Ok so the good news is that the overall reception is very positive, people like playing with toys, shocker, and people are fond of GuyMode and Poppy most of all.

Bad news is that it feels like I am very much making this entire thing purely for myself without realizing it, and the implications of this are not 100% clear to me yet but they may prove to be destructive to my mind body and soul. Or beneficial. Not sure yet, maybe it's fine to make tools for myself first and for others later? Ohoho... The implications are staggering... GAGGING even.

I did get a lot of cool interesting pointers though! Compiling them here for myself:

GitPub, a publication tool by one of my classmates

Jordan Magnusson's Game Poems book and related Discord server

Thijsoid's game of dust

Jurriaan Schrofer's graphic design and opinions about computers

Studio Dumbar as evil-coded tool-makers

constraint.systems, a collection of super cool tools that make me wanna kick myself in the head

... especially CSS Paint

The works of bodypoetic/Florence

Also feedbacks and observations but these are safely tucked away in my notes app on my phone, NOT for publication on a low effort past-midnight journal post.

Whenever I have to do research for like a game or a story or  in this case a thesis, it tends to bring me to interesting directions I didn't expect to be going into. I'm not sure if that's a good sign or a sign that my writing is losing focus, but whatever! it's enjoyable, it makes writing and making worth pursuing.

I think I want to make a blog post for this as a sort of thesis research retrospective, where I look at my browser history, notes, and references to see what made me end up where I did.

Stuff like reading creepypastas, playing with various art toys, awesome music; a lot of it doesn't wind up in the thesis!!

So yeah reminder to myself to get a start on that, maybe today

Okay so I finally got around to reading an actual fiction novel with my ereader, which so far has just been serving me as a means to not have to lug 5 books with me to uni.

I thought the reading experience would be worse off cause of the near-random page breaks, my expectations was that it'd mess with the pacing of a text. Turns out it ain't that baddddd I was just being a babyyyy...

On the topic of the book itself it's quite alright, great in places even! It does read like a visual novel a lil bit which is interesting rather than a value judgement, and I'm excited to see where everything will move and end up. Right now I'm not sure how it'll keep up for another 250? pages but time will tell.