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My first blogpost!

January 27th, 2024

Hi there! This is a bit awkward. I've always wanted to have my own blog or diary where i could write down things that happen to me. In middle school, my mom even bought me a cute pink diary with a heart-shaped lock on it (i lost the diary, but the lock and the key are still with me!).

The problem i always faced was... Nothing interesting happens to me! Back then i at least went to school, but nowadays all i do is sit at home on my computer or on my phone. I don't study anywhere and i don't have a job. I want to do... either of these honestly, pretty soon, so maybe i will get to document this journey here!

For now, what happened in the past few days or weeks?

My sister saw that Half-Life was on sale, so she got both parts. She doesn't like playing these sorts of games, but she's interested, so i'm playing it and she's watching. It's like in our childhood when we watched our dad play games and we watched, except it's more fun because 1) I'm playing it and 2) We're older and make funnier jokes Half-Life was actually one of the games we watched our dad play! I remember quite a bit from it, especially from the second part (which i believe we might've replayed at some point?), but my sister sees it all as new. Well, it's kind of new for me too, considering my child brain didn't understand or memorize that much. It's fun!

A few weeks ago we finished Half-Life 1. I loved it! Even tho i knew it was a great game that is still praised to this day, I gotta say i had low expectations for a game from *looks it up* 1998. It's sad to say, but i did!!! The controls were hard to get used to (felt like every floor was SO slippery! ) and, well, you know what graphics we had in 1998. (Spoiler: they aren't that terrible once you get used to them! They set the mood and they do it well.)

Yesterday we began playing the second part. It started with an uncomfortably close zoom to G-Man's face . When we got to the stations, i pointed at a vortigaunt that was cleaning the floors and she looked at me like "This is the same one as we were fighting before???" I remembered that votigaunts started living with the humans in the second part, so i told her i was kinda sad for killing them in the first part... Cuz, yeah, they're not JUST sentient, they would be living alongside humans in the future. I wonder how that came about. I guess I'll have to see! (assuming they explain it, of course.)

Before i wrap up this section, i want to say: if you like video games and haven't played Half-Life yet, go give it a try! It's fun to play and the story is amazing. Playing old games can be refreshing sometimes, because they're free of the trends that plague modern video games. And, of course, seeing as the games are kind of old, they run well on any computer! The first one definitely, at least. The second one stutters sometimes for me. But this is why i play old games! At least they WORK

And now for a hilarious tone shift! I've been wathcing Pretty Cure.

I finished Heartcatch last year, which was my first Precure anime! I looked up on Reddit what the best series to start with, and i went with the first one i saw being recommended, which was Heartcatch! At first i liked it, then i stopped liking it, then i liked it again then i REALLY liked it and binged the second part of the season SOOO quick. I just love the characters! I love Tsubomi cuz she reminds me of me, i liked her character arc of trying to change into a better person, i LOVED that it didn't come easy to her at all. I loved Erika and her arc too, it's so very relatable, and I'm glad she also grows over it slowly and naturally instead of BOOM and her problems are fixed. Itsuki feels like a very realistic character, and kind of plays on characters usually being defined by one core trait - instead, Itsuki has two different hobbies that seem like opposites, but she loves both of them equally! The journey to embracing your femininity after long feeling like you have to hide or repress it is very relatable to me too. Lastly, Yuri's story is sooo heartbreaking!! Her dealing with loss but regaining her powers after all was a really powerful message. And i wish she got a longer transformation sequence. Hers is so short compared to everybody else!! It just feels like she's treated as... Less important, somehow. Sadge.

After Heartcatch, I'm now watching Futari wa Precure, a.k.a. the First Precure season. Overall, i like it less than Heartcatch. I don't have much to say about it while i'm still watching, so i'll write my opinions later in another post :D

There's one more thing I'd like to talk about, but this post is already getting kind of long sooooo i'm gonna do it another time! ^_^

For now, bye-bye and thank you for reading!!!!