Patchy Signal
Clover discusses social difficulties and then goes on a tirade about Nakamas.
Written March 1st, 2026
The date on this one is technically a lie, since I'm writing this in the super-early hours of the 2nd, but I just woke up and finally got this working so it's okay.
I usually find keeping things like diaries or journals or blogs to be kind of a chore, so I don't ever try, but I'm in a very deep period of isolation at the moment so I figure I should give it another shot just to have a void to shout into. It can't hurt just to have it around, I figure... plus, it was nice to work on this site again. I always forget just how much I love doing this stuff until something gives me a reason to try it again, but nothing makes me feel as accomplished as this!! I was actually kind of in pain earlier today because I have this straining tic that goes off whenever I'm proud, and coding always makes it act up LOL. I'm kinda hardstuck doing it right now because I like looking at this layout and I'm really happy the entry selector works.
Trying to write about your life is kind of embarrassing when you're a NEET, and even moreso when you're me and you're The Avoider. I went out for lunch with my family today and I had my favourite turkey dinner. Stuffing has grown on me so much it's actually so delicious holy carp. I love going out but it's always so mixed for me because I feel so alien around other people. I don't know how to communicate properly so I just listen and avoid eye contact and play hand games with my younger brother. Other than that... what have I been up to... bluh.
I only really talk to two people right now... I've been in such a deep rut socially for the last month or so. I feel like my capacity for empathy (which is usually pretty high, I think. I'm a very level and understanding person, so I generally get along well with people...) has been reduced a lot of the time, and I'm a lot less able to intuitively understand why the people around me do the things they do or tolerate the things that don't make sense to me. So I've just been staying away. Really, all I do all day right now is play baby games. I've been playing a major amount of Fortnite Festival, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, and. For some reason I'm hooked on Webkinz again. 20 year old woman by the way. Actually! That reminds me! I've been thinking a lot about Nakamas recently!
Nakamas was another Ganz plush-with-code game aimed at tween and younger girls about friendship and crafting. In the image above, from left to right, are Karmalee, Jassy, and Primrose. I was briefly hooked on it as a kid (it kinda flopped and only ran for a couple of years, somewhere around 2012 to 2014 I believe? My memory is definitely fuzzy since I was like, seven) and I remember making my family buy me a new plush every time we saw them in stores, but I don't have any of them anymore. It was such a cute game, and really right up my alley even today (though admittedly I'm still attached to almost every virtual world I played as a kid. I'm a Jammer for life). The whole patchwork-tons-of-patterns aesthetic of it is... literally my whole thing. It makes me incredibly sad that there's so little content or information about it still available, and almost nobody remembers it either. I think I've heard somewhere that the game has been found, but nobody's done anything with it, but I haven't found any information on that anywhere. I just hope if that's true someone will make it playable at some point... until then, though, the old website and news blog are archived on the Wayback Machine in all their cuteness! And thank god people still sell the plushies online and the prices really aren't abysmal or anything! I'm probably gonna buy the Mia Cat plush off somebody soon depending on how much money I have left after my best friend's birthday (love you Gwennie). I mean seriously! Look at how cute!
All the different patterns of fabric on the limbs giving the toys that crafty handmade look is the most adorable thing ever to me. I love anything that looks like that. I've got to make a sona like this... another really sweet thing about these plushies is that they all came with a small friendship bracelet for the toy to wear and a matching human-sized one for the owner! That is ADORABLE are you freaking kidding me. Friendship bracelets were the game's whole gimmick, and bringing it into real life is soooo sweet it makes me cryyy...
ANYWAY. Did not mean to go on a stunted manchild ramble. But I guess that's literally what this page is for, so I'm allowed to do that. Yay! I don't think I have anything else to talk about today but I don't really know how to end this smoother. Clover signing off!
Clover discusses social difficulties and then goes on a tirade about Nakamas.
Written March 1st, 2026
The date on this one is technically a lie, since I'm writing this in the super-early hours of the 2nd, but I just woke up and finally got this working so it's okay.
