just updating some links and the copyright year; also added an edit to my second post (the baby invasion review). i had a big post planned for january but didn't have the motivation to finish it; i've left it too long now, but i might do something similar next year instead.

also, i read this really good article on hacker news this morning (a nice break from the incessant claude shilling and occasional ice bootlicking): https://nicole.express/2026/not-my-casual-hobby.html

i wanted to write something similar (and still might), but i think she did a better job than i could've. i'm sick to death of seeing all the blatantly ai-generated SEO-slop sites polluting all my search results now, and it's nice to see someone else share the same frustrations.

if you're curious, the big post i had planned was a list of short reviews of every game i beat last year. in my review for mgs2, i wanted to talk about the infamous "ai speech" near the end and how scarily well it has aged, using this sort of crap as a good example.

"But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible ... All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate."