August 13th, 2026

Little bit of a scatter-brained day, I guess. I haven't done much but I have sorted through things. Mostly just actually going through that itch.io bundle for Ukraine I got fucking 4 years ago and plucking out the things I'm interested in from it. Right now that's mostly the solo-TTRPG games. One of those games (Yourself, a game where you play as a changeling) is one that I actually had my eye on, but actually reading it it's honestly disapointing. The layout it kind of difficult to read, but there's a text only version so it's not, like, an impossible problem. The actual problem is the ending; Yourself is a hack of Anamnesis, and in the latter, act 5 is the only one where you don't draw cards. You return your shadow (a major arcana card drawn at the start of the game that's used to determine who your character was in the past) to the major arcana deck and choose one of the major arcana to represent your character's present self. In Yourself, this is technically the same, but the cards are face down, meaning that in a game about identity and discovering yourself, you ultimately do not get to choose who you are. And what makes it worse is that the game frames it as a choice, and not as just a fancy way of drawing a card. The actual worst part is that Anamnesis comes with a designer's commentary version! This is very much an unforced error!