August 2, 2020 7:56 AM
Rakuen
Earlier this year, one of my friends showed me a game called Rakuen, which tells the story of a boy and his mom going on adventures while in a hospital. It's an interactive novel with cute pixel art graphics, so I was immediately sold. You know, once the game went on sale in Steam.
, .~. /\ .~. /\ /{ \ /\ ,.-~'*/*'~-., <,.-~'*`*'~-.,> (| @ @ o) : .___, ,' `-._.-' This is my drawing (typing?) of the main character in the story.
My sister and I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. It gets super emotional, in a good way. I am very slow at video games and I think I spent 9 hours total on this game, so it's quick. 5/5 stars.
July 19, 2020 8:59 PM
I needed an excuse to display an image
Today I mounted my cross stitch on a piece of foam board.
July 16, 2020 10:01 PM
Fixing my ascii art chick
Since coming back from my vacation, I've been trying to limit my exposure to other people. I realized that in my whole life I don't think I've gone two days without interacting with someone else in person. So this is weird. I'm forcing myself to stay at home except for going on runs outside (I need fresh air and exercise), and I don't even do that every day. So far this is working out okay. Each night, I write down a TODO list of things I want to accomplish the next day. I almost never accomplish all the things, but hey, I'm staying busy.
Today I told myself I was going to figure out how to include images in the blog entries occasionally. But then I looked at my site on mobile, and I turned my phone sideways. And you know what I noticed? The little ascii art chick on the front page was all janky looking. But it only happened when I turned my phone sideways. Looked perfectly normal with the phone in the vertical position. I tried to reproduce this in my Chromebook and no matter how I resized the window, it didn't happen. Also, trying to "debug" an issue on a phone is a pain in the butt.
But, somehow I was able to fix it. First I tried Googling, and found some promising looking StackOverflow questions about people having trouble with monospace fonts on mobile, but it turns out those people wanted to use box glyphs and my ascii art is well, ascii. So I zoomed in on the ascii art chick on my phone and highlighted the area. The spaces in front of certain lines were narrower than others. Why? Who the heck knows. I did the same thing on my computer and inspected the space element with the dev tools. I inspected other space elements. And I realized some spaces were inside <span>s and others weren't. So I made it so all the characters in the ascii art section were surrounded by <span>s, and it fixed it!
- <pre>
- <span class="yellow">.--.
+ <pre><span class="yellow">
+ .--.
; </span><span class="lightblue">@</span><span class="yellow">\
- ; :</span><span class="orange">></span>
- <span class="white">/\/\/\/\
+ ; :</span><span class="orange">></span><span class="white">
+ /\/\/\/\
\ /
'----'</span>
</pre>
Yeah, it was kind of dumb. I spent like an hour and a half looking at this. And I never got around to incorporating images in this post. Which would have been helpful. Oh well. Next time.
July 12, 2020 11:55 AM
End of Vacation
It's Sunday, which means we're nearing the end of my vacation. I visited family, but overall it was a pretty chill week, and more like a staycation than a vacation. I think it was a successful week, though! I managed to do a decent amount of things.
- Ate lobster AND crab legs
- Finished stitching my cross stitch
- Started playing Rakuen
- Made some updates to this site
- Had a family get-together
- Made Pad Thai with my mom and sister
- Played board games
- Read a bunch of articles on personal development
- Started reading Awaken the Giant Within
- Exercised
- Did a 6 mile hike and found some geocaches along the way
- Watched Hamilton
- Did a ropes course
- Celebrated a birthday
- Bought a new journal
- Reorganized my apartment a little
And plenty of other things that I just don't feel like mentioning.
July 8, 2020 12:04 PM
Hashtags
I added hashtags to my blog! I have a lot of things I want to add to this blog and being able to link each entry with a tag seemed like one of the easier things to knock out. Right now they just appear at the bottom of each entry, but eventually I'll link-ify them and display all the tags somewhere on the page.
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