Reflections on social media, technology, science, and video games.

Violet Kurtz

Monthly Let's Play Update - April 2026

We’re back with another monthly update and some fantastic news! We are finally back to releasing videos on YouTube! While the situation with YouTube hasn’t fully resolved in a way I would like, it is moving in a positive direction. From now on, the plan…

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Razor and Blades Model Got Worse

A common sales model nowadays is the “Razors and Blades model”. The basic premise is you divide a product into two parts. These two parts depend on each other, frequently having one reusable part and the other needing replacement. The reusable part is sold for…

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Time Management

One of those "wonderful" struggles with ADHD is time blindness and general time management issues. Talk to most people with ADHD and they'll tell you they experience time blindness. In other words, they don't have a properly functioning internal clock. Keeping track of how much…

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Dysphoria and Euphoria

I was roughly reminded recently why I don’t go clothes shopping by the fact that I was forced to go clothes shopping. Old clothes were wearing out! So it appears that I have for quite some time been subconsciously avoiding putting any thought into my…

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Leaning Into Weakness

Slightly misleading title ahoy! As part of my game development, I am finding myself needing to learn a good many new skills. In particular, creating pixel art has been an interesting challenge. It is definitely a skill I could be good at with a lot…

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