Today’s deck is the Color of Joy Tarot.
It’s cute! though my reaction was to assume it would use that weird cartoon style big corpos use nowadays that look like cutouts. The fact that the skin colors weren’t shit like blue should’ve been a giveaway it wasn’t, though.
Today’s reading is fun because I read it two ways that kinda align. Either “good times are here, lower your damn guard” or “don’t let the past hold you back”.
So the original plan for today was for me to go to the nemophila fields I mentioned the other day.
The problem was that I woke up ever so slightly later than intended with some prep still pending… and then turns out the park closes at 4:30.
I wondered why the heck a public park of all things closed so early and then I saw mention of teamLab and it all clicked into place.
I’ve been to that park before. There’s this exhibit by teamLab that has a bunch of light up stuff at night. I went once ages ago, and it was the sort of thing where they have to close the park, put in the props and then reopen.
For now I decided to leave that for another day, though Golden Week starts tomorrow and I kinda wanted to try getting anything done before then and the respective avalanche of people.
For now I was already dressed so I went to Shake Shack.
Then while walking away I was like “Oh right, there was a Baki exhibit”.
The entry fee was 1300 yen which is fine. I wanted to see what the novelty was and then it hit me.
It’s the originals! You can see the annotations in blue, the draft right underneath, a couple even have the dialog pasted onto the panels.
Then they start showing all the iconic panels and I was just pointing at everything like I just saw a celebrity.
THEN I SAW THIS ONE.
So for those not aware, there’s this famous edit of this panel that I’m 99% sure some of you have already seen.
Aside from how high effort it is (note how the leg stump becomes the body). The thing is that Baki is so batshit insane that if you showed this edit to someone that has read Baki before that chapter THEY WOULDN’T QUESTION IT.
IN FACT, it’s not like the lead up to the panel is any less insane than the edit. Retsu lost his leg to Pickle. Pickle is a caveman they found in the Mexican salines and revived. Pickle fought Retsu and long story short got hungry and ate Retsu’s leg.
So really, there’s enough madness and Looney Tunes chickanery that Retsu turning into a small bundle wouldn’t be the weirdest thing to happen before or since.
I returned to my office after buying a bunch of shirts from the merch shop.
Progress today was related to the game I’ve been wanting to make for a while. I started an Obsidian repo to note down things from design to work logs. Then turned out that writing down what I was doing was a good equivalent of the experiment of talking to a rubber duck.
I decided to post it publicly. The home page now has a bar with all the posts tagged as gamedev by the way, it’s by the bottom.
Will I be able to do the Nemophila Fields plan tomorrow? We’ll see…