December 14th 2025

I’m absolutely cooked and exhausted this week, but the show must go on. With what little time I have to scrape together anything to talk about, I wanted to remind all of you of Your Wife on Steam. The workshop has started to become populated with some really impressive modded live 2D waifus, and it’s only going to get better. I talked about this a few weeks back, but wanted to bring it up again since the app is literally $0.99 full price on Steam and worth every penny. It’s also vetted not to be a crypto miner, so that’s a plus.

Little bit of a rant here, but I feel like folks who want to push out AI stuff are really missing an opportunity to actually capitalize on it. AI can quickly churn out foreign concepts with ease and “quality” that traditional artists can not. But it seems folks just want to follow trends and flood the market with absolute slop. More details in the audio blog about my point. Thanks to ScionStorm for putting in the work and checking out the stuff we all don’t have too ultimately.

Have a song recommendation for this awkward news week. It’s one of those easy listening “kind of mainstream, kind of not” sounds that’s universally appealing even if it’s not going to make anyone’s top 100 songs of all time. Artist is Zenya Crowe by the way.

Artist is Seventeencrows

Artist of the week loves two things I love as well. Muscle mommy and virgin killer sweaters. My hats off to a fellow cultural explorer Seventeencrows. You all should send them a nice word on their socials and check out their Pixiv gallery for a ton more quality work.

December 7th 2025

You all know the drill this week, I’m in shambles in the middle of a remodel. So here’s a video of an upcoming game that seems somewhat interesting. It’s called Dragon Traveler and is going to be a cross platform release. Thanks to Samool for an early look at it.

A cozy and comfy internet anomaly video. There’s nothing really mysterious or thought provoking here, but rather a fun little jaunt down the stranger but harmless side of life. It’s a nice break from the constant doom and gloom of them mainstream and vtubers bitching about each other. Thanks to Parallel Pipes for the content.

Artist is Cervina

Artist of the week is the extremely talented Cervina. If you think their work looks familiar, that is because (unfortunately) they are one of the prime targets for AI learning (or theft?) from the start. In other words, if you ever saw something AI generated and potentially had a furry or monster girl theme to it, chances are it was trained using Cervina’s style. This artist is the human who created it all, so please show some love on their Patreon and X.

November 30th 2025

This week I’m asking all of you to give me your full brain rot suggestions. Anything pop culture related you feel is worth checking out, just send it my way in the comments. Indie vtubers, memes, masterwork videos about games, etc. Anything you enjoy. To be a broken record for the next couple of weeks, I’m in the middle of a remodel and will have very little time (if at all) to find interesting stuff to showcase. Share the love and help an old man out. Have a react video from one of my more frequented guilty pleasures, Chelzor The Destroyer.

Watching speedruns is one of my favorite side hobbies for the last decade. The skill, dedication, and sheer luck involved with runs is really cool to witness, especially when it’s streamed live alongside the runner. That being said, there are always going to be bad apples and those who wish to cheat the system. Thanks to Abyssoft and Dash Retro for keeping FF7 honest.

It’s a slow news week and only going to get even slower, so I’m throwing out some really obscure stuff. There is a slowly rising interest in “companion apps” (sounds shady I know lol) but they’re actually on the more innocent side than at first glance. Apparently they’re really just apps inspired by the Pomodoro Technique, a thing I only recently learned of myself. I thought I would share this with all of you without any real opinion. It’s weird and cool I guess? Two major players on Steam right now are Spirit City: Lofi Sessions and Chill With You: Lo-Fi Story.

Artist is しろしす

Artist of the week’s translated name is Shiroshisu (しろしす). I know it’s now the beginning of winter here in the northern hemisphere, but is it any bad time to have waifus in bikinis? I guess if they’re Australian it would make sense for the skimpy bathing suits. In any case, enjoy the obvious fan service and show Shiroshisu some love in any way you can.

