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Laura Michet

I'm a writer, editor, and narrative designer working in games. I am also a pathological cyclist and transit enthusiast who frequently goes on strange bicycle adventures in the Los Angeles area.

A big grasshopper

Delibird misunderstanding

I finally got stung by a nettle

Visited América Tropical

Saw iNaturalist data in the wild

Took pictures of animals at Whittier Narrows

"Watching games"

Read about Aura's IGF picks

IDing "unknowns" on iNaturalist

Forced to get new phone due to diabetes

Brendon posted about game releasing

Played Is This Seat Taken?

What I've been up to for the last two months

What we did for Thanksgiving

iNaturalist released their "year in review"

9 Kings added quests

I did the Stranger Things Ciclavia

I wrote for Young Suns!

Check out Myriame's post about the Possessors team

A second Bruno genre classification has landed

Second pass with the 2024 Tamagotchi Connection

It is fun to see people "get" Possessors

People filming themselves in nature

Living in the "robot" zone

Thoughts about interfaces acting like people

The thing that libs don't realize about means testing

Another video of Canadian youths biking unwisely

Great post about Q-UP from James Lantz

Finally started playing Z-A

Possessors has released!

Welcome to your Throne

Read 3D Workers Island

LA Metro has installed bearproof trash cans in at least one station

Watched The Birthday

Highly impressed by Q-Up

Played Clover Pit

Good news still happens!!!

Peeked into Surfridge

Watched Danger: Diabolik

I'm still trying to bike all over LA

Back on the Tamagotchi grind

Play Kinophobia!

All right I finished the main Hunger Games movies

Saw Adolescence

Here are some barnacles

My first encounters with Hunger Games

There's not much time left in the Shortbox Comics Fair

Biked around the VA

Man I dunno is this anything part 2

The November Ciclavia is... a Netflix promo event

If you participated in IFComp in any way, take this survey

Watched Rituals

Man I dunno is this anything

Did the normie protest day

Ball x Pit is very good

Check out the Pathologic 3 demo!

One Battle After Another was really good!

How to speedrun Unfair Flips

I now live in west LA again

This production of Much Ado About Nothing is incredibly good

Here's some pictures of bugs I took this week

Beyblade still baffles me

Discord's age ID data leaked a bunch of private info

How to write in iambic pentameter on a deadline, for money

I've been laid off from Heart Machine!

Watch this guy cook rice on the beach

Someone appears to be making a Post 10 simulator game

Here is a picture of my bathroom

The Witch Girls

Northernlion on "Unfair Flips"

Enjoyed Saltwrack!

Types of squirrels I learned about recently

I am temporarily going to live in the San Gabriel valley

Played Nodebuster

20th century television

Play Unfair Flips!!

A lot of long reads

"Losing your job to AI" stories

Watch this birding documentary

Week round-up: September 21

Chrome vs data hoarding

What is IFComp doing???

Bruno is available for 1-on-1 tutoring and writing assistance

One year of daily blogging

Sometimes it's good to just have a link to throw at people

My favorite peanuts

I'm officiating a wedding

Visited various religious institutions

I saw the foxes :)

Cohost-style CSS infoboxes

I am going to Catalina again

Architecture Plus Girl

Big round of applause to soluble chicory

Proverbs at 65%

Sorry, this post is just going to make you sad

Competitive model plane skydiving

Go get the COVID booster ASAP

Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle

Praise for MakeMKV

Recalling this good post about names

I rebuilt my core base in Satisfactory

My favorite movies I saw in 2024 that are not from the US

Thoughts on jamming

The pure focus and clarity of being a hater

Congrats to Shel on 1000 iNat observations

Learning to see quality

Other downloaders and file management tools

Week round-up: Aug 24

Did I achieve my 2024 moviewatching goal?

Blippo+ press event

Ciclavia 8/17 + minivelo meetup

Interesting Link: iNaturalist map data sorted by "Locals" and "Tourists"

Baldwin Hills Steps

Hooray for Qud!!!

Wishlist Unfair Flips

Played The Royal Writ

I recommend this bird-themed electronic album

I liked this zine about mold

I recommend looking at all the iNaturalist observations sorted by favorites

Check out the Draknek New Voices Grant

Please look at this ancient music video for Oxygene Part 4

Weekly round-up: August 10

Tried to use Blender Video Sequencer

Daily web games I am currently playing

The year the music actually came out

You gotta play Serpentes

The King is Watching

Week round-up: Aug 3

We just realized a Blendo game was part of the Steam refunds lawsuit

Avoiding text entirely

Why are games scary?

