replaying silksong and im embracing that barbed bracelet life

the schedule changeover at work gave me a long weekend so I'm going to take it and get some stuff done. Including taking a break from here. I'll probably be posting on Masto through the week.

Subtweet: hey babe when we say "check in with your POC friends / trans friends / disabled friends / autistic friends / queer friends times are hard for them rn" we uh, we don't mean start up twice a day with HAVE YOU HEARD WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO TO YOU NOW, AREN'T YOU TERRIFIED we know

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

man i fucking love wuthering heights give it to someone expecting a hot and steamy gothic romance and the first four chapters are the World's Snobbiest Idiot going for Gold in the Snobbiest Idiot Olympics

i think elon musk should be paying the rest of us for the pain and suffering of having to see a cybertruck on the street

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

The blog post in which I talk (briefly) about Silksong and why I'm enjoying it And in which I explore a couple of bad books I read recently. blog.purplepanda.gay/posts/wot-i-...

Ancient anonymous Shi-Jing writer writing about a big rat eating all their millet and grain: "go away." Me, like 3000 years later with billionaires: "Yeah man...."

doing genealogy research and i just found out I'm british

i grew up Catholic and spent my teen years in a Protestant church and this makes complete and total sense to me and I don't know why and it's bothering the hell out of me

i voted for "not fucking around" and it sucks that i still have to find out anyway

anyway

Comm for @millium.bsky.social AAA thank you so much for commissioning me! This was super cute and fun to draw!!

its wild how much nicer my life is for just like...not hating people for who they are. if you're conservative and really constantly stressed out about gay people and trans people try letting go and minding your own business i'm not shitposting. I mean it: it will markedly improve your life.

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

i want a phone with a physical keyboard again i don't care if it makes it thicker. i don't care if it makes it less "sleek" and shiney. fuck touch screens. they make them bigger and bigger and you end up using the bottom half of them for the keyboard 80% of the time anyway

decided i'd spin up scrivener in Wine to see what all the fuss is about. had to tinker to get it running bc of course I did that's half the fun in linux but scrivener seems neat tho a lot of it just seems like emacs org-mode with extra steps tho the corkboard view seems like itd be helpful

i'm realizing that i really just can't get into fiction written in a first person present tense (like, "I run forward, reaching out to try and grab her but she slips through my fingers and falls. "Careful!" I say to her." i'm big into like....the flow of prose, when you kind of lose yourself in

ps2 if you want to be persnickety about the rules. pc if you want to be honest. i was a ps2 gamer for very formative years of my life, but i've been a pc gamer for almost all of my life. basically since i could sit upright in a desk chair.

roman historians gonna have to talk about the consensual sexual experiences of the sabine women on this website

made the mistake of activating onedrive on my work computer (since it's attached to my work account) and now a bunch of programs can't see things in My Documents and its subfolders. great system, 10/10, no notes. cloud-everything is galaxy brain idea.

Every day feels like this now

Today is my Friday and I think I'm going to log out for the duration of my weekend. Be kind to each other, love y'all.

So Trails in the Sky FC remake leaked and includes the preview for SC Remake? Super cool that they're already planning it BUT Do not watch it if you haven't played FC yet. I haven't seen it myself but I have a feeling I know what's in it and you don't want that spoiled before FC is even out.

it is morally unconscionable to expect me to work when I could be at home playing silksong born to HEGALE forced to go to the office

I gotta be honest, I see a ton of complaints about "grinding" for silksong rosaries and like...I can't think of a point when I had to do that? A few instances of "I'm 10 short, lemme go kill smth rq" but I've never had to explicitly go out of my way to grind. If I can't buy a thing now, I come back

the forgebrothers was so fun oh my god probably my favorite boss so far

i think the only truly terrible runback I've experienced so far is the one to the cogwork dancers. Those golem dudes that guard that long hallway are really tedious to fight and really annoying to skip.

the waves before the Conductor Ballador with the waves of Choir dudes including the huge ones with the maces that was fucking FUN holy shit. the most pressed and tested I've felt in hours of this game, and they weren't even a boss. damn that felt so good to clear it.

deleted my last thread. felt it was too meanspirited. I'm just honestly kind of tired of the attitude of "it's hard so it's a moral failing/designed bad/mean/'disrespectful of your time'/etc" instead of "it's hard and so I don't like it"

No? It's not antithetical. You just don't like it???

it costs 12 thousand rosaries to fire this tool for twelve seconds.

a lot of the criticism i see about silksong make me wonder if I'm playing a different game than some people. like now people are talking about how it's "mean" for X, Y, and Z reasons but I've only found like....a handful (out of 100+ enemies so far) that truly feel like they match X, Y, and Z.

You don't need to be historically accurate to a T when writing historical fiction. But it is weird when you write a plot and mystery so expressly tied to a specific event and period in history and then whiff on details like "Who the sultan was" and "what sufi sect the janissaries largely were"

Fuck it, Bug Dimmadome

hatsune mike, from nyc.

[ASMR] Sands of Karak Coral Sound (10 Hrs)

parents, don't let your kids grow up to be a computer toucher. computer touching turns simple things like "reading a book" into an hour-long process of "forgot to disable updates on ereader, need to re-enable custom reader software and oh might as well fix that issue with margins in the ebook too-

lol i can see this place causing so many rage quits

the second bench in Mt Fay costing rosaries is hilarious

not me spend three frustrating hours stuck on the cogwork core (and making it very close to the top!) only to learn that there's a double jump in the game (that I don't have yet) that basically trivializes the whole thing

did they nerf the damage of the cogs here? I could have sworn it was doing two masks when you fell into the cogs last night

actors who sing this song, leaving earworms in your head where forever they persist! I've got them on the list! Those catchy little notes, that now by skeet I spread They'd none of them be missed. They'd none of them be missed!

so wasn't a trans person then. weird.

there is a Genre of fight in silksong that is just. one dude that does a fuckton of damage per hit, but their moveset is slow and super readable, BUT, some other dodgy asshole is also there just to throw rocks at you and make you split your focus? and it rules. tickles my brain. i want more of them

actors who sing this song, leaving earworms in your head where forever they persist! I've got them on the list! Those catchy little notes, that now by skeet I spread They'd none of them be missed. They'd none of them be missed!

the silksong grappling hook is a cool and unique take on the mechanic but the cogwork core (top half) can suck my diiiiiiick

did you know that it's surprisingly easy to hack your 3DS?

Sorry for the hot take But I'm starting to think this Silksong game is pretty good