Since I'm having so much trouble finishing a post about Undertale, I figured I'd write a post about the trouble. That might be interesting to somebody???

My first idea was to talk about each "idea" in Undertale separately, but even just planning that out in my mind, it seemed like it wouldn't flow well. Everything is connected together so intricately that I don't feel like I would be conveying everything I want to with that method.

My second idea was to talk through, roughly, everything interesting in the order that one encounters it while playing through the game the first time (and second and third etc.). This approach got me over a dozen paragraphs of decent written-down thoughts ... but I felt like I was getting really bogged down in details that wouldn't "matter" until much later, and it was figuratively taking forever to *reach* the "much later".

So! Tentative third idea. I'm going to try to talk through, roughly, the *insights* I had into the game roughly in the order I had them while playing (well, while watching other people play). This will require me at several points to go "wait wait, let me explain this thing that's been happening but I didn't think it was important but now it is", but I feel like that kind of recreates the experience? So maybe that's actually good?

(End of story! No moral!)

Here is my first attempt to catch up on all the Hololive videos I've missed over the past few months. My method is to go to Holodex and pull up a particular day's videos, scroll through, and attempt to watch anything fairly short and/or that I can appreciate. This tends to be song covers, original songs, short pre-made videos, and segments from the official channels with subtitles.

If a longer stream looks like it was particularly notable, usually because it has a lot of clips listed below it on Holodex, I will try to watch a few of the clips. I will occasionally put a subtitled video into Watch Later if I don't think I can enjoy it right now or if it's rather long. I also tend to flag for Watch Later full streams that I do think I would enjoy even with a language barrier, like some live concerts, karaoke streams, streams of games I'm familiar with, etc.

(Getting around to watching things on Watch Later is a different problem...)

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Here is the first in a series of at least one.

1) I solved today's Redactle (#45) in 22 guesses with an accuracy of 90.91%. Played at https://www.redactle.com/

(to be updated later--maybe)

ADDED AT 3:48 AM:

I would have put in my other -rdle results, but I realized that I do all those on my phone, so I either need to edit this from my phone (ehh) or send the results to my laptop (ehh). Or just summarize, I guess ... I had a 2 on yesterday's Wordle and a 3 for today's. Gave up on Semantle after 205 guesses, and found out I was not on the right track at ALL.

I didn't whittle down any of The List tonight ... I watched a few reaction videos (couple of TNG episodes, couple of Hololive clip compilations). YouTube is lately offering me clips of Bob Costas being interviewed, which is a pleasant-enough algorithm result. He is just ridiculously skilled at what he does.

Now listening to ASMR to make me sleepy.