Grandia Guide Mirror

Playing through Grandia on the Saturn this month, I found that the best maps still come from an old guide that Fahim Farook mirrored to Tripod several decades ago (found here). His copy was an adaptation of one by Falcom, hosted on the now-defunct Xoom hosting service. And Falcom’s copy was ripped from IGN, which stole it from UK Saturn magazine, which itself copied it from a Japanese Saturn magazine. Quite the legacy....

March 12, 2026

The VR6 That Got Away

Ebay can be brutal on the psyche, man. I spent the better part of a week planning out how I would get this gorgeous mk3 Jetta to North Texas and dialed in, euro-style. Then bam, outbid at exactly 2 seconds before the end of the auction. The VR6 hunt continues…

November 20, 2025

Landing Page Complete

New infornographic landing page using Hugo is all set. One step closer to revamping the stickers pages. Overall, I’m digging the concept and workflow of Hugo. My markdown is going to suck for a while, but I’ll get there. The PaperMod theme’s social buttons are expected to be configured as SVG snippets, and it wasn’t preconfigured to recognize DLive or Kick. I grabbed the official wide SVG for DLive, rasterized it to PNG, cropped just the square logo, then converted it back to SVG....

December 10, 2024