November 23rd 2025

I have no horse in the race or dog in the fight with 99% of gacha game success or failure stories. But some of them are bittersweet to me because they exhibit behavior I’m always suspicious of. Whenever one bans emulators and doesn’t provide a PC client for example, it goes on my “high potential for shit” list. Black Beacon did that and now it’s gone. Another game dead due to bad decisions. Thanks to Captain Cabinetz for the commentary.

Something for my normal nerds, the video above gives a mini history lesson of the insanity of Disney parks and premier pricing. Developers of gacha games are not the only ones making horrible long term decisions for their brand and property. Theme Parks Shouldn’t Exist has a lot of other similar videos should you be inclined to deep dive, and they’re good ones for the curious.

Let’s bring down the negative vibes and relax a bit with some chill lo-fi synthwave. Forester is the band and their wonderful song Watercolor. I can’t think of a better track to have in the background while cruising around town to clear your mind, or a lazy afternoon with the house to yourself and your thoughts.

Artist is Krokobyaka

Artist of the week is a previous recommendation but always worth repeating. It’s the great Krokobyaka. They like to draw various waifus, and have a long running history of celebrating the goblin variety; one of my personal favorites. As usual, send them love (and hopefully a subscription) on their Patreon or social.

November 16th 2025

I love fun travel stories, and this week we have one from Ryan & Shane of Buzzfeed Unsolved fame (or infamy). It’s a long video, so the story starts at 30:00 minutes into the actual explanation of what chaos insued. If Watcher / Buzzfeed Unsolved sounds familiar and had drama - it did. I speak on it in the audio blog, but it’s long blown over and they’ve course corrected since.

Watching videos like the one above always remind me how actually stupid I am. I really am envious of people who actually contribute to society in one form or another that do insane attention to detail stuff. It’s the same feeling when I watch an in-depth video about architecture or structural engineering, chemistry, etc. Thanks to polymatt for the awesome restoration video.

It’s been a million years since I played Stardew Valley at launch, so I thought I would revisit the game during a dry spell of content. I’m happy to see that the modding community is still quite active. None of the anime mods did it for me back in the day, but somewhat recently TheMud decided to release their edits and I have to say it’s quite the eye-candy. They have two mods that change all the dateable characters and working on a 3rd for NPCs. There is also another mod by TwoCircles that changes all NPCs into women similar to TheMud’s styling you can find here.

Artist is Nekoguchi

Artist of the week is the talented Nekoguchi who draws in a very familiar manga style that I grew up with. It’s a comforting “old school” look that has a lot of human touches you don’t get nowadays with AI and heavy filtering. Please send a kind word to any of Nekoguchi’s socials if you like their stuff!

November 9th 2025

No more spooky stuff, now back to our regularly scheduled programming of “weird but innocent” content I enjoy the most. Whang! brings us a video on the life and escapes of an eccentric character. I came to the same conclusions after watching the video as Whang did researching the man. Basically I thought I would end up with a laugh, yet somehow came away from it all awkwardly inspired. More thoughts on the audio blog.

You don’t need to play any game made by Bethesda to understand or enjoy the story above. It’s just a whacky look at a couple of crazy folks making crazier decisions with all of us along for the ride. Big Boss has a lot of video game “WTF” videos, and you’d be amiss if you didn’t check all of them out. They’ve all aged very well too. Waifu version commentary can be found here.

I have no idea why recently my privacy policy page got lit up (visited) a lot. If it’s a new influx of visitors, I just want to remind everyone that I highly encourage all of you to stay safe online and stay private to the best of your ability. My site doesn’t track anything (that cookie banner is even a placebo - I reject all user data mining by default), and I highly encourage all of you to use whatever adblocker you can get your hands on and prevent tracking via your browser’s built-in methods. AdGuard has been my personal favorite for years now, but you can use whatever you like and trust.

Artist is TEDDY

Artist oft the week is the talented TEDDY, bringing us something to cheer about in the form of an upbeat cocoa waifu. As always, please send a nice word on any of their social media accounts that you appreciate them.

