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Started Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov). I read it at school and I thought it was boring. I didn’t really get why it was such a popular book. And re-discovering it today, I understand the controversy better but I still don’t like the style and I dislike the narrator. I don’t find interesting at all.

What makes the book more shocking to me today is that I’ve now been exposed to all the terrible news about evil people. Epstein, Weinstein, Bruel, Pélicot, and all those fuckers come to mind when I go through this novel. Just like those tech billionaires, the rapists read it as a blueprint.

『悪魔城ドラキュラX 血の輪廻』を始めた。先にPSP版を少しやっていたけど、これは初めてPCエンジン スーパーCD-ROMのゲームをやっている。 映像は綺麗で、音楽は素晴らしい。いつでもゲームの中で音楽だけを聴けるよ。 ゲームは少し難しいけど、シリーズの他の作品と比べて、もっと公平に作られている。

Just started 007: First Light. I’m glad I’m playing it before GTA 6 because my definition of AAA gonna change afterwards. It’s a bit like Apple and how it defines the standard all the time. I just bought a flip phone a few months ago in China, the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2. I liked it very much.

The shooting drives me crazy. It is so infuriating. And that shooting range also has bugs so I’ve missed many of my shots because it didn’t register. It is ruining my entire experience so far. I don’t even want to know more about it because it completely took me out of my immersion.

Just started 007: First Light. I’m glad I’m playing it before GTA 6 because my definition of AAA gonna change afterwards. It’s a bit like Apple and how it defines the standard all the time. I just bought a flip phone a few months ago in China, the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2. I liked it very much.

I absolutely hate the shooting in this game. Maybe I should have played it on PC with mouse and keyboard. The lack of proper auto-aim is terrible on a console TPS. I just can’t use controllers that fast. So everything is slow and I don’t feel like a hero in those scenes. It is so frustrating.

Just started 007: First Light. I’m glad I’m playing it before GTA 6 because my definition of AAA gonna change afterwards. It’s a bit like Apple and how it defines the standard all the time. I just bought a flip phone a few months ago in China, the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2. I liked it very much.

I’ll still keep playing it because I want to know more about the story and the characters. I can’t wait for GTA 6 because I’m so tired of those models. They all look the same and they move like weird animatronics.

Just started 007: First Light. I’m glad I’m playing it before GTA 6 because my definition of AAA gonna change afterwards. It’s a bit like Apple and how it defines the standard all the time. I just bought a flip phone a few months ago in China, the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2. I liked it very much.

The action phase is also quite mediocre. It feels clunky. The combats are quite spectacular looking but they aren’t that fun to play. It is far from Batman or Spiderman. And the driving is terrible. I don’t feel the sense of speed at all. It feels slow. And the controls are boring.

Just started 007: First Light. I’m glad I’m playing it before GTA 6 because my definition of AAA gonna change afterwards. It’s a bit like Apple and how it defines the standard all the time. I just bought a flip phone a few months ago in China, the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2. I liked it very much.

Got a few chapters down. I like James Bond and I see what they did. There are some passages that work well, for instance, I like that sort of puzzle where probably whatever I click works because I’m “lucky”. It’s cool. And the story is nice too. It feels a bit Kingsman rather than pure 007.

Started Seduction Theory )(Emily Adrian). And finished it in one seating. A pretty fun book, especially the way it implements the unreliable narrator. It is weirdly focused and it also felt personal. It even made me think about my relationship with my wife and my friends in general.

Started Audition (Katie Kitamura). One of those books I was intrigued by the cover despite not being anything special. Maybe the colours attracted me. Maybe the title. I don’t know. I just got it from Green Apple Books one day. It’s quite an intriguing novel. Easy to read, modern writing.

I have my own interpretation of it. I think they are all playing a part. But it doesn’t matter because this feels like one of those books that are written to be open for interpretations on purpose anyway. I like its construction. And that middle cut feels like a real entracte, coherent to the title.

Started Audition (Katie Kitamura). One of those books I was intrigued by the cover despite not being anything special. Maybe the colours attracted me. Maybe the title. I don’t know. I just got it from Green Apple Books one day. It’s quite an intriguing novel. Easy to read, modern writing.

Just started 007: First Light. I’m glad I’m playing it before GTA 6 because my definition of AAA gonna change afterwards. It’s a bit like Apple and how it defines the standard all the time. I just bought a flip phone a few months ago in China, the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2. I liked it very much.

And because it doesn’t offer anything new, I automatically compare it to what I know already. Uncharted, TLoU, and, ofc, GTA. The very moment I started feeling this game is already aged is during that scene when everyone starts running. I realised that we all have the same running animation.

Just started 007: First Light. I’m glad I’m playing it before GTA 6 because my definition of AAA gonna change afterwards. It’s a bit like Apple and how it defines the standard all the time. I just bought a flip phone a few months ago in China, the Xiaomi Mix Flip 2. I liked it very much.

And I still like it now. But after the presentation of the iPhone duo, I immediately found my Xiaomi phone old and uncool. Yeah, it’s ridiculous, but I can’t argue with feelings. And during my first mission, the intro, of First Light, I already started feeling a bit the same, comparing it to GTA 6.

Started Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (森崎書店の日々, Satoshi Yagisawa 八木沢 里志). This time, I got what I was looking for. A gentle, pleasant, light, kind, and smooth read. And it is such a reader’s book. I also like the timing as I started to explore 神田神保町 more in depth recently as I progress in Japanese.

It is a short book and it took me an afternoon to read it all. I really liked it as I engaged with all the characters, I felt like I understood them all. There is something naively beautiful about the writing and the dialogues. Might be also the translation, which is really good then.