you've wandered into a mysterious dimension...
hello, stranger. thank you for taking the time to travel all the way here. we're sadly unable to give you access to the sealoft via any physical sensations, but the reading materials you can find all around the visitor center are intended to facilitate a temporary emotional resonance with our home. stay as long as you'd like ^-^
most of what you'll find here are blog posts documenting whatever video games we play and our thoughts on them. those are sorted by year in the sidebar links (and for a while we'll be slowly filling in the last couple years worth of posts). but sometimes we might also post about any other random things we feel like talking about! like this one that explains more about "where" we are...
we're mari & neph & nia, it/its
a confluence of drowning lights and shadows
in outer space but under sea
08-13-26 ~ pondering on fate, determinism, and free will
so i recently played steins gate. i don't have anything interesting to say about the game itself (in the end, i didn't like it very much), but... well, it got me thinking a lot about the concept of fate. that game takes a pretty reductive stance on the topic (...)
nothing about this portrayal of fate sat well with me. so, in response, i did the very normal and reasonable thing of... uh, spending six hours on wikipedia the next day reading a wide variety of philosophical arguments on the topic. wheeeee~ (...) read more
04-18-26 ~ {B} dungeons of dreadrock
what a charming little puzzler. it balances a very deliberately small scope of design with an almost disproportionate amount of aesthetic flair which goes beyond what i can reasonably describe as "polish". it's short and fairly simple as far as puzzle games go, and its story is similarly basic, but the overall presentation value brings such intense "labor of love" energy (...) read more
04-18-26 ~ {B} metroid prime 4: beyond
"yep, that sure is a video game." <- how to summarize our feelings at any moment during our playthru in a single sentence. hey, this game is absolutely fucking beautiful though, yea? just look at it. (insert figurative screenshot here)
i'm going to avoid talking at length about my complaints with this game (because we already spent the entire playthru bitching (...) read more
04-17-26 ~ how we rank games
in the course of writing out our thoughts about games, we've found that we very often mentally categorise each game into the same handful of ranks, based on how we would recommend the game to others. as we were putting together this site, we decided it would be useful to mark each post with a ranking that summarizes our overall feelings about (...) read more
01-29-26 ~ the glass sealoft
High, high above the Worlds - not just our own, but All of Them - drifts a quiet, empty beachside. The waters of the ocean are seemingly dark, yet crystal clear, offering an unobstructed view of the expansive cosmos below. Although this 'water' might as well be invisible, you can still occasionally discern the gentle ripples of soft waves, as they cause (...) read more