the top surgery reddit was right lol migraines are definitely way more painful than post-op. especially if you get chronic ones like me.

day seven post-op. drains removed. surgeon says this is the best healing she's ever seen. not even a bruise and the scarring is minimal. i can finally shower. i looked at my chest and the dysphoria was instantly gone.

At both Gamescom and TGS I have spoken to several PR folks who've lamented how hard it is to get coverage now, even for bigger games, and I feel like I am losing my mind because between startmenu and Rewinder I have never been so frequently stonewalled on coverage requests.

really enjoying lots of low to mid-budget films from the 00's. we used to get so much weird shit in cinemas until franchise films really took over and now it's 90% over produced Disney owned IPs from the neck down with too-long runtimes.

:) aftermath.site/palestinian-...

SILENT HILL f

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

day six post-op. decided to start following my old sleeping schedule. finally getting some rest. the itching is bad. but taking antihistamines helps at the very least. tomorrow the drains hopefully come out.

Ain't it the truth.

Given Alexander Smith's anecdote about translating Final Fantasy 8 without ANY kind of script provided (having to play and record the game on VHS and transcribe it before TL could happen), I refuse to believe FF Tactics PS1's text structure was remotely coherent. I'd love to see those old workfiles.

OK I'm gonna be real, the abundance of untranslated text in the environments in SHf is not great bc a lot of the early stuff references LDP propaganda posters or could be directly applied to Hinako's psyche in how she views specific events in her life and relationships with her family.

had my first crookie and I get it.. I really do

some light reading about Japanese feminism post WWII and into the 1970's by @unseenjapan.com that I feel is a great primer to further reading. unseen-japan.com/feminist-mov...

contemplating writing about SHf but also, death threats

not an FF girl per se but really enjoyed reading this. justice for benedikta

Thinking about that Miyazaki quote about creators of anime nowadays being primarily people who just watch anime and not getting external influences outside of anime in comparison to Uematsu growing up deeply on prog, psychedelic, and electronic music.

Silent Hill

The more I think about it the more I’m fascinated with the idea of remastering a game from 2000 to look like a game from 2004.

Also worth noting that Deus Ex GOTY is a goddamn dollar on Steam right now. One friggin dollar!

this is like when you opened an EGM in early 2005 and saw a fake prerendered screenshot for what ps3 games could look like

Experience the Eternal Calm - Final Fantasy X-2 Love the simplicity of this cover and strong lines of this Yuna artwork for the cover. 📖: Official US PlayStation Magazine, December 2003

i wanna take a shower so badly. these sponge baths are not enough.

the suggestion to take antihistamines when your surgery wounds are healing has been some of the best advice ever during this recovery period

bring back ninety-nine nights

DEUS EX REMASTERED

day five post-op. swelling is still bothersome. it isn't as uncomfortable getting up in the morning anymore. sleeping is still hard due to restlessness. almost feel comfortable enough to start working on extra projects from my laptop.

losing my mind over the information @gcvazquez.bsky.social has just bestowed upon me

i need everyone to remember that mine's VA is a traditional theater and kabuki actor because it's just so important and i hope those karaoke covers are gonna lean into that

outside of my excitement because yoshitaka mine is one of the best RGG characters, having some script rewrites and new scenes added is one fear bc RGG0DC made RGG0 exponentially worse with those new scenes added in lol

new scenes in Kiwami 3 better be dedicated to Daigo and Mine making out sloppy style for 15 minutes

MINE MINE MINE MY WIFE IS REAL AND IN 4K

this quote tho

I'm the man nodding meme seeing people get tripped up on puzzles in SHf because of required outside knowledge of stuff unique to Japan bc of the puzzle in SH3 that required outside knowledge of Shakespeare that I was only able to solve at the time bc I was reading Shakespeare's works in HS lol

As a permalancer: if you are EVER verbally offered ANY kind of promise (a raise, a contract extension, full-time employment), IMMEDIATELY ask for it in writing and be low-key relentless about it. As someone who has been strung along too many times: they can't keep getting away with this.

day four post-op. mostly plasma now. the swelling and irritation are bearable. it's the restlessness that's the worst part. overall, happy that there's no pain and that the worst of it is my own need to be busy.

i love the silent hill f review that says the game is bad because they don't understand Japanese or Japanese culture lol my brother in christ

this also ties back into my theory that FOMO drives most video game coverage rather than genuine interest

I hate how evergreen this has become

BREAKING: the Sapporo Family Court has ruled that the fifth provision of the law for changing one's legal gender, which stipulates that the appearance of applicants' genitals should match with the gender/sex they seek to register, is unconstitutional. (1/?)

Bro you can’t give up. You were born in a world that has onions AND garlic. You gotta hang in there it's worth it

sharing post-op updates as an act of spreading trans joy

day three post-op. the pain is minimal. it's really just the binder. a bit nauseous today, but overall, everything i read online was right. it's not painful. just uncomfortable. only wish i could manage working.

Happy fall stoat day

I feel like anything about GDC 'rebranding/reinventing' itself cannot earnestly be discussed without addressing it continuing to be held in a country with a fascist regime that is indiscriminately targeting, jailing and disappearing foreigners. Seriously, I don't think anything else really matters?

not doing anything during this recovery period is driving me up a wall. I've juggled multiple jobs for almost 10 years and sitting still doing nothing is making me restless lol

sitting around doing nothing is driving me crazy 💀 gotta force myself to relax

cutting my hair pre-op was honestly one of the best decisions I made, outside of buying a new jinbei to wear during recovery. cannot state how comfortable jinbei and yukata are when you can't raise your arms to put on a shirt or if you don't want to fiddle with buttons.

Wrote a little newsletter about the time i told someone i was trans in an Arby’s drive-thru www.anxietyshark.ca/damn-it-john...

first day post-op and the pain feels a lot like tattoo bruising. nowhere near as bad as tattooing my collarbone so i feel very lucky.