After a break of literal years I jumped back in to Blue Reflection 2 / TIE and finished it. What a strange game. It's hard as nails at the start, but then rapidly becomes trivial. At some point it simply runs out of content and staggers on to the end. Then it tells you the actual ending is in NG+?

Today has been a day greatly improved by the Blue Reflection soundtrack

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

Keep on trucking, little Voyager science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

Land of the Lustrous is part of the current Kodansha line-wide sale, and I strongly recommend it. The last volume was recently released and you can join me in weeping for the whole time reading it bookwalker.com/series/2ATFJ...

After an extended home maintenance meltdown last night, turns out the issue may be caused by roof tiles and not the plumbing as initially thought. Yay? Boo? I want to lay down and melt

It's not "inconvenience", people want to actually own things

"Jump in the urinal and stand on your head I'm the one that's alive. You're all dead." - Ubik, 21:8

Love how this dumbass country makes this investment now that it is blindingly beyond-shadow-of-doubt clear how "AI" is a bubble and is on its way to bursting

Also LRT: That article also starts off with a wild line: "In the West, comics remain one of the last major media categories [...] without a prominent digital option." I would argue that we previously had one, or at least a venue approaching prominence: Comixology. Then Amazon bought and killed it.

LRT: "Industry-standard manual translation" should read "an actual translation". Machine translation, no matter how much VC money you slurp up, is not up to snuff in any regard. I will never knowingly put any money towards this garbage, and neither should anyone else.

“GlobalComix’s AI translation copilot delivers 85–90% cost savings compared to industry-standard manual translation.” These AI tools will always rely on underpaid freelancers doing three jobs for a fraction of the wage of one. They’re merely a justification for not paying people.

Evening baking

Played a little more EU5, this time as Mahajapit. The game is set up for your 2nd ruler to be a mega-genius who leads you into a golden era and then a scripted crisis when he dies. Except he never got that far, poor bugger drowned at sea at 17. So the disaster meant to check expansion never fired!

shooting franks

Finished RE4 remake. Yep, good game. Immediately started a New Game+ with my briefcase of upgraded guns. Unsurprisingly, having a Red9 trivialises the initial Village set piece!

Lmao eat shit Viktor Orban

霊烏路空さん。 #touhou #reiuji_utsuho

Everyone loves the storyteller gremlin

Post Apocalypse Microbe Lab is now available! An idle desktop game where you watch over and help an android girl collect microorganisms in a post-apocalyptic world. Steam store page: 🦠 Post Apocalypse Microbe Lab store.steampowered.com/app/3780030/_/

Yeah yeah yeah whatever, call me when we get Artemis III

Fun fact! There's a whole community dedicated to jailbreaking and modding kindles. You don't need to settle for this. kindlemodding.org

The Quest version of original RE4 is so good. It prioritises your actions over restricting them, making both the game and the VR experience shine. It lets you wield a gun in each hand! Or a knife alongside a gun! Flexibility!

Finished Liddel-Hart's First World War and have moved on to his tome on the Second. Immediately the typesetting has become tighter and a latent feeling of "now in the postwar it is obvious we fought the wrong opponent" which poisons this and similar works (depending on author)

Reached level 70 (cap) in the hit 2011 MMO Rift. The last expansion the game recieved (released 2016) was frankly firing on all cylinders and its a shame that shortly after release the support started to tail off. Timeline here: www.cadrift.net/resources/ti...

Watching the 4K80 version of Empire Strikes Back and mentally translating most of Chewbacca's lines as "Ey yo, what the fuck" It fits surprisingly well

I have restarted my bad habit of scanning HN in the morning (like an orange drug) and noticed a post where Skoda made a bike bell to try and pierce active noice cancelling in headphones. I mean, sure, but perhaps actual bike infrastructure is the real answer? www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-wor...

Decided to unwind with a little HOI4 this evening, playing the Great War Redux mod. I was having a fun time as Italy clicking focuses and so on until a sung version of In Flanders Fields started playing as part of the rotating soundtrack and now I'm Big Sad

bluesky is and has always been a posting retirement home for elder millennials

Humanity should be punished for polluting space with Bluetooth devices

Fell into a pit of looking at point-and-shoot digital cameras as the one built into my phone is pretty dire. A lot of other people are getting the same idea, so the height of getting a high-spec model for a steal has passed, booo

Touhou Akis' Farm Feels like not enough people are aware of the Mystia's Izakaya dev's next life sim. Their farming game starring the Aki sisters recently got a steam page and is gearing up for an Early Access release. It looks just as great as you'd expect. store.steampowered.com/app/3128360/...

Urgh the new WH40k Imperial Knight looks great, how dare it. Thankfully I am immune to its charms as I am currently skint and the RRP is £105, yowzah. Onto the wishlist it goes~ www.goonhammer.com/goonhammer-r...

If your Caterpillar cake doesnt have a name starting with "C" then you are a coward and a fraud. Alliteration is key!

Glad to see this series is continuing, it is a visual tour de force

Once again showing that its power level is Too Damn High, the NEET hitman / sagging breast enjoyment Nighthawk Returns gets a guest illustration from Nyan Nyan Factory, the creator of the equally cursed Chainsmoker Cat

From the trailer for "Tower Dungeon" Volume 6 (Tsutomu Nihei's manga). 2D animation : Studio Keel >> natalie.mu/comic/news/6...

Its very polite of Hitman (2016 / WOA) to allow you to complete challenges and maintain that progress when you load your game to complete your mission in a different manner. Currently completing mission stories that I ignored previously

War of the Adults is good mangos

this made me mad but was relatable so I had to buy it

So much AI stuff in general is clearly founded on a desire for not having to socially exist in any human way. Turn life into a prolonged flow state of game tutorials where you're constantly checking menus and following directions and none of it "really" matters because the menu won't judge you

NINETY DAYS NINETY INCIDENTS NINETY PERCENT YOU PAID FOR ALL FIVE NINES BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE #github

Damn, someone is using economic warfare to strategically pressure your government into adopting their preferred foreign policy stance? That must *suck *for you so much, America. I can't possibly *imagine* what that's like.

This is honestly borderline racist framing of events. Iran isn't "fighting like an insurgency" or even engaging in what you'd classically understand as asymmetric warfare. They're just employing, you know, strategy.

Kusanagi with Teal hair owns bones so much

Played a fun game of Blood Bowl this evening, won 2-0 with my Chaos Chosen against Norse. Love running my goatmen around creating a murderous petting zoo

I take full credit for this announcement given that I booted up Second Light the other night! Remaking the anime using game assets sounds *wild*