joelchrono's blog
joelchrono's blog
joelchrono
Hello! I am Joel, I am just a guy who likes tech, FOSS and many other things. I was born in Mexico, where I still live. I am a hobby collector, fake fan of many things, foss enthusiast, videogame enjoyer, and a mechatronics engineer, working as a system admin for some company somewhere.
Latest Posts
Make sure to read the first adventure of this journey!. Six months after the first campaign. We finally sat around the table once again, and played Land of Eem! for the second time. We had set a couple of dates before to meet up, and...
It’s been a whole year now since Hollow Knight: Silksong finally released, and it has been a delightful journey. I wasn’t there for a lot of the hype around it, I was more than happy playing Hollow Knight in the span of a year or so, and...
For a little while I have been using YouTube way more, and even paid for the Lite subscription model, simply to test it out. Honestly, it hasn’t been too bad, and I actually really, really enjoy a lot of the videos I’ve gotten through...
Don’t worry, I can connect to Wi-Fi networks, I just lost mobile data access and phone calls with my current SIM chip. You see, the silly government of my beautiful country decided that the best way to stop scam, blackmail and other...
My parents are great, but they are also of a different generation, and despite the amount of people around their age that I’ve met online that somehow align with many of my hobbies, everyone is different, and well, that’s the case for...
You have probably heard of this one, it is an award winning title that came out around 2019 and has been making the rounds as one of the best videogames of all time. I had heard of it when it came out, often confused with Outer Worlds...
August was a very interesting month, given the arrival of Blaugust, the summer vacation and a lot of my gaming progression done during all of it. I have recently realized how little I have to say about the month itself here when I keep...
Well, the month is over, and with that, Blaugust is gone as well! This is the second time I have participated on this challenge, and it has also lead to quite a lot of interesting interactions and a decent amount of posts. To be honest,...
I will write a separate post sharing some thoughts about Blaugust, but here are some of my notes for this week between August 25 to 31, 2026. 📺 After beating Outer Wilds I have watched all sorts of playthroughs, supercuts, essays,...
For many years one of my favorite videogame sounds has been In Your Hands—even mentioned it on a post about music that’s always in my head—a soothing and melancholic score that comes from Gris, an indie game developed by Nomada Studio,...
Today I was on vacation and I have been watching YouTube videos all day long for some reason. I could have finished a videogame or a book in all this time. However, I was watching a long playthrough of Outer Wilds. Because I have...
Sometimes you have such a great idea, a post that you need to write and share with everybody and you just keep meaning to get to it. Then reality hits and it doesn’t quite let you make that post in a way that feels right for the subject....
A lot of things have happened this week, the rain has been calming down again, the plumber finally fixed the issues that caused my shower to floor, so rain is no longer annoying. Let’s see how things went from August 11 to 18, 2026! 🍦 My...
There is a huge list of people participating for Blaugust and you can go to Andreas’ website if you want a full OPML file to simply import to your RSS Reader. Personally, I haven’t added too many new people to my feed, but there have...
I saw this post by Gabz a while back titled Iconic moments in gaming and I wanted to share my own! Of course, these will spoil game mechanics or plot twists and you should thread carefully! I will not be using <details> to spoil, though...