My Sister's PlayStation 3 And My Backlog

I've mentioned that I've been doing some tech archaeology a few days ago, and so I've been retrieving a lot of the tech I've had around me. Two weeks ago, a few days before I got the iPhone 5 working again, I

Battle for Dream Island Elsewhere - First Impressions

And Happy New Year!

Reviving My iPhone 5

I have recently been doing a bit of "archeology" around my home — as I like to call it — and I've been getting into exploring some of my old phones. For example, I have an iPhone 8 with a broken camera that used to belong to my

My First Magic: The Gathering Deck

I have recently gotten an itch to play Magic: The Gathering again, but actually try to get more into it this time. I've sort of been around the zeitgeist of the game for over 4 years, but I have been very on-and-off about actually playing it. I'

Holiday Happenings! (2025)

Happy Holidays, everyone!

My Logo For SD Winter 2026!

Today I wanna share an artsy thing that I am incredibly proud of accomplishing! I've been thinking for a while about creating the poster and/or logo for the speedcubing competitions in my country. I love graphic design in general, so it felt obvious to combine it with

Geometry Dash Subzero Retrospective

Yesterday I wrote about GD World, the second Geometry Dash spin-off game, which came out exactly 9 years ago from yesterday. Exactly a year later, on December 21, 2017, the third — and as of yet final — Geometry Dash spin-off came out, and I wish to reminisce about it today: Geometry

Geometry Dash World Retrospective

Happy Winter Solstice everybody! This day exactly 9 years ago, on December 21, 2016, was one of the most memorable days of my life, which feels sort of weird, but it's because a lot happened during it that I'm still happy about. It was one of

The Strangest Chapter In Half-Life 1

Previously in this blog I talked about Blast Pit, my favourite chapter from the original Half-Life. Today I am following that by talking about another chapter that's been in my mind, but for different reasons. Not necessarily a bad reason, though — in fact, that's exactly why

My Favourite Chapter In Half-Life 1

Yesterday I finally finished my replay of Half-Life within the HL: Legacy mod! And by playing the entire game again I've really been able to solidify some of my more specific thoughts about it, and I wish to talk about one of those today. Although Half-Life 1 is

Half-Life: Legacy - Review

Aside from being TWOW's 10-year anniversary, yesterday was a very exciting day for me, due to many other things that were announced to happen during it! One of those was the release of a fanmade restoration mod for the original Half-Life, called Half-Life: Legacy. HL: Legacy was made

Happy 10-Year Anniversary to Ten Words of Wisdom!

Exactly a decade ago to the minute of this post being released, on December 13, 2015, 12:01 AM UTC, Carykh uploaded the first episode of a brand new series: Ten Words of Wisdom. This was a YouTube camp, which is a game played by actual people via YouTube! This

Board Games

Balatro Playing Card Deck - Review

This is something that arrived to me a few days ago, and I didn't really think of writing about it at the time, but after thinking about it more I feel like it's very fun! A few weeks ago, due to Desert Bus 2025 and the

Pocket Trains

Pocket Trains: Status Update 5

I have a pretty big update on Pocket Trains for this week! I outlined my main plans on the previous update, and I have now accomplished all of the ones I had fully planned out! As usual, I'll start with the the more basic information! I just reached

The Backlog

Half-Life: Uplink - Review

Umm does this actually count as a thing in my Backlog? … Sure!

Nintendo

My 3DS Shell Swapping Problems

Despite being released around my generation, and being a console I wanted for years, I only got my own Nintendo 3DS in 2023. Shoutout to my sister Andy and her husband Albert for giving it to me for Christmas that year! They got me the original 3DS XL in Black,

Pocket Trains

Pocket Trains: Status Update 4

I didn't make that much progress in Pocket Trains last week, so I am writing this two weeks after Update 3, just because I have more to actually talk about now! Both in terms of what I have done, and what I have planned. For the regular statistics

HTwins

The Yoylese Script

One of the many things that I have always been curious about, ever since I was a child, was fictional languages and especially scripts. Don't get me wrong, I love conlangs, however one of the things that has always appealed to me about this type of thing is

Videos

My Screen Recording Issues In Geometry Dash

I have been thinking recently about recording some more Geometry Dash videos again, just for fun. Unfortunately, though, I've been faced by the harsh truth that every screen recording method I have is terrible. Most of the GD videos I've already uploaded were recorded on my

Minecraft

My Minecraft Pocket Edition 10-Year Anniversary

Exactly a decade ago to this day, on November 27, 2015, I finally purchased (what was at the time called) Minecraft: Pocket Edition on my own iPad. Prior to this my only personal experience with Minecraft was playing the 1.8 demo in my sister's MacBook, which was

Movies

The Running Man (2025) - Review

Although I've wanted to watch more movies recently, I haven't been able to really keep up with that. The last time I actually watched a movie was at the very end of August, and I simply just haven't felt that motivated to do so

Personal

What Was Absolute Magnitude?

While cleaning my computer I found this file (pictured above). An Adobe Illustrator file I created on May 21, 2024, which I had completely forgotten about until now. It features the EyeSpark logo next to some text in the Recursive Monospace font reading "Absolute Magnitude". Although I had

Pocket Trains

Pocket Trains: Status Update 3

So Half-Life 3 was not announced today (womp womp) so here's the weekly Pocket Trains update I promised! There were a few days where I didn't really play the game, so I didn't make as much progress as I probably could have, however I

Desert Bus For Hope

Desert Bus For Hope 2025!

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