Monday, November 3 2025

My Favourite Book, this particular copy of Pride and Prejudice

I wish every book was exactly like this one. Let me tell you why.

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Monday, September 15 2025

SILKSONG: Early Impressions

Brief thoughts on my first... 5 hours? with Silksong

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Tuesday, July 1 2025

GROVE Devlog: The limits of having zero art direction

A brief overview of all the bad ways my game GROVE has looked throughout development, and a change in art direction that cracked the whole project open.

This blog is adapted and expanded from a presentation I gave at a GAEMZ Meetup back in April.


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Wednesday, June 25 2025

The Late Really Good Bottleneck or, Video Games are Funny Demons

I've been playing a mobile game but this one is GOOD!

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Friday, March 28 2025

The Late Great Bottleneck or, Video Games Are Stalking Wolves

i have been playing a mobile game. i know, not even me and my perfect taste are immune to their wiles. sorry

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Friday, February 7 2025

Zelda Club - A Postmortem

In September 2022, I decided I would play every "main line" Zelda game in order. One a month. Start to finish. Between October 2022 and February 2024.

This was ill-advised and impossible for a number of reasons. Allow me to enumerate them.

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Monday, February 3 2025

Ecology of a Brain

A couple years ago, I wrote I Don't Know How To Think. I was having a crisis about my capacity, or lack thereof, to think deeply about things. And I want to reflect a little on how I've tackled that since then. My goal was to do it through writing - on this site. Obviously that didn't happen, but I won't be blogging about blogging again.

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Thursday, January 30 2025

Things of 2022

https://washingdish.es/images/Calendar1.gifHere's a list of some stuff I liked in 2022.https://washingdish.es/images/Calendar2.gif
They're not all new but they are all new to me so gimme a break.
You should check out all of these things!

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Wednesday, January 29 2025

I Don't Know How To Blog

This piece is actually obsolete, as of 25/06/25, since it's mostly about technical solutions for the old blog, but is preserved here for completeness' sake. I'm now using a Dotclear installation with it's own actual word processor, archives, tagging - all the good stuff i wanted. Thank your lucky stars that I'm not writing ANOTHER meta post about blogging.

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Tuesday, January 31 2023

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO THINK

Wrestling with my inability to think deeply on things... perhaps.

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