The Last Post of the Year: 2020

Well, here we are, New Year's Eve.

TEXT PLAY SIDE GAME: Final Fantasy II (Famicom 1988/PS 2003 [Origins]): Issue #029: Mysidia Tower, Part One

Part of what makes this a long dungeon is that there's four minibosses and a regular boss in here.

MiSTing: DigiDefenders Episode 2, Part Two

There are a couple of things I left out of the end of part one. Like I was saying, I tended to put stuff from my real life in these things, for flavor. In this episode, I had my little brother “cameo” as the “Brains” character, who brought in his laptop for the map scene. He was still in school for computer science at the time. That's not the direction his life went in the end, but then again, my life went in a different direction from where I'd thought, too.

Another real life thing that found its way into this one is that I'm more than a little stubborn about taking medicine for things when I'm sick or in pain. Always have been, and still am to this day. The reason for why I tend to work on these things as late at night as I do is a combination of too much caffene and the fact that my legs, and my left leg, especially, have a fair bit of arthritis in them for a man my age, and I just can't bring myself to take anything for it to help myself sleep unless I really push myself to. I probably did the night I wrote this, but since then, well, I have my doubts. I'm hoping for some sort of improvement on that front going forward, but only time will tell.

In the meantime, let's wrap this up, shall we?

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Merry Christmas!

I hope you all had one!

MiSTing: DigiDefenders Episode 2, Part One

This one's only going to be two parts, due in part to that it kind of breaks weird. This first part's gonna be a good deal shorter than the second one, but if I'd tried to do this the way I would normally, I would have wound up breaking it into too many parts to be practical for anybody. It's already cumbersome enough without adding more work to it, and I'm the sort of guy who really doesn't like making things more difficult than they need to be if I don't have to.

That said, when I reflect on the number of these things I managed to do back in the day, I'm actually impressed. There's eight just in this one series, and that says nothing of however many of these I've done both before and since.

Why? Well, all the page formatting and whatnot was done manually, for the most part, at least on my end. There was a site that did some automatic reformatting for this kind of thing, but I didn't really use it enough to get the hang of it because I didn't discover it until almost the end of my main time doing this sort of thing. The hosting sites also did some of their own formatting, to fit with whatever the accepted style was at the time, which also accounts for some of the screwball line breaks and out of place characters. It also ties into some of the odd typeos here and there. I think I might have screwed some things up as I was doing the formatting work for the “scripts” and wound up doing jokes on that, simply because I was too dumb to notice that I'd messed up on my end. I'm just kinda surprised that I never got called on it along the way, or that I don't remember, if I did.

One other thing I want to mention before I get to the main thing here. I'm going to try a little experiment with this one in that I'm going to try having a specific day and time these things go live. In this case, it's going to be Saturdays at 5 PM, since that's when episodes aired on Sci-Fi back when I was watching on TV. I'm assuming the archived schedules I'm working with mean 5 PM US Eastern time, since that's the standard time zone they use here in the US. Since I'm posting from the US Central time zone, however, that's the 5 PM I'm going with.

That much out of the way, we've got movie sign on part one of Digimon: DigiDefenders, Episode 2: Go Gotsumon!

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Picture Post: Black Hills Trip 2020: Scenic Overlook

These are a couple months old now. I'd meant to get to them sooner, but I've had other things going on.

TEXT PLAY: Final Fantasy IX (PlayStation, 2000, Square-Enix): Issue #065: Mini World Tour: Multiple Sessions

This one's going to cover a couple sessions, at least.

A Missed Milestone

So, it turns out I've been doing something like regular updates to this silly little thing for just over a decade now...

December Already

For as long as this year has felt, it's hard to believe that we're already a week into December.

TEXT PLAY QUICKIE: Final Fantasy 4: Chronicles Version (2001; PS1): Issue #011: Jonah and the Lunar Whale

Not the reference some might think.