Trying out the F2P CN MMO (actually an MMO and not a gacha, in-game sales are sparklepony only) 逆水寒 (Sword of Justice) and the character creation options are *wild* 🤣 For who among us hasn't aspired to be Elrond, Harry Potter, and Jack Sparrow? It is however very very wuxia and character classes >>

Daily bunny no.3136 is going home at last

🤔 I'm gonna need a definition on both "ancient" and "costume" here. (Actually seeing as this is sponsored by a CN company what they probably meant was 古装, which literally means "ancient costume" but refers to like movies etc. set in Chinese historical periods, the CN equivalent of 時代劇)

Living in a skewed-population state often gives people the impression that their individual votes don't matter and maybe that's true for federal elections, but very not true for local - right now the mayor of the neighboring city is being decided by about 1000 votes.

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1. Hey staff has bonus, I should try the Cat Staff? (translation: staff that works well with cat) 2. Somehow fail to equip cat mode and end up with normal staff 3. Beat the boss anyway Also got the record keeper NPC and it's impossible to state how important having either a throwable cast or the >>

1. "Hey I want to go to this thing downtown, which week would be good for avoiding rain?" 2. ...ah right. (Have discovered I quite like spontaneous poking around - having one day a week to myself completely free from work/social commitments to do whatever I like is hugely relaxing and so am in a >

For a moment I thought this was going to be a Ratatouille game but apparently it's rats running a rat restaurant and not a human one. Also it took me 3 tries to actually find info on the game because Google doggedly insists that the user is an an idiot. store.steampowered.com/app/2870920/...

"Give us money to-" hahahahaNo. Read the room buddy.

Today's Pathfinder: Hunter: I'mm kill the dragon cause it mauled my cat Wizard: Hey but I was gonna turn it into a rabbit :( Also historical records indicate this dragon was sighted... Fighter: Did you guys know that a whole dragon carcass is worth about 50,000 GP? How much can we carry?

Pathfinder Our not-Bard (actually a Hunter but responsible for all the social stuff cause the rest of us are socially inept murderhobos) who is 20-120% more cat (depending on whether you count the extra cat) than the sort of catperson I'm used to drawing.

Went to Bellevue for DTF but came across a jianbing counter-serve place. Jianbing is a CN street food type of thing that involves a thin pancake with a thinner egg layer on top, sauce, and then wrapped around fillings of your choice. Tasty and only about $10. Also found that Facing East seems >>

store.steampowered.com/app/4141710/... Remember that video about the guy who built a model subway station for cats?

Hades 2: Boss goes inactive and columns of red telegraphs appear in waves on the ground >Clear this gimmick first try. I didn't spend months farming the Copied Factory caster set for nothing.

"Here's a story boss with a bazillion fancy cut-scenes! Also you must use this story-important character whose kit only works well with a specific set of other characters and we'll make you sit through all the EmoTioNal CuTscEnes again in slow-mo if you lose" >I hate your super speshul character >>

Apparently Starbucks is doing a Hello Kitty collab, which some of my coworkers (who are very favorable towards Cute Things) are excited about. (Starbucks is also having an unrelated union strike next week so publicity timing: Not Great) about.starbucks.com/stories/2025...

Some tech management guy yapping loudly into his phone in the otherwise quiet medical waiting room is quite on brand I suppose 🙄

Every time I talk to another Chinese person I'm reminded that my spoken Chinese sounds like a CCTV presenter - the sort of completely standardized, "accentless" Mandarin that you'd hear in a public announcement recording. Strangely I can't tell what my spoken EN sounds like from a regional POV tho.

The... ghost of a dog trying to find their owner in heaven...? 🤔 store.steampowered.com/app/2102040/...

I feel a bit bad for the real reporters at NYT as they have produced some fascinating and well-researched articles, but I absolutely do not feel bad for dropping a publication that keeps platforming dingbats under the defense of "but it's an Opinion column!" Some opinions need not be legitimized.