I'm still playing Wheel World

Week round-up: July 28

Thoughts about trying to use in-ear headphones higher than gas station quality

Very busy today with traditions and rituals

You gotta check out Wheel World

Played Without A Dawn

Highly recommend Project Grizzly

I belong in a museum

Arctic Eggs at SGDQ

Spent the weekend making a Quake 3 engine game

Monster Train 2

Setting up Plex again

Kaizen: A Factory Story is really, really good-looking

Metro biking across LA

Saw Donnie Yen's The Prosecutor

Some pictures of San Diego

Enjoy this video about electronic saxophones

Enjoy these Blendo dev posts

My ears are messed up

Eggshell stickers

I finally went to the big donut donut shop (Randy's Donuts)

Some of the things I wrote recently that I'm most proud of

Photos from Griffith Park

Week round-up: July 6

Some of my 4th of July pics

"Similar Shots"

Played a bunch of Nubby's Number Factory

Check out these Skin Deep storyboards

Biking again, this time in water

Been using Beets

We need a movement to ban horse cops

Skin Deep is on sale!

Screened "Cube" last weekend

Things can be good actually

I am enjoying 9 Kings

Touching the back wall of the Apple store

Week round-up: June 22

Visited the new LAX Metro station!

Kyocera Cavern Crawl

Final New Orleans picture dump

Is it too geopolitically insane to promote our videogame?

New Orleans bicycle photos

Had a very crazy day

Week Round-Up: June 15

More pictures of New Orleans

Walking around New Orleans

Some pictures of New Orleans

Possessors has a demo out!

I talked about Pill Baby for the Unearthed Treasure Room showcase

Interesting Link: the Boston Bike Stress Map

Where do all the thermal printer kids' cameras come from?

The Center for Wooden Boats

We survived the train!!

We were on Script Lock!

I went on a walk down at the Marina

I'm going to New Orleans... on da train

Been playing Ostriv

Praise for Lossless Cut

He did it (the river thing)

Check out DrMelon's Skin Deep mod!

Week round-up: May 25

I finally played Mooncrash

Screenshots of the Mod Museum

Now is a time to call your reps

Skin Deep's mod that teaches you how to make mods is out!

I really liked this shambolic bikepacking video

Interesting Link: Definitive Stormtrooper Costume How-To

Week round-up: May 18

Went to the US Sumo Open

Proverbs at 25%

Check out another developer stream of Skin Deep

Played The Horror at Highrook

Went to the Robot Combat League National Championship

Week round-up: May 11

Damn, I'm tired!!

Why not explore Skin Deep modding?

Check out this Skin Deep designer stream

Skin Deep Trivia

Thank Goodness You're Here!

Working with VO as an indie

Some thoughts about comedy in Skin Deep

Please check out Suzy's great Skin Deep mod

Northernlion played Skin Deep

Skin Deep is out today!!!

The reviews are in: Skin Deep is funny, has toilets

Now is an important time to remember the AC2 Rodrigo Borgia boss fight

Week round-up: April 27

Very good jumpscare needle drop

Two Point Museum

Skin Deep is coming out in seven days

I really liked this woodworking video

Week round-up: April 20

U-lock holsters

Interesting link: Atomic Zombie/CHOPZONE

Even more bike photographs (beautiful, good)

Attended Bob Baker Day

Skin Deep is coming out in 15 days

Fresh new bike photographs

The big ass rally

Cannot work without my head in a vise

Interesting Link: COVID-19 Signage Archive

I love gaming community drama that I do not understand

The real fake islands where people fake bike

Week round-up: April 6

Absolutely loved Type Help

What is endgame Pokemon actually like?

Here is my canned cheese

Very good bike saddle factory tour video

Back on the road miles grind

Extremely impressed by Ultros

Week round-up: Mar 30

Cars aren't always the fastest way to cross the west side

Played some more research mysteries

I ordered a wheel of cheese in a can

Really enjoyed The Roottrees Are Dead

I was a headcrab on Insert Credit

If you act fast enough you can (maybe?) see this musical

I have been blogging daily for six months

Internet stalking Wildflower Studios

Cool (uncool) consequences of diabetic hypoglycemia

Enjoy my favorite bike youtuber

People are already speedrunning Skin Deep

I did the Marathon Crash Ride for the third year in a row

Week round-up: Mar 16

This guy took up his entire kitchen with a 737 cockpit

How to stop all the online Pokemon players from ruining their own fun

New Mdou Moctar

Blendo Build Machine

How to buy a Pokemon online

I biked fifty miles on Saturday!

Week round-up: Mar 9

Currency Pokemon on Pokemon Home

I will be at GDC 2025

A wild Pokemon video that I liked

Some thoughts on the writing process for Skin Deep

Blendo WAV Tool

Stuff I wishlisted during Next Fest

Thank you to everyone who checked out the Skin Deep demo