Olivia Falk

@olivigarden.ca

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Independent video games critic, programmer, and self-proclaimed queen of being thoroughly average. | 18+ | She/her 😊💕 📝 www.olivigarden.ca 📸 @mini_olivigarden

A photo of my browser with an Ellipsus tab open for writing. The cursor is hovering over the tab name, revealing its title to be "Mario Wonder Accessibility | Ellipsus". In the window, the document's word count is visible, showing 3,089 words. Below that, fragments of text are visible: game I play on its own terms. Obviously, I can't mind-wipe ut bringing any prior experiences (and in some cases, that nyway), but I try to avoid getting too many preconceived
Alheyali 16/07/2026 It's great, but unfortunately not like interstellar 9/10
@VaderHater1993 2 months ago Based! Cannot believe people would be so callous.
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A meme using the "Kombucha Girl" template. The top half shows a woman looking distressed and disgusted next to the words "male gaze", and the bottom half shows her looking intrigued next to the words "male gays".
The latter half of the Super Mario Bros. Wonder level "Climb to the Beat", in which I'm playing as Luigi and manage to complete the level while getting all three big purple coins along the way. It sucks and I hate it and if anyone asks me to do it again, I'll throw hands and/or demand immediate financial compensation.
A white terrier wearing a purple bandana with bananas on it is sniffing a medium-sized cookie in my hand. The cookie is iced to look like a birthday cake, and the dog's eyes are wide and excited.
A small white terrier wearing a purple bandana and laying in the driver's footwell of my car. She looks very responsible and like she's been studying the rules of the road diligently for this day.
A small white terrier and a large black and brown dog standing in a green field with a gravel path behind them. The white dog is wearing a purple bandana, and the two dogs are sniffing each other.
A small white terrier laying on a light brown blanket while having a snooze. Her front paws are out in front of her and delicately crossed, and she's wearing a rainbow bowtie.
A small white terrier is laying in a dog bed full of blankets with a plushie beside her. She's looking at the camera with dark brown eyes and her ears down, and she's wearing a purple bandana with bananas on it.
An cartoon-style illustration of a slender, attractive, anthropomorphic owl secretary. She has large, piercing yellow eyes with pink eyeshadow and large eyeliner wings, is wearing half moon glasses, and has dark purple feathers, though her face is heart-shaped and white. She's wearing a puffy-shouldered short-sleeved white top with a burgundy vest on top, as well as a knee-length pencil skirt with a belt. She's carrying a clipboard or folder in one hand. A description below her reads: Owlivia is the Mayor's trustworthy secretary. Precise, edgecutting and lethal, this bird doesn't care about emotions and feelings. She will push Spanky's flight abilities to their limits with rooftop-to-rooftop routes, rhythm dive clashes and a thrilling chase.
A little white terrier laying on her side on a couch while I give her slow, circular belly rubs.
Update: 7/2/2026: This story was originally published on August 2, 2021. It was later updated in July 2022 to incorporate European heat waves and other news. It was updated again in 2025 to add information about heat waves in Alaska and NYC. Its intro has now been rewritten and the post updated with the latest heat waves hitting both the US and Europe.
An Astro's Playroom screenshot showing the artifact examination screen. The artifact being examined is a PlayStation Game Disc with the description "Comes coated in a mysterious black ooze..." The disc is a PS1 version of Astro Bot, complete with a low-poly version of the mascot depicted on the disc.
A screenshot of my game collection log, showing that I recently purchased physical copies of Silent Hill f, REANIMAL - Deluxe Edition, and NieR: Automata - Game of the YoRHa Edition.
AI content disclosure for Dave the Diver: AI Generated Content Disclosure The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this: Generative AI is used only to assist with localization/translation. All localized text is reviewed and edited by the developer. No AI-generated art, audio, or in-game live generation is used.
A small white terrier laying on my bed next to me, snuggled up to my legs and seeming very relaxed and content.
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A photo of an example diagram from the same rulebook, showing a yellow disc being moved backwards on a numbered track. The caption reads "Yellow reduces her Influence to take a Location action".
