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Ranking the 12 video games that left the biggest impression on me over nearly 30 years of owning and playing games. Possibly related posts... Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines The Best Anime Series of 2021 The New Leaf Journal 2022 Half-Year Review  ( 24 min )

Update osmosfeed.yaml - Remove NLJ guestbook - Add Emu Cafe Social  ( 2 min )

I review an al|together-translated visual novel with unusually high production values and a main character with braids. Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations I, Too, Saw Dreams Through Air - VN Review At Summer's End vs A Dream of Summer Bonner's "In Dreamland" Bedtime Story At Summer's End - Visual Novel Review The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday al|together Visual Novel Reviews and Posts New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation  ( 25 min )

I am moving toward finishing my al|together visual novel review project. I just finished reading A Dream of Summer (which had been pending for a while) and one of two translations of Narcissu (I did not realize that the al|together Narcissu was two translations in one package).  This leaves just three novels to read. With […]

Welcome to the 154th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. While our short posts are on hiatus for the time being, I published six full articles since I last mailed you. You will find links to our new articles along with links from around the web and other news and notes below. Leaves from the week that was Six articles? Is this September 2020 instead of 2023? Let us see what is new... Broken Optical Audio Cable Door "Fix" (I think my sticky note fix is rather clever) On Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007 (One can infer why Barry Bonds was walked at an unprecedented r…  ( 7 min )

A goose continues drinking from a puddle in Brooklyn Bridge Park and comes away satisfied... part two... Possibly related posts... Thirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Part 1 Observing a Family of Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park (and… Family of Geese in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Baby Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park A Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge On Haughty Dog Owners in NYC Justin and Justina 〜 Convincing a Google Devotee to Try…  ( 5 min )

A goose drinks from a puddle in Brooklyn Bridge Park... part one... Possibly related posts... Thirsty Goose in Brooklyn Bridge Park: Part 2 Observing a Family of Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park (and… Family of Geese in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Baby Geese in Brooklyn Bridge Park A Trip Across Brooklyn's Summit Street Bridge On Haughty Dog Owners in NYC Nineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends  ( 6 min )

Reviewing an obscure 19th century sport, as described in an 1882 issue of Harper's Young People. Possibly related posts... 1892 Reports on First Year of Basketball 1892 Report on Women's Basketball Game The Japanese Citizenship Requirement for Sumo Stablemasters Nineteenth Century Autumn Dress Trends Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Ed Durr Walks To A Stunning Election Upset In New Jersey "Casey's Revenge" - Grantland Rice's 1896 Reply Poem to… The Story of the Herald Square Carrier Pigeons The Inspiring Political Comebacks of Byron Brown and Vito…  ( 12 min )

An 1829 quip about the comedy of life reminded me of a quote attributed to Augustus on his deathbed (14 AD), which I turned into a 2020 article. https://thenewleafjournal.com/augustus-and-the-comedy-of-life/ #quotes #augustus #romanhistory #history

I was so proud of my solution to a broken optical audio cable door on my soundbar that I decided to turn it into an article. All it took was part of a sticky note... but the "fix" can still fall victim to sudden movements. https://thenewleafjournal.com/broken-optical-audio-cable-door-fix/ #soundbar #OpicalAudio #yamaha

Former First Lady Grace Coolidge was a big baseball fan. She was not, however, a fan of intentional bases on balls. Possibly related posts... Calvin Coolidge's 1922 "Better Homes" Remarks On Barry Bonds' IBBs in 2006 and 2007 When President Coolidge Spared a Raccoon From Thanksgiving… Calvin Coolidge On Why We Celebrate Independence Day Calvin Coolidge Describes His Mother, Victoria Calvin Coolidge's 1923 Thanksgiving Proclamation Coolidge and Harrison in Bennington Calvin Coolidge's July 4, 1918 Remarks in Fairhaven Applying Coolidge's Remarks on the Home to the Digital Home  ( 6 min )

Wherein I try to understand how the post-superhuman Barry Bonds in 2006 and 2007 was walked almost as much as the record-breaking Bonds of 2001-2003 (not 2004... of course). Possibly related posts... The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo?

