Things of note from week 36

Weeknote #36.25, from September 01 to September 07.

Published on September 08, 2025.

Listening #

Spun Ella Feingold's just-released 4-track Ephemera a few more times. Short, sweet, groovy, and super tight guitar-driven tracks.
Still spinning Deftones's private music.

Watched Akira Kurosawa's Ran at home. I was planning to watch the 4K restoration currently in cinemas but none of the time-slots worked for me. So my wife searched for streaming options and it turns out it's available to watch and download for free on Internet Archive! (with English subtitles). I adored the film.
Watched Ghosts on Netflix, Ep. 5, 6, and 7 of Season 1 (5 and 7 had emotional gut-punches at the end - lovely stuff).
Watched CITY The Animation's Ep. 3 on Prime Video.
Watched this week's ALIEN: Earth, "In Space, No One...". The best one so far; so much tension! A lot of reminiscence to the original ALIEN.
Went back to our rewatch of The Expanse on Prime Video, with Ep. 7 of Season 1. It's good to be back.

Completed a few UFO 50 games this week!
- The main Attactics campaign. Simple in concept and mechanics with great pixel art. I'll try to get the cherry for it, eventually.
- The main Pilot Quest campaign. I enjoyed this one way more when I started playing. Not as much at the end.
- The main Rail Heist campaign. My favourite of these 3, I think. Very thinky. Super fun.
Also played other UFO 50 games: Velgress, Warptank, and Overbold.
Continued Saturday Edition on the Playdate; the story has me hooked, and playing with headphones highlights its atmospheric and immersive sound design.
Also progressed a few levels on Pick Pack Pup's main campaign on Playdate.
A few matches of Rocket League as well.

Went to back to A CITY ON MARS by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith. Currently going through the legal frameworks for sovereignty in space, which are wildly complicated and a tad boring, honestly.

Played Spikeball for the second time with my work colleagues. More people joined this time, too. So much fun (and what a workout)!

Went for a night out with work colleagues (and ex-colleagues); had tasty pizza at Olido and then went for drinks at the gem of a place that is De Vergulden Eenhorn. Good times.

On this site, I added this whole Weeknotes feature, inspired by others I found on Mastodon.

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