November 11, 2025

I was asked if I wanted to shoot a video to help promote a halloween event for Mahjong Soul. I accepted it without much thought but quickly got overwhelmed as I wasn’t given much guidance beyond a script and a group of people who’d been chosen to act out whatever skit they had given us. I was simultaneously director, cinematographer, and potentially editor on a project with a rapidly approaching deadline. We were supposed to be filming at this very moment in the exceedingly noisy room but I was still reading over the script for the very first time. The actors sat around looking aimlessly while I procrastinated by silently thinking about the best delivery for the lines. Before I knew it, time was up. And I had no footage.

It was a sense of dread that felt all too familiar. Worse than delivering a shoddy product, I had nothing to show at all.

I was given a chance to record the footage I needed on my own time, “as homework”, however I would have to assemble the crew and equipment through my own means. I desperately wished to turn back time so that I down turn down accepting this task in the first place.

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Someone in the friend Discord server was spamming the channel with spider stickers. Said stickers would animate and wiggle outside of their frame whenever you hovered or scrolled over them. The spider legs kept getting in my way whenever I tried typing in my Notes app.

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I was playing Abiotic Factor with a friend and he had crafted a time freezing ray. Enemies that were frozen in their tracks could then by chopped up with a knife before reanimating.