Hello! I'm still here.
I finally covered that
Metal Slug Advance
prototype that got leaked three years ago, and forced myself to give
Metal Slug 7's early footage a proper write-up.
I overhauled the sprites section and added somewhere over 200 sheets to it, and
also rewrote the sprite-ripping tutorial, now with less jaded snark and more
insight into tools and alternate methods, like RAM editing.
I'm still editing my "games I played" reviews from last year, but there's a
couple dozen
entries you can read already if you fancy. I also never blogged about the
games I played
in 2021 article from two years ago, so I'm blogging about it now.
I'm very tired. How about yourself?
This update is mostly just tackling stuff I've been
neglecting to address for a while now. I
tweeted
about how I would've jumped at the chance to document a Metal Slug Advance
prototype in the site's prime -- that game's been an inexplicable nemesis of
mine for close to two decades! -- and yet when one finally leaked, I was quite
content to completely ignore it until only a couple of months ago. Don't expect
another Missing In Action update any time soon, sorry!
Likewise, the old sprites pages were seriously old, janky, and needlessly
vitriolic and opinionated for whatever reason. That and the PHP pages had given
up the ghost, apparently; I'm very grateful to Dazz for coding those up for me
back in the day, but I think I'm in my comfort zone sticking with plain ol'
HTML.
Speaking of stuff breaking, there's a lotta funked-up WordPress entries! Em-dashes, foreign characters and other symbols across the board have been turned into junk, and I dread the process of repairing it all. It's almost tempting to just convert them all into static HTML so they can't fall apart when I'm not looking, but, well, we'll see what happens.
Random Hoo Haas will turn 18 years old in three
weeks, which is terrifying to think about. If you expect me to commemorate the
event in any way, be aware I have an unfinished draft announcing its 15th year
of operation, if you want an idea of my work ethic.
The last few blog posts have all expressed how wrecked I am after a demanding
year, so you shouldn't be surprised that remains unchanged! My health is not
superb and the faintest whiff of warm weather is enough to Franz Kafka's The
Metamorphosis the heck out of me. I'm doin' what I can to keep myself busy and
make myself happy, but when that may manifest into online content is another
story.
One of those days I'll remember to write these blog entries before the update, and not after when I'm zonked and want nothing more than to hibernate for five years. Sorry for sounding like a sadsack in these blogs! Glad you're sticking around, hope my guff entertains or informs or whatever it is folks get out of it.