I usually find keeping things like diaries or journals or blogs to be kind of a chore, so I don't ever try, but I'm in a very deep period of isolation at the moment so I figure I should give it another shot just to have a void to shout into. It can't hurt just to have it around, I figure... plus, it was nice to work on this site again. I always forget just how much I love doing this stuff until something gives me a reason to try it again, but nothing makes me feel as accomplished as this!! I was actually kind of in pain earlier today because I have this straining tic that goes off whenever I'm proud, and coding always makes it act up LOL. I'm kinda hardstuck doing it right now because I like looking at this layout and I'm really happy the entry selector works.
Trying to write about your life is kind of embarrassing when you're a NEET, and even moreso when you're me and you're The Avoider. I went out for lunch with my family today and I had my favourite turkey dinner. Stuffing has grown on me so much it's actually so delicious holy carp. I love going out but it's always so mixed for me because I feel so alien around other people. I don't know how to communicate properly so I just listen and avoid eye contact and play hand games with my younger brother. Other than that... what have I been up to... bluh.
I only really talk to two people right now... I've been in such a deep rut socially for the last month or so. I feel like my capacity for empathy (which is usually pretty high, I think. I'm a very level and understanding person, so I generally get along well with people...) has been reduced a lot of the time, and I'm a lot less able to intuitively understand why the people around me do the things they do or tolerate the things that don't make sense to me. So I've just been staying away. Really, all I do all day right now is play baby games. I've been playing a major amount of Fortnite Festival, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, and. For some reason I'm hooked on Webkinz again. 20 year old woman by the way. Actually! That reminds me! I've been thinking a lot about Nakamas recently!
Nakamas was another Ganz plush-with-code game aimed at tween and younger girls about friendship and crafting. In the image above, from left to right, are Karmalee, Jassy, and Primrose. I was briefly hooked on it as a kid (it kinda flopped and only ran for a couple of years, somewhere around 2012 to 2014 I believe? My memory is definitely fuzzy since I was like, seven) and I remember making my family buy me a new plush every time we saw them in stores, but I don't have any of them anymore. It was such a cute game, and really right up my alley even today (though admittedly I'm still attached to almost every virtual world I played as a kid. I'm a Jammer for life). The whole patchwork-tons-of-patterns aesthetic of it is... literally my whole thing. It makes me incredibly sad that there's so little content or information about it still available, and almost nobody remembers it either. I think I've heard somewhere that the game has been found, but nobody's done anything with it, but I haven't found any information on that anywhere. I just hope if that's true someone will make it playable at some point... until then, though, the old website and news blog are archived on the Wayback Machine in all their cuteness! And thank god people still sell the plushies online and the prices really aren't abysmal or anything! I'm probably gonna buy the Mia Cat plush off somebody soon depending on how much money I have left after my best friend's birthday (love you Gwennie). I mean seriously! Look at how cute!
All the different patterns of fabric on the limbs giving the toys that crafty handmade look is the most adorable thing ever to me. I love anything that looks like that. I've got to make a sona like this... another really sweet thing about these plushies is that they all came with a small friendship bracelet for the toy to wear and a matching human-sized one for the owner! That is ADORABLE are you freaking kidding me. Friendship bracelets were the game's whole gimmick, and bringing it into real life is soooo sweet it makes me cryyy...
ANYWAY. Did not mean to go on a stunted manchild ramble. But I guess that's literally what this page is for, so I'm allowed to do that. Yay! I don't think I have anything else to talk about today but I don't really know how to end this smoother. Clover signing off!
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I live a pretty boring life so this page will likely only be updated when something noteworthy happens or if I have a lot of thoughts and nowhere else to put them. I know that by hosting this on Neocities I'm kind of just doing this:
...but bleeeh it's fine, I don't really care that much who reads this stuff, if anyone. Click an entry in the box to the right to get started!
I live a pretty boring life so this page will likely only be updated when something noteworthy happens or if I have a lot of thoughts and nowhere else to put them. I know that by hosting this on Neocities I'm kind of just doing this:
...but bleeeh it's fine, I don't really care that much who reads this stuff, if anyone. Click an entry in the box to the right to get started!
03/01/26 - Patchy Signal
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