An old journal comic repost to remind myself that the time is now and I’m not stuck

here's my #Dota2Rewind

Here's my small gift for the Dota 2 Community Dota 2 Wrapped - personal year recap for Dota players Link: spectral.gg/rewind/ Share your achievements and other funny bits you find!

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

“We use this as placeholder” please just do it shitty. DO IT SHITTY. DON’T MAKE ME DIG OUT THE DOTA ICONS

Today I learned that @inochi2d.com is not only written with D, but there are about 55 repositories on GitHub with D excellence. So excited to see this kind of cool app actually being in my beloved D language.

#AdventOfCode 2025 done Kind of a short, but fun one (days 9 and 10 tho...)

Wrapping up #Dota Competitive Season 2025-2026 with a bit of fun numbers spectraldota.substack.com/p/wrapping-u...

I don't quite understand the point of the new Halo Remastered existing when there's a great Halo Anniversary remaster (the same one that's a part of Halo MCC). Well, aside from just being able to sell it again. From what I've heard so far, it sounds like a downgrade?

That one time when I had to restore my SSD (after Windows did an oopsie) leamare.substack.com/p/that-one-t...

It's that time of the year Here is my traditional Pre-TI teams and meta overview + stats report Blog: spectraldota.substack.com/p/the-intern... Report: stats.spectral.gg/lrg2/?league... (and also my predictions for the group stage) ((also reddit discussion link: www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comm... ))

youtu.be/WZw9LXsiqmQ Rev up your engines for the Open Network Test TOMORROW with another DJ Mix by Kanon Oguni! More tracks, more remixes by Laur, RIOT, ZARDONIC, Aiobahn, Tomoya Ohtani, and Camellia!

Had a drive failure on my primary SSD and soon after on my other SSD with a recovery system. Used my travel laptop to make a disk dump before it failed completely and Steam Deck for all the work. This was my setup for the past week.

I have long been trying to figure out how to describe the part of me that is innately averse to/understands the concept of "paying for convenience" because if I could infect with world with it I would.

Seems like I was banned on Substack for "violating spam and phishing policy". No notice on email about this or anything. The closest thing I had to "spam" is backlinking to stats reports as the source. And judging from what people write about the similar bans, it's unlikely that appealing will help

oh hey there (play firebreak it's good fun)

IR/UV photos again, a perfect location for a demo (I have like 200 more photos prepared for the blog post about my deep dive into #irphotography and #uvphotography) In order: – "Candy Chrome" custom filter stack – IR 560nm – Red/Blue inverted – IR 560nm – original colors from camera – UV...

the week went as follows

When I saw 3DS for the first time, I thought that the 3D gimmick was stupid. And, in fairness, it barely worked as intended most of the time on the original 3DS. Playing some games on New 3DS XL, I now wish more games would actually utilize this feature.

finished 7.39 updates with the new batch of bigger item icons

I remember having a call on Discord with a colleague, explaining pronunciation of some names/nicknames of dota players from my region. Most of them were just weird twists on English words. Some were simple names or words from Russian and Ukrainian. But one nickname stuck with me.

All hero builds were updated to 7.39b. Removed a lot of tooltips because the tooltips bug made them practically unreadable/cut some text. Authored builds on the site should be updated in a couple of hours.

updated to 7.39b :/

Updated Dota Interactive map to 7.39 lmk if you need a high resolution version of the rendered map link: tools.spectral.gg/interactive-...

Introducing Bases, a new core plugin that lets you turn any set of notes into a powerful database. With Bases you can organize everything from projects to travel plans, reading lists, and more. Bases are now available in Obsidian 1.9.0 for early access users.

As much as I love Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor and some episodes of the new RTD run (like 73 Yards, the Story and the Engine), some of the ideas are sort of disturbing. It feels in moments that the Doctor doesn't value anyone's lives now

If you think I'm stupid you are just jealous that I'm not as insecure about it as you are.

One thing I wasn't able to stop thinking about in the past couple of months – is it even worth it to put up with a person who hates every individual thing that makes you, well, you? And if such a person is trying to convince you that they are your friend, should you believe it? Can it even be true?

Anyway, Sword and Wand of Wistoria was fun, can't wait for season 2.

It's peculiar how some people will religiously hate things, that often are not real, but rather are based on their own biased perception of things. Even more peculiar is how this hatred of the subject is more often than not comes from the subject being a reflection of the person.

tfw the whole Instagram timeline is exclusively content about abusive relationships, abuse from narcissists and how to deal with all that wtf

I remember buying my 2DS more than a decade ago. And I didn't really get a lot of use out of it in the end – played one or two games and then it was just lying around somewhere all the time. The wildest part is that it works perfectly after all this time.

Heard it's all about this hot New Nintendo console, so I've got myself one

It's weird to see the oldest Mii on my 3DS Street Pass Plaza to not only be met/added more than a decade ago. It's weirder to think that some people, who were represented by these Miis, are no longer alive.

First try at Ultraviolet Photography

About the impact of the Immortal Draft update on the work of analysts in competitive teams (and also some rant about the russian esports news sites being shitholes) substack.com/@leamare/not...

The most important and long-awaited announcement: Spectral dot Gee Gee now supports the universal language of Emoji 😀 I was thinking about accessibility a lot and came to conclusion a while ago, that my site will become truly accessible only when the most people will be able to understand it.

Also this fella in a blue coat with a blue scarf

A thread of some other IR Chrome (QB19+KG3) + LB9 photos from Istanbul I'll probably work on them once I will be back home (and upload them to Flickr), but here are some of my favorites (there are more on Instagram/Telegram)

Some experiments with IR Chrome and IR photography - IR Chrome (QB19) + LB9 with white balance corrected - Visible spectrum - IR Chrome + LB9 with camera white balance - IR 750nm filter with white balance corrected

Starting Items blog post EN: spectraldota.substack.com/p/where-do-i... RU: blog-ru.spectral.gg/starting-ite... Reddit discussion: www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comm...

Finished updating interactive map to 7.38 tools.spectral.gg/interactive-... - added riverflow paths layer - updated mapzones metadata and interactive map layer (+minimap overlay in courier) - updated tormentor spawn points and exp shrines >>>

Deadlock is my neighbor. He is a pain in my assholes. I wait patch for two months. He wait patch for two months. I update map. He update map. I break dragon knight. He not. Great success. store.steampowered.com/news/app/142... #deadlock

Updated Dota Interactive map to 7.38 layout. tools.spectral.gg/interactive-... Will have to add the new Shrines of Wisdom, rivers and such + update mapzones, will do this later this week. Here's a big rendered square version for you

Updated basic metadata to 7.38. Immortal Ranked report for the new patch is coming tomorrow. Courier resources updates + other metadata updates will come later in the next 2 days. Interactive map update will come in the next week or so, probably.

can't wait for Open Fortress and Team Fortress 2 Classic to come to Steam

Mod makers rejoice: The Team Fortress 2 SDK has arrived! We've updated the Source SDK with all of TF2's client and server game code. Change, extend, or rewrite TF2, and publish them as mods on Steam. www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=...

this comic somehow perfectly reflects the feeling of working in esports fulltime

A comic about how I’ve been out of work for two years in the animation industry:

Alright, so I decided to do things a bit differently this time, so here: added starting items, builds and consumables sections to spectral stats reports. And some small improvements, all in one package. I will finish the blog post about the update a bit later.