The mornings are chilly now

My laptop broke down a few weeks ago. I'd had it for many manyyyy years. Many of the ports already didn't work, so I couldn't use a monitor with it. When I set up my new laptop, the first thing I did was check out how this webpage looked. It's not as bad as I thought. Really, the only thing that's different are the colours. There's a lot of PC games I could play now that I couldn't run before. Very enticing, but so far I haven't played any. My father and I are still playing TOTK whenever I go to visit lmao. We must be getting close to completing all the shrines now, there's practically nowhere left on the map to put a shrine marker and we have almost two full rows of hearts.

I've also decided I'm going to make a visual novel. LMAO. I always get the energy to start big projects in August or September. Maybe it's a holdover from how it felt to start a new school year or semester. But anyway, I'm still in the planning stages now. It's a dark fantasy story set in a doomed world. It follows an ordinary woman trying to survive as the institutions around her decay and the people become desperate and unhinged. Instead of a hero going from place to place trying to save the world, what would it be like to be a regular person in a place that sees its coming closer? I've been wanting to do a programming project and VNs aren't overly intimidating to me. I also feel like I'm at a place with art where I could be happy with the sprites and backgrounds, and I can make music too. I'd have to put my comic on hold or only work on it sporadically though, but I think that's okay. Even though I'm only a few chapters from the big twist and then the ending LMAO. A surefire way to develop burnout is to not allow yourself to try new things you're excited about.

Aside from that, there's not too much going on. I'm going on a little trip next week to another city in my country. I've been there a few times before, but it's a big place so there's always lots to see. I'd love to do another big trip again like the one I did in the spring. The top three parts of the world I want to visit are the southern US (esp New Orleans), Chile/Peru/Argentina, and Japan.

Speaking of the planet Earth, have you ever seen the Authagraph map (or the Dymaxion Map)? I was innocently browsing the wikipedia article for Marsupials lmao, and they decided to hit you with that thing. It sent me spiralling for an hour LMAO. I knew the way we typically display a world map is inaccurate, due to trying to depict a sphere on a flat plane. And I'd seen alternative projections before. But for some reason, they always, always fuck me up. I don't know why.