How I used a sticky note to hold an optical audio cable in place in my Yamaha soundbar after the optical audio cable door broke. Possibly related posts... Replacing soundbar and re-configuring universal remote for… An Optical Audio Cable Packaging Story Optical audio cable story update Micropost on Soundbar and Remote Struggles The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review Meghan Markle's "The Bench" and Audio Book Versions of… io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review EGM's 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke USB-C Charger Surprises  ( 7 min )

Welcome to the 153rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. It was not a big publishing week at The New Leaf Journal, but I produced a few articles while also continuing to work on improving the site and its sister project, The Emu Café Social. Let us begin our week-in-review. Leaves from the week that was I technically published three new articles, but one was about our cache system serving some visitors a compressed page to download instead of the normal web page for 12 hours on Thursday. Technical issue update aside, my two full articles were fairly long. Middle sch…  ( 7 min )

Update osmosfeed.yaml Removed general NAF Gitea feed because it pulls in updates that do not make sense for this site. I will replace it with individual repo feeds.  ( 2 min )

I was curious whether we would learn about the brown hair of the girl in The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses. Instead, we learn about the brown hair of the boy who likes her. Possibly related posts... The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation Tokyo High Schools Change Hair Color Dress Code Policies Hair Color Dress Code Rules in Japan A Walker's Review of BLUPOND's Knight Vision Night Driving… Understanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series Brown hair and dress codes in Ippon Again! Iroha Isshiki's Hair is Brown, as Expected? Hair Color and Albinism in Red Shift Visual Novel Examining brown hair of popular anime characters  ( 10 min )

I was walking in Brooklyn Heights (I think it was Brooklyn Heights, but it could have been Cobble Hill) when I saw a pear on the sidewalk. This was unusual. You do not see too many pears on sidewalks in New York City. I looked up and found the source of the pear. But what […]

I saw a pear on the ground in the NYC neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights (I think it was Brooklyn Heights, but small chance it was Cobble Hill). You do not tend to see pears on the ground in New York City. I looked up and found the source of the issue. https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sharing-is-pearing/ #nyc #brooklyn #brooklynheights #cobblehill #tree #pear #sun #pixel3axl #emucafe

It appears that something with my caching configuration choked earlier today and served a compressed file for download to visitors in […] Possibly related posts... The BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review WP Super Cache Preload and Lazy Loading The Mysterious Pinterest Tracker Slow Leaf Journal, Outgrowing Cheap Hosting 〜 A Justin and… What Makes a Depressing Anime? Discussion and Selection. The Homing Pigeons Returned Home As Expected The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday WP Redis Object Cache and Link Hover Color The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review  ( 5 min )

Update osmosfeed.yaml Reorganized feeds. Updated NAF Bearblog URL. Added NAF Gitea and removed to GitHub feeds.  ( 2 min )

I continue to make progress on my new social publishing site, The Emu Café Social. I have two outstanding issues: Status post error when Friends plugin is enabled and Post Kinds is disabled. This is not an immediate issue since I am using both, but any situation wherein one plugin depends on another when the plugins provide different features makes me uncomfortable. Micropub plugin does not create an endpoint. This is minor since I do not personally plan to publish much using the Micropub endpoint, but it bothers me. I will need to investigate since I am unsure of the issue. I confirmed IndieAuth, on which Micropub depends, does work. No other major issues at the moment. My ActivityPub profiles briefly stopped working, but I think I fixed that by ensuring that WP Super Cache does not cache author pages. #emucafesocial #wordpress #IndieWeb

Courtesy of the New York Post,  Man, 74, pushed onto NYC subway tracks in unprovoked attack: cops: A 74-year-old man was […] Possibly related posts... The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations A 2021 List of Alternative Search Engines and Search… Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 Oldest Golfers to Contend for Majors Between the 1968 and… The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The NYPD's Duck Family Rescue in Midtown Manhattan 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Winds of New Beginnings: Pokémon Gold & Silver  ( 5 min )

I saw a copy of Tom Cantor’s Changed, a self-published religion conversion story that makes the rounds through an unsolicited direct mail campaign, sitting on a step in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Why might I care? Over at The New Leaf Journal, I published what I hope was a humorous article on the cover design of […]

