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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • The public transport system will make you feel like you’re in the 2030s. Super simple. Have your smart phone or smart watch connected to a credit card, or just have a chipped credit card, and you boop your way in any transport, you boop your way out and it charges you for whatever distance you traveled.

    The hotels are incredibly expensive there and we didn’t take one in the old city, but somewhere at a reasonable distance from a subway station a little further from the city center.

    Do not neglect the possibility to bike in the city. We were walking everywhere, or taking trams or the subway, and I wish we biked more.

    Boat tours are cool, you learn a lot. Lots of museums to visit. And if you can afford it, try these restaurants for an extraordinary experience : Wilde Zwijnen (The Wild Pig) and Moeders (Mothers).

    You can visit Windmills with a 40 minutes bus ride. Pretty nice things to see and to taste (cheese!!!).











  • I create Starfield graphic novels.

    I’m a huge fan of the game, and there is this podcast called “Starfield with Normal People”, which has a Discord server, and they organise a weekly “Starfield Adventure Club”. Every week, one planet is selected, and we all go there and take screenshots and create a story.

    People are very creative, some publish a captains log, for my part, I ended up creating a graphic novel.

    For my part, it’s a mix of pure screenshots using the photo mode, some generative AI for the covers, and plain old montage using Figma.

    I’m having a lot of fun and I’m not tired of it yet, I’ve been doing this since February. I discovered I had a talent for storytelling and… Air scripting I guess?

    2023 has been a monstrosity of a year in all aspects of my life. This comic is self-care for me.

    If you want to read a few episodes, you can find them on my Facebook page, as well as on my DeviantArt page.

    Enjoy!



  • Chicago band Mechina, which plays space themed industrial / death and symphonic metal.

    Their music is very rhythmic, and I they are my go to band when I need to concentrate. But they are also the band I listen to whenever I need to feel good.

    They use both clear vocals and growling, and I really like both.

    Their albums tell a story that they keep on building with each release, and the singles connect the narrative of every album together.

    I’ve seen a few people call their music “Mass Effect Metal”, and I get why. They use a lot of audio that could be used in these video games : audio logs from lost spaceships, emergency communications and such.

    Here’s my favorite song from them. It’s a long one but I love every second of it. Even the sound effects at the start.

    Mechina - Blessings upon the fields where blades will flood