Another delayed weeknotes, decided to just accept it this time around, it’s okay. From December 16 to 22, 2025.

Well yeah that week was packed with stuff at work, and I really wasn’t in the mood for writing blogposts, so two weeknotes back to back, like the good old days.

And Christmas is upon us! I hope those who celebrate get to have a great time with family and friends. Be kind to each other in these tyring times, all of you!

🏭 A lot of work going on at work, there was some data loss that affected a bunch of the internal systems of the company I work for, and I had to manually fill up a bunch of things, I don’t want to get into it that much, but it was a very manual and repetitive process and I barely got time to sit at my desk for it. Nothing too bad really, when it comes to complexity.

🕹 I umm, caved for one last purchase of the year of Nintendo Switch games, I acquired Tales of Graces F Remastered, a game from a JRPG franchise that I have never tried before, but I saw it had multiplayer support and that seemed kind of interesting to me. I also acquired the Star Wars Heritage Pack physical release, which comes with five games in cart (the one I care about the most is The Force Unleashed) and two digital downloads (the KOTOR duology, which I wish was physical, but whatever).

💾 For a couple years, the hard drive where I stored a bunch of totally legal Linux distributions that I used for my Raspberry Pi 4 a couple years ago, was lost. However, I finally found it laying in some random corner of my house… and it’s dead, RIP.

🛍️ All my siblings are finally reunited at home, and the first thing we did (besides lunch) was go to the movies and watch Avatar: Fire and Ash, and after that, some Christmas shopping for new shoes! I got one of my siblings a pair, I got my mom another, and I got two pairs for myself. My father paid for his (I’ll gift him something else) and my other sibling already got a Kobo, so all good.

Watching

Only a very big and long movie this time around, not a lot else, interesting how the year has gone when it comes to my movie consumption. No anime or shows to speak of.

• Avatar: Fire and Ash - Well, I watched this movie with everyone in the family, we got one of the fancy rooms with bigger seats for everyone, and honestly, it was a pretty cool experience overall! I really enjoyed the new antagonist as well, it was a very interesting dynamic overall. I think it could have been a little hshorter, there were some parts that felt like endings and then it kept going! In any case, it feels like a sequel to The Way of Water rather than a whole new story, which I guess was the point. There wasn’t enough fire or ash though, bummer.

Gaming

Quite a bit of games this time, I even brought my Switch to my commute instead of using one of my smaller handhelds, it was pretty fun!

• Hollow Knight: Silksong - Played quite a bit more of this. Fought another optional boss, and I also unlocked the blue phial, that lets me get extra life essence!
• Vampire Survivors - Completed a full run in a local 4-player session, it was amazing! Getting the hang of it but I still can’t last 10 minutes by myself.
• Full Metal Furies - Just some progress in new stages! It has been quite fun.
• Nintendo Switch Sports - Another fun session, this time it was some online multiplayer, me and a sibling vs the world. We even won once at Bowling.

Reading

Welp, I read like half a chapter of Exit Strategy too, but I am not even giving that a listicle.

• My Wife is from a Thousand Years Ago - Up to chapter 281. It continues to be pretty wholesome and adorable, and there have been a few references to how time has passed for different characters and it’s kind of relatable as well.

Around the web

Some blogs to keep y’all reading! Or videos, making a return.

Blogposts

• What is there left to say? - AI is NOT it.
• My life was better 10 years ago - I wonder how much is it that we were just kids and how much is it that the world has truly gotten worse, there’s a ratio somewhere, right?
• Typing is physical and wonderful - Pens are very cool, but typing ain’t bad at all, both are worth learning well.
• To sigh a deep sigh of releasing - Just Annie writing something wonderful again.

Videos

• If Hollow Knight: Silksong Was Made by Other Game Studios… - The title alone is enough.
• We’re Watching a New Genre Rise in Real-Time - Ain’t Balatro kinda cool?
• What we lost when graphics got better… - This video was so good I have to share it to all of you.
• Hiding handsome Squidward under the sea - Just a very fun and random idea.

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