These days people are worried about vaping in schools. But the controversy reminded me of a strange traditional smoking story from my middle school days (with a high school sequel). Possibly related posts... Persona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam) The Aborted Nintendo-Minnesota Lottery Scheme Dialogue: "Skunks" in Staten Island Conspiracy Night of the Forget-Me-Nots: VN Review The Nice Boat 〜 A Look Back at the School Days Anime Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) The dangers of adapting school to tech At Summer's End - Visual Novel Review The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review  ( 15 min )

I spent more of my life than I would like to admit figuring out how to add my own footer text to our theme, which is a child theme of SemPress. But mission accomplished. With our child theme and my initial style tweaks done, I published version 1.0 of the newly-named Emusem Press to my […]

I have learned about many new topics while looking for New Leaf Journal content. For example, as I noted in the above quote, I distinctly remember some of the “Y2K” computer glitch fears from 1999. But I do not recall having heard about the 9.9.99 fears. Fortunately, the internet preserved a number of contemporaneous articles […]

A rare admin update. I am still having some issues with one or two of the plugins I hope to rely on for this project. I am seeing if I can resolve those issues before launching the site proper and bringing more posters on board. I hope to have it resolved one way or another […]

Welcome to Newsletter Leaf Journal 152. The Newsletter Leaf Journal is the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. I had a busy week with site administration -- although not all of it had to do with The New Leaf Journal (I will explain in our Notable Leaf Journal) section. But despite the side projects, I published several new articles and made a few adjustments to what I hope is your favorite perennially virid online writing magazine. Leaves from the week that was I published three new full articles. Two Visual Novel Midsummer Kasumis (I did not realize before reading Midsummer Haze and A Midsummer Day's Resonan…  ( 7 min )

As I note in the article, the game remains free to download from the official source and can be run natively on Windows and Linux (not modern MacOS, although the original translators are working on remastered versions that will run on modern MacOS).

My review of A Midsummer Day's Resonance, the 2005 translation of a 2002 freeware Japanese visual novel. I reviewed it as part of a project to review nearly 30 translations from 2005-2008. A Midsummer Day's Resonance, which is a story about growing up with holograms coming from phones, turned out to be one of the better reads thus far. https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-midsummer-days-resonance-vn-review/ #VisualNovel #VisualNovels #freeware #indiegame

I remembered the "Y2K" computer scare from when I was a kid, but not the fears of 9.9.99... my article 2022 on the concerns about 1999 September bugs. https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-9-9-99-computer-bug-that-wasnt/ #1999 #glitch #bugs #thisdayinhistory

We have been using the BunnyPress theme for WordPress by Yossy’s Web Service since June 2020. I wrote a review three […] Possibly related posts... The BunnyPress Chronicles: Story and Review Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo? Implementing Article Series With WP Post Series The Small Web, Artisanal Content, and Humane Design WP Super Cache Preload and Lazy Loading The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review Recording a Test New Leaf Journal Pokémon Sword and Shield…  ( 5 min )

I had a long day of working on the site. On the down side, I am having some technical issues with a couple of our key plugins that I want to resolve before starting in earnest. At the moment, it seems like Post Kinds is a hard dependency for certain post types working when I […]

@nafnlj Working on some technical issues… Test.

WordPress pages (as opposed to posts) do not have pingback and trackback support by default. I had a need to enable […] Possibly related posts... Local Avatars and Redirecting Gravatars Reviewing Koko Analytics: A Simple Privacy-Friendly… The New Leaf Journal Twtxt Feed Removing pages from Yandex Turbo Implementing Article Series With WP Post Series Fixing a WP Custom Post Type Permalink Error Using Nostr Verify for WordPress NIP-05 Upgrading WP Search With Relevanssi WordPress Webmention Plugin Discovery  ( 5 min )

WordPress pages (as opposed to posts) do not have pingback and trackback support by default. I had a need to enable it on The New Leaf Journal in order to allow certain pages to accept incoming Webmentions. In that case, I added the PHP snippet to my child theme’s functions.php file. But with multiple sites […]

A post wherein I relive the trauma of inadvertently making an enemy very angry (and spammy) in Persona 3 FES's Answer epilogue about 13 years ago (note that there are some FES The Answer spoilers, albeit below the fold). https://thenewleafjournal.com/surviving-megidolaon-spam-in-persona-3/ #videogame #jrpg #persona3fes #persona3 #playstation2

