UFO 50 is fantastic. So many immediate standouts, and I've already finished Camouflage, Mooncat, Night Manor, and Vainger. Next is likely gonna be Porgy, Valbrace, or Mini & Max.
Vainger is essentially Metroid x Metal Storm, so I went back to the latter and it's wild - never got very far on my actual cartridge, so I may have abused some savestates elsewhere to finally finish it; but I honestly couldn't imagine the amount of practice it would've taken otherwise.
Started The Adventure of Link over again and I still hate it; the save system makes it clear that it's an early Soulsborne, and... Yeah, that explains why.
Garoyle's Quest II was decent, but I think I prefer the Game Boy and SNES games.
Finally tracked-down copies of Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure for SEGA CD and Windows 95, so that's the best of either version of the game - GBA, SNES, 32X, and Jaguar just aren't the way to go; the latter two are alright but if it's not SCD or Win95, then it's gotta be Genesis.
My parents' old LG F4NR started "charging" while unplugged, so I went looking for a replacement. Their carrier offers a ZTE Cymbal 2, but wouldn't sell it to them without changing their plan... So I grabbed a new T-Mobile CAT S22 Flip for ~$87 CDN on Prime; it's so weird, and I kinda really like it.
Performed a clean installation of Windows 11 24H2 and wow is it awful... All of the offers and inconsistent question formatting, all of the unnecessary user account synching across so many services and apps, OneDrive... And all of of it constantly popping back up days and weeks later. I know none of it's new, but it's all just compounded so much over the past few years that it's become so heavy.
Decided to go with a Hall effect kit for my drifting DualSense (still mad about that) but then I ended-up replacing both joysticks with GuliKit TMR modules, and... I dunno, just feels neat :)