September 2025

July here!

It's been so hectic here that I completely forgot to write this on the actual final day of September, but that was bound to happen eventually. Work has given us plenty to do, and we've been suffering from the symptoms of our Ulcerative Colitis flaring up again as we finished with our course of meds. It seems like it might be temporary, so for now we've just been weathering the storm. It's been tough, but we'll make it with anti-nausea meds and each other.

On the stream, we've just revieved our first set of emotes as of this writing. They're super cute, commissioned from one Sproutsnout, who always does such a fantastic job. We'll show those off at the bottom of the page.

A lot of this month of streams were about playing random Game Boy games. Definitely a less glorious set than the Sega Saturn, but it's still a lot of fun to check them out. When playing a GB game, it can be easy to forget how being portable was really the big selling point, and it seemed very sensible to make all kinds of concessions in graphics and gameplay for the convenience. These days, we're just buying portable devices that play our Steam libraries as they already exist. Well, that's not to say that there aren't any standalone games on the Gameboy. In this batch, Cave Noire stands out as a game that's really cool and unique, but also definitely built for quick portable play. It's something like a dungeon crawler roguelike, except segmented into very short missions that actually play out as a kind of puzzle game with some random elements. As you clear stages, you unlock harder and higher level variations of each kind of mission.

Mira also played through all of Daikatana on the Gameboy Color, which was much funnier. It's a fairly middling game that's a little bit Zelda clone and a little bit preserving the FPS structure of the PC game, but we've never played the PC game... yet, anyway. It's not really special, but it's short and so we ended up going through the whole thing.

Gotten a good bit of real writing done this month too, so presumably this month we should be able to post something again.

Art

We didn't just get the emotes! This cute, loaf Mira was something we comissioned from Roxie, who did the usual stunning job with the assignment.

The big versions of the emotes we got for the stream, in their full glory!