Playing Pikmin²! Yes, that’s Pikmin squared. It’s a new ROM hack from Pikhacker that involves the entirety of Pikmin 1 being ported into Pikmin 2’s engine, and then some! It includes a new story involving Louie and lots of new challenges and quality of life improvements. If you’re a fan of Pikmin and have a decent computer, check it out!

I’ve also been messing around with various emulators lately, namely DEMUL and playing Ecco: Defender of the Future on it. Dreamcast emulators are notoriously clunky and many still have issues with alpha textures, but for the most part they run well! also, Ecco games are pretty difficult LMAO, even though I love just swimming around as a dolphin… I’m on the Roaring Forces level AND I HATE THAT EEL! That is all.

Aaaand I beat em! I love the non-cave levels haha.

Experimented a bit with my usual bread recipe. It’s cooling off right now, so I’m hoping to have some fresh bread in an hour or so.

I’m laid up with a broken knee. Doomscrolling Lemmy!

Still the quiet part of the year in terms of gardening, but I have started some seeds already (peppers and physalis). Also ordered some supplies for the year, but the real work starts in March.

Have been continuing to read manga (one piece, started roughly 2 weeks ago, have read about 450+ chapters - 48-49 volumes)

Relearning wordpress after many years since freelance webdev seems viable, the big companies hella pricegouge, its fun to research viable plugins and setup some websites to test. Messed with fediverse hosting for a minute but I took the easier way out and got bored (yunohost), gonna retry with docker eventually, half the fun is set up.
Just setup/swapped to linux (cachyosarch) from a lifetime of windows this week too, got windows 11 kvm/qemu and winapps working today, so I can pirate houdini and touch designer (piracy is hard on linux, couldnt find houdini and touch designer isnt supported). Found out about the windows activation script and got pro and office for free which is nice.

Played with the new drone!