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@DaveyCraney absolutely agree — I've been taking my time 100%-ing each area, and it truly feels like a spiritual successor to Super Mario Galaxy. I've also been endlessly charmed by the PlayStation nostalgia, which hit harder than I thought it would for me.
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Just time for me to jump in before festivities kick off this evening for the 2024 Mercury Music Prize, and say that The Last Dinner Party should walk away with all the trophies they can carry, as well as possibly shocking a casual BBC viewership with an uncensored performance of ‘Nothing Matters’.
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@TheMacPsych you are absolutely correct. I’ll likely have to settle for an annual pilgrimage to Muji until I can get back to Japan at some point! Hope you love your trip — send a postcard!
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Wishing a happy Hobonichi Techo launch day to all who celebrate. I just spent an enjoyable half hour selecting some neat accoutrements to accompany my 2025 planner.
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@bjhess woot! Are you going to record something or write something for podcast hosts to read?
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@ronkjeffries thanks — I appreciate that!
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@bjhess congrats Barry, and thanks for your significant contributions to the blogging and indie web space! 🌈
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@manton Netflix’s suite of games is actually ridiculously strong: Laya’s Horizon, Oxenfree, Hades, Immortality, Spiritfarer, Into the Breach all wonderful… and so many more!
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@robertbreen one of my absolute favourites — enjoy!
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@robertbreen thanks Robert, that's really kind — I have to get through five more weeks of this year's read-along first! 😄
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Today’s a full moon, and so a new issue of the lunar-cadenced newsletter miscellany Syzygy Business just arrived with subscribers. This time around: voice notes; computational photography; Esa-Pekka Salonen and more. You can read it online right here, and consider signing up for future issues. 🌕
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@robertbreen very interesting, and yes — hard to compete with Charlie. Demon Copperhead was last year's pick for my read-along project, so if you want to read my thoughts (and others') on the book, you can find those at zioibi.com/siv9
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@DaveyCraney thanks, I actually took it as part of my own Halide 2 'zero process' testing. (If you want to see the comparison, it'll be in tomorrow's issue of the newsletter: syzygy.business)
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@robertbreen what did you think?
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@adam thank you for writing this, it genuinely unlocked a new level of understanding for me!
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@DaveyCraney ha yes! So many good lines. I’m trying to convince my special lady friend to play it, so I can experience it again over her shoulder.
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@DaveyCraney I finished it a few days ago, and I’m still walking around saying things like “I’m a chartered surveyor, and I’m in trouble!”
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@DaveyCraney sick dude — way to go! 🛹
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@johnchandler I did this exact thing a few weeks ago and suffered a relatively nasty burn. Hope everyone at your end made it out unscathed!
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@Burk this confirms for me that my most anticipated iOS18 feature is the option for icons without text
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@DaveyCraney I’m a full convert to Easy / Story mode — helps so much to get through more games!
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@bjhess I did. I got a kind of auto response, and a few weeks later a request to confirm my address.
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@DaveyCraney word dude – my backlog of lengthy games is ridiculous, but I find I really cherish short(er) games that I can more easily finish. Recently Indika, currently Filmechanism, next up Thank Goodness You're Here.
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This morning I happened to spot a loose balloon, drifting up from behind a house across the street. Grabbed my phone and snapped exactly one photo, which somehow turned out perfectly. Happy birthday to whomever this belonged to; sorry you lost your balloon.
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Last call for the tenth annual Sipped Ink summer read-along: starting tomorrow we’re tackling Stephen King’s The Stand (Complete & Uncut) (1990), at a pace of ~100 pages per week, for the next twelve weeks. There’s still time to sign up, read with us and get an email each Sunday discussing progress.
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Today is host to a full moon, and that means a new issue of Syzygy Business just landed with subscribers — you can read it online here. Sign up to get future issues at syzygy.business
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Next up in the hopper, from new roastery All Things Bloom