A new Emptiness Effigied story! Spring storms presage a tumultuous affair! Detective Mona Alexandri's newest case will see her exploring a den of vice, a woodland stronghold, and an infinitely recurring stage to answer the question: what does it mean to be a woman? emptinesseffigied.com

meeting

Hell yeah

I did it! We got "How many days~" rolling again! It's the first ending! Or... the second? It's actually my 78th, for what that's worth. Hundred Line is gooooood

yes, please

The math stack exchange page on how to roll a number 1-10 with a d6 is an incredible read and another reason that LLMs fucking suck

thinking about writing a play in an annoying dialect, printing and annotating it, and then publishing the annotated version somehow

Help, I've fallen into a 13 year old youtube playlist and I can't get out

Maybe if your incentive was a little more than "10 euro in cash by post", you would not need to send me so many reminders to participate in your questionnaire

Today I wanted to destroy a croissant （壊そう）

“I can see you. You will not remain. You will pass from here. I can see you. You will not remain. You will pass from here. I can see you. You will not remain. You will pass from here. I can see you. You will not remain. You will pass from here.”

Part of me knows it's Honkai, but I cannot ever get there from HSR first time. Ho Straight Roads? no, wait HunShot Residue? no, no, hang on Honoka Super Rare? ugh Head Said Redemption?

カレーライスアイラブユー

Also, speaking of covers, Ado does a fantastic soldier game

The great thing about being "kinda sort of" into Hatsune Miku and "not really" into Gundam, is that 2200 yen for a GUNDAMxMIKU tribute album sounds totally fine, whereas if I was more diehard into one or the other I think I'd be more skeptical

I'm not a violent man, but

If your password constraints require a symbol, that's fine. If they require at least one symbol from a very short list, and DO NOT ALLOW other common symbols that is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen and I would like to punch you in the dick

I hit 90% on //motherbound expert and thought "wait, that might do it!" ... bad news

Rough start, but we'll take that. Gilbert has been an incredible addition to the team. It's nice to be able to just expect kicks to go over

Think I qualify for the free days on ffxiv, might dip back in and catch up Realistically though, I think the only way I'd properly sub again is if I had a friend who wanted to get in to it

Buy the game Play the game *Take a walk.* Profit

Been doing late-game route variation clean-up in Hundred Line for so long, I fully forgot about Addamaque.

Great video that shows just a small slice of the flood on Steam. Take a guess before watching how many are AI slop, sex games, or both!

Now I'm thinking about sneasels' dads, thanks @tinydonkey.bsky.social

Fucken love to see Ulster playing well

While I despise the 'Use X cards from booster Y' missions in Pokémon TCG Pocket, it has led to my discovery of the 'That's No Liepard!' deck where you use dittos to copy liepard's move, recycling ditto into your deck instead of liepard. Is it a good deck? No. But is it potentially very silly?

I know it says feathers, but I keep reading it as "fathers" and I think it's neat that sneasel comes from a non-traditional family, good on game freak for making that canon.

Thinking about sneasels

Those tools... You four must be the farriers of light! Please! You must restore balance to the four elemental hooves and save the world from darkness.

I know nobody wants to hear about shitty ai ads, but I did find it very funny that this Study Spanish Web one has a language challenge (fill in the appropriate word) in it... entirely in English. Apparently small details like knowing when to use the word "address" help your Spanish sound natural!

75 endings now. And a new most upsetting one (NEVER trust Gaku with anything) The hundred line continues to go up

cause you split your light with a prism but that's not what I want

when you're building a website, the most important thing is that when you do something and it works, you get up from your chair and do a little dance in this way, the html gods are honoured and also your body gets a little break from being hunched don't ask about what you do when it doesn't work

this is genuinely incredible

In Enoch's The Frog and the Scorpion, the scorpion is up front and tells the frog "As soon as we get in that river, I will sting you and we'll both drown." but the frog for some reason carries him anyway.

guy who thinks the 'uma' in umamusume means "delicious"

This is incredibly funny, actually

Can't believe people are still out here posting "First" on youtube videos in the year of our lord 2026

I think watching more (good) films would be good for me and therefore, in 2026, I am committing to not doing it. Instead, I'm gonna play more video games, the thing which is almost certainly bad for me.

Also, just FYI, The Hundred Line is currently the cheapest it has been so far. Not a HUGE discount, but it is EASILY worth $40 if you enjoy visual novels as a *medium* at all. The prologue alone (30-40 hours!!!) is probably worth the price of admission, and after that point it goes completely ham.

Tryna catch up on Book of Matoya's FFX series and on hearing "...without Wakka, [Tidus] would die. His story would end here.", I just had a horrific flashforward to FFXR, where the Game Over screen is a close up of Auron going "Hmph. Looks like your story ends here." and walking off, fade to black

And you may say to yourself: "This is not my proper rhythm!" And you may say to yourself: "This is not my forever now!" ~Letting the beats go by Letting the final score go down Letting the beats go by Jumping the ones're on the ground

how did you say that out loud

that's goddamn right blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k...

Just now watching Newt's Sword of the Sea run and my god, if there was anything that could make this game more beautiful, it's some crazy precise movement and mad jumps.

I'm still in the middle of re-reading Unjust Depths and now I gotta* re-read Emptiness Effigied? Before next week? *wanna

Yes, delighted for them, of course, of course... I will note, however, that MY sci-fi novel 'Don't Build Universal Healthcare and Environmentally-Friendly Housing for All: A Cautionary Tale ;)' has remained largely ignored by the tech conpanies. Just to have that on the record.

Great fun to listen to - act 3 just started and things are going beautifully. Looking forward to seeing this speedrun at 4am next GDQ

This track youtu.be/vgmH86-hP8A?...