One of the best analogies I've seen yet.

Post a banger not in English: Banger opening to an amazing anime series, with a music video that's a banger in its own right. Raw creativity unleashed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=76sN...

people want a Zelda movie to be "what if Ocarina of Time was LotR" when what it should be is an 80-minute anime OVA released in the early 90's with the weirdest plot you've ever seen and at least one original character who was so endearing that it physically hurts they aren't in any of the games

Ann is curious about everything!

Gamedev life: I discovered a 10-year-old bug in how we handle allocating credit for particular types of damage. The fix is a nearly-trivial two-liner, but I don't dare make it for fear of whether the bug is load-bearing on any rewards design.

In case you need more ICE horror stories: they claimed that an immigrant with multiple skull fractures and brain bleeding 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall' while trying to escape. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Cibo Matto Emmylou Harris Neko Case Little Dragon Digable Planets

A couple: My Uncle's Bequest Was a House That I Have to Rebuild Every Day I'm an Archaeology Professor What the Hell Am I Doing Running from a Giant Rolling Boulder

Here it is, the greatest giant robot transformation sequence of all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9-W...

Has anyone hit a thing where Bluesky seems to cut the current timeline off at some point? At least on the web client I see everything going back about 12-15 hours but then it's cutting to posts (not reposts) from a month ago and hard-refreshing doesn't seem to change it. Android client seems okay.

San Jose I am i̵n̵ ̵y̵o̵u̵ staring jealously from a thousand miles to the north!

Before publicly celebrating terrible things happening to bad people, maybe don't just ask yourself if such statements are "fair" or if those people "deserve" what's happening to them... Maybe ask yourself: "Will this help?" and "Is this healthy?" And take a moment if the answer to both is "No."

Last year I decided to try a neat-seeming idea I'd seen on social media: rather than a list of big New Year's Resolutions I'd do 'resolution bingo': a 5x5 grid of resolutions:some easy, some a little more challenging. Overall I think it turned out remarkably well.

Just did this and I know there are a lot more Washingtonians out there. I'd suggest emphasizing (especially if your representative is a Democrat) that these bills inevitably lead to queer youth being denied access to critical online resources.

Slightly diminish a band: They're Probably Not Giants

I can't believe it took me multiple years (and lewd fan art) to realize that King Joe is basically just a Katamari cousin.

Doing the 'US Level' thing from tenpages.github.io/us-level/us.... . There's some measure of fudging between 'stayed here' and 'visited here', since many of my stays in places were _for_ visits. Most of the Great Plains areas are thanks to a Scouting trip to Philmont that was a US tour.

Hey lazyweb: does anyone have any favorite software for specifically straightening out page photos? i.e., de-trapezoiding, undoing spine curl, things like that. Ideally free/fairly inexpensive.

Why yes, this *is* a 1979 Wisconsin church cookbook. How could you tell?

Winding down the year with a little humility and/or humiliation: what's the worst photo of yourself you have handy? I promise you I am trying to smile here.

The world 7 of Super Mario Bros 3, Pipe Land, is actually 3 little islands in the shapes of 3 pipes, reference to Super Mario Bros secret pipes zones. Discovered that few years ago and it still blows my mind.

I'm not sure if I'm even more scared or vaguely grateful that I just barely missed out on "The Empire Strikes Back" to wind up with this instead.

"And in despair, I bowed my head 'There is no peace on earth,' I said. 'For hate is strong, and mocks the song Of peace on earth, good will to men.'"

This video's maybe the best I've seen at directly showing the impact of the flooding out here. This is at the edge of a small town (Duvall) about 15-20 miles northeast of downtown Seattle. Most of what you see flooded here is farmland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BT9...

You know who you are. <3

Looking at AI summaries of things you know is like reading news reports on events or topics you have firsthand experience with, only magnified 1000x.

Seattle(*) is riding the next wave of Little Libraries:

I won't even miss the green bean casserole. Not that there's anything wrong with beans or casseroles, but there are so many better ways of getting tasty veggies at Thanksgiving.

If ever there were a pose begging for a 'draw your OC like this' challenge...

I'm out of practice with these but every now and then I like to indulge. Apologies for the terrible Japanese. 寒くても 雨が降っても 好きな秋

That $130 million private donation to the "troops" sounds like a lot, but there are about 1.2 - 1.3 million men and women in uniform. That $100 each per is going to go a real long way after a month and more of no pay. Besides its illegality, there's no way to get the money to the "troops".

Commit the sin of empathy.

Belated, but hopefully better late than never. A little music for the mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNUl...

Love and appreciation to everyone out there marching today.

Kamen Rider Super-1 (1980) Episode 37

Just learned about AGI-based floors for deductions for charitable giving that were rammed through as part of the OBBBA. This sucks: if you itemize, it makes regular giving to support charities' ongoing needs harder, and it discourages giving to a variety of causes.

Commission for shikoi_no. Thank you!

"Quaternion float rounding error" The long story: www.iracing.com/q-circles-th...

So I may have just been out of the loop on this, but Nintendo released a wheelchair basketball game for Switch 2 using dual-mice controls and, I dunno, it just seems like a cool thing that more people should be aware of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiUj...

More programming streaming tonight. It's going to be a bit of a change of pace today: I've got some shapes that need building out, so it's time to dive back into OpenSCAD for some parametric polyhedra! Tune in at 7:30 PDT at twitch.tv/shaterri to watch me try and relearn this odd little language.

No streaming for me tonight — getting a few more things set up. But I'm hoping to resume code streams next Monday!

Happy (belated, it was Saturday) International Red Panda Day! And just remember: all for wah, wah for all...

My reward for clearing out several stands' worth of weeds was some revenge blackberries. I'll take it.

Hey personal lazyweb: does anyone have experience debugging C++ on MacOS? I've been able to build but I'm hitting an apparently well-known bug where LLDB chews up _all_ the memory as soon as you try to display variables. I presume that it's _possible_ to do C++ on Macs but I've had no luck...

One of the few things worse than having a bad day is having a bad day when your friends are all having their own bad days. :/ May tomorrow be better for all of us.

Fox! #fox www.bbc.com/news/article...

Asian groceries are like a cheat code for Philly cheesesteaks. (And yeah, I know that's not the appropriate bread. But we had leftover burger buns and this seemed like a fine application)

Random recommendation for the day: White_Pointer Gaming is a youtube channel that breaks down effects for SNES-generation consoles. I think he does a good job of making things both interesting and accessible. His latest is on Chrono Trigger and it's a good watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLON...

Time to get back on the streaming horse! ...which I guess would be a hippocampus or something? Anyway! I'm going to be doing more coding this evening, starting about 7:30 PM Pacific. Watch me flail my way around React as I take first steps towards building a polyform packer! www.twitch.tv/shaterri

In my defense, I was left unsupervised. (Also I got a stupidly good deal thanks to a strong friend discount. But mostly lack of supervision.)