Spiced Rum Tracker
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I have trackers for video games and kanji, why not a tracker for spiced rum too!
All the posts
Please enjoy this look at all of the posts I've done. There sure are a lot. And I don't know how to make pagination work so it's a big old page. Sorry about that!
Pleae click on a tag to filter by tag, it's probably easier!
Electric Friend Faces
I wanted to 3d print some more projects, and I also wanted to make something for my friends, so I made Electric Friend Faces.
Dr Dood Lights
I've always wanted to see my name in lights. So I did that.
Dépanneur Nocturne
I played a charming short game about buying things from a little shop of curios! How quaint!
A Forgetful Loop
Time loops and puzzles abound as I check a look at a super sweet indie game I got in the itch.io Palestine charity bundle!
Japanese language progress - May 2021
May has been a fun month in my Japanese language adventure. I have learnt some new vocabulary, read some things, and played some games. Oh the excitement!
DIY Bottle Lights
My furlough projects expand into the realm of reality, as I transform old bottles into amazing wifi-controlled colour changing lights.
Japanese language progress - April 2021
I figured I would do a fun update post each month about how my Japanese is progressing, as it would give me a little bit of time to reflect on where I am and also generate content for the machine. The machine always needs feeding, and it hungers for content. So here is where I’m up to with Japanese learning in April 2021.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
In an effort to get better at Japanese I played through The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on the Game Boy, and the remake on the Switch, in Japanese. I had a jolly good time with both versions!
Video Game Tracker
Another fun furlough project as I create a page that dynamically display the dates I played and completed video games. Very useful!
Kanji Progress Tracker
My first furlough project this Easter was to make a webpage that tracked the kanji I’m currently learning. It’s very interesting and technical and exciting!
Furlough funtimes!
I’ve done a whole bunch of projects over the past months, please enjoy this exciting look at them.
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Finals
It’s the G1 Climax 29 final. My long journey of reviewing all of the G1 shows has finally come to the end.
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 17
It’s the A block finals from the Nippon Budokan. Oh my!
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 16
I’m caught up! It’s Night 16, B block, fight!
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 13
Night 13 of G1 Climax 29 has A block matches. I’m going to watch them, and then write very little about them!
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 12
Back to B block action in yet another night of G1.
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 11
Back to the A block with Night 11 of G1 Climax 29.
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 10
With this show we’ve passed the halfway mark of this year’s G1, and tonight there is some B block action.
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 9
It’s a battle between the two undefeated from A block, Kazuchika Okada vs Kenta, in Night 9 of G1 Climax 29!
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 8
Night 8 of G1 Climax 29 takes place in Hiroshima and has B Block matches. Let’s watch it!
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 7
G1 on a Saturday so I get to watch it live. Nice nice nice. A Block woo!
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 6
Day six of the G1 is B Block action with Moxley vs Ishii in the main event. This is gonna be good!
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 5
I’ve gone three days without a G1 show to watch, I haven’t known what to do with myself. But now we have Night 5 with some A Block action. Yeah!
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 3
Two wrestling shows in one day, as I watched Fight for the Fallen this morning. That was a good show, I’m sure this G1 show will be too. Let’s do it!""
AEW Fight for the Fallen
So, I would like to cover AEW and NJPW shows that I watch, it is just ridiculous timing on my part that I decide to do that at the start of the G1 and then an AEW show is the same day. Thankfully if I write as I watch it doesn’t take too much extra time.
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 2
Why I didn’t think of this for my review of the first show I don’t know, but I should write my thoughts down as I watch. This saves me time and means my thoughts of the early matches won’t get lost.
NJPW G1 Climax 29 Night 1
Why not revive my old blog where I reviewed video games and make the first post reviewing a wrestling show? And also commit to reviewing 19 wrestling shows over the next month, urgh!
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft (1998)
I’ve just finished playing Tomb Raider III, as I’m playing through all of the Tomb Raider games as part of the veizy.com Tomb Raider 20 Years of Fun Times Retrospective. Tomb Raider 3 was released in November 1998, developed by Core Design, and published by Eidos. Tomb Raider!
