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Category: August

Looking Back At Immortalliumblog

Before I say anything else, I think it’s important to tell you that Immortalliumblog is coming to an end. I set up this blog back in 2019 with the intention of running it for three years to see how it would be received. Unfortunately, even when many of my goals went unfulfilled, I persevered and continued to produce content until this year when I finally decided that the time spent writing and maintaining Immortalliumblog is needed desperately elsewhere. However, I didn’t want to stop without first explaining myself so I decided to write one final article in which I would not only be looking back at Immortalliumblog as a whole but also how you’ll be able to access this content in the future.

Let’s start with a brief look at what some of my goals were. From the beginning, I was hoping to foster a community who would hold active discussions with me and each other about the various topics I wrote about, helping to highlight potential subjects to discuss and expanding on any questions I’d have from researching for the article. Unfortunately, this was an area which failed to materialise over the lifespan of the blog with only the occasional comment.

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Looking At The Most Popular Games On Steam Deck

I’ve written two articles so far about the popularity of certain games on the Steam Deck, one in which it was based on information from the official Steam Deck Twitter account and the other being based on a list Valve released showing the most popular Steam Deck titles over a one year period. However, Valve have gone above and beyond and have now added a Steam Deck section to their stats page which updates on a daily basis and shows the top 100 games being played on the Steam Deck either by week, month or year. With that being the case, I thought it worth looking at some of the most popular games on the Steam Deck.

Looking at the monthly statistics, the top 10 don’t seem to be terribly surprising and fall in line with the information we’ve had before. The most played game of the past month has been Elden Ring but that makes perfect sense to me as the DLC just came out recently. Stardew Valley, Balatro, Baldur’s Gate 3, Hades, Vampire Survivors and GTA V are mainstays while Fallout 4 has been bolstered by the recent TV series, No Man’s Sky has received a new major update and Dave the Diver has also been updated along with a recent sale.

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The Surprising Power Of The Word Aishiteru

If you were to ask Google Translate how to say “I love you.” in Japanese, it will give you the word Aishiteru or at least a form of it. However, I think that if you’ve watched and, more importantly, listened to a bunch of Japanese media whether that be anime, tokusatsu, video games etc., you’re far more likely to be familiar with another term, Daisuki. So infrequently have I heard Aishiteru that I thought to look deeper into its use and soon discovered that this word contains a surprising amount of power, so much so that some people will tell you to never use it in any shape or form. This topic proved intriguing enough to me that I thought it might be interesting to discuss the differences and meanings as well as a few examples I’ve found.

Aishiteru, written as 愛してる in Japanese, uses the kanji for love and seems, at first, like the closest translation to the English phrase “I love you.” However, social norms and culture mean that this phrase carries far more weight in Japanese than it would in English. This is a perfect example of where a literal translation loses much of the subtlety and context of the situation someone’s in. Instead, the phrase Daisuki, written as 大好き, uses both the kanji for big, 大, and the kanji for like, 好, which results in being similar to saying “I really like you.” in English. However, I’ve seen many examples of Daisuki being translated as “I love you.” since it’s the closest English phrase for the situation.

Aishiteru written in Japanese.
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Why You Should Check Out Gamedle

I can’t quite remember the specifics of how I discovered Gamedle but I do know that it was through a recommended video on YouTube and it clearly intrigued me enough that I decided to go check out the website itself. Little did I realise how addictive I would find it and that is predominantly due to a particular game mode. Since I’ve been enjoying it so much, I thought it might be interesting to take a quick glance at what Gamedle is, what I like about it and why I think you should check it out.

Gamedle can be roughly divided into four game modes (with a fifth one on the way) with a few variations. The most prominent mode is what is affectionately referred to as Classic. In this, you are given an image of a video game cover which has been highly pixelated in a 3×3 grid. One part of this grid is clear from the beginning and each guess that you make clears another section, giving you more information steadily. However, guesses are limited and you won’t be able to clear the whole image before you run out of chances. Additionally, you’re informed about whether the games you’ve guessed are part of the same franchise or saga as the answer. For those wondering what the difference is, I’m going to use the Mega Man series as an example. All Mega Man games would be part of the same franchise but a Battle Network game would not be part of the same saga as the Mega Man X series.

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