common misconception that the sword is the most yuri weapon. Ikuhara is on the record that he thinks he should have made Utena about guns, and he's right – the most yuri weapon is obviously the sniper rifle.

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maybe we should just tax the train for every minute it blocks these intersections until we collect enough to pay for an overpass or whatever.

really loved this whole piece. rt if u too have read the interview

[You are encumbered and cannot run] [You drop: Greatsword of Frost] [You are encumbered] [Warning! Dropping Prince Tim will abandon his questline!] [You drop: Prince Tim] [Quest failed! "Tiny Kingdom in Need"] [You are encumbered] [You drop: (1) of (14) Cheese Wheels] [You are no longer encumbered]

started an animation study yesterday – rotoscoping the swordfight from The Mark of Zorro (1940)

if anything, after playing esoteric ebb I can conclude that there is room for dozens of more games aping disco elysium. it could just be a genre.

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portland needs a lot of these imo

The thing that makes dungeon crawler games difficult to recommend to people who don't share that particular sickness is that I think it is funny and entertaining when the dungeon designers are deeply unfair to me.

No one is challenged by a gimme. They are snapped into attention by a concept so brash and unfamiliar it causes them to re-parse reality to see if it even makes sense.

if "defund" was a bad slogan we wouldn't still be talking about it 6 years later

Blue Prince (2025)

*pointing at the screen in the theater every 5 seconds* thats portland

Gentle reminder I am up for reelection, having nightmares about the budget, getting called “naive” in the Oregonian for questioning a multimillion dollar tax payer deal for Moda, and getting yelled at for funding school lunches for kids who might go hungry etc Help your tired councilor out 🫡

it's darude sandstorm

this great tbh rite.mino.mobi/lexicon/

avery has been doing more gardening at the front of the house this year and it's incredible to see how quickly that connects you to your neighbors. Feels like the whole world should involve more "working in public".

I support this idea but also, hear me out: mixed-used commercial/residential on quiet low-car streets why can't I live on a cute little neighborhood street with 2-4-story buildings, cafes and little shops, and absolutely no through traffic.

this red/blue button thing is extremely annoying to me lol

ebikes inherently more pro social than cars for sure

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this was part of my commute at the time and tbh I miss it. really felt like I was in a bicycle city. buuut I work from home now, for a non-portland tech company, because what little startup scene we had here has only gotten smaller

Once again, so much of American politics would be easier to understand if we replaced the word "farmers" with "farm landlords"

that curve on first-time home-buyers might explain the "vibecession" thing. stably 29-32 for 35 years and now the ladder has been pulled up for the current generation that should be hitting a life milestone.

fyi virtue signaling about never eating fine dining is stupid. I can have a dinner with my wife that completely blows my mind about the possibilities of what food can be for cheaper than a single night at a mid-quality hotel.

I'm so excited for a wave of games inspired by dungeon meshi and frieren to come out in like 3 to 5 years

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas isn't a story about a moral dilemma, it's about how you're only comfortable imagining a utopia if there's some crucial flaw that lets you safely dismiss it. You'd know this if you read the first 8 paragraphs instead of skimming past for the juicy bit.

I do think our paper on systems suspense gets at one reason this is really important

I know it's gauche to quote tolkien but genuinely the most interesting thing in his letters to me is this one from 1963 wherein he laid out in very plain terms what I think is THE fundamental thing that makes so much art have a life in your head beyond what you see on a page or play in a game

I love driving under the speed limit. greatest feeling in the world

btw it really is worth switching from disposables to safety razors. It's more expensive upfront but much cheaper in the long run, and they give a drastically smoother shave. Straight razors maybe overkill but definitely don't let me stop you.

A common mistake is thinking that self-driving cars must be cheaper than Uber bc "you don't have to pay someone". But what this misses is that Uber does not own or maintain its fleet of vehicles, and doesn't even pay its drivers enough to cover what comes out of their car's value.

I adore Understanding Comics but I think these "philosophy of art" chapters hold up the worst. Moving from a "surface" that "people appreciate most easily" into levels of greater abstraction towards "idea" ("purpose" is a much better word imo) flattens the truth and does a discredit to "people".

really interesting to me how anime seems to be running on a 40ish-year nostalgia cycle when American nostalgia sits at like 25ish years. I wonder if this is because it takes longer on average to go from "formative teenage years" to "executive greenlighting projects" in Japan or just a coincidence

TEN THOUSAND CROWS FOR PORTLAND MAYOR

those who do not study religion are doomed to repeat it

really enjoying the anime, but same. not even getting "oh I remember this part" from the episodes as they come out. kind of wild.

Having no chief animation director, Kamiina Botan lets each episode's key animator (this week: obvious SHAFT fanboy Gin-san) express their self-indulgent creativity, their individuality and their unique quirks and idiosyncracies. What a beautiful show.

your regular reminder that magic is so real we have to control for it in medical trials because it biases results

last year i began working on a little ff6 fan visual novel as a proof of concept to possibly make my own original visual novel. i should really get back to it because these terras are maybe some of my best drawings ever.

I have no real ill will towards bluesky but it's worth saying that "mastodon.social is being DDOS'd, so much for your ~true~ decentralization" fails to land when, in cases like this, 75% of the fediverse remains operational, vs. -1.4%- of bluesky. mastodon.social and bsky.app are not comparable.

Millennials will be like "I just want to move into the country and share a plot of land with my friends", not knowing that what they actually want is a cottage court in a walkable city with decent espresso nearby

The problem with "wise practical yimby liberals can deliver Prosperity For All while anti-bedtime socialists complain" is that it quietly elides liberalism's dependency on the pillaging of the global south.

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

TTRPG about me First game: D&D 3e beginner box Last game: Blades in the Dark Longest game: Apocalypse World Favorite game: Under Hollow Hills Favorite mechanics: meeting sword-to-sword in Firebrands et all Favorite setting: a homebrew sword-and-planet thing (or UHH again) Favorite art: Mothership

does the consumer price index account for the quality of the items

I've found so many uses for simulating springs in Jumper. UI wiggle? Spring. Screen shake? Spring. Camera movement? Stiff spring. Wobbly platform? Springy spring. I'm spring-pilled. I'm springsmaxxing.

ppl still out here saying "games are the only interactive medium" like they haven't heard of "sheet music" or "scripts". a hint might be that we use the word "play" for all of these.