AM2R – Another Metroid 2 Remake
A few weeks ago, a free fan remake of Metroid II was released. AM2R, standing for Another Metroid 2 Remake, was in development for 9 years before being released on the 30th anniversary of the original Metroid game. Nintendo were not happy that a bunch of fans were celebrating the Metroid franchise that they’ve worked so hard to ruin, so issued a bunch of DMCA takedown notices towards everywhere hosting the game. Of course, getting a copy of the game is still incredibly easy, so I did, and I have played it! It’s great!
Tomb Raider II (1997)
I’m playing through all of the Tomb Raider games thanks to the veizy.com Tomb Raider 20 Years of Fun Times Retrospective. This here is Tomb Raider II, and it’s jolly good. It was developed by Core Design, published by Eidos, and originally released in October 1997.
Tomb Raider (1996)
Hey, here’s a review of the first Tomb Raider game. I’m playing through all of the Tomb Raider games as part of the veizy.com Tomb Raider 20 Years of Fun Times Retrospective. Originally released on October 25th 1996 on the Saturn, then released a few weeks later on some proper systems, Tomb Raider was developed by Core Design and published by Eidos. It’s the very first Tomb Raider game, and it holds up pretty good!
The Room Mini Review
Here is a game that I got in the Steam Summer Sale as part of the veizy.com Steam Summer Sale Playtime 2016. It is called The Room, and it’s made by the lovely people at Fireproof Games.
Always Sometimes Monsters Mini Review
Here is yet another game I’ve played as part of the veizy.com Steam Summer Sale Playtime 2016, it’s Always Sometimes Monsters, a cool RPG by Vagabond Dog.
Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight Mini Review
I am doing a very fine job of thematically linking the game’s I choose to play in the veizy.com Steam Summer Sale Playtime 2016. Here’s another game with a colon in the title, it’s Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight! And it’s fun!
The Talos Principle: Road To Gehenna
In an effort to stay up to date with the hottest releases in gaming, here’s a review of some DLC that came out in July for a game that came out last December, it’s the Talos Principle and Road To Gehenna, developed by Croteam and published by Devolver.
Soma
Hello veizy.com exciting website. It has been ages since I wrote anything because for the past couple of months all I’ve played is Rare Replay, which is super awesome and highly recommended but not that interesting to write about. I have now just played Soma, the new game from Frictional Games, and that IS something interesting to write about. So I’m going to write about it now. Now. NOW!
Short Peace – Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day
Short Peace – Ranko Tsukigime’s Longest Day is a succinct and easy-to-remember title for a game. It only came out a year ago, totally within the time limit for an exciting review. Also, it’s a PS3 exclusive. Long live the old generation!
Risk of Rain Mini Review
I got Risk of Rain in a Humble Bundle I think, and it’s pretty rad. How rad? You’ll find out right after this gigantic image!
Legend of Grimrock Mini Review
The first game I bought in the Steam Summer Sale 2015, it’s Legend of Grimrock!
DeadCore Mini Review
What I love about the Steam Summer Sale is that so many games go on sale for such a cheap price, it’s almost impossible to not look at what the games are. When a game I’ve never heard of is available for £2 it would be insanity not to see what it’s about. And with DeadCore I am so glad I did.
Jazzpunk Mini Review
Jazzpunk! It fell into my Steam Library via a Humble Bundle, it’s the third game in the veizy.com Steam Summer Sale Playtime, but it’s the first where I’ve broken one of the rules. Instead of playing the game for an hour, I instead played it until completion which took about two and a half hours. A short game for sure, but an excellent one!
An examination of the sex and violence in Banshee!
I recently started watching a TV show called Banshee which is one of the most gloriously trashy shows I’ve ever seen.
Gone Home
I started writing up a big long piece about a thing but it was taking forever. Then I played Gone Home which turned out to be pretty great and also much easier to write about. So I’m going to do that. Right now!
Remember Me
I played Remember Me. I’m going to blog about it. Because that’s what I do!
Jet Set Radio HD
Over the past week I’ve been playing Jet Set Radio HD and I thought that’s as good a thing as any to blog about, so let’s shake it!