if my children are going to be at govball then i fear i will have to plan another trip back home to ny this year which hub and i wanted to do anyway. if i get ot see skz again, that's truly a perfect excuse. their festival performances are so good

was looking for something in my saved birdsite archive and i'm cracking up. i do not change. i am really and truly consistent in the most embarrassing ways

destiny's final dungeon is broken up into three areas, which isn't wholly uncommon for the series, but the area leading into the final final boss fight, on its own, has 6 save points. which means the final dungeon has a total of 9. that's how long this place is

living in the 2020’s

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

me, 99% of the time: i love destiny dc, it's my favorite game ever me, the 1% of the time i'm in stahn's side final dungeon: i hate this game actually i get lost so much every single time... i've been playing this game for like a decade and a half and yet....

少し遅れましたが、あけましておめでとうございます

repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally

where the fuck is winter, seriously

me, doing a quest in destiny i barely remember at all and just immediately falling to my knees in despair from what it does to me emotionally this game is just too good

chanting (trails trails trails) I have to rearrange again in a bit when shizuna shows up but it's fine...

my favorite part of old tales games is playing with two guides in front of me and still managing to miss a quest with a tight window, and therefore getting locked out of two other quests on this playthrough, right at endgame 😭

the horrors are never-ending. it's not the first (and won't be the last, i'm sure) time we've seen it happen. that said, i will still be putting my energy into what things i can do. whether it's offline activism or what i do best—work on creative projects that can help bring joy to other people

The cool sex ed teacher 🤝 Japanese electrician warning about a live power outlet "Consent is hot" TL NOTE: KONSENTO IS WASEI EIGO FOR POWER OUTLET, AS IT'S SHORT FOR CONCENTRIC AND POWER OUTLETS USED TO USE CONCENTRIC CONNECTORS ENG NOTE: HOT MEANS IT HAS A VOLTAGE

things i should probably stop doing: drinking cold brew at 9pm things i will not stop doing: drinking cold brew at 9pm

Fun Fact: One of the reasons Square was pushed to improve its localization practices in the 2000s is because Alexander O. Smith showed them reviews proving that people *cared* about translation quality. (Link to the full interview: web.archive.org/web/20091113...)

It's true: language service providers offering machine translation post-editing and companies hiring them KNOW they are delivering subpar translations, but don't care. Sometimes they will require human translation for "high visibility content" but it's just painting a fancy facade on a ruin.

convincing young people who are used to getting their entertainment NOW and for very cheap or free that they should pay considerably more for good quality human-translated media is proving to be a sisyphean task

the US government, after grossly underfunding programs: see? these govt programs suck. we should just get rid of them. loc companies, after grossly underpaying teams: see? these human localizers suck. we should just get rid of them.

groans quietly... back to the day job grind (i say like half the people i deal with aren't still out of the office until monday/tuesday, but there's always a nonzero chance i will have to pop into the office after two weeks for "emergenices")

actual quote from a language company executive: “Why should we pay for higher quality translations when people will happily pay us for poorer quality translations?”

shitposting to get through the despair caused by one of my least favorite dungeons in this game... even my all-time fave is not immune to PS2 "we designed this shit to be confusing to sell guides" principles and even with the guide in front of me I'm like 😭😭😭

han jisung more like han jiSON that's my son

GQ KOREA Digital Cover for January 2026 with #StrayKids #HAN

my carpenter husband, displeased with the price of custom frames: I'll just make a frame myself! (except now he has to make two more bc we have three of these)

limiter has been disengaged #talesofdestiny

leon in Boyfriend Hoodie tm :3c

Happy New Year to all my friends, straight from the fakest time zone ever 🎉 Hoping but nothing but successes for everyone in 2026!

Person who is learning japanese: I now have renounced the English language.... I will check out every single work in japanese to enlighten myself on the true meaning of the work Person who speaks japanese fluently +10yrs: imma read it in English I'm too lazy for this

i think the people in my neighborhood don't know what time zone they're in, because the fireworks started at exactly... 10pm...

like most holidays and holiday-adjacent things, i don't really think too hard about new years, or even the whole of 2025. sometimes it seems kind of shallow, but i don't like to spend a lot of time thinking about it. i can't change the bad things, i will think fondly on the good memories

(sorry for the repost, mobile didn't paste the key text for the meme lol)

"What was your biggest impact on the internet?" I was one of the first people to find and rip the unused P4 audio and text, including Yosuke's cut slink audio and evidence of cut features like slink reversals this is what I did over Christmas/NY 2011 lol

not my Internet going down on nye with no eta for it to be back up 😩

now begging on my hands and knees for extra income in 2026 to fund whatever this tour is gonna be

er'ther hero #talesofdestiny

cat: screaming in the hall mom: i'm not coming out there! you come in here! mom, quietly: i'm having my cannoli... meanwhile i'm just sitting here laughing as she tries to reason with a 17 year old cat that has dementia

ICYMI: The creators and Aksys Games partnered together to bring fans the story you deserve, and are translating the NEO NEON TRIBE web story! Read Ch.0 here, and check back in for updates along the way! https://neoneon-tribe.com/

kongman alt in the coliseum is @cherr.im actually #talesofdestiny

happy 10-year anniversary of me being... exactly the same because i am nothing if not consistent

I love some of my random destiny merch (hub just happens to be reorganizing these shelves rn

the fact dc has an entire questline in which random npcs mistake woodrow for veigue and keep asking about other members of the rebirth party while woodrow just stands there like ????? is truly so funny

sexy sword #talesofdestiny

tales of destiny dc is the perfect remake, in this essay, i will—

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Aranea Highwind #FFXV #FF15

destiny posting with the friends on discord like

posting occupies an entirely different part of my brain than texting does

and now, a sequel to a comic i drew 3 years ago #talesofdestiny