Maybe I'm slow on the uptake but I've seen JP posts referring to Chat GPT as 「ちゃっぴー」(Chappie) and I am delighted.

Attention new users! I've made a starter pack of Japanese game devs, something a lot of folks miss from Twitter. Please flow and re-share! And if I'm missing anybody let me know! go.bsky.app/5R1tEtT

My sister, a small-town librarian, woke up to a nasty Boxing Day surprise: no heat. She's on the front lines of the war to save public libraries, every day. And she's also the best damn librarian in three states. Please donate if you can. gofund.me/f768bfeef

Sweatshirt, flashlight, VvG "Starry Night" 1000-pc jigsaw puzzle, silver chain for wife's wedding ring, a David Byrne book, and FOUR tickets to David Byrne in April. The tickets are fetching north of $500 each. WIBTAH if I keep two and sell two for exorbitant profit?

K, merry Christmas, hanukkah, new years, etc., etc. Hope y'all are spending it peacefully without bickering.

Hearing from daughter Lynn that her friends' kids won't let Santa into their house due to stranger danger and he has to leave their gifts outside. Why even bother anymore.

I started up drawing 15-second drawings of pokemon. Let’s see if I can draw them all before I go insane.

Went for a walk in a downpour to Rocky Point and found an ancient Japanese village under construction.

Anna Augustyniak (@augustanna.bsky.social) painted my mutt for me. (Thanks, Anna!!!!) Me and my immediate circles are utterly delighted and astonished. She's one heckuva an artist. Please give her a follow.

Spotify counted up my top 100 for 2025. Not at all surprisingly, Stars and Bleachers came out on top. Shows you where my mind was at this year. I'm in a MUCH better place now. Let me see yours.

When I tell you that they’re psychopaths who enjoy inflicting maximum pain on other human beings, I really, really mean it. This is from Miss “Pedophile Math Semantics” with the “what is a child anyway” arguments. #MegynKelly #Epstein #Trump #Putin

Mega Blaziken [Pokemon] || A4 || Arrtx acrylic markers ___ #art #pokemon #acrylics #fanart

take this with a big grain of salt because I could be misremembering but I remember reading a Pokémon translator saying he translated a line as "soft, loamy soil" to teach kids a new word and he was right. I did learn what loamy meant from Pokémon in fact

Rewatched Totoro and Porco Rosso for the umpteenth time, but this time with ENG subtitles enabled on Netflix. Sorry, but the subtitling is a mess. So many missed nuances and implications and tonality. I just can't.

Tmw you're scrolling YouTube Shorts and they mention @nobogasawara.bsky.social about the name of a Pokémon youtube.com/shorts/B82JR...

It's nice to see Ultraman having a moment in the US. More. More.

Whoa, has it really been five days since I last posted? This is on a backyard trail around a 15-minute walk from my place. I might be making more of these nature posts since I've made a new hiking friend.

I think it's cool that there are recommended account lists based on interests, leanings, and such. But I can't really get on board with recommended block lists without knowing how they are compiled. Seems too handy-dandy a tool for unjust/unjudged cancellation. It should be on me to decide.

We're socialized to constantly apologize for being too outwardly excited about things, but this world is so full of terror and misery that I'd rather see those bursts of light and passion shine through the cracks wherever you can find them.

It’s a bit hard for me to put into words just how very much this project meant to me, but if you know me at all, you probably understand. Echoing Jon’s sentiments below in expressing big love and gratitude to everyone involved. This game is genuinely a blast and I hope you’ll check it out! 💚

A bit early, but bought some advent calendars for the kids (they're all around 30-something now). Two nicer Lindts and a Ferrero-Rocher. I can hear them calling out to me from the pantry. (Not my kids, the lunatics amongst y'all.) Insistently. Halp.

MLB tweeted this image, but what the hell is that thing above ojisan Freddy.

Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art. I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.

Pretty sad state of affairs when most of us identify with the rich while vilifying dingbats who think they've pulled one over the government for cheating on food stamps. I'd bet that the vast majority of folks are a lot closer to food stamps than they are to stock options.

#RobinWilliams #filmsky #moviesky 💔🔄 #BeKind #BeKindAlways 💔

Went to paint night at the old neighborhood Legion with a couple high-school friends. I was the only guy there. It was a ton of fun doing my third ever painting. It got me clean out of my head for 90 minutes or so. The canvas became a 10" x 16" escape portal.

