Welcoming Spud to the how-the-hell-have-I-spent-four-digit-numbers-of-hours-in-this-game club.

I do, but I'm afraid there would be no survivors when my hunger attacked.

Pretty much the same as I already do, but in a better, less feral society. Probably enjoy the art being made, smile at the kids with more security in their lives, shop at the stores made more viable by there being more money in their customers’ pockets.

Not *entirely* certain why I'm working so hard (relatively speaking) as I'm reasonably certain *most* of my coworkers have done absolutely nothing work-related today, but here I am. Anyway, let's see if I can knock out one more ticket before calling it good...

Is there anything more anticlimactic than Black Friday, a day that has been happening for weeks?

This shit is why I'm getting less and less work on anime and having to scramble to ask around with YouTubers for help letting me do their CCs just to pay my damn rent. There's enough anime to caption out there that I should not be fucking struggling.

Why did the turkey get thrown out of the football stadium? Tryptophan.

What good is a Thursday holiday if you can't doze through part of it, I ask you.

If I have a day off, am I spending part of it in #Satisfactory? Probably! My Phase 3 build project is coming along nicely after putting nearly my entire morning into it...

Anime to get to know me Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Mouretsu Pirates Rascal Does Not Dream Of Bunny Girl Senpai Wotakoi Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Recovery of an MMO Junkie My-HiME Tenchi Muyo OVA 1 & 2 Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit Apothecary Diaries My Dress-Up Darling R.O.D. OVA

New blog! SECRETS OF THE SILENT WITCH is an exercise in executing familiar fantasy tropes in very engaging and refreshing ways, and no one exemplifies that better than its supposedly "overpowered" heroine Monica. Read my analysis here!

It's kind of amusing how in a multiplayer game stream, the "camera operator's" experience can be *wildly* divergent from what everyone else spent their time doing. The results are great, though: Max-speed & max-capacity depots. Heck yeah.

... I sure got a lot of likes for noting that I was taking a day off yesterday. Thank you, friends and a slew of random strangers...?

New newsletter: DOGE remains, SolarWinds got away with it, Apple inserts its AI into apps that don’t have AI, Kawaiicon’s literal anti-virus system rules, Arduino’s new terms hate #hackers, TryHackMe’s #cyber advent calendar is a weenie roast, and more. Link: www.patreon.com/posts/cybers...

Phase 2 should go up shortly. #Satisfactory time again, come watch!

Friends, the "convenience" of auto-running stuff you downloaded from the Internet isn't worth the risk. Today's case study? Blender models.

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

Apparently I scheduled myself a surprise entire-day-off. (Not entirely sure why I did that when a half-day would've done.) Screw it, it's now a mental health day to go along with my physical health (doctor appointment).

I remember being incredibly impressed at just how good Google was in the early days. Streets ahead of competitors. Recommended it to all my students It's rubbish now in comparison to then

The Infinite Gyoza Lust Is real. The correct number of gyoza is more.

The big one. aflickeringlife.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/w...

After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.

I hope I'm able to make the next few #Satisfactory weekly update posts interesting, because they're likely to be all about the same project: My Phase 3 Space Elevator shipment project. Here's the inaugural entry:

There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.

One minor bright spot in the day? First time all year I've had blood drawn and *didn't* end up with a nasty bruise afterward. We take our victories where we can, I suppose.

It’s hard to explain the irritation when I see an add for a “Renaissance Victorian” costume as if they are the same fashions. Even worse? The actual gown was clearly Georgian

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

For the astronomers: I found an accretion disk diagram cheese. A quesar.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Always defer to the WHO over the CDC from here on out.

Yesterday's co-op #Satisfactory stream is now archived on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0D8...

In a bit of a sad funk I've put together a quick feature about how *bleak* the state of gacha preservation is, how the offline versions of these games that publishers do provide are inadequate, and how I hope Octopath Traveler 0 changes the industry (it probably won't) raiderking.com/octopath-tra...

Family factory-building time comes again. Come watch us play #Satisfactory if you wanna!

Everyone in comics in the Pacific Northwest loves Katie, and loves Books with Pictures. It is more than a shop; it is a community. Let's give back from the community to help keep Katie afloat in her time of need.

It's fascinating from a language perspective - all the same tricks that humans use to make themselves sound smart and convincing when they're just saying BS, that's the tone that LLMs largely output.

Fucking yikes

"Win-win" => lose-lose was always in the cards.

The reason they have to keep making Wizard of Oz prequels is if they went *forward* then they'd have to let people know about Ozma, and Hollywood will not, absolutely will *not*, ever allow that to happen

"it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed" This. This right here. I'm so, SO tired of having to scrutinize any piece of art that even remotely resembles genAI slop just to determine whether or not it's worth a second thought or any admiration.

Pretty damn thrilled to play Dalia Volkova in Ambrosia Sky from @softrains.bsky.social, which you should definitely be checking out on steam~ Major thanks to @kaittremblay.bsky.social, @michellehwu.bsky.social, and @chhopsky.tv for the chance to feel out a new universe! tinyurl.com/SkyCluster

ok ok i tried the infamous Frieren pose real quick but i refuse to clean it up and ruin it, I GOT IT CLOSE ENOUGH I'M DONE

I'm so, so happy with how my new Heavy Modular Frame production site turned out in my current solo #Satisfactory run. It's not *pretty* yet but I accomplished all of my goals, and that's not nothin'.

PROBABLE H5N1 outbreak in Hillsboro area, multiple places are reporting sick/dying/dead geese. DO NOT TOUCH THEM. Report any sick/dying/dead geese here. www.dfw.state.or.us/wildlife/hea... #h5n1 #beaverton #hillsboro #oregon

It's the kind of year where, after getting back to my desk (I was only in the kitchen for maybe three minutes!) to find that one of my computer's monitors has stopped working, I just go "sure, of course, why not." (Switching from Displayport to HDMI and rebooting made it work again, so... eh?)

I'm a day early on completing my Heavy Modular Frame facility, or at least bringing it online, in #Satisfactory. This means I can take my time doing the weekly write-up tomorrow, and then figure out my next steps. I'm *quite* pleased with how it turned out!

Donut November sounds more appealing than that other thing.

One of the best bit of ethics advice I've ever seen was in this page by @kbspangler.com and @alepresser.com www.agirlandherfed.com/1.2284.html

Just sayin'

Love getting a random R.U.R. reference from my favorite dictionary account on a Friday afternoon. I salute you, M-W socials staffer, on behalf of my namesake!

#SundayPix Watch out for a post from me tomorrow morning for this week’s theme. We’re taking turns 5 of us. @wombat37.bsky.social has big shoes to fill. ❤️