Rhythm Doctor is a game you play with your eyes closed until 2-2 when you give up in frustration. Cool music though, at least from the 4 levels I managed to stumble my way through.

When I play a visual novel without a walkthrough I never end up in a sex scene. I find all the ways to die before I have straight sex in my games. 😅

Don’t tell me a “game out now!” when it’s just early access. That’s not a game, that’s a playable bug test.

The severance paper clip punishment amuses me because I’ve done that job multiple times as a temp and for waaaaaaaay more stacks of paper and it did not traumatize me. Writers have the weirdest aversion to office work.

I respect the reporter not laughing in derision at being call “piggy”. Then again, I think if I was in most Trump press conferences I’d be rolling my eyes and laughing constantly.

Beginning of season 2 of severance. I think this show will only work if they never explain anything about the big picture. They can only solve the interpersonal drama. No explanation will ever trump the imagination of the audience.

Finished Cartagra. My review: it’s bad. Bad writing, bad protagonist, bad mystery, bad resolution. At least it’s short. Started the acclaimed Kara no Shojo, the sequel series. Holy cow even a couple hours in the bump in quality is insane. Someone must have taken a class or two in between games.

You know that these eroge scenes are tacked on in most visual novels because the characters lose all personality once their clothes are off.

Well Cartagra is going to go waaay faster than expected since it’s like 50% hard core sex scenes and I’m a gay man. The first route was like 3 hours long and had 5ish sex scenes. Will definitely check and see if the rest of the series has a non-pervy version. This is kind of ridiculous.

Next Visual Novel: Cartagra, the prequel to the Kara No Sho(u)jo trilogy. Another murder mystery series because it’s fall in Portland and a grey wet story fits perfectly with the weather. Also this one is 15-20 hours and it would be nice to finish a visual novel in a couple weeks for once.

Raging Loop VN Review: Ummmm, ehhhhh, wellll, I mean, i guess, huh, okay. Stop reading after chapter 6. There, I just saved you 15 hours. Great at the setup and the cast, but the finish line is rushed, the protagonist lies to the audience (big no-no for mystery novels), and pulls a Paranoia Agent.

Ball x Pit is $15 bucks and I would have paid $40 bucks for it. That’s my review.

Baby Steps has been abandoned. I made it to the poison desert where it goes from funny frustrating to just plain frustrating and said “NOPE!”

Finished the first third of Fate Stay Night, the Fate Stay Night part… Shirou is such a misogynist ass in this route, I hope that does not continue.

When people say, “That intolerance is a product of 10 years ago comedy, that wouldn’t happen today,” I always want to respond with, “I’ve been hearing that all my life, and I’m sure you will too.”

I’ve been thinking about this since the whole Jimmy Kimmel thing happened and John Oliver helped define it in my head. I was worried because I kept thinking, “well we have friend of speech not freedom of consequences am I defending Kimmel because he was chastising the right?”

The only people who know that most dating apps are own by the same company so if you get band by one you get band by them all are people who have been band from a lot of dating apps. And now you.

I don’t “Stan” anyone, that’s a really fucked up thing to do. However, I’m a big fan of Jane Wickline’s comedy and I’m glad she’s getting another season of SNL.

Employee: Hi, I worked 2 hours less than normal, but my check was waaaaaaaay short. What up with that? Me: you made $42.98 less than your last paycheck… about 2 hours worth of pay… Me: [pause] Me: have a good day! Employee: but… Me: I said “have. a. good. day…”

That thing where you’re on the bus and your sexually tame visual novel has a surprise hard core sex scene. #embarrassed #powerbutton!

I have finished Chaos Head Noah. My short review: a 7 that stumbled its way to a 6 due to tedious repetition required to get the 5 minute “true” ending. An ending so boring and predictable that as I was slogging through the different character routes I said to myself, “man they better not do ‘X’.”

100 x 100 x 100

There’s a weird thing in the AI community where people won’t disclose what AI photo generating software they’re using. I find that weird and suspicious.

@alisonrosen.bsky.social @danielquantz.bsky.social Big VR user here. Recs if you need ‘em: Walkabout Mini Golf (the killer app) Synth Riders (better music Beat Saber) Gorilla Tag (kids go nuts for this, makes me barf) Job/Vacation Simulator/Cosmo High (same dev team, great for learning VR.)

