Understanding is not possible, save through violence. rinions.itch.io/epitaxy .EPITAXY. An experiment, performed and written for this year's #toxicyurivnjam.

if you haven't yet, please buy poppy and my latest game, HUNGERWINTER. its a game about starving to death which we are both currently doing. support us here: das-kunstkollektiv.itch.io/hungerwinter

by the quirk that the more i actively write at once the faster i seem to write, and also not having very many changes to make to the script, i think the vn will be up tomorrow. going to sleep on it to make sure there's nothing critical we're missing.

hard to talk about tyvnj2 entry (wip) bc i am deliberately trying to leave things generally unclarified, however. quite happy with the current draft.

"Just a whisper. I hear it in my ghost."

i've been listening to a probably concerning amount of this ever since i was shared it. youtu.be/INfOrVRXlmA

oh what the hell even the 意味がない無意味 section of 意味がない無意味 is like 30 pages. this is gonna be a minute.

nothing is irreversible when it comes to eternity #tadcspoilers

to dream

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

laurocerasus

to those who have played and enjoyed unbeatable and want to relive a similar experience . play nitw

feels so weird compiling references and sources for the first time in an age. tracing the connections is always fun, though.

If you're a creative and your project becomes a massively successful international phenomenon you either start typing like a Japanese salaryman sending an interoffice memo or make your characters canonically inflate to upset your parasocial fanbase

The death of subtext is very very bad for textual representation by the way. It only reinforces and feeds into narratives of how to be queer and trans in the "proper" way, and dislocates queerness and queer readings from not-explicitly-queer texts. If something can only be read queerly in one way,

fish brain #art #maid

it is a weekend of cleaning up code while we await feedback

i really want to enjoy Urban Myth Dissolution Center enough to finish it, but what i'm running into is that the dialog is /so/ segmented and split that it feels like trying to take a casual walk through my neighborhood except there is 3 feet of water covering everything.

❌️ calling someone the r slur * ableist dreck ✅️ calling someone a noob * generally true * still true if the person is an expert in the field, to humble them * often deserved * encourages self cultivation to get good

you don’t need to look at a calendar. make a terrible comic day is Wednesday

groundwork in progress, tablet replacement ordered, code refactoring begun. waiting for feedback on the vn draft, so might as well spend the nerves on these other things that need doing.

achieving spherical computing under rectangular paradigms is difficult... i just want to invert a vector while keeping the relative offset based on its position and the window position, is that so much to ask? (yes, apparently.)

Godot 4.7 added visual control offsets which makes animating UI 1000x easier, so I spent the evening sprinkling it in on various screens.

there is a massive gap between what passes for feminist discourse online vs the cutting edge feminist thinking happening right now so here's something really lovely that just dropped mediationsjournal.org/toc/volume-3...

oh shit, i need to replace this tablet. the surface is chipping lmao

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" > log.rinion.studio/apocrypha/Sh... #<

hard to talk about tyvnj2 entry (wip) bc i am deliberately trying to leave things generally unclarified, however. quite happy with the current draft.

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO @blazemalefica.bsky.social FOR MY DIGITAL FACE THIS IS TabbieDearest, Housewife of Void!! RAAAAAAH RAAAAAH

unintentionally hilarious email from itch.io

youmu~ #art #touhou #東方project

ヤーナムアンドレアナ完成👍

Oh shit, I didn't know the site was from MOCHIKIN, that's sick. Also, pretend that's the original Mirror's Edge on here. For some reason the site only pulls up Catalyst.

reading an academic paper

oh yeah, while i'm yapping about translation things, Did You Know Gaming the OFFICIAL Ghost in the Shell website hosts this thing called Messed Mesh Ambitions, which contains queer and other non-normative theory by different authors? It's really cool. theghostintheshell.jp/en/mma/colum...

obliterating the normative framework of Sex and its dependents so translating 性 becomes possible without lengthy footnotes

i mean i just don't think everything needs a phone number all the time, is all

anon commcomm

also i just have to say i very intensely dislike twitch's Just Chatting category art. even if what i was doing was chatting, never selecting that.

the best thing about translating fiction is it's fun and i get to play around with phrasings and voicings. the best thing about translating nonfiction is that it sends me down 15 rabbit holes before i'm finished with the table of contents.

streaming the process of losing my mind over text is actually probably the most natural form of streaming i've tried. which sure is saying something. definitely feeling like i can do that sort of whenever i feel like sitting down to translate. yay

going live for a bit to work on translating some stuff. theory or yuri or maybe even both www.twitch.tv/riniiion

You were, basically, stealing from Subway. They had their rules for their company and you decided not to abide by them. What you do with your own business is up to you but what you did was wrong at Subway.

it's been very nice to gradually come across more blogs to check out and follow after so long being out of touch with that sphere. good serendipity with forums.

Dragon Miku is best gurl 💖🐉

i think i am starting to understand Displayables... (←just got away with doing some more display bullshit)

actually, that wasn't so bad once we actually got the text. just a bit annoying to configure. considering streaming translation work on occasion to see how that goes, esp since there's a lot of text to cover.

losing sanity discovering that even having bought the ebook, i can't select text to copy for checking the more uncommon words and also Japanese DRM is an entirely different beast. this is gonna be a long haul when we get around to it.

losing sanity trying to figure out how to obtain an ebook from japanese storefronts (i might almost have it figured out, will check tomorrow). i would just get the physical book but translating without being able to copypaste is so much rougher.