November 2nd 2025

This one is a late Halloween entry, but I thought I would subscribe to the notion of “late is better than never”. SakuraStardust is the channel, and she recently made her vtuber debut over on Twitch as well. I tend to find these type of videos informative (historically) than spooky or scary, but maybe that’s just me.

Jason Graves did a video I only recently came across talking about some of the worst games on the Super Nintendo. The video is a fun watch since it’s definitely not what you’re thinking at first glance, as the process in doing the ranking is equally as interesting as the actual games deemed “bad”.

Friendly reminder that I haven’t been active on YouTube since November 3rd 2022 (3 year anniversary by the way!). Recently I got a “friendly warning” that a video I uploaded 3 years ago UNLISTED had a link in it that violates some type of rule made up 3 years later. The video by Gamers Nexus above talks about a much more severe problem with YouTube, but I just wanted to reenforce why I’ve stayed off the platform for ages now. If YouTube actually cared about user safety, they should disable clickable hyperlinks and obfuscate names (like h**ps) by default (which would protect against a lot of spam bots running rampant right now). Nuance in the audio blog.

Starting off the month with some music, and a fitting one at that considering the title is literally the same as the month. I came across this artist randomly and had to share them with all of you since I really enjoy the synthwave lo-fi beat. Cadenti is their name by the way and you can visit their bandcamp here.

Artist is Honkibooty

I think I may have recommended Honkibooty in the past, but my memory eludes me. They’re one of the rare artists that likes drawing butts rather than boobs, and it’s actually kind of rare believe it or not. In any case, lots of cake (the whole damn bakery if you ask me) is ready for you on their Pixiv. Also they have a Patreon if you want the really good stuff.

October 26th 2025

We’re closing out the last week of October with the final spooky update. All things scary and terrifying do not necessarily need to be the unknown. I often always tell folks I’ll gladly sleep in a graveyard or haunted asylum then on a park bench in a crime ridden city. Thanks to Grizzly True Crime for the video on a deranged person across the globe.

I know I haven’t been actively talking about FGC tournaments in a while. That’s because I personally feel a lot of the major events have been a bit “watered down” as of late in terms of prestige and competition. Someone a while back had mentioned that the Developer / Publisher circuit one day would carry more prize money and prestige than the ones ran by organizations. I feel that reality has finally come to pass in 2025. In any case, the finals for the SNK circuit is on Halloween weekend, and you can find more details about it here.

I know the image above can invoke eye rolling and sophomoric criticism, but I needed to post it anyway cause that’s why you’re all here! Megabonk came out last month and has been extremely successful financially and critically. That’s a fancy way of saying it’s good. Tools have been created to import custom character skins into the game, and basic examples are shown above. As the interest continues, I’m sure a lot of cool looking stuff will be down the road.

Artist is TwistingToxic

I think TwistingToxic has claimed the most amount of recommendations on my site over the years. I’ve maybe recommended him over ten times by now? Expect the the number to steadily increase too, as I have no intention of slowing down. As always, a kind word to his social that he’s awesome would be also be awesome of yourself. His pixiv has a lot of goblins waifus too.

October 19th 2025

I’m going to level with all of your folks this week, it’s been REALLY slow news. I’m talking absolutely nothing happening of note that is not drama related. There are always going to be people who are angry, but there’s considerably less people who are cool doing interesting things. I dug up this potentially interesting upcoming gacha game called MIRESI. Thanks to Chaotik for the footage.

As of the time of me posting this, the current shipping ban to the United States from Japan is still in effect for merchandise “perceived” to be in value of excess $100. There are more details but that doesn’t matter. What matters is that your local Amazon (wherever you are in the world) is conveniently immune to these restrictions due to various “Bezos” related factors. Also, 3rd party “plus” figures (like the ones seen above) are not as restricted. More details in the audio blog (I can’t link stuff), but if you need your figure fix in these times there are still options.

Spooky update of the week relates to real world horrors not of the supernatural kind. You can think of it as “beyond normal circumstances” that lead to the story above. Scary Interesting is the channel and has been a long time recommendation from me for stories worth checking out.

