Souls Like Strings

Smol girl with big スタンド.

Why

• You like metroidvanias, beautiful art and great sound design
• You like having varied styles of combat, without any real penalty for switching it up
• You're annoyed by never knowing if you found every secret, but don't want your hand held
• You're looking for a focused 15-25 hour experience that leaves you wanting more

Why not

• You don't like metroidvanias

Impressions

For some reason I went into this one with kinda low expectations, and man was I wrong. The first hour or so pulled me in with the visuals,...

• It's possible for yarn install to 'succeed' and the package files to not be present in node_modules
• It's possible for yarn install to 'succeed' and the package files to not be present in node_modules but to be present in your yarn cache
• It's possible for yarn install to 'succeed', the package files to not be present in node_modules but to be present in your yarn cache and the package files for dependencies of the main package to be present in node_modules
• If this happens:
  • looking at your node_modules/.bin directory will show a broken symlink from the package name...

Charming cultists conspire, cockily causing calamities.

Why

• You like cool collectibles, world building and the feeling of an answer slowly revealing itself
• Stylish cult in a pocket dimension trying to revive dead gods vibes
• Strong characters, both lovable & hateable

Why not

• You only like games which require a lot of action, or mechanical skill
• You want a mystery which requires strong deductive skills to solve

Impressions

If you like collectible hunting, you'll love this game. Right after being given unrestricted access to the world I inadvertently jumped over a railing instead of heading...

Incidentals

• a way to store it more 'narrowly'
• front & back lights
• lock
• cover

Bewildering array of things to think about for someone who (well, my parents) just bought supermarket bikes.

Starting prices for a 'decent' bike seem to be around 70 000 yen, which is mildly insane to me.

Not an obvious source of quality reviews, lots of people on reddit/small blogs. Probably due to the nature of actually reviewing a bike taking time, those that exist don't have great coverage of all options.

Insurance

Is mandatory in Tokyo, you can get it at kobini or by...

• When a service says they redact PII, trust but verify
• The 'check' half of 'guess & check' is very important
• Being able to replicate errors locally really makes all the difference when fixing them
• You can trigger Sentry errors in prod by editing the browser HTML to add a button which throws on click
  • e.g. <button onclick="throw new Error('test')">Test</button>
• CI for PRs and trunk should be exactly the same except for deploying, very annoying to merge a PR and have it fail CI