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[718] Housekeeping Notes Edition 1

September 7, 2026September 1, 2026 KittyLeave a comment

going forward, i will no longer be updating or using Storygraph. i will continue however, to keep the account open.

while i loved all the extra data points, it was kinda frustrating to get books on there.

being Goodreads recently unveiled a Did Not Finish shelf and that i exclusively read on a Kindle, it was just much easier to go back over there. Goodreads also has a bunch of reading challenges (as does StoryGraph mind) that i have enjoyed over the years. it helped me discover new books and authors that i may have not known about.

with that said, Storygraph has now moved to Placeholder Accounts in my tree of links. i should probably head over there one of these days and move a couple more of my social media accounts to that section now that i’m thinking about it.

it probably won’t get done right away, but at least i’m typing it here to hold myself accountable!!!

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[717] Mini Review: Chicken Journey

August 31, 2026 Kitty

cute little zero combat platformer. you’re a CHICKEN on a journey to get the answer to the ultimate question: which came first, the chicken or the egg?

i finished in the course of about 10 hours, would have been shorter if not for SOME BULLSHIT PLATFORMING.

supposed to be cozy and relaxing and here i almost rage quit.

but you can get a fancy flower hat! 🙂

🐾 4 Paws

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[716] Mini Review: Librarian: Tidy Up The Arcane Library!

August 23, 2026 Kitty

I had SO SO much fun with this game! A dear friend gifted it to me on Steam for my birthday and I just recently sat down with it to give it a go. If you are into organizational games, I highly recommend it and I also suggest giving the No Magic run a try! I really liked being able to put everything away myself by hand, and there’s even an achievement for it.

As you can see it took almost 60 hours, but it was absolutely worth it. Some of the book titles are absolutely laugh out loud hilarious (especially the romance novels, as you expect they got the 80s trashy bodice ripper vibes ON LOCK.)

🐾 5 Paws

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[#715] Mini Review: Bloodlines 2

August 12, 2026August 23, 2026 Kitty

first off, forgive any janky formatting, i’m typing this on my phone in the hopes to you know….use this more. i’ve been feeling the pull to go back to social media and micro blogging, but i have a fully functioning website i pay for right here under my own control! and in my dead heart of hearts, i really do not want to go back to social media. i’m doing just fine with the “keep accounts open for friends that use it to send me stuff in DMs” model. LOL

ANYWAY, in July i resubscribed to Gamefly (YES, it’s still alive!) think Blockbuster, but online and no rental deadlines.

The first game in my queue that i received was Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. now as an aside, this game was in development hell for years and we thought we’d never see it released. that was the first thing that made me “meh” about it. the second thing, and ultimately was gonna be the reason i would never spend money on it was they were going to put my vampire clan of choice (Toreador) behind a paid dlc. they would eventually backtrack this and then just make an additional story content dlc for a npc. $15 bones though, what the helly!!

thirdly, the story just was an outright FLOP. i had gotten the anarchy ending, but it didn’t feel like an anarchy.

i would have been way happier with Fabien, the Malkavian detective and doing old timey noir detective things!! (Fabien’s big reveal also made me pause the game and call my partner about it because i was so damn gobsmacked LOL)

as the player character storyline, things just felt really disjointed and wasn’t really going anywhere. you felt like you were just….there, with no real development.

all in all, glad i rented it and didn’t spend any money on it (unless you count my Gamefly subscription) maybe when it’s stupid cheap during a Steam sale i’ll let it rot in my library til i get a better PC.

🐾 2 Paws

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[#714] Birdwatching!

April 5, 2026 Kitty

So I apparently already botched my plan to update this space at least once a month, oops.

March seemed to just zoom past me, in my defense….

Anyway, I recently got my Mother Dearest a bird feeder with a camera on it that uses a detection service to tell you what kind of bird is currently grabbing some dinner. Pretty neat, right?

In true autistic catgirl behavior, I’m probably using it more than she does and birdwatching is quickly approaching Special Interest territory.

Some of our coolest visitors so far have been a crow (they looked like they were HELLA judging our choice of feed) and one of my all time favorite birds, a Mourning Dove. The doves usually just ate what was knocked on the ground by all the other birds so it was so cool to see one on the feeder.

cooo! cooo! cooo!

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[#713] New Phone!

February 20, 2026 Kitty

After 6 years, my beloved iPhone Mini 12 both ran out of space (yes, i’ve done a lot to take back space, 64GB still wasn’t enough.) and the battery was starting to give up the ghost.

I now have a very pretty iPhone 17 whose lavender hue actually matches my PC gaming controller, but i’ve taken to affectionately calling it Hythlophone, after one of my favorite Final Fantasy 14 NPCs, Hythlodaeus.

At first i was a bit apprehensive about the larger screen size because i got the tiny baby hands debuff, so the Mini line was PERFECT for me….and then Apple killed it. Luckily, i haven’t had much issue with typing with my thumb as normal.

The biggest plus, though? I ACTUALLY GET TO PLAY LOVE AND DEEPSPACE ON A MOBILE DEVICE AS INTENDED. fucking addicting dating sim gacha being 30+ GB….which outgrew my tablet, so I was playing it on my PC via emulator since the housing update came out.

Optimize your shit, devs. Sheeeeeeesh.

My only complaint is I find the Camera Control button absolutely bloody useless as i’m not a big picture taker.

the Action Button is neat, and a step up from the mute switch, though I wonder how long it takes before i bump it just right and unmute my phone when I don’t intend to. LOL

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[#712] It’s really mind boggling

February 1, 2026February 1, 2026 Kitty

So it’s been a month since I quit social media and boy howdy am I greater for it.

I’m still staying informed on things, which is the reason behind my blog post title today. In which, it is so absolutely mind boggling how the political sides take a story and form their own narratives about it. Like, who do you really believe in this case?!

And each one often becomes more outrageous than the other. It’s especially tragic when people lose their lives because you can’t exactly say, “okay, now tell us what REALLY happened.” This is a great time for Ned from Pushing Daisies’s powers to actually exist.

Anyway, since it’s the end of the month, here’s the January reading wrap!

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[#711] Returning to my Island

January 20, 2026 Kitty

About a year or so ago, my ex was supposed to buy my Nintendo Switch from me, though it never happened.

And then recently I hear about Nintendo remembering New Horizons exists after five years. I figured I would play as normal, despite my Switch having been wiped and pull down all my data from the cloud once I resumed my Nintendo Online subscription, much like Sony freezes Playstation Plus subscriptions.

Oh how WRONG I was. Come to find out, your data gets wiped after a grace period, and you’re shit outta luck.

So alas, I am starting from zero, but at least I have Amiibos of my favorite villagers (Lolly, Stitches, and Bizkit) and there’s no need for me to hunt for them.

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[#710] New Techy Thing!

January 6, 2026 Kitty

After using a Roku TV for the longest time, I’ve “upgraded” to an Apple TV. Upgraded in quotes because this particular model hasn’t been updated since 2022. My biggest reason for upgrading was that when I would try to watch shows on HBO, the audio was SO low and I’ve tried so many fixes.

Eventually I decided enough was enough, and I had the added benefit of an Ethernet port.

In other news, I don’t think this is how bathtubs work….

Hahaha, I love silly game glitches.