A photo of a board game rulebook page. The section is titled "Location Actions", and the rules read "On a Player's turn, if the Player is at a Location (has not been Kicked-Out), he MUST MOVE his Gallerist pawn to a different Location. If he is in his Gallery (see p. 6), he can choose any Location. Additionally, if a Player moves from one Location to another, he may leave behind one of his Assistants on the space the Gallerist pawn is moving from. This"
The PlayStation store listing for Grand Theft Auto VI: Ultimate Edition. The pre-order price is $139.99, and the fine print under the price reads "1-month GTA+ subscription with pre-order. Auto-renews. Check Game and Legal Info* below."
A leatherbound, well-worn copy of the Holy Bible sitting on a wooden table.
A photo of a dark brown bison standing in a field of tall, golden grass.
An illustration of a bicorn from Shin Megami Tensei. It's a dark purple horse with piercing red eyes, gold hooves, a white mane and tail, and two bright green horns curling out of its head.
A bishop piece from a chess set. It has a silvery metallic appearance with hints of bronze.
The Pokémon Bisharp. It's a bipedal dark red, gray, and silver creature with gold accents and a vaguely insectoid appearance. It looks like it's wearing armour, including two crescent moon shaped blades coming out of its stomach and fin-like blades on its wrists. It's also wearing a helmet with a sort of axe head on the top. It has a serious expression on its face and one arm raised up.
A Tim Hortons Iced Capp that's half to two-thirds finished. What's left is almost exclusively liquid with nary a trace of ice, leaving one to wonder why the purchaser deemed it necessary to pay extra for that ice to come in crushed form instead of cubed.
A photo of some video game boxes sitting on a table. In the top row are Chrono Trigger and Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, both for the DS. Below them are Drill Dozer, Pokémon Emerald, and Yoshi Topsy Turvy, all for the Game Boy Advance.
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A photo of a small white and tan terrier running through a green grassy field towards the camera. She has a big smile on her face, and her tail is wagging.
A slightly blurry photo of a small white and tan terrier. She has a pink harness and collar on, and is looking up at the camera mid-bark.
A photo of a small white and tan terrier laying on her side on a light brown couch. She is lightly smushed between the armrest and my thigh (I'm sitting next to her), and my arm is lightly resting on top of her. Her front paws are stretched out, and her ear that isn't pressed against the couch cushion is pricked up.
A small white and tan terrier lays on her side on some light gray carpeted stairs. She's snuggled up against the wall, but is fairly stretched out, with her front paws up by her face. Her eyes are closed, she's resting her head against the next stair up, and her ear that isn't pressed against the next stair is half-raised.
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A photo of a small white and tan dog with long, scruffy fur who's curled up on one side of a light brown loveseat. On the other cushion, an arm and a leg clad in black jeans are visible, showing that there's someone (me) sitting on the opposite side of the couch.
The cover of the Cloud Atlas 4K steelbook release. It has the movie title in a large white font with various swooping lines connecting the letters. Above this in smaller font, it says "A film by Lana Wachowski & Tom Tykwer & Lilly Wachowski", and above that it says "Tom Hanks Halle Berry". The cover image is a blue-hued illustration showing a large statue of a woman in a flowing robe. She's holding her right arm up, and something in her hand is emitting a bright white beam that's firing up and away from her. Behind the statue is a silhouetted futuristic cityscape, with all manner of skyscrapers with various windows lit up. In the foreground is a vast ocean with a silhouetted ship sailing towards the city. The ship has the look of an old-timey ship colonial times; many large sails on several masts with ropes coming down from them.
A screenshot of a Jackbox Survey Scramble game where players need to guess mythical creatures. I've submitted the word "clitoris", and the game is about to check whether "clitoris" was a more or less popular answer than "bulbasaur" (spoiler alert: it was less popular).
