Eiri Sanada

Why do people choose to write a memoir?

Last week, a friend of mine brought to my attention the release of a sort of “white whale” in the Sega retro fan community: A fully completed unofficial translation of SEGAGaGa, a cult classic released only in Japan, and notoriously difficult to translate.

I wish I could say I have a plan for this, but the honest truth of it is that I’m doing this while fully aware that it is not something any of you expect, nor is it something I expect you to be interested in reading.

No Man’s Sky is a fairly detailed universe simulation, and the idea of a “periodic table” has floated around for a longtime.

A couple of weeks ago, in July 2025, Ironmouse, the face of the Western hemisphere’s largest Vtuber company, VShojo, severed her contract with the company.

(Spoken version with some minor visuals on my Youtube.)

(This is a companion piece to my YouTube video on this subject.

This version of the authorless Thirty-Six Stratagems is a concise rewrite that fits exactly onto an A4 sheet, and is formatted to fold exactly in half into an A5 size.

I really like the idea of actually booting up a new game for the first time on the stream itself.

Originally posted on my Patreon, now revised and expanded.