I've made some behind the scenes changes to Restart Syndrome - I've tried to test things but if anything breaks, please let me know.

Travelocity contributes 15% of non-search traffic to Restart Syndrome. Lowes 4%. I assume this is sketchy.

I know I'm over a week late to the party, but ChatGPT is 100% worse. I feed it recipes to ask for calorie counts - today it gave calories count per serving and offered the info for the whole batch, "if the recipe indicates how many servings it makes." Wait, what?

I know AI isn't popular around here, but AI voice removal really does wonders for making Perfect Selection Dracula listenable.

I scanned the Elemental Gearbolt World Guidance book a year ago and didn't post it because I hadn't scanned the cover - and forgot to come back to it. I finally got it uploaded! (I've also uploaded a more traditional strategy guide!)

archive.org/details/elem...

Finally finished the main game of the Final Fantasy VI T Edition romhack. Pretty wild reworking of FFVI, with lots of extra content and challenge. There's a whole extra rom with superbosses to tackle by renaming your save file - I might need a break so will come back later.

I recently added a goal tracking feature to restartsyndrome.com, allowing users to set goals for themselves and track their progress. Entries made to the scoreboard are automatically compared to goals a user sets, so the site will automatically update when you've achieved your goal!

After over a year, I finally threw together a crappy homemade captcha and reopened registrations on Restart Syndrome. I want to make a couple of tweaks to it, but hopefully this blocks the bots that were mass registering.

www.restartsyndrome.com

Got a Parodius Da! (PCE) 1 loop clear. I've never been good at games with recovery, so I'm pleased about this.

youtu.be/9RfvgQRPJ_0

I got a shoutout in Harvest Stories' year end Harvest Moon speedrunning year in review. I did a full a achievements run for the Friends of Mineral Town remake - which took 26 hours. Part of me wants to improve it, part of me isn't dumb.

Year in Review here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9vP...

Been having a ton of fun with Crystal Breaker. I've put together a playlist of my best run of each stage on youtube - there's still plenty of optimizing to be done on each stage. I wonder what the leaderboards look like on Switch?

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#2023年STGリザルト

Touhou Makuka Sai / Fantastic Danmaku Festival - Normal 2.2b
Like Dreamer - Nightmare Counter TLB All 21.8b
Bullet Hell Monday - Normal 189m
Graze Counter GM - Standard Extreme 3.1b

Very slow year. Too much time playing Donut Dodo and Slay the Spire.