When I talk about my Japanese degree, I get a lot of questions about whether I felt like translation would become obsolete with technology. Here is how YouTube's auto-dub feature translated the simple phrase "ima, ikimasu". In MMO-gaming English "I'm going to pull now." I'm not too worried yet.

Neighborhood cat we've affectionately named Mexican Pizza

this fuckass mmo isn't worth fighting over wtf are we doing out here

Made friends with someone at Fanfest because I overheard them saying some funny shit to their friend about how they'd take money to cosplay Tyrant and step on them at their birthday party, fast forward to the present where I'm driving to their house on a whim to deliver Cook Out because I'm bored

(Twitter crosspost) Thank you again to @enduro.bsky.social for these lovely WoL commissions for me and my friends!! We're so happy we had an opportunity to meet you! ↖️ @coffeenurse.bsky.social ↗️ @hondam.io ↙️ @kaminamigami.bsky.social ↘️ @darkeon.ligma.me

I want to wake up where you are

【事件屋】ナシュ・マカラッカ #FF14 #FFXIVART

Beer

saw a post about a discord with a #wordle-porn channel where you post porn but also where everyone plays their wordle and you have to go into the porn channel if you want to play wordle. The mahjong netplay client Riichi City is also exactly like that.

G'raha ramen topper from @kobacake.bsky.social! He's also quite good at holding my coffee grinder brush.

Got a room! See y'all there☆

Yearning is terrible man fuck that

Animazement was fun

Now that they've all been picked up, here are all the pick-up commissions done for Animazement and the additional 2 I did on-site! Thank you everybody for letting me draw your WoLs! 😊

(Twitter crosspost) Thank you again to @enduro.bsky.social for these lovely WoL commissions for me and my friends!! We're so happy we had an opportunity to meet you! ↖️ @coffeenurse.bsky.social ↗️ @hondam.io ↙️ @kaminamigami.bsky.social ↘️ @darkeon.ligma.me

I got an incredible dream commission from @enduro.bsky.social of my funny lil guy Haru Riichi and I'm so happy 😭 Thank you so much!!

normally enemies in final fantasy xiv will just deaggro if you leave their home zone, but some enemies with gapclosers will warp to their spawn if they gapclose outside of their home. if you gapclose into them as that teleport happens you move too fast and it triggers the ffxiv anticheat

ACen soon Animazement soon

Good morning Bruh, my beautiful son

I miss Genki Rockets

As horrid as it was I miss having wol brainworms. I liked imagining them enjoying my hobby shit though! Mintia's probably a little pretentious and likes simple and old fashioned things because it looks classier to her, while Haru is all about having cutting edge tech and every advantage possible

Dawg people in my county are actually so horrible at driving it's unbelievable and I'm sad I couldn't get a discrete picture. I just saw someone try to save a few seconds by passing through and smashing a parked car while it was occupied. No wonder our insurance rates are high

Fabulous beast

Post-Fanfest got me looking at Bluesky more often so hopefully I can keep in touch with people more consistently on here!

I know my friends like me and I like to think I'm pretty okay at what I do but there's always still a small lingering feeling of "oh shit maybe i am kinda annoying" whenever I meet new people since making good first impressions is the most important part.... Sometimes I don't give it my best!

i know i control the buttons i press and all but goddamn dude i really need to find things to do around the city so I don't get stuck at home all week waiting for the next time I get to go out and travel

Cinnamon & Bruh

homeboy was cool as hell & said his job is to "help people go to the bathroom" to which Brute Bomber @lisuworks.bsky.social replied "hey i like doing that" & guy responded "ME TOO" anyway thanks occupational therapy dad [Honey B @hellodw.bsky.social; Tyrant @woodwarder.bsky.social; Metem @gwiffen]

Twitter and bsky don't allow proper spoiler tagging but rest assured Mintia looks cute and Haru looks angry in the new unreleased Mogstation glam

Had lots of lovely interactions with the folks attending for AOTA! We're all out-of-towners so we had fun trading recommendations on which breweries we were excited to hit up in the area when we both weren't busy attending our own conferences

PERFECT GROOVE!

Deleted a mindless and directionless yap post but tl;dr making friends at cons is fun and easy if you make yourself nice and approachable, unlike the dude with bad vibes that barged himself into my group of friends while we were hanging out and introduced himself as "The Loliconquistador"

I was so excited to pull out my laptop and get some work done on the plane home from Fanfest, but the glass of wine and two shots of tequila from the airport bar had other plans for me 😴

IF ANYONE HAS THE ESTINIEN FFTCG PROMO CARD FROM FANFEST, I WILL PAY WELL FOR IT (it's the last one I need to complete the set) PLS DM OR ASK YOUR OOMFS

@gatewayfate.bsky.social Hi y'all! Tried to reach out via the contact page on the carrd, but it wasn't allowing me to actually submit the message for some reason. Just had a question about the hotel group codes if y'all don't mind taking it to DMs or email. Thank you!

this would fix the website

Hello Fanfest! I'm Azu, or Mintia Breeze. Happy to have met you, likely through sharing drinks and/or my drunken beligerence. I probably yapped your ear off about how I think women dressed like handsome men (like my wols) are unfathomably based. Hope you had a great weekend!

Hotel bar

Any Fanfest-goers hanging around tonight? Are we hotel bar loitering tonight?

4am Fanfest Marriott is a lawless nation. Dancing Green served me copious amounts of alcohol, YoshiP was there for some reason, I said "good evening" to a normal hotel guest and she said "good morning" to me as I realized just how hard I was fucking up my sleep schedule

God damn it I think I just got talked into doing Gateway FATE

Just saw oomf in the Fanfest cosplay walk

I hope the people that I like have a good day and that the people who don't like me don't have as good of a day

Fucked up some of the printing parameters but I made cards for Fanfest specifically

9pm coffee was a terrible play but it felt right in the moment

Horses

I didn't pay attention to character pairings in iM@S too much but MikuRiina was the one I'd absolutely give my life for Miss them so much

My favorite idol duo of a rock poser and a cat girl. Brought together because literally they were the last two left who needed to debut. From the fantastic @missandydandy.bsky.social

Idoly Pride KR/Global is shutting down, so I'm starting over on the original JP server and trying to catch up on 3 years of progress and daily logins