Artist is Aleriia V

Artist of the week is the very talented Aleriia V, who easily could be artist of the month. Very old school “pin-up” style work, and something I think is slowly fading away in modern times. Please visit her socials and send a nice word of appreciation for her talents!

October 12th 2025

Thanks to Scion Storm once again for finding some pretty obscure titles to look at; this one in particular called UltraGirl Alters. I was shocked to find out it wasn’t a gacha game, but a stand alone Steam game (apparently) from the looks of it. It has fan-service and a unique premise to it, so it might be worth checking out if you’re running low on things to play at the moment.

The bubbly Sakura Stardust is making her “lost media vtuber” debut on a new channel SakuraStarVtuber. If she sticks to her guns and only focuses on such content, then she definitely will be one of the pioneers in the field. Let’s wish her well! Check out her first video above and leave some encouragement if you like it.

Spooky topic of the week is a mix of something old and something new. I added this recommendation ages ago to The List when it was running under a different name. It used to be called Supernatural with Ashley Flowers, and it has since been rebranded to So Supernatural. I’m digging it out of the graveyard (ha!) to give it another recommendation to you all during this month. It’s a fantastic podcast about many supernatural topics, and everything is categorized neatly so you can pick the ones you have an affinity to.

It’s spooky month, so doing something a bit different. Talented artist is MonoLiTwec with a lovely walking cycle of Mal0 from the SCP universe. If my last sentence made absolutely no sense to you, don’t worry about it and just enjoy bouncing monster boobs. Hit up MonoLiTwec on their linktr.ee and leave a nice word.

October 5th 2025

I turn around and another month passes, let alone another week. October begins the “try to include spooky topics when possible” fad among the internet and I’m no different. I’ll try to keep things nerdy though. We’re starting off with “games as movies”, and this one is recent. It’s Silent Hill F. If you’re not a fan of the gameplay but like the Silent Hill narrative; sit back and relax while Gamer’s Little Playground does all the work for you.

A game I recommended a while back literally called Your Wife has released Steam workshop support! That means this already niche affordable title has opened the flood gates to the modding community. For those who don’t remember, Your Wife is simply a desktop companion app that creates a fully rendered “Live 2D” model on your desktop. It’s incredibly cheap to purchase, and now that modding has become a thing for it, expect things to go off the rails quickly.

Here is the obligatory dark story for the week. It’s not entirely focused on the paranormal, but dark in its own way with regards to both the individual it focuses on, as well as the subtle societal commentary (maybe at the time) of the incident. Thanks to Lazy Masquerade for the content, as well as a ton of other stuff on their space.

Artist is Aesthetic Meme

I love it when worlds collide, and in our case we have Sadako Yamamura and Brazilian Miku to form the even more powerful Brazilian Sadako. In any case, feel free to check out Aesthetic Meme for more artwork, as they have a ton of good stuff! Also pay their Patreon a visit if you please.

September 28th 2025

Weird gaming filled news week, but might as well make it fun I guess? In any case, one of the most modded games known to man Skyrim has had a recent mod package updated. The only reason I’m even remotely talking about it is because it’s an all in one download that includes a ton of “naughty” stuff, and the prudes on Nexus got butthurt about it. Oddly enough, it’s not Nexus staff this time around (which is startling) but random NPCs that got butthurt about it. More nuance in the audio blog as always.

I got furry waifu baited into trying this game via a thumbnail, and what I ended up with is one of the most awkward gaming experiences I have ever had in 2025 so far. It’s definitely going into the 2025 retrospective rewards for sure, unless something completely unhinged replaces it by the end of the year. It’s not a game worth playing, but a game worth talking about. If you’re intrigued, listen to the audio blog. If you dare however, you can just play it yourself. Thanks to Scion Storm for the incredibly niche title.

Making the influencer rounds is something actually worth checking out and not an elaborate marketing campaign. This game is called Megabonk, and chances are you may of heard of it though your various gaming social media channels. The long and short of it; it’s cheap and it’s fun. Once modding opens up for the game, I’ll probably loose a good hundred hours or so. Thanks to Joshyo for making a video on Megabonk that isn’t AI or 3+ hours long for no reason.

