HELLO, WORLD.

welcome to HARRAZEL.COM! the prime destination for finding out who the world's 4,300,401,204thsource: google.com most important person is and what that person is up to.

probably a great site to look at if you're colorblind.

please, enjoy your stay!

this clock displays time in: Warsaw - Poland

isn't this so much more fresh? meh. not really. but, at least i did something. to most eyes this shit probably looks the same as it ever did, but to me, i feel glad to have polished off some stuff that i never thought looked quite right. there's even a bit of serif as a little treat.

i've had ideas for a grander site rework that maybe i'll eventually realize some time in the future, from time to time i've worried that this site looks a little too generic. take that sidebar on the right for example, does it really need to exist, or is it just there because a side element like that is just something sites usually have? none of what's on it is really requiring being seen at all times, it could all go somewhere else. dunno, just a thought, probably overthinking it.

anyways, crazy to think it's been almost 2 years already. reading back those earlier update logs brought back memories of the excitement this site was a source of in my life, and how much i just wanted to keep doing stuff with it. oh dear me, what changed? maybe i started to focus on the result too much, like with everything else i've ever done. i suppose it just can't be helped.

i've been watching a lot of movies recently, been in a real "movie mood". watched superbad, 28 days later, reservoir dogs, no country for old men; stuff i've been wanting to watch for a good while, but just haven't. no country for old men specifically was an interesting watch, because i went in expecting it to blow my socks off, and instead it left me wondering why people like this movie SO much. anton chigurh is a comic relief, at least that's how his character functioned for me every time he appeared. i get that he's principled in killing people like livestock or whatever, but i couldn't help but laugh every single time he would kill a random bystander for absolutely NO REASON. anyways, other than that i also watched some "classics" like the room. none of the internet discussions i have seen over the years about this movie could have prepared me for how actually headache-inducing it was to watch. unforgettable experience.

i've finally gotten myself to beat the half life games for the first time too. i've played them before, but just never to completion. never went past "on a rail" in hl1 or "highway 17" in hl2. real good games, aside from XEN. i think hl2 has probably the best grenades in any video game ever made, or at the very least way better ones than its predecessor. however, what's been particularly striking my fancy in recent times when it comes to video games is dungeon crawl stone soup, a roguelike (as in, a game that actually plays like rogue from 1980), which i've been loving so far. i've been wanting to get into traditional roguelikes for a while now, but just haven't since, admittedly, they're a little intimidating to try and learn. they tend to be rather hard in difficulty, i haven't been able to complete a single run yet, but they are very refreshing, especially in comparison to the "roguelites" we have nowadays, that honestly, most of which could benefit from not being that (LOOKING AT YOU RATATAN). runs actually feel different, there is actual permadeath, and you could theoretically complete a run your first time through unimpeded by any random difficulty spikes requiring you to back and buy UPGRADES. that sort of straightforward, no metaprogression approach is something i appreciate immensely, if anyone remembers when i wrote about l4d2 compared to the 4vE warhammer games. anyways, once i actually complete at least one run in DCSS, i definitely wanna try some other games in this genre: caves of qud specifically looks like a fucking awesome game, cogmind also seems interesting, and rift wizard 3 too is one i'd like to try.

i also attended a geordie greep concert recently, geordie greep being the ex-frontman of black midi. amazing night that was. my legs still hurt from that as of writing.

that's about it, really. enjoy the rest of your hopefully fine day!

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