Last October I was introduced to One Cut of the Dead, a 2017 indie zombie comedy from Japan. Highly recommend going in as cold as possible and just trusting the film. You will not regret it.

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

I always thought that the over-the-top self-promotion and corporate/VC suck-up-itude that dominated all LinkedIn "content" was obnoxious, but nowadays it's almost entirely AI enthusiasm bullshit. So, hey, they actually managed to make it *more* of a shithole. Amazing.

The wizard is teaching a cantrip class at the library. They are learning mage hand today. It seems to be going pretty well.

It's time for my annual ritual where I'm all agog at the speaker list for Roguelike Celebration, my favorite conference in games, now in its TENTH (!!?) year www.roguelike.club/event2025.html

Reposting this, no reason

YOU SHOULD WATCH "KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE" IF 1. You just cancelled Disney+ and want something on-the-nose thematically appropriate. 2. You wish Steven Universe had been more "Empty Spaces". 3. You still own Utena merch. 4. Look just watch it watch it look it's on YouTube how can I make you watch this

Almost caught up to the most recent chapter of Girl Meets Rock. #Manga #GirlMeetsRock

I've been using wanikani to learn (and sometimes relearn) kanji and vocabulary for the past year or so, which has been pretty effective at steadily increasing my coverage. Now diving into renshuu.org to start spending time reviewing and expanding my extremely rusty grammar. Liking it a bunch so far.

Stop doing this shit to Famicom cassettes you freaks

A friend of mine once remarked, regarding Totoro: "Terrifying! Look at those teeth!"

I feel like the「ん END OF HIRGANA」and「ゑ 〜GOOD OLD HIRAGANA〜」t-shirts from ふつうの軽音部 / Girl Meets Rock are probably something that @scriptingjapan.bsky.social should be aware of...

you are now afflicted with: Breaking News (curse) every time you check social media, receive 2d6 psychic damage and take -2 to all WIS and CHA rolls for 1 hour

The past few years have been good for girls-in-bands anime and manga, and Girl Meets Rock is right up there. Chihiro may be the main character, but Rin is clearly the best character. #Manga #GirlMeetsRock

They’re ok ☺️

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This remains a bullshit answer until there's actually an alternative to the bsky-run service that average folks can just push a button and migrate to if the bsky team is dropping the ball. Something that *does* exist for folks on fedi servers, but is still just vaporware / empty promises here.

A bit bummed out about some brutal platforming stuff while still in Act I of Silksong. Not my cup of tea and not something I had to contend with in Hollow Knight until very late game (and then there were charms that mitigated it). Love so much about the game but the difficulty is a bit much for me.

Another day goes by where I am annoyed by the lack of per-message spoiler/content tags and/or editing on bsky. Come on, folks, these really should be standard features here in Chaos Year 2025.

Hey @pfrazee.com -- looks like bsky might be interpreting *all* GIFs as video nowadays? (or at least some that are not animated as animations). I was briefly excited for an animated Cat and Girl comic, but sad to discover what seems to be a bsky bug instead...

It is a travesty that you cannot pet the Bell Beast. #Silksong

I'm enjoying Silksong, but wow it is *hard* for me in ways that I'm not sure even late game Hollow Knight was. Clearly I am old and frail, but I would really love a difficulty level that reduces the (to my mind) absurd amount of health many enemies have a bit. #Gaming #Silksong

The real platform war is Silksong vs. Every Platform

It is good to be adventuring in bug world again. #Gaming #Silksong

Happy Silksong Eve to all who observe.

This is pretty cool. The source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 (Apple II, Commodore PET, etc) from 1978, released under the MIT license. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...

Not sure if I missed it in the quick start instructions, but looks like a need a little bucket to catch the waste filament the X1C poops out every now and again...

Calibrating...

That spread of pristine unlabeled 3.5" floppies is almost more immersion-breaking than those DOS and Windows boxes next to the Mac SE.

The way everyone who enthuses about AI assisted coding agents talks about the process, it sounds like it very effectively captures all of the hateful parts and none of the rewarding parts of being a manager.

Okay, what's the latest on Bambu Lab 3d printers and the ability to use them without Internet connectivity or their cloud service? Local LAN access, I mean, not swapping sdcards by hand like a caveman. #BambuLab #3DPrinting #Questions

The first computer I saw in person was a(n unlicensed) Sinclair ZX80 clone (a MicroAce) my dad assembled from a kit on the kitchen table when I was 5. The first computer I ever really used (played a lot of games, learned BASIC and later 6502 assembly on, etc) was the C64 we got two years later.

Is there a way to restrict a bsky search to just your "following" feed (or another specified feed). I occasionally think "crap what was that post about <extremely-common-thing> that someone I followed made yesterday" and finding it is always a pain...

i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r...

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

Yeah, I'm pretty solidly in the "why in the world would I want to have the machine do the interesting stuff badly while not actually learning anything myself" camp...

Been a long wait, but only two more weeks until Hollow Knight: Silksong. Exciting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XGe...

Two and half days later & I still don't have words So proud and happy for our team So thankful to the WSFS voters So honored to be in this cohort of finalists and past winners Live and drink 🚀🚀

Live and Drink. And be sure to play Caves of Qud if you haven't yet.

today i learned that you can use a VNA to measure ferrite beads. so i made this little 3d-printed jig for the tiny surface mount ones!

Took me a while before I really started buying much on Steam... the early years were pretty sparse...

tfw writing the first lines of caves of qud

The wizard is snuggled into his bed, reading a poem about comets. The little cat is curled up above the covers, by his feet.

Something that intrigues me a little bit about the LLM approach is that by reducing everything to a giant pool of inference slop you get slop everywhere, at every layer of output, incorrect answers, bogus state names and weird text artifacts, etc, etc.

debugging code before going to an anime convention today

If you see this, share some of your favorite PSP games using only screenshots!

This week's CITY THE ANIMATION is mind blowing. Just completely packed with all kinds of delightful animation and comedy. Rewatching to catch some more detail... like this 4 frame sequence of Nagumo slamming the fridge door, tossing out a beer can with her left hand and catching it in her right.

The Vintage Computer Festival is going on until 5pm today at the CHM in Mountain View. Still time to drop by and see all kinds of neat old computers and artifacts. The place is packed. connect.computerhistory.org/events/1ffce...