A personal blog about whatever comes to mind
That’s literally it: I have a jacket that I got I don’t know when and don’t remember from whom, but it has a Discman pocket. I think I never showed it to anyone, so here it is. The jacket is obviously old, I think I got it in the 2000s, but can’t remember exactly when,…
When I was young, we had a PC at home with Windows 95 that had an almost 1-minute startup time. Deciding to have some fun, I changed the Brian Eno’s original startup sound to this: It lasted the exact amount of time it took for Windows to start responding to human input. My parents loved…
Forgot to post this in December, something I usually do on socials, so here it is. I’m a Counting Crows enjoyer. There’s something kinda different in the way they make music compared to similar bands from that time. I have a penchant to enjoy art depicting melancholy, and all of their songs sound kinda melancholic…
As some people say, this is such a weird song from R.E.M. I’m not their biggest fan, but I’ve been known to enjoy their music from time to time. This one, though, really is catchy and unlike the rest because it really is so happy, and every time it plays (it’s always on the playlist…
Please, stop calling these things “AI” What the media currently calls “AI” is actually a far cry from the sci-fi concept we associate with the word. Although artificial, ChatGPT et al are not intelligent, and treating this kind of technology as if it has thoughts and understands meaning, and other abstract concepts only overestimates what…
I’ve been playing it on and off for a bit over 1 year now, and it kinda got me by surprise. I ignored it at first because, I mean, a tower defense that’s also a gacha? People raved about the game, but I was like “meh”. Tower defense was never really my jam, and my…
I mean, beyond the name, where it’s called “Ovomaltine”, which apparently is how the whole world calls it except English-speaking countries? Well, anyway, when it was introduced in the country, there were some issues with the production line and the product didn’t turn powdery enough, becoming flaky and crispy when mixed in milk, creating a…
I’ve been thinking for a few years now how most of the issues we see in creative industries, including video game development, stem from the fact a lot of managers and executives think these industries can “scale” just like manufacturing does, which also explains why they are so keen in adopting AI. And, like, I’m…
Just to have some fun, I made what could be called a “zine” in Decker, a cool tool for creating interactive stuff in Hypercard-style. This time around, it’s just text and a few images explaining, very superficially, how the video game localization field works. You can check it here: LocZine by lokeloski
There’s an interesting shift in Brazil where the word “Friday”, in English, might get another meaning. Surprising no one (I hope), most Brazilians don’t speak English, so they don’t know what “Black Friday” really means. Some might be aware that “black” means “dark” or the literal color black but have no idea that “Friday”, a…