On how to host avatars locally on WordPress AND redirect Gravatar requests locally for users without local avatars. Possibly related posts... The Enigmatic Life and Death of Emperor Otho Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) ACE Academy - Visual Novel Review The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten - Anime Review Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century… History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines  ( 10 min )

I just launched a new project called The Emu Café Social. It is a social publishing site for a select community […] Possibly related posts... Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 Welcome to The Emu Café The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday Akutagawa's The Dragon and The Emu Café A Wayward Emu Loses Its Way to The Emu Café I don't want your emu and I don't have to feed it On When to Watch Credits or Leave a Bad Movie

Thank you administrator version of me for the site intro. I confirmed that the first post from the administrator version of my account is visible from my Mastodon profile. Very good. For early readers, my regular posts will come from this account (/naferrell).  I will usually post site news and updates from my /nafaugustus account. […]

Welcome to The Emu Café Social, a new social publishing project built on top of WordPress. I (N.A. Ferrell) am writing this post from my administrator account, but you will usually see me posting from my user account at social.emucafe.org/author/naferrell. If you want to learn more about the project, see our new About Page. I […]

I am starting a WordPress-based social publishing sitewith the ActivityPub plugin. If anyone is interested, you can already follow our first three accounts: @nafaugustus @naferrell @victorvgurbo You can learn more on our first About page: https://social.emucafe.org/about/ If you do follow, I would appreciate notes/feedback on how our posts look from your instance (or if you can see at all). You can also follow the main WP site via RSS, ATOM, JSON feed or even TWTXT (/feed/twxt).

Remembering the time I inadvertently triggered the wrath of a video game character in Persona 3 FES and was forced to hang on for dear virtual life. Possibly related posts... Persona 4 Golden Digital Artbook Review (Steam) Review of the Original Persona 4 Artbook Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Introducing the 1922 Better Homes in America Demonstration… Persona 4, Coffee, and Children Keeping WP Comment Blacklist Up to Date Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020 Designing video games to produce benefits  ( 11 min )

I came across a WordPress plugin called Post Type Switcher. Description: This plugin adds a simple post-type drop-down to the post editor interface, allowing you to reassign any post to a new post type. It allows you to switch post’s type while editing your post. It supports custom post types. This may come in handy down the line, so I am saving it here as a proverbial bookmark. #wordpress

The boy-Emperor Romulus Augustulus is often described as the last (Western) Roman Emperor. He abdicated the royal purple to Odoacer on September 4, 476. But there remained another claimant to the title of Western Roman Emperor -- the exiled Julius Nepos, who lived until 480. Who was the last Western Roman Emperor? One year to the day, I wrote an article on this ultimately unimportant question. https://thenewleafjournal.com/who-was-the-last-western-roman-emperor/ #RomanEmpire #rome #fallofrome #history #romanhistory

Kimi ni Todoke was a shoujo romance manga series which ran from 2005 through 2017. It received a two-season, 38-episode anime […] Possibly related posts... The Best of Anime in 2022: Year in Review Anime Recommendations of the Decade (2011-20) Understanding Hair Color in the Kimi ni Todoke Anime Series The Best Anime Series of 2021 Should the Pistons have drafted Carmelo? Biden, Lincoln, and Counting Back From the President's Birth Misguided parking ticket-income idea 1997 Otis Thorpe trade and the 2003 NBA Draft My Kimi ni Todoke article and Netflix  ( 7 min )

I decided to try removing the right widget area and using the full screen. Mobile users should not experience too much […] Possibly related posts... The 999 Life of Herman Cain Bing's and DuckDuckGo's CCP Problem Streaming from Android to PocketBook io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review The ideal phone, e-ink and QWERTY 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge Installing Ubuntu Touch on a Google Nexus 7 (2013) The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday A Christmas Menagerie On a Lawn in Gowanus  ( 5 min )

I tried to set up a mini WordPress site on Pikapods that would be used for social publishing. It was successful at a baseline level but I found that things like setting security headers via .htaccess were not working. There were a few other instances of behavior that I did not like, so I will switch the project over to the NLJ server where I can manage it with Cloudron. #wordpress #webhosting

