Re: Year Walk

Year Walk has a constant strobe effect that I think is meant to emulate the feeling of light passing through snowfall. Unfortunately, you can't turn this off. I looked at this game for four minutes, and it gave me a severe headache for half an hour. Just thinking about it makes my eyes hurt.

Thankfully, there's a free companion app (here) that's like an illustrated notebook with information about the creatures that appear in the game. If you enter the passcode "1894" - as provided in the illustrated walkthrough (here) - you'll gain access to a diary of sorts that has a bit of a House of Leaves vibe. This companion app is nothing substantial, but it's well-written and attractively presented. And again, it's free!

Back on my bullshit

This morning I was doing figure drawing warm-ups (as one does) and the website I was using interrupted its montage of action poses lifted from Senshi Stock to show me this:

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At first I was perturbed to see this lion in the middle of all the lambs. But I figure, if this is how the devil speaks to me, I might as well listen. I bet I can do something really gross and cringe with this pose.