We’re finishing up Synthwave September with Kalax again, who started us off with the first song recommendation. Not much else to say other than I hope you enjoyed the tracks this month and I’ll probably do it again next year if I remember.

Artist is Megumi740

Closing out the end of Summer with one last bikini picture from the talented Megumi740. My mind has been in a haze this past week, so there’s a very good chance I recently recommended this artist. I don’t think anyone here is going to complain though, cause as you can see above - they’re very good at what they do. Send a nice word on their socials as always.

September 21st 2025

It’s rare to talk about YouTube in any positive light, but this particular video from GamersNexus has a somewhat happy ending. Unfortunately it has nothing to do with YouTube being virtuous. It has everything to do with showing the rest of us how things work and what to do if you’re dependent on the platform. A ton of nuance in the audio blog of course, but it’s nice to see the good guys win one once in a while.

Anchor Panic technically released last week, but of course I finish my weekly news updates far ahead of the Saturday night deadline. Still, it has had some time to cook in the oven since release and it looks interesting enough to share with all of you to check out. It has a PC client by the way, which gets bonus points from me automatically. Thanks to Samool for the insightful video.

Synthwave September continues with a rather nostalgia bait music video admittedly. But that doesn’t take anything away from the song itself, which is rather catchy and chill. The artist(s) in question is actually a group called Retrosync that does a lot of thematic 80’s style videos, and you can check out their channel for a lot more songs.

Artist is Secretly Saucy

Artist of the week is not an unfamiliar face, as they have been mentioned a lot in the past and will continue to be mentioned until morale improves. Or maybe I just really adore one of their OC characters and she thematically fits the “end of summer’ thing I have going on. In any case, please visit the talented Secretly Saucy on any of their socials and send them a nice word for their work.

September 14th 2025

My wife and I have been together for more than 25 years this past week. Thought I would share a video I came across that spoke on the current state of discourse with relationships, but not in a cynical way. Thanks to Suburbanwill for the pragmatic explanation of things without diving into rhetoric. If you need the waifu version, check out SmugAlana’s video here.

What if I told you there was a video technically under 30 minutes that would make you a better photographer regardless of skill level? Well here it is in all of its glory courtesy of Cody Mitchell. I only came across this video because I was having a discussion with someone on the importance of settings on a camera, and they said “AI can fix anything in post”. I then kindly reminded them the golden rule, “garbage in, garbage out” when it comes to anything creative.

You want to do some retro gaming right now literally for free? Would you be surprised if I told you probably have hardware (aka an old phone lying around) that can do that? Follow the above video instructions from TechDweeb to start the ball rolling. I give more nuance in the audio blog.

Continuing Synthwave September from a very indie artist FrainkWave. He’s so indie in fact that he doesn’t even have an apparent Linktr.ee, so I’m going to send you over to his Slaps page if you want more of his music. Extremely chill synthwave vibe from the track by the way.

Artist is 蛇腹トルネード / jabarand

September is the official last month of summer, so it’s fitting we try to get as many bikinis in here as possible before the sun starts setting sooner. Artist doesn’t have an English name officially, so I’m going to call them by their Patreon handle Jabarand. Do whatever you need to do in order to show your support for their work!

September 7th 2025

Welcome to the last month of summer officially here in the northern hemisphere. Some life topics this week, starting off with the question of whether or not any of you have considered moving to another country before? It’s lot more nuanced then it seems, but some folks do it quite regularly. Megan and Ben show us how it works in Japan, and a 21 year old me in the past would of MURDERED people for that $300 apartment at 9:51 in the video.

This game came up on my Steam recommendation feed, and it’s apparently a somewhat lewd (?) auto battler gacha style game that’s free to play with microtransactions. Also, it’s hilariously buggy and constantly getting patched daily. It’s called Monmusu and you can see it here. Speaking of patches, the game has a Discord where you can get an “alternative art” patch, but it only makes the characters lewder but no real nudity. Things have been slow, so the game is worth checking out if you’re just morbidly curious about something that can kill a little time. Thanks to Maeka Amaya for looking at it.

