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2023.12.25 10:30 | Merry Christmas from Cross Worlds!

Topics: Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds

2023.10.29 12:00 | Happy Halloween from Cross Worlds!

Topics: Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds

2023.10.24 12:00 | Origami gallery

Topics: Origami

I recently collated the photos I've taken of the origami models I've folded over the years, so now I am putting together a gallery with more information on them. Might take a little while to complete, and I don't remember a lot of details on the older models. But it's still fun to look at!

2023.10.07 14:30 | Hello, kitty

Topics: Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds, Sanrio

The collaboration event for Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds has been revealed as Sanrio characters! While an exact date hasn't been posted, it's fairly safe to assume that it will start after next week's patch (10/12).

Can it top the Granblue Fantasy x Sanrio April Fool's collab? I don't think so, it's kind of hard to beat Percival and Aglovale wearing Cinnamoroll hats.

I'm just hoping I can get a My Melody costume for my engineer.

2023.09.23 22:30 | Old transit, new transit

Topics: Transit, Caltrain, Muni

I've had posters of classic San Francisco streetcars on my walls for years. But it's time to update them (a little) because there's a new train in town!

The electric train tour today was wonderful and this gorgeous new poster feels different and yet right at home in the middle of my transit triptych.

2023.09.10 20:30 | I choose you!

Topics: Origami, Pokemon

There is something intensly satisfying about folding Sweet Paper designs. There is significant setup in their diagrams -- perhaps 50%-75% of the steps are folds that don't do anything immediately. But then you hit that point where you collapse a sink or flare out a side and the whole model transforms from a bunch of flat folds into an amazing 3D shape. Their detail is also very good -- the edges lock and hold together tightly.

Anywhere here is a pokeball made with 3 (2.5 really) sheets of paper from a video they recently published! The ball is hinged in the back so it easily opens and closes! (Actually this doesn't close too well but I think it'll get better when I fold a few more to understand how lip of the ball works.)

2023.09.04 12:15 | Bigger lampshade

Topics: Origami

I went back to Daiso to get more of those clear colored plastic sheets of origami paper. Here's the big shade folded with full 15cm sheets!

2023.08.28 9:45 | New lampshade

Topics: Origami

I've had a lamp designed to take origami lampshades for years, and every so often I will fold a new shade for it. My latest lampshade is a small 30-unit pentakis dodecahedron from clear colored plastic sheets I got at Daiso. This allows the small LEDs to glow through in really neat combinations.

It was also really cool just backlit with a white light.

This looks super fantastic and I'm thinking of getting more of these sheets. They are 18 sheets per pack, so I had to cut them into quarters (7.5cm size) in order to have enough sheets for this lamp. Now that I know how good it looks (and feels to fold), I might buy two more packs and make a big shade with the full 15cm sheets.

2023.08.22 12:30 | We have a date for Relink!

Topics: Granblue Fantasy: Relink

We have a date for GBF:Relink! It's February 1, 2024! I'm so hyped.

Do I take some time off so I can binge it??

2023.08.21 10:30 | Music gets stuck in your head

Topics: Live-a-Live

Most of this weekend I kept getting Guile's Theme stuck in my head and it took until mid-Sunday before I remembered that Yoko Shimomura wrote both Guile's Theme and Megalomania.

Anyway, I got through most of the chapters of Live-a-Live this weekend. I'm about halfway through Distant Future, and excited to see how they tie all the characters together for the finale.

Also, it was extremely fun to find out which background/minor character Sugita Tomokazu voices in each chapter.

2023.08.15 17:40 | Video share test

Topics: Splatoon 3

Just a test of how I can share video clips from the Nintendo Switch (and later, Playstation 5).

2023.08.15 17:10 | It's more or less permanent, now

Topics: Origami

So here we are. Tweetdeck has gone paid-only and it was the last way I could tolerably view content on Twitter. I've unfollowed most people except for a few accounts where that is still a primary news resource (primarily local public services Twitter and JP Game Twitter.) I'll be using this site to post random thoughts and screenshots/video captures from games and most likely, a whole big honking ton of photos of origami models I've folded recently.

Hey, let's get that party started.

2022.11.18 11:45 | Cygames is coming for my wallet

Topics: Granblue Fantasy

Granblue Fes 2023 is coming and Cygames just announced their first wave of merchandise. There's plenty more to come but already I want the calendar and the Clucky plushie and maybe also the Six Dragon's [sic] pouch. I'm slightly terrified of what will be included in future waves.

I was chatting with Dom on Monday about plushies that Cygames could release for Fes and my predictions were Young Cat and Ewiyar, and Divine General pets, and we got one of these already! Where's my fluffy kitty plush, Cygames? Shut up and take my money!

2022.11.17 20:00 | What even is going on anymore

So here's a little space for me to type out random thoughts. No character limits, although I'll try to keep things short. Longer thoughts will get linked to, so this front page remains quick to scan. And I can edit things as many times as I want! Amazing.

Will this replace Twitter? No, but it provides an alternate space for me to share things with friends.