You know who did not forget (and don't understand) daylight savings time? ↓

Woke up to actually positive political news which is great but really what I'd like to do is to not have to pay attention for weeks, months at a time. Make Politics Boring Again. (And by Boring I mean like my local elections which right now there's a race that's still a tossup but the candidates >>

FSA idiocy 1. FSA will not pay for services rendered before the starting date 2. You also have a deadline to pay for things before the next period starts 3. So if you receive service before the start date and pay for it afterwards (because it takes time for the office to process the bill), that >>

Rice snob adventures: 1. Why was the rice I had in Japan generally tastier than what I make at home? 2. Possibly something with variety? 3. Buy a bag of koshihikari which is the preferred rice used over there 4. Which seems more sticky/chewy than regular rice (You can also add a bit of rice wine >>

Daiso: We have tiny cheap donabe 🤔

www.famitsu.com/article/2025... Sales exceeded forecasts = more money, but % profit is down because Switch 2 profit margin is lower. As much as people love to whine about prices the reality is that fancy hardware is *expensive* to make, esp. with Current Events.

Answering the question of whether the cats like squeeze treats, because you don't come back from a cat convention without some merch for cat. Cat 1 is also enjoying her catnip toy (Cat 2 sadly doesn't do nip)

Feeding the neighbor cats is always amusing because one of them cannot be confirmed to exist.

Cat convention is mostly a cat merchandise/rescue/humane org event, and while there are stage events and activities it's line-con ish. Similarly busy were the meet-adoptable-kitten booths, though props to the kittens who're way calmer in the ruckus than Certain Adult Vats who shall remain unamed.

Whee. Despite my constant whining that I don't like action games I guess it's possibly more I don't like action games where it's hard to tell what you're supposed to do, as this game in addition to cumulative upgrades provides enough learning in its boss design that it's easy to feel improvement >>

Apparently XIV finally caved and removed job restrictions on glams, which isn't really something I care that much about because I generally prefer my character to look role-appropriate, but when my main plays BRD or DNC they don't suddenly revert to fashion disaster because I use MCH class gear >>

Close encounters of the fuzzy kind (Happy caturday)

Daily bunny no.3125 got here early

History Guy's review of EUV is hilarious (I did literally use spreadsheets to track logistics back when I played Kancolle)

"Grimdark is mature because misery is rEalIsTic" Edgy for the sake of edgy is not "mature", it's just edgy. As in, that label normally assigned to wangsty teenagers who are the furthest possible standard from mature.

Our Post-Launch Patch 1 for Hades II, with various improvements including enhancements to the True Ending, is out now on all platforms where the game is available!⏳ 📝Full Patch Notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/114...

In addition to things like SimBeaver there also seem to be more animal-people games in other genres recently 1. Ninja rabbit turn based RPG (but sadly with QTEs which is a rant for a different time) playism.com/game/the-use... 2. Detective/prison break mystery store.steampowered.com/app/1735700/...

Look when your society is at the point of importing cat food can lids maybe it's time to give up on that entire Make Manufacturing Great Again idea?

Given the local weather I'm surprised that trick or treaters don't all end up dressed as Mary Poppins.

Family chat: Aunt: Hey how long do you soak pasta for again? Uncle: We soak it overnight and then put it in soy milk after it gets nice and soft 🤔

1. Roundabouts are overall better for traffic and safety than traditional intersections 2. A lot of people around here have no idea how to use one, which somewhat limits the effects of ^

Q. Isn't fighting Word formatting way easier than your actual job? A. Yes, but it's also 300% more frustrating and exhausting. Also I dunno who needs to hear it but you can edit your pasted image files instead of "editing" them by pasting ever more text boxes on top to hide previous content, >>

www.famitsu.com/article/2025... In case you ever needed to wonder whether Hello Kitty had teeth, the answer is "we don't know, but she sometimes dresses up as teeth".

Looking up races where there are two sane people with similar platforms takes longer than just rejecting a crackpot.

Hey someone actually respected my No Soliciting sign. (Local political candidate canvassers apparently, left a flyer instead)

Uses of salted duck eggs outside of mooncakes: as a substitute for crab roe. There's a CN dish called crab roe tofu, but since fresh crab roe (and real crab) is expensive and sometimes hard to come by you substitute powdered salted egg yolk which has a similar consistency and color.

"Hey I've almost gotten my sleep schedule fixed!" >Would you like some lawn mower noises at Stupid O'Clock? >>Can I cause the neighbors to fall into a black hole?

Star Rail: 1. Plot-important little kid 2. But her playable character version is an adult wearing a wedding dress 3. You can buy a skin for her on release 4. Which changes nothing about the actual character but gives her a fancier weapon and makes her ult include images of the PC character 😶

Annual company swag is usually some sort of clothing that is quite well-made but alternates between black and bright red, so I wear the black ones and store the red ones for laundry emergencies. This year it's a bright red duffle bag and I'm not 100% sure where I stand on luggage color 🤔