Bringing up another game that was recently released on Steam, I think many of you might have forgotten about Horizon Walker. I mentioned this game a while back and played it for a while. It’s fine as a good time killer, although I really wish it had more waifu types. Still the ones they do include are pretty top tier, so if you haven’t checked it out already and want to play in PC - now you can. Keep in mind it’s riddled with a ton of bugs, so patience is strongly recommended.

I’m declaring synthwave September a thing. So I’ll be uploading a recommendation every week for you to check out. We start with a cozy one from Kalax, which will easily be making a return a few times in the future for sure. But for now you don’t think, and just listen with the vibes.

Artist is Piukute062

Make no mistake, artist of the week easily could be artist of the month. But I got to keep my monthly’s a little bit on the reserved side, but of course that means no restrictions on the weekly side. So if you really like what you see above (and I don’t blame you at all), please send Piukute062 a ton of love.

August 31st 2025

At the beginning of this month, I made a comment about how I’m done with nostalgia because everyone wanted to put a price tag on it. I’m glad some folks out there also have a similar line of reasoning when it comes to nerdy stuff. Joey's Retro Handhelds is a kindred spirit for me in regards to the portable gaming market. Nuance as always in the audio blog.

Friendly reminder that Spirit Valley, a game I recommended a while back is now out of early access and in full release! Games can be fun, creative, and lewd (for adults only of course!) contrary to what certain corrupt and or hypocritical organizations out there may tell you otherwise.

I know this is a react video to the original source, but I feel like a lot of you would probably not care too much if there wasn’t an animated waifu talking about it. So hats off to SmugAlana covering it and Luke Stephens LIVE for the original video. In any case, I’m glad there’s an example of censorship I can talk about that isn’t actually related to lewd content, because it’s equally just as important in the absurdity. A lot more nuance in the audio blog.

Artist is Kuma 4Go

Artist of the week is the talented Kuma 4Go. Apparently they’re a very good Vtuber concept / design artist. Although this is outside of my expertise, I do know a good artist when I see one. Feel free to check out their pixiv and X accounts respectively. Please always send a nice word if you like what they do.

August 24th 2025

Very brief update this week due to the upcoming schedule at the end of month. In other words, I’m going to have you all tied up in internet mysteries while I look for more topics to talk about later in the month. So our good friend Connor’s Curiosities will start you off with an appetizer of strange things in the world.

There has been an extremely disturbing amount of video theft on YouTube recently, so I just wanted to make this a short PSA to verify what you’re watching isn’t an AI generated profit farm. Upcoming content creators like Threadbare work hard to do the research and narrate their stuff. I’ve literally seen 1:1 AI bot channels repost a video with AI narration, and they’re quite literally in the hundreds. You’ve been informed I hope.

This video is really for Nikke fans, but I’ll try to make the talking points as universal as possible. For whatever reason, Nikke right now is going through “anti-power creep” from the developers and it’s throwing the community in a weird loop. I’ve always offered a simple solution: pull who you like looking at. Everything else is a bonus! Lots more nuance in the audio blog. Thanks to Skyjiv being the hero every patch doing the math.

More chill music to start or finish out your week. This one is a bit older, but still a goodie. Brennan Wolf is the artist, and if the above video is not loading (or restricted) visit the SoundCloud here.

Artist is しろしす / sh1r0sh1su

Artist of the week is the talented しろしす bringing us a lovely version of Barghest from FGO. I have no idea who she is (not a follower of the series) but she get’s my vote for Death by Snu Snu.

August 17th 2025

We’re vibing and chilling out this week. There are a lot of games out there that I don’t distinctly have an interest in playing. But that doesn’t mean I don’t care about their particular story or setting. So if you would rather just watch someone else do all the hard work and enjoy the narrative, Shirrako has you covered for a lot of games.