A piece of artwork done in a style much like the video game Night in the Woods, with bold, flat colours and large shapes defining everyone from the original Podquisition cast. On the left is Gavin (aka Miracle of Sound) as a brown bear wearing a Witcher 3 logo t-shirt. He has a long dark brown moustache connected to a short beard, and dark brown hair that goes almost to his shoulders. He's thinking about a monster getting shot by a bow and arrow and has wide eyes and a distracted smile on his face. In the middle is Laura as a black cat with long blue hair partially covering one eye wearing a dark blue zip-up hoodie. She's got a mischievous look on her face and is saying, "When I'm not having sex in front of Steph because she's a massive cuck -" There are also various speech bubbles around her saying, "Mew". Finally on the right is Stephanie as a toucan in a black top and a bright red tie. They're cackling away with their beak wide open, and her speech bubble just says, "DAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA" in text that progressively gets more fragmented.
A photo of a sky covered in dramatic-looking dark grayish blue clouds. In the distance, a large area of intense rainfall can be seen. Almost none of that actually made it to where I was. :(
A small white terrier with long scruffy fur. She's laying on a bunched-up blanket on a bed, and her face is pressed up against the blanket in such a way that it almost gives her a lopsided smile. She looks both cozy and like she wants me to get up and give her food and walkies.
A screenshot of a two-factor authentication code. The code is 420691. You know, like the weed number, followed by the sex position? Hell yeah, let's go. 😎
An illustration of an orange blob in a glass sphere looking confused and existential.
A sprite animation of Gato, which is a large pink and red robot. The robot has a humanoid form with very round features overall, small horns on its head, glowing yellow eyes (but no mouth), a sort of round hatch on its belly, and a yellow loincloth. It's holding a microphone up to its mouth and moving it around as though it's singing.
The goose from the video game Untitled Goose Game. It's a white goose with orange feet and an orange beak. It's also carrying a tobacco pipe in its mouth. Next to it is the text "HONK".
A graph showing weekly site hits for the past 3 months, with a peak in the middle, followed by a steady decline after that.
An illustration of a Rowlet (extremely round owl-like Pokémon) dressed up in a green leafy cloak reminiscent of its final evolution: Decidueye.
A top-down photo of a small white dog with a pink collar who's curled up in a partial ball on a bed. Her ears are pricked up, but rest assured she is extremely eepy and having a very nice snooze.
A photo of a brown blanket on a couch with a small white dog curled up underneath it. Only a bit of her haunch and the tip of her nose are poking out from underneath it.
A photo of a small white dog standing on a couch while draped in a brown blanket that's covering much of her body and head; only her nose and one of her feet is visible. She looks like a wise old Jedi or other mystical sage.
A video of a hand petting a small white dog's haunch while the dog's head is snuggled under a blanket. One of the dog's front paws is poking out from under the blanket.
A photo of a hand reaching out and petting the haunch of a small white dog curled up on a couch. Only the haunch is visible, as a brown blanket draped across the couch has fallen down and is completely covering the dog's head. The dog, for her part, seems totally content with this fact.
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A photo of a small white terrier wearing a rainbow bowtie. She's sitting on a carpeted stair behind a wooden chair that's been placed on it, and the legs and cross bar of the chair look like they're a very loose-fitting cage.
A screenshot showing a newly-redeemed copy of Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park.
A white and tan terrier with long, scruffy fur is laying on a white tile floor. She's stretched out completely straight and laid down flat with her front paws on either side of her face. Her eyes are looking up at the camera in a sort of, "Are you looking at me? I'm definitely not staring at you..." look.
A photo of a light blue circular cooling mat with artwork of different varieties of cactus on it. It's placed on the floor underneath my bedside table due to Millie's penchant for snuggling into partially-enclosed, den-like spaces.
A drawing of the character Papyrus from Undertale (a tall cartoon skeleton dressed in silver armour with gold trim, and orange boots, mittens, and a scarf) laying face down on the ground. Orange text above reads "*muffled screaming*".
A small white terrier with a pinkish nose and long, scruffy fur is laying spread out on a stairwell with her back against the wall. One ear is half-lifted, and the other one isn't visible, as that side of her head is lightly smushed against the side of the stair next to her to use it as a pillow. Her eyes are closed, and there's a red ball with a hole through the centre sitting on the stairs a few centimetres from her face.
A screen recording showing the ClickUp website being navigated in a mobile browser. As it's interacted with, it spontaneously switches between being scaled properly so it fills up the entire screen, and only taking up about two-thirds of the screen width, meaning text, images, and buttons unpredictably change where they're located.