It’s wild that the EA buyout apparently assumed AI will lower operating costs enough to justify a high debt load. Watch, somehow Musk gets involved with this.

Everyone talks about how people are playing 3D, 4d, 5d chess, why not Twister? Sexy 5D Twister!

Somewhere out there is the Shakespeare of ERPers.

Lol, when my current projects aren't done, and I realize this other project is a thing that must be made.... Eventually, at least.

I do not remember the predictive typing of Visual Studio being this bad. It's literally never right.

Ugh, going back to a basic prototype after working on something else ... what is this bizarre fiasco?

I just played Mahjong Soul to learn how to play, and then realized, it broadcast this to my friends, and it kind of looks like a particular sort of game. But it's not! AFAIK. Meanwhile, the rules are a lot....

I want to make a game inspired by mahjong as core mechanics, but to do that, I'd learn to play mahjong again. Quite a conundrum. When really I just want a title in FFXIV.

I was considering getting a job but with all this going on, little point looking, I suppose.

To avoid the horrors, I'm wondering if I should learn to play Mahjong. Will this eliminate the horrors? Probably not.

Every time I open up Scrivener, Discord pops up an overlay -- would you like to stream live while you play? No, I don't. Not from Scrivener. No one wants to see that.

Oh no, my cat has learned how light switches work.

A real thunderstorm just rolled in, so much nostalgia for Singapore. Admittedly, the rain here is colder.

It’s sad that a concern about staying in the US or not is whether I’ll be able to play a particular game ;)

I was reading a book and thought it said zeroth order modified Bessel function of the worst kind. Turns out it was first.

Ugh, FFXIV is doing a patch, so now I have to work? Wth!

And what an ending, one of the craziest Dun Scaiths. Unfortunately, no commendations! Sometimes after runs like that, people just bail fast, even after mass rezzing. Oh well!

Woo, all jobs to 100, ending with Sage #FFXIV

I always tell my kitty she's a good girl, but honestly, she has never shown the least interest in my books on ethics, so I'm starting to suspect she doesn't know what "good" means.

Lol, I think I had Grummz in a hunt train last night. He kept going on about "Woke Lamat." Seriously, this game is not the game for that. Of course, the _game industry_ isn't the right place for Mark Kern either. He has repeatedly proved that!

Taxes are so obnoxious. In Singapore, they just basically did your taxes for you, told you what you owed. If only we had some kind of DirectFile program here in the US....

Well, it's a small thing, but I finally found an alternative source for buying the last item I had to get from Amazon, admittedly, just a few times a year. So now, nothing comes from them anymore.

Another fun thing about my cat — whenever she jumps onto my lap she often meow-screams like she’s going YOLO. It’s just my lap dumbass.

Ugh, I hate reading first drafts. They are always nightmares. At the same time, bad as they are, they can help clarify what the throughline is.

Sorry, tech bros, only women in space. No DEI. Seriously, though, another novel concept: solar punk this time. When I get to it. Possibly by the time it's contemporary fiction, after I finish everything else. www.sciencefocus.com/space/women-...

I do not see enough FFXIV stuff in my feed. Definitely not enough.

Woo, seventh book's rough draft done. That was a struggle. It's a huge bizarre dream at the moment that will require a great deal of wrangling, but it's always easier once you finally push it out.

Downloading Avowed! Exciting!

I don't know who needs to know this, but cinnamon rolls grow on trees. You can just go out and grab one, as long as they're ripe (you can tell if they have white frosting or not).

Man, Musk messing with the airplanes and FAA means when I have to suddenly leave the country, I'm probably going to have to take a boat. You know how annoying a trans-Pacific boat trip is?

I keep wanting to paint miniatures again, but then I remember I had to get rid of them all when I moved to Asia, and I don't want to go through that one more time.

Book number seven is finally going, and kind of working! All my legit first drafts are weird agglomerations of dreams that change radically in their initial course, until I found out what it's really about. Just annoying it took four shots at it to reach this point. But whatever.

I’ve designated Chloe my henchkitty for crimes.

As to this whole getting rid of the CFPB and using payment systems: My mom still writes checks and won't use any online payments in any form. And this isn't uncommon in the town I grew up in. So....

My cat is thoroughly unimpressed by any fiction and games I write. However, a blanket fort? Mind blown. Instant purrs. Aliens probably will be the same. Oh, fission, how passe. Old. Wait a minute, blanket forts! Except unlike cats, their high opinion will be inscrutable and possibly nefarious.

Kendrick has reminded us all to be haters. Just remember, it's serious literature. Dante put everyone he personally hated in Hell in "The Divine Comedy." It'd be like sticking Nancy Mace into one of the levels. Or Musk. We're too scared of this now. We need to bring this energy back.

I'd really like AI to go back to the days when the technofeudalists didn't care about it. When it was essentially worthless, or just for optimization. There's a lot of interesting math, ideas in there, but it's become polluted by their nasty, little surveillance and power dreams.

Cats are actually super affectionate. I don't know why people claim otherwise. They're just a bit spicy is all.

There are huge piles of black and brown snow from the feeble "snowstorm." Gives me such Alberta vibes. Except there, the piles of black snow would be around for months, growing into enormous Egyptian pyramids of hardened filth. Until the warm times returned, and they melted into muck.

Yay! A friend from Singapore brought pineapple tarts from CNY! I never thought I'd get to eat them again.

I was just credibly informed that hot dogs are vegan because they aren't made from dog (usually).

Apologia To the woman who died in the fire, I’m sorry. It was a Tesla, Battery fires Once started Cannot be put out. Know that I won’t forget you. How could I? A shattered vase, Even an antique, Can be repaired with gold, Becoming more beautiful. Some things, once lost, Cannot.

I guess I don't work anymore, just keep up with the coup in progress.

When I wrote "Deep Management: Game and Software Development," it was to counter trends I experienced; people ruled companies as unaccountable autocrats. As orgs grow, without systemic counter influences, the key to power is to be the biggest grifter. The book is systemic solutions for this.

I admit I’m a bad person who didn’t buy Cowboy Carter but I listened to it a lot. Well deserved win for the queen.

Everyone is all like, you should move back to SE Asia, and my reponse is uhhhhhhh. Maybe? But not Cambodia, no matter what this one friend of mine asks.

On the plus side, GI Robot in Creature Commandoes is great! Pure robot joy. Doing what he loves. It gives me some tone ideas for my next book "Unclockable" (after "Myconoid"). www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEZA...

These last two weeks, it has been incredibly hard to work. Like 2-3 hours at most a day. Hopefully, there's a snapping point and people punch back, so we can get back to normal. And maybe start getting decent sleep again.

My profile pic is lies. I fantasia'd again in FFXIV, but too lazy to fix it.

For a lot of reasons, current to today, something from Dragon Age: Inquisition, "The Dawn Will Come." www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qJ2...