Now playing:
Azealia Banks - Desperado
Today I watched the Backrooms movie, and I was very pleasantly surprised by how good it was! I'd
fully expected it to be bad or some low-effort attempt to cash in on a popular internet trend, but
it actually did justice both to the idea of the Backrooms itself and the associated ideas of things
like liminal spaces, etc. Above all else, the atmosphere was EXCELLENT~
Additionally, today I made a tidy little profit on a small side investment I'd made earlier this
week~ Thanks to that, I've recouped pretty much all of the money I burned on my little excursion
down south of the border, heh heh heh.
Things have been much quieter for me lately overall, but I've still not had a good opportunity to
sit down and write a longer blog post. For now, this post will have to do.
Other highlights from the past month or so:
- This year's Toxic Yuri VN Jam has begun in earnest!
I'm unsure if I'll end up making anything for it, after my very recent VN release, but I encourage
anyone reading this to join in~
- I've moved back to the States, and currently am providing emotional support to my bio-family after
a soap-opera-level sequence of events led to my younger brother moving very abruptly to Hawaii
with his less-than-6-months-together now-pregnant girlfriend.
- Later this summer, I'm planning to move to go be near my partner, and we're both very nervous and
very excited~ It'll be a big change for both of us, and we both have a history with online
relationships having gone south, but we're confident we can adjust and grow together, heheheh~
- I bought a cigar humidor! I've become quite partial to smoking the occasional cigar, but I've had
a devil of a time with my cigars drying out and becoming utterly unpalatable—and with how
expensive any cigars worth smoking are, it's not worth buying them if I can't store them properly,
you know?
- Speaking of cigars, my current favorite is the Romeo y Julieta Wide Churchill, but alas, I can't
get my hands on any more Cubans now that I'm back in the States...
- I've been watching a lot of Twin Peaks, having just recently watched (and rewatched) seasons 1 and
2 plus Fire Walk with Me. More than anything, the red room sequences have left a strong impact on
me, and have been filling me with inspiration for THERA~
- I've started active development on THERA and my game engine for the first time in what feels like
ages! I'll write more on this soon, but my main goal is to recycle and update a lot of my old
content that Basically No One has seen, played, or read into new subchapters of THERA.
- After weeks and months of not really touching them, I've been making time to play at least a
little bit of backgammon and Go per day, just to dust off the ol' board game neural circuits and
get warmed back up with them, heheh.
In addition to all of that, I know I still need to finish uploading stuff here on Signal Tower
(especially my games and my music), and I'd also like to publish some new music before it gets too
late into TYVNJ2, in case people might want to use it for their submissions. For now, though, I'm
wishing all of you the best of luck~
Now playing:
OFF OST - Flesh Maze Tango (extended)
What has the Kyou System been up to lately?
In a word, tasks.
Chief among them have been the preparations and planning to relocate to Mexico, including:
- Replacing my old and busted phone with some new hotness that supports both eSIM and
GrapheneOS, then copying my data over
- Making arrangements (e.g. flights, lodging, etc) to travel and stay in one state to renew my
residency card
- Reaching out to my immigration facilitator[1] to prepare the necessary documentation for the
residency renewal
- Making arrangements to move subsequently to a different state for my long-term lease
- Researching the steps I'll need to take to begin building a credit history in Mexico
- Strengthening my Spanish by getting comprehensible input whenever I can
Indeed, I've found that, more than anything, the process of moving to another country is extremely
fucking tedious, doubly so when you're doing it alone. The financials and the psychological
barriers are very difficult obstacles, to be sure—not to mention learning a second language—but
there's something uniquely mind-numbing and isolating about having to piece together and decide upon
every stage of the logistics all by yourself...
But wait, there's more! I've also had to swing by the local state office to replace my driver's
license, update my insurance, and switch around my car registration after moving states recently, in
the off-chance that conditions improve in the States and allow me to return safely. Just earlier
today, I went out to get an eye exam done, as my current glasses are over five years old now and the
blurriness at a distance is starting to become a nuisance. And to top it off, I'll need to do
laundry this weekend.
It's a good thing this rock rolled back down the hill: Now I have something to do!
At the same time, it's certainly not been all bad~ Since the last update, I took a road trip to meet
up with my delightful friends deaddeaddeath,
KillJill, Fisher,
kazehai, Pilot, and a couple others! Although I
did not end up having an opportunity to teach or play backgammon with anyone as promised, I had a
very nice time all the same, heheheh~
Shout out to Jill for finding the letter Y here, which somehow evaded me at length.
Jill made bracelets for everyone! Can you guess which one of these is mine? Heheheh~
Pilot made these adorable acrylic keychain doodads~ Most unfortunately, the Kyou-chan she made for
me (shown here in the bottom right) promptly fell off of my keychain at some point without my
noticing, and I've yet to find it...
One last thing: I'll be working with my friends Guts and
Rom on a submission for the Daydrinking
Jam! One of my short stories, as it turns out, is an ideal
candidate for the types of VNs this jam is looking for, and I'd already been planning on working
with my friends to adapt it to a VN even before this jam was announced, so here we are, heheh.
[1] If you're looking to relocate to Mexico, I highly recommend you use the immigration services of
Saul Garcia! He's been highly professional, quick to reply,
and very friendly throughout all of the time I've worked with him; and with his help, the
appointment I had with the immigration office in Mexico to get my residency card went smooth as silk~