Massive update
Sponduliocity has recieved an enormous update to the homepage. I have wanted to work on overhauling the homepage for a while, as it looked rather plain and amateurish. I was hesitant to do so though, as I already kind of got attached to the way it looked, even though it only existed for a few months. In a way, I don't even know if this update is a direct improvement or not, as something meaningful has been lost in this change. All that melancholy out of the way, I am rather happy with having finished a much more intricate homepage. I learned how flex boxes worked and made the whole page myself. I have nothing against the people who use templates, but for me, the programming aspect of making this site is the majority of the fun for me. I would say I am a programmer first and foremost, and a creative second. I am also CERTAINLY no graphic designer so I think the homepage still looks kind of yucky lol. If anyone has any concrete advice for how I can make it look better, feel free to let me know. I am hesitant to add too much color though, as I much prefer a dark webpage, simply for how it feels on my eyes, not for any like, edgy brooding mentality type stuff. I am not Batman, I am just getting old lol. Either way, very happy to have my cat Luna represented on the site, especially in such a central slot. She is even visible in the preview which makes me very happy. I have wanted for a while to also make a page for her brother Cosmo, but since he is no longer with us, I don't really want to make a page that is very sad to visit. That being said, I would still like to make something for him, so he has a presence on here, so I will contemplate it some more. Maybe just putting a content warning on his page will suffice for people who do not want to engage with sorrow.
Frustration
One thing I struggle a lot with in my personal life is feeling angry and overwhelmed. I have been feeling especially so these last few days. I really just want to be left alone and when I am interrupted from what I am doing, it takes such an unreasonably large toll on my mental, and I hate it. It is not fair to my family to feel so wholly solitary, but I feel that I also just really wish I could be alone LOL so like, I have no idea what to do about it. I don't really have a poignant way to snappily wrap this up. I just feel frustrated a lot.
New Pages
I really want to make new pages for this site but am enormously out of ideas for the time being. Again, some of the things I have made are not publicly available, and I am waiting on some collaborative things to come to fruition, so I can't really work on that yet. I suppose I could try making a comprehensive list of reviews of every game I care about, but the gargantuan nature of that project seems like it makes it not worth starting. Plus, I can't imagine many people want to read hundreds of video game reviews by some random individual they have no guarantee is credible and qualified. One thing I have been wracking my brain about is how to make a page, or even just some aspect of this site that makes viewers want to return here. Because as of now, once you have browsed all the content on this site, it's basically over. Unless you really love looking at my 3 peggle screenshots every day, there is not much incentive to return lol. Speaking of, I would like to move towards releasing Peggle Junior, my massive level pack for Peggle Nights soon. If you are interested in playtesting the level pack before it releases, please contact me. I would love a few testers so I can iron out the issues before it releases. Ideally, you already have access to a copy of peggle nights for pc, and some degree of experience with the game, but the levels are not especially difficult, so you do not have to be very skilled. But yeah, I digress. The point I was talking about is needing a page that incentivizes viewers to return at least somewhat regularly. And I can't imagine this blog is it. I had the idea for a web game called "Chortle" where it is a wordle type daily game where the gimmick is that every day, a sound clip is played of a cideo game character laughing and you have to guess who it is. I do NOT want to make that though LOL. Would take far too much work for my purposes.
Gaming
My gaming golden era has ceased. I am barely playing anything, my Drakengard 3 playthrough has been on hold since I got credits, before christmas. I am basically doing like, a Balatro run or two a day and that's all my gaming content. I did start playing through Breath of the Wild again, which is probably bad for my prospects of being able to beat other games at a pace remotely similar to a month ago. I guess that's fine, but I really love the feeling of finishing a game for the first time and really enjoying it. It feels like adding a permanent new buliding block to the foundation of my video game experiences. There are so many games I can not imagine not having played, so who knows how many more of those are out there?
ok whatever, my hands are starting to hurt, I think I am done
That's all I have for you for today.
-Jake Spondulio
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