly huge and sudden downpour outside

in related news, I was bummed all day that I lost my umbrella and portable battery simultaneously. I flipped over my desk at work (metaphorically) and flipped over my room at home (debatably metaphorically) and resigned myself to having lost like 10k yen worth of stuff, giving up and reaching into my laundry bag to lay out some clothes for tomorrow

folks, do you know what was in my laundry bag

I am a perpetual Value Addict. I have begun to decorate an apartment recently, and although I am more than sufficiently well off enough to just go to Muji and buy an entire apartment's worth of furnishings, I understand that my brain looks at "$1 saved" and sees "$1 I can spend on something frivolous", like another first party Nintendo game or a 4500y Logitech Driving Force GT (nearly 2 decades old! it's still the best driving wheel to me!) or like an Astolfo hoodie or something. (incidentally, my brain looks at "$1 wasted" and thinks "wow but oh well that will never happen again (it happens tomorrow) Nevertheless"

run-on full of parentheticals aside, my ability to sacrifice a little quality for Value, combined with Japan's ability to charge for disposing of large items, means that I have very quickly gotten hooked on going on Japanese Craigslist equivalents. I'm the canon who is hauling myself an hour out to Chiba just to grab some year-old pots for 90% off retail (fair given that 75% of the pots are rusted beyond belief), walking half an hour and back for a gaggle of free plastic storage containers, and carrying a floor chair back during metro rush hour as it precariously attempts to fold itself in half.

it's really quite gratifying in the way that it lets me cheaply decorate this apartment with furniture that is functional enough to live, but cheap enough that I can just pass it on when I figure out how to really make this apartment look like a warm, cozy place, like the wooden equivalent of endless TODOs in the codebase.

anyway the point of this story is that usually you see normal things on Japanese Craigslist, like beds, fridges, old clothes, and more beds, but sometimes you see really unexpected things, like - finally arriving at the cover image - someone who, with presumably the urge to just walk into the metro station and never come back to this city, has just listed an entire yakiniku shop for 40 grand. rent's 1800 a month and it's in the black. first come first served. I hope they're doing alright

over the last two days I finished reading the 7th volume of the solo leveling light novel. as of the time of writing this I realize that the Korean and Japanese title for this series convey "Jinwoo is the only one who levels up" and I have been sitting here interpreting "solo" as "Jinwoo levels up by himself"