I love things that age gracefully. This was a tweet from 9 October 2018:

Got these great vegetable tanned leather gloves from Ondura. I love the pocket knife from them which my parents gave me as a birthday present. Can’t wait how these gloves evolve. They feel absolutely lovely!

This is what these gloves and the knife look like now. I’ve used the knife almost daily and the gloves probably 150 days each year since then.

Needless to say, I can recommend these products. The gloves are called Rider Gloves (tan) and the knife is the Ondura Pocketknife (olive).

I just watched Road House. That’s a fun little movie! It’s nice to see some realistic fighting in a Hollywood production for a change. Gyllenhaal is amazingly ripped and quite charismatic, too. I had no idea. And, of course, Connor McGregor absolutely fucking slaps! This gets a definite recommendation from me.

Pixel Dailies for March 2024; 8x8 pixels in the PICO-8 palette

Released on Thursday:

→ The Private Citizen 166: The Twitter Files, Part 6

Revisiting the idiotic decision to ban Donald Trump off Twitter and what it means for the future of democracy that private companies started to influence public discourse like that and got away with it.

After finishing Mystic Quest on the Game Boy, I started Secret of Mana on the SNES this weekend. So far, I have earned 10% of its Retro Achievements.

It has been way too long since I’ve recorded a podcast episode. So here’s an episode of The Private Citizen explaining why this has happened. Here’s to hoping I can get back to regular releases!

It has taken me 23 hours and 50 minutes, but I have just beaten Mystic Quest for the Game Boy. This was my second playthrough. I first finished it 32 years ago when the game came out (that playthrough probably took me a lot longer). I did not simply finish the story, though, I also got all 50 achievements for it that are listed on RetroAchievements.org.

Work on the shmup continues. Enemies shoot to kill now.

My little shmup is coming along! I did a lot of improvements to it over the last few days: Dynamic enemy waves, enemy attack patterns, several quality-of-life tweaks. It’s almost a game now. My next task is to implement enemy shooting…