The music industry baffles me, and avex baffles me perhaps most of all. Because what do you MEAN basically every Ayu Arena Tour is available track by track on Apple Music, but they throw a dart at a board to decide which ones they upload to YouTube (it's never Arena Tours 2003-2008)

In honor of it officially being that time of year, these are the God Tier Ayu winter ballads imo: 1. Carols 2. Days 3. momentum 4. JEWEL 5. No way to say

Soft relaunching the fact that I make custom dolls so no one is totally blindsided when I actually finish the full sized OOAK doll I've been slowly working on for a couple months now 👀

Happy holidays, Deltarune nation, I made a Noelle BJD tree topper.

The Technology Connections Christmas Lights video is up, yessssss

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Two of my best friends got married yesterday, after 15 years together and 5 years engaged (engaged right before the pandemic, yikes). It was a tiny courthouse ceremony and then we went and celebrated at a fancy restaurant. David ordered a bottle from a local winery, leading to this perfect photo

Every video I watch (and yes videos are necessary for this particular subject, books are inadequate) on the art of pixel graphics for CRT display leaves me wanting more. I want a true Defunctland-level deep dive into this topic with interviews and tool analyses. Noodle's new vid is really good tho.

PNW win! This guy was able to take a 20 minute, totally dry walk, in between periods of incessant December sleet!

milk thieves

Honestly one of the best cross sections a music recap has managed to make of me in many moons.

So YouTube does a "wrapped" now, which means I get to face my choices. I do love @brutalmoose.com videos, but this feels like a read. Guy's got some great playlists to put on while I'm working on creative stuff, what can I say?

I've randomly pulled literally every other Uma I've thought "oh, I'd like to add her!" since the Seiun Sky debacle that made me put down the game for two solid months (Akebono, Digitan, Doto, Ricepire). Thanks Cygames. I still want Seiun Sky, though. Like. What the fuck.

Will 2026 be the year I finally design my actual fursona? I designed Vanni as a mascot of sorts back in 2023, but I'm definitely a mouse.

You can really tell it's the "might as well be Winter" season, I'm broke, and I'm in social hibernation mode because I just booted up Stardew Valley again to keep plugging away at a 999 challenge.

another awesome dwarf fortress post

On the one hand, retention requirements were bonkers last week so I got demoted to Class 5. On the other hand, I love being able to log in super early on a reset and get screenshots like this

I know it's half a week later at this point, but time hasn't been real for at least three days: The rolls turned out well. Dough didn't want to rise at first, but I left the boules in a warm oven for 30 minutes and magic started to happen. I need to make shokupan for personal consumption more often

Okay, Jenny Nicholson uploaded a three hour trip vlog to Patreon. Perfect for a day when I need to wile away the next 12 hours in a state of not-quite-awake as I prepare to return to my overnight work schedule.

i just think they're neat

Conversation on TGiving while I was playing Umamusume: J (jokey voice): "So... you don't BREED them, do you?" Me: "... ... ... okay so the thing about that is--" (a few moments of raucous chaos) J: "Your first word wasn't NO!!!"

Awww HELL yeah!

I'm still a little overwhelmed by how extremely Susie Deltarune and/or Suselle so many songs by Space Team Electra are, except I can't just screenshot Genius lyrics and post em, I've gotta transcribe the lyrics myself based on memory of the official lyrics that were on their website in 2002.

A couple of banger theory vids dropped in recent days that kept me in UTDR brainrot while I cooked yesterday, first the Another You Theory, then tbe Wingdings Cipher Theory. Good stuff.

Forever intrigued by the ability of a single fanon visual interpretation to gain traction and eclipse all others, if others even make it to the public. I deeply believe a lot of fan artists these days are scared to deviate once a popular fanon interpretation gets its claws in the online space.

Hey you

Things are super quiet at work today. I took some time to make to do lists for both cleaning and cooking prep I've gotta do tomorrow. I'm hosting, and making my usual pies and milk bread rolls, but this is also the first year I took on the duty of making the turkey.

Anyway by sheer dumb RNG luck I made it into Group A final round of Virgo Cup Graded League, and I blew through all 5 of my legacy borrows trying to build the perfect Blockushin. Whiffed it on some aspect every time. S Mile/Front? Not enough green skills. Amazing skills? Sub-1200 Power/Wit. Damn.

My Umamusume world changed when someone finally told me that you don't have to train any skills until the end oif you don't want to. You can still win the URA Final. You don't NEED those skills to progress the career. Build the runner you want for TT/CM at the end with full discounts.

This is the best comment in the new Defunctland video so far

i made this about it. youtu.be/kirxEVBQmYw?...

I finally watched the Mockingjay movies while I was finishing the piece I just posted. Some really stellar moments, quite faithful to the books by Part 2, but maaaan was the pacing awkward at parts. The sewer/tunnel scene in particular slowed things to a CRAWL and suffered from some "camera

You wanna borrow a pencil? #deltarune #noelleholiday #utdr

Giving friends the basic rundown of the LOONA diaspora, summed up Loossemble as: "They released three EPs, they served, they launched a lightstick that looks like a croissant and I don't mean that in the abstract, and then they were disbanded." Still can't get over this gorgeous pastry lightstick.

I'm having a Butch Crisis™️ because my hair is long enough to be giving me grief and I need desperately to get it cut. I don't have money for a haircut rn, though, and for once I actually want a Nice, Intentional men's haircut, not the Pam Martin PHD special which I already know how to give myself

I've started putting on bird and wildlife cam loops for the cats while I eat breakfast, so I'm not the sole focus of their boredom, and I regret to announce that I've turned Duck into an iPad baby.

For as much as I love (miss)understood, it being in my top three albums of all time, I don't often sit down and listen to it as an album. Decided to do that on my walk this morning, and god. The song order on this beast.

YOU REALLY THOUGHT A CHANGELING COULD CHANGE?

I am still working on the Year Zero video script, still plugging away at the history of the project's inception. The whole "we're not telling the record label about this ARG thing because they'll just make it marketing" thing, what a move that was. I want as many people as possible to know that part

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

"Malort advent calendar" is already such an unhinged concept but every little window just having Malort in it really pushes it over the edge into something transcendently funny

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

I exist in the between-world where I feel a lot of non-whale Umamusume players exist now, where my average stats are well above Open League, but even my best Umas will fall immediately in Graded League and I know it.

Me leveling up my support cards in Umamusume before the Half-Anniversary event: ooh I got plany off SP :) And now: Oh god, oh no. A crumb of SP, sir. Please.

I think we moved on from the Icarus MV too soon. I don't mean the 15 minute cinematic feast, I love that too. I mean the precision editing, black and white, lyrical dance masterpiece that is the actual song's music video. I will never be over this. youtu.be/D-w2HwG18vg?...

Starting a Draw Steel campaign with the gang tomorrow. I'm torn between playing a Memonek and a Time Raider. My previous two DnD characters were a fey little wit, and a naive dirt/compost gremlin. I'd like to play a hero who's more earnest this time around. (I still love my compost gremlin tho)

What’s the big deal I do this at every PAX

Wow! So comfy!

This video actually inspires me to keep plugging away at the Year Zero video. I'm at the most beastly part (piecing together the experience of the game timeline via archival research), but considering that Crunchy went through to research WWWWI, my task is nothing.