we managed to beat brock tonight, which means we're as far in kaizo as we've ever been in standard ironmon

this just proves my belief that staying in standard wasn't really making things easier

fun stream tonight, looking forward to more kaizo

Over the past two days I've played Umurangi Generation, which is on Xbox Game Pass for free. Gotta say, I'm surprised by how much I like this game. I knew from critics I watch on YouTube that it was a pretty interesting indie game, but I tend to prefer action-packed gameplay. Here, you're equipped with a film SLR camera and equip new lenses and post-processing effects as you play along. I like photography, don't get me wrong, but I need to be in a particular mood to take pictures because it requires you to slow down and meticulously analyze your photo composition to take good photos. Photography tends to split me in two. My autistic side loves the raw analysis of the composition and using traditional guidelines to snap a good photo, while my ADHD side just wants to snap a pic and move on. One side is precise, slow, methodical and thoughtful; the other is spontaneous, chaotic, scattershot and directionless.

My initial playthrough had some tunnel vision, where I was trying to achieve the objectives in time to deliver my parcel as fast as possible. My ADHD side liked this; it was goal-oriented with consistent progression to the end of the level. If I couldn't find all the objectives in the 10 minutes I'm given each level, I'd start taking my time to consider the actual contents of the image - appeasing my autistic side. Not many games really appeal to both sides of me; the only other genre I can think of that does so this well is sim racing, but those games are becoming harder to play as my body continues to deteriorate For Some Reason.

I won't say much about the game itself, because I think it's best experienced with little knowledge going in. All you really need to know is this:

• it's fun, go play it even if you don't really like/engage with photography
• take your time, you don't get punished for finishing the level late. take in the sights, and come back to the level later if you want the bonus equipment.
• you can double jump

Mansplained the P=NP problem to my wife and now they’re watching intro to computer science lectures

With Limited Run teasing reprints of the 1993 Jurassic Park games, I am once again revisiting my failed Jurassic Park video. This was the video the algorithm completely ignored because in its infinite wisdom it says my audience only wants Sonic videos. So basically nobody saw this! A good Sonic video can hit 50-100k viewers for me easy, but this struggled to just barely break 2k views at launch and has limped to 4k views in the years since.

I will forever carry a chip on my shoulder about it. I even bought a Google Adsense recommendation slot on Youtube for this one weekend around the debut trailer for the last Jurassic World movie. Getting people to watch this damn thing has felt like pulling teeth.

Is it a bad video? I mean, I don't think it's a bad video, but I suppose I'd be biased. Other people, when I do finally get someone to watch it, often tell me it's a good video, but they might also be sparing my feelings and/or it's just not bad enough to complain about.

Or maybe it's just a good video and these are the brushes of uncertainty that the Youtube Algorithm paints with. At this point, it's impossible to know which. I need to just let go, but it's "the one that got away", you know? It will spook me forevermore about venturing outside of my channel's comfort zone. That's the real toll of the algorithm, right there.