I Go International (for real this time)

So, this will not be a very long blog post. I will be going to Europe for the first time in my life at the end of this week, and it is safe to say that I am pretty excited. A dream of mine is to travel to every habitable continent at least once in my lifetime, and I can cross the second continent off the list.

I will be travelling to Italy, Croatia, Greece, and Turkey over the next couple of weeks, so you will not see any new blog posts during that time. However, when I come back, I think there will be enough blog content to last the rest of the year. I squeezed as much blog content as I possibly can out of vacations to Mexico and Hawaii, but I think there will be even more to experience in Europe.

I don't really know what to expect when I go to Europe, maybe that everything is smaller and more narrow? I am expecting the food to be amazing, especially in Italy. There will be historic sites, beaches, and pickpockets I presume. The only way to know is if I go and see all of this for myself.

Hopefully I will have much to show on this very blog. Here is to another adventure!

Diddy Kong Racing - The Superior N64 Racing Game

I have been thinking about creating blog posts giving my thoughts playing video games that I used to play religiously in my childhood. There is no video game console that defined my childhood more and that I remember more fondly than the Nintendo 64. I have already written posts about Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Super Smash Bros. However, I want to use this post to talk about Diddy Kong Racing, which is the superior racing game on the N64, and certainly better than Mario Kart 64.

Everything Can Change In An Instant

So far, I can sum up my summer of 2023 in one word: weird. The reason why this summer felt so weird for me can be traced back to a singular moment on a fateful May morning.

The Toronto CN Tower Edgewalk

Last week, I did the unthinkable. I went in the CN Tower and completed the Edgewalk. Normally, I would not do these kinds of activities where the star attraction was how high you were from the ground, but with a need for blog content (and a little bit of peer pressure), I decided to go and complete the Edgewalk. The Edgewalk is an attraction where you walk around the outside edge of the CN Tower while suspended over 1100 feet in the air, taller than Canada's tallest skyscraper. I will talk about the whole experience, and offer my thoughts on this rather harrowing attraction.

Cassette Beasts Is What Pokemon Should Have "Evolved" Into

I have been playing Cassette Beasts, which is a monster-taming RPG that takes inspiration from Pokemon. Cassette Beasts is an indie video game made by Bytten Studio that I bought on sale during the Steam Summer Sale, because I heard good things about this game, and I wanted to check it out. I am glad I played this game, because Cassette Beasts is solid, and feels like an evolution to the long-outdated gameplay mechanics of the mainline Pokemon games. Before I compare the gameplay mechanics between Cassette Beasts and Pokemon, I will highlight the other aspects of Cassette Beasts and give my thoughts.