While the Science; Adventure series of VN have some dubious science included in them, I had fun freaking people out on the bus as I played with this optical illusion. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_s...

Patricia Arquette is such a good actor that I didn’t even realize it was her in Severance until season 2. Which I just started so no spoilers! Didn’t recognize her appearance nor her voice despite having enjoyed her in many films. Have I mentioned I have a little bit of face blindness. 😅

From a payroll perspective, starting a shift at midnight is just a nightmare. It confuses the hell out of payroll software and you will be forever explaining to people, “no that shift is on the next and/or previous paycheck.”

I think about the first Peanuts comic strip more often then anyone ought to.

There’s nothing like moving up to a higher weight on an exercise you’ve grown comfortable with. That struggle as you try to complete your reps and knowing you’re about to fail, but also knowing that in a month or two, this will be the new comfortable weight.

Post lunch fit, probably time for some more new work shirts.

@anthonyburch.bsky.social I know you’ll never read this, but I’ve always enjoyed the things you’ve put out into the world. I’m glad you exist.

I don’t watch football, but I am constantly thinking about the report that stated that actual play time is 11 minutes. The rest of the time is replays, standing around, and adverts. I used to think ADHD was a myth until I learned that 17.5 million people watch football most games with no issue.

I used to know which your/you’re was correct in the phrase “your/you’re welcome” but now I have thought about it too much to ever know which is correct which is why my work emails often in in “cheers”.

What’s next? I’m currently jumping between Full Metal Daemon: Muramasa, The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, and Chaos;Head. Waiting for one of these to fully catch my attention. Muramasa probably would have outright won if I hadn’t just read a heavy mecha series, which made the other two contenders.

Muv Luv Alternative It’s finished! One sentence review: mind blowing when it came out, MLA is now a genre defining visual novel whose DNA can clearly be seen in many VNs that came after it, but is a bit slow paced for modern readers.

Here’s an idea: all the money we’re spending on sending immigrants to foreign countries can be used instead for PBS/NPR. #echochamber

@alisonrosen.bsky.social JMO: when a podcast has technical issues, but don’t acknowledge it, I have a strong desire to reach out to the show and let them know, even though I’m sure they already know and/or have had lots of people let them know already. #tonyoffmike

Disneyland just put up a bunch of high quality POV ride videos on disneyplus that I’m sure I’ll binge, but it really makes me wish they put them up for VR.

Sorry perv bot, your big tittied librarian profile pic does not work on me. Blocked!

Awwww shit. I’m entering the final chapter of Muv Luv Alt. Animation, a montage, and two theme songs have gone off and I’m only 20 minutes in. At the end of a very long visual novel journey.

Americans being the tertiary villains of Muv Luv Alt is very uncomfortable at times. “Americans just want to blow up half the earth? What a disaster!” 😬😳😐

I thought two deaths in Muv Luv Alternative were misdirects so that by the time I realized the characters were actually dead I completely lost the impact their deaths would have caused. Whoops.

My Chemical Romance: I’m leaving most of the theatrics on the cutting room floor. If you’re going I wouldn’t want to ruin it for you.

Violent Femmes at Seattle T-Mobile Arena.

I liked the violent femmes better, they made me tear up a few times, but my chemical romance puts on a pretty damn good show. Pics tomorrow. Shower and sleep tonight.

MCR merch line.

Working with difficult people: I cannot make you happy so I will take steps to make sure you don’t me unhappy. These include: laughing when you’re unreasonable, acknowledging when you’re an asshole, not getting upset when you leave angry. You wanted to be mad, I wanted to be happy. We both win.

The “no shit” award for today goes to this Instagram post about people walking in a circle.

I got teary eyed at a death in MuvLuv Alternative from a character that’s from a game I hadn’t played (untranslated at the moment or I probably WOULD have played it). I suspect that if I had read the VN then it would have affected me more. So there’s that. You don’t/do need to read it all.

I enjoyed Sinners, but I was told it was a musical and was disappointed at the lack of musical numbers. Specially with that mid-point tease of 1930s mixed with modern music. Got so hyped and then no release. Still a good movie, but definitely not a musical.