Legendary shmup god Jaimers put out a playthrough of Salamander III on the recently released Gradius Origins collection. Sit back and relax as he quickly demolishes a shmup in his usual fashion. If you want to feel even more insecure about your abilities, check out the rest of his videos on various shmups.

It’s been a hot minute since I lasted recommended a DancingBacons video. He’s been on TheList for quite some time now, but I’m sure many of you with busy lives and attention elsewhere have probably forgotten about him. So consider this your friendly reminder that he puts out a lot of chill nerdy / foodie content perfect for watching when you want to unwind. No obnoxious vocal commentary, opinions, or drama. Just enjoy the atmosphere.

Chill synthwave song recommendation to conclude the update. With recent YouTube shenanigans, I’m not sure everyone will be able to listen to the above track. If you have a hard time, the artist KXST has many other platforms their music is on. So if you find yourself blocked or “unavailable in your region”, check out SoundCloud or Linktr.ee. Actually, both of those sites are infinitely better than the clown fiesta that is YouTube, but I digress. We chill this week, no need for that energy for now.

Artist is フランク-兄さん / Rioliogiz

It was quite the task finding a waifu picture with headphones on that wasn’t AI generated. Thankfully Rioliogiz has a lovely waifu with headphones on and is their own creation. Please visit their social and send them a nice word for their effort!

August 10th 2025

Not a gacha game we’re looking at this week to start things off, but a PC game that I’ve been playing for a while now. Star Valor is a fun little space game that scratches that itch for those who like these type of cozy base building games. Speaking of which, they recently got a DLC literally focused on base building, and hence why you’re hearing the news here.

I talked about Elin a while ago as being my addiction of choice. I put 500+ hours into that game before I called it quits for a while to move onto other games. I was waiting for someone to review the game in a way that makes sense. SsethTzeentach perfectly encapsulates what Elin is all about. If you’re still confused about what the game really is, you’re not ready for it.

My one gacha game look of the week, brought to us by Scion Storm. As far as I can tell, this is not officially available yet on the big platforms. It looks like a vertical locked semi-idle game mixing a few genres. If you all download it and give it a play, let me know if it’s any good and if I should suit up. Otherwise, I’ll wait and see until it mass releases to the public.

Artist is HuffsLove

I missed a perfect opportunity last week to tie artist of the week with the topic of ID’s. I’m going to correct the error of my ways with a goblin waifu drawn by the talented HuffsLove. They’ve been mentioned many times here on the site, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. Hit up their social to send them a kind word.

August 3rd 2025

Starting off the first weekly update of the month with a lesson in mental awareness. SmugAlana brings us an obvious drama related video, but it’s not my intent to focus on the subject at all but rather the lesson hopefully learned. That lesson is trusting anyone with very identifiable information, especially if it’s a government ID, can be dangerous. I bring this up because a content creator I follow made a big deal about how buying from merchants (local or overseas) who require you upload your government ID to them is “fine”. It is obviously not, for a lot of reasons. This is especially true due to recent events. More nuance in the audio blog.

Nostalgia has introduced a lot of questionable stuff in recent years. Even if we give them the benefit of the doubt, we then have to live by the quote “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”. LGR is absolutely not the idiot in all of this, to make things clear (he’s awesome!). The thing he is talking about, I leave up to you to decide. Hopefully it’s a quick decision.

Somewhere along the way, I got off the train of reliving my youth. I think that’s because every single opportunist out there sees me as easy prey when it comes to nostalgia. Retro Game Corps does another fantastic review video of a newly released Anbernic handheld which I all recommend you look at. I can’t help but feel these devices at the end of the day are starting to cater to a different crowd however. Lots more commentary in the audio blog.

Artist is Dishwasher1910

This was a spicy weekly update, so I’ll re-link an equally spicy artist Dishwasher1910 for good measure. He’s been around the block for along time, and a previous recommendation in the past as well. Also very vocal about trends in art, so I felt it was thematic for this weekly! Send a nice word on any of his socials as always, and he has a lot of it.