On noting the identical first names of the protagonists of two Midsummer visual novels I reviewed back to back (without knowing the names in advance). Possibly related posts... Midsummer Haze - Visual Novel Review A Midsummer Day's Resonance - VN Review New Leaf Spring Content, New and Old The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Finding Manatsu no Kagerou "The Blind Girl and the Spring" 〜 A Poem by Sydney Grey A Tanka on Ant Home Invasions in the Spring Four May Issues of The Nursery Magazine (1873-81) The Poetry of Charlotte Becker - Early Twentieth Century…  ( 9 min )

Welcome to the 151st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. This newsletter comes to you as always from the waterproof keyboard of the editor of The New Leaf Journal, Nicholas A. Ferrell. August is in the books, but I stepped up our publishing pace after a few slow weeks to bring the month to a proper conclusion. Below, I share our week's worth of posts, links from around the web, our new most-visited statistics, and other news and notes. Leaves from the week that was I published six new articles since mailing Newsletter 150. I suppose that is a decent enough rebound from a one article week (even conceding the month-in-review post only barely counts). Pumpkin Spice Makeup Removal Wipes: I am no…  ( 7 min )

I take a look at one of the best visual novels of the al|together set, featuring a terrific protagonist in Kasumi Kurasawa, broken phones, holograms, and growing up. Possibly related posts... Midsummer Haze - Visual Novel Review The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations Finding Manatsu no Kagerou Anna Jarvis and the Origin of Mother's Day in the United… History of Thanksgiving Proclamations in the Philippines io [Christmas Eve] - Visual Novel Review Japanese Environment in PoL, Lutris, and Bottles Why Vintage Guitars Sound Better An 1895 Poem on Memorial Day and Piece by Theodore Roosevelt

Article URL: https://www.nintendolife.com/features/meet-the-virtual-boy-fan-making-new-tech-and-games-for-nintendos-console-curio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351112 Points: 3 # Comments: 0  ( 18 min )

I have some notable site news to share and a good (albeit small) collection of articles from August 2023. Possibly related posts... The al|together and Insani Visual Novel Translations The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday Flood of Tears - Visual Novel Review Installing Non-Listed Programs in PlayOnLinux The story of our Bing blacklisting Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Ep1 Animation Justin & Justina: Most-Read NLJ Content of 2020  ( 9 min )

Welcome to the (syndicated) 150th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the prennially virid online writing magazine, […] Possibly related posts... The Newsletter Leaf Journal at 100 Justin & Justina: The Most-Read New Leaf Journal Content of… Justin and Justina review 2022 at the NLJ The Newsletter Leaf Journal LXIX 〜 The Move(d) Leaf Journal The New Leaf Journal Newsletter The New Leaf Journal Celebrates Its First Birthday How to Find Substack RSS Feeds and Other Notes The Newsletter Leaf Journal VIII New Leaf Journal Third Birthday Reader

If you decide you want to experience the adventure that is Midsummer Haze for yourself, I wrote a story spoiler-free guide to the endings and published it to a repository on my Gitea instance. https://giteacoffee.emucafe.org/naferrell/altogether_visual_novel_guides/src/branch/main/Midsummer_Haze_Endings_Guide.md #visualnovel #visualnovels #guide

Let it be said that Midsummer Haze's... interesting... random mechanic was not my only challenge. The EN translation is a patch for an indie Japanese VN from 2004 that went offline in 2008 or 09. In a separate post, I explained how I managed to find the original Japanese game... much searching and a lucky torrent. https://thenewleafjournal.com/finding-manatsu-no-kagerou/ #visualnovel #visualnovels #torrents #research

I reviewed Midsummer Haze, a 2006 translation of a 2004 freeware Japanese visual novel, as the 24th review of my project to review nearly all of the 31 Japanese visual novels translated for the 2005, 2006, and 2008 al|together festivals. The game has four endings, and the third unlocks the fourth. How do you get the third? By re-doing the second until it triggers. How many times did that take me? FORTY-THREE https://thenewleafjournal.com/midsummer-haze-visual-novel-review/ #visualnovel #doujin #visualnovels #freeware #WINE #lutris