Weeknotes #42 (August 23, 2025)

Posted on: Aug 23, 2025

Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.

Things I did

In my apartment I control a majority of the lights through Home Assistant and I more frequently in evenings been only turning on lamp lights and no overhead lights, and rather than have to go turn on one by one, I set up an automation to do it all at once for me.

I've been playing The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy made by the creators of Danganronpa and Zero Escape series. Half visual novel, half tactics game. A lot of the characters definitely are offputting / not likeable, but that feels like what the creators planned to do rather than have all of them be likeable from the beginning.
After 7 years, Hollow Knight: Silksong was finally announced to come out September 4th this year. Although it is not likely a game that I am going to pick up day 1, it is one of the most anticipated indie games since it was announced 7 years ago.
As well, there was a Kirby Air Riders Direct this past week as well. I didn't have a Gamecube when I was young so I did not play the original game, but from my friend's response the team behind this game definitely is modernizing the game while also keeping the charm of the original.
Apple TV+ price hiked to $12.99, which personally for me I feel okay with given how I am going into streaming services now is trying to minimize subscribing to services that I only watch one or two shows at a time on. For instance, I want to watch the 3rd season of Foundation that came out over a month ago, but by waiting till now to start it, I only can sub to Apple TV+ for 1 month rather than 2-3.