The wizard casts a charm to clean the waffle maker.

Collection of Suzuki expressions from episode one. #Anime #YouAndIArePolarOpposites #SeihantaiNaKimiToBoku

Watanabe wants popcorn. #Anime #YouAndIArePolarOpposites #SeihantaiNaKimiToBoku

Somewhere along the mountains between Kobuchizawa and Komoro, there is a little 2 car train that calls itself the High Rail. Take it with me.

What a crock of shit.

It is a joy and a relief to see a beloved manga series get an excellent anime adaptation. #Anime #IkokuNikki

Frieren Season 2 begins airing on the 16th. Very excited. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH-F... #Anime #Frieren

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

Some solid-sounding advice from Tom Francis (Gunpoint, Heat Signature, Tactical Breach Wizards) on sustainable small indie gamedev. I'm not a game developer by trade, but have written a lot of software, and it all sounds sensible to me, for whatever that's worth. www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

Social Media Happiness is finding new Artists or Hackers/Makers to follow. Even more so in this age of dismal AI Slop, it is a joy to see creative people doing creative things and sharing their work online. A reminder that there's still some good out there.

she's taking a break

And Ryan Riller absolutely CRUSHED this series of papercut cards! Each of these was made with physical cut paper collage and he worked on more cards at once than I've EVER seen an artist do! Serious props! More to come!

Lorwyn Eclipsed was the first MtG set where I served as a lead art director. That meant getting to pitch what these special edition cards would look like, and bring on so many new artists from my picture book days! Some more of the cards I ADd got spoiled today:

Anyone have a recommendation for a readily available USB optical drive (CD/DVD/etc) that works reliably with Linux commandline ripping tools? I'm mostly interested in CDs (got a few sitting around that I'd like to extract audio from), but if DVD and/or bluray worked too, that'd be a bonus.

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Teaching the bootstrap transpiler about methods...

Ikoku Nikki, a manga which I absolutely love, is getting an anime adaptation this winter, and based on the first episode, it looks like it's going to be a good one. Highly recommended. #Anime #IkokuNikki www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_nD...

New Year's Resolution: Make enough progress on the little compiler project this year that I can use it for Advent of Code 2026. #projects #compiler #resolutions

If this thing ends up running relatively stock Android, it may be the first phone I'm actually excited about since the Pixel 3a. Not only a physical keyboard, but also a 3.5mm headphone jack, *and* lighter than my current Pixel 7a. clicksphone.com/communicator

Picture of the staff who operate my account.

I've waited 3 years to make this post

Also, Sauron's "security" famously failed! He let two hobbits (three if you count Gollum) sneak INTO HIS HOME to destroy his most valuable possession! This is just so phenomenally stupid and awful and cringe

Nifty C64 Laptop project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5QQ...

ai is 100% boomer shit

It’s a great product but.. this is my ultimate C64.

The C64 Ultimate is a delightful recreation of the computer I grew up with. www.commodore.net/product-page... #Commodore64 #Nostalgia

Caves of Qud update: poured warm static on my dog, it turned into a dromad trader that comes with guards and items. They are all my dog, the whole trade party and merchandise. I convinced my dog to sell me my dog for free while my dog, my dog, my dog and my dog were standing guard.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

I think I'm getting better, but I think maybe I've also been lucky, or am going to experience a difficulty gradient further up the ladder, since the stats sites say this deck has ~%55 win rate whereas it's been nearly 70% for me so far. It's certainly exceeded expectations!

In late '93 or early '94, I ordered a copy of SLS 1.03, on thirty-one 3.5" floppies, because that was cheaper and faster than downloading it at 9600bps at long distance rates. Installed it on a 33MHz 80386 with 4MB of ram and 100MB HDD.

Diving back into Magic Arena (it's been a couple years), and having fun with this Mono Black Demons deck I saw. At least for best-of-one low level ranked play it's not bad, and it's been pretty fun sorting out how to best use all the bits...

For long form webcomic enjoyers, Evan Dahm's 3rd Voice just concluded its second volume, so there are now 814 pages of post-apocalyptic second-world fantasy adventure for you to enjoy (or revisit!): rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/ (A few pages from near the start of the first volume) #WebComics #3rdVoice

🍄 LIVE AND DRINK 💧 Just about 12 hours left to nominate us for some Steam Awards, all of which we're eligible for due to releasing less than a year ago

Installed MTGA and reset my password (it's been a year or two), to see what's up in Magic. Daunting! Also, has the card art in this always been so dismally low resolution in MTGA? Disappointing that they gave me piles of packs (and try to encourage me to buy more) when it looks so grungy.

Deliberately watering down writing is a crime against humanity.

Stocking stuffer ideas for your retro collector: -Amtech flux -Solder braid -Sharp tweezers -Flush cutter -Machined dip sockets 8 up to 40pin -Ceramic capacitor assortment up to 10uF -Eye loupes -Magic erasers -kynar wire -DeoxIT with needle dispenser -Polypropylene safety cap assortment up to 1uf

Wrote a SCSI controller driver for an obscure 90s desktop OS when I couldn't install the newly-released x86 version on my PC that lacked an IDE HDD. Found a kernel bug. Got asked "Want a job?" which lead to interviews, a job offer, and moving from IL to CA two weeks later. All downhill from there.

The alternate-universe-90s setting in Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake has some fantastic computers. #TV #FionnaAndCake

This is what programming is actually like for me

I dunno, it was pretty life-changingly magical for young me.

I am probably old fashioned, but running into an open source commandline tool written in C that "requires" meson and ninja to build, in order to accomplish the equivalent of... $ gcc -o tool main.c -lone -ltwo ...seems like maybe just a bit of overkill to me. #OldManYellingAtCloud

Hey who up kai-ing their zen?

Having not experienced any Metroid property since Super Metroid, I am apparently out of the loop on this week's Metroid Discourse. Though apparently Samus was Raised by Birds? (Not something new, just a Metroid thing I only learned of today).

this isn't a joke. in my 25 years of experience with online gaming/MMOs, this is precisely how it works. again. and again. "i'm going to go make my OWN community! with blackjack! and hookers!" *3 days later* "banned banned banned every single one of you are banned none of you are without sin"

Timberborn is very satisfying. The Great Works go well. #Gaming #Timberborn

New excuse from my kanji learning app just dropped.

Wanted: some kind of corporate vehicle (maybe some sort of co-op thing?) that enables me to get functional health insurance, maybe share other resources like a bit of office/work space, etc, but without signing up to do any work other than my own personal projects. Surely doable somehow, no?

Trying out Whiskerwood (in Early Access), which is very much a Colony Builder, emphasis on Colony, down to colonists and supplies being dropped off by ship and regular ships to collect oppressive taxes on everything...

Did the New York Times ruin journalism?

City of Sickos