Honestly not much of a productive weekend. My lower back has given me all kinds of hell today to the point of tripling my usual dose to control the pain. Regardless, I ended the weekend sleeping and having some fun with Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Atomfall, and now The Ascent.

I think The Ascent is like the perfect game to just go all out for the funsies. Any wrong move can have you restart the whole fight. That said, I’ve been lazily working on improving some things with video encoding and how to sort it.

While I know my way around PowerShell, which is what I use to process Steam-produced videos, it’s been an exercise in saving bits and bytes so the GIFs and videos aren’t too big for the users browsing the site. Not that it matters. This is a personal blog after all. But I do feel bad for the users with capped bandwidth… I can’t believe that’s still a thing in 2025, but here we are.