It's only been a couple days, but I've got baseball withdrawals already. Man, it was fun.

Y'all really gotta learn to start counting localizers before you go mythologizing small indie dev team sizes because lemme tell ya, the loc teams combined more than likely outnumber the core devs and those other language options didn't just appear fully formed and playable out of thin air, y'know. 😮‍💨

That was so exhausting, I don't have the energy left to cheer.

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

@nobogasawara.bsky.social I just started Dragon Warrior I GBC, and as someone who was raised on Pokémon Red, the translation makes me feel like a kid again. There’s a snap to your work that never fails to put a smile on my face. And as a loc pro, I’m amazed you did it in such tight text boxes!

A JP tweet: "Something that can be said for all Sunday morning kidfare (like Sentai, Precure, Kamen Rider), their business model is predicated on one-year cycles of completely replacing merchandise. "But that system has reached its limits. "It's a style that stresses both retailers and parents."

Aaand from under the stairs, seven garbage bags full of plushies.

I'm no coffee connoisseur; decades of smoking has put paid to that. All I can tell you is that it's brown and smells like breakfast. Can't drink it straight. I need a shot of dairy and a sugar packet. Least it's not a Timmy's double-double -- catalytic fuel for jumpstarting Canadians.

My kids like taking me to fancy dining establishments with funky, with-it decor, soda water instead of plain tap, and dainty bite-sized food. The overall presentation and atmosphere make it seem as though the food is extraordinary, but I have the palate of a child. Take me to a burger joint please.

Books... I hate throwing books out, so I seed neighborhood little libraries. But now, hard decisions need to be made. I think I can lose most Pahlaniuks. Already dumped Dennis Lehane and culled a lot of King. Keeping all Vonneguts (fiction & NF) and WP Kinsella. Still got a fair bit to go.

Hucking out old electronic parts. All the 75-ohm coaxial cables can now go, can lose most of the video cables (S-video, component, and composites), lose most stereo cables, lose all sorts of weird computer cables (VGA, SCSI, USB to printer), I think I can huck some of the older HDMIs, too.

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake reverse art revealed (Switch 2 ESRB version), thanks to a user (fruitypebbles) from the Discord server

My Pikmin Bloom friends would likely have received a postcard of this: a decorated electrical box five minutes away.

The actress that played the voice and main character model on Silent Hill F did a playthrough sort of. It is funny AF, though it's in JP only.

Welp, the great otaku tchotchke sorting and initial cull is done. The first cull was for separating out total crap I could just huck or donate (two boxes, one each for Diabetes Canada and Nikkei Center), giveaway-level junk, loose randoms, and lots of doubles. But there is still so much left.

10 games to get to know me

Got my 2008 Altima back from the body shop. She had her left front fender completely replaced, and they detailed her thoroughly. Total cost to insurance: C$4300 Considering how old my car is, I'm surprised they bothered to repair it. Glad they did. She's real basic but runs well with lots of oomph.

same post, different art: let me make your christmas/holiday cards this year! dealer's choice base prices: $7 ea $36 for 6 ($6 ea) $60 for 12 ($5 ea) requests, commissions and collaborations welcome! prices vary handmade original art collage cards. no two are the same, no prints dm me!

My car was in a fenderbender (I wasn't involved), and had to go to a body shop. They gave me a courtesy car: a brand new Hyundai Elantra. It's a family sedan in the same size class as a Camry, Altima, Accord, and same price range as Corolla, Civic, etc. It shows.

Sorting and culling hundreds upon hundreds of gachapon and the like in bewildering varieties. Doing this by myself it gets pretty mechanical. I sure could use help. I think it'd be fun. Most of it's already bagged so it's not all gross with dust, etc.

Google Lens is useful for identifying random tchotchkes like the first one (see Alt for identification), but the second one stymied it. I'm pretty certain it's either Go Nagai, maybe a character from Violence Jack/Devil Man, or Ken Ishikawa (leaning that way because of the eyes). Help me out here.

Folding laundry, I am chagrined that I cannot fold my reverse-print alohas in the neat and tidy way she did. My collars are always rumply now. She'd fuss over them whenever I was going out. "Let me be, woman. This is 21st century fashion." "Haihai, hold still." That's the sort of thing gone missing.

Wasn't me, but somebody out there is playing as me. That's truly funny as all hell.

My first paid game translation. Someone else stole the credit, though. The horrible double-width font gives me hives.