It's quite a strange feeling writing effectively a 'fuck you' letter to someone that I may never send. I just needed to get the thoughts out of my head otherwise they would be rattling around in there for ages.

What I hope will be a pragmatic take on the Itch.io (and Steam) situation, with the caveat that I'm taking what they've said as honest and in good faith. 1) Threatened with instant unviability of their business, they have necessarily acted to secure its future.

Been seeing a lot of the usual pearl clutching from wealthy people trying to claim impoverishment at the idea of increasing the rates of taxation on them. To use the UK context, the top rate of tax is 45%. That means if you earn a million quid a year, you still have over half a million net left.

Trans book for trans affirming surgery! Any sale for Dragon's Soul will help towards my surgery fund - my dates are in just over four months so I'm saving as much as possible! Please consider helping out by grabbing a copy. www.tfpublishing.com.au/store/dragon... www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9PBM56T

Exciting times are afoot! I've been busy since the launch, and now you get to see the fruits of my labour: a bugfix'd build for Void Dreaming on Itch has been released. But also, Patreon is now live, with the Day 2: Complications build! You can get access to a whole new day, right now!

With disclosure that @faorameridian.bsky.social is my friend, I can definitely recommend trying Void Dreaming. I'm not super into VNs but I am a big sci-fi fan. The characters are compelling and have their own voices, and there's a lot of replayability with how it's been structured. Do check it out!

I miss when April Fools used to be fun little gotchas we could laugh about. These days, the news is such a bombardment of bewilderment that I just automatically think "yeah, that tracks" to even the most outlandish stories. Satire is on life support, at the least.

Nothing makes me boycott a company faster than hearing the exact same ad for a product or service 3 times over the course of a 30 minute podcast. So bloody annoying.

It's time for our last screenshot post before our initial launch! And today we're going beyond the public release to tease a bit of the drama from early in Day 2, exclusive (for a while!) to the Patreon release. April 5 is fast approaching! #FVN #furryVN #furry #gamedev #VoidDreamingFVN

And in case you missed some of the big stuff in here, here's some of the things you might want to know! The Itch page is live now, at faorameridian.itch.io/void-dreaming There's also a Discord! discord.gg/Qa87eUrj9r And you'll finally be able to get your paws on Void Dreaming on April 5th. Ooooh!

Dear sweet baby Raptor Jeebus I am unmotivated at work today and it is DRAGGING. Send emergency caffeine and treats.

Man I hate being on call over holidays. 2 calls on Christmas Day and another today while trying to watch the new Sonic movie at the cinema. Not one of the calls was actually an IT issue which needed my involvement. Hiss!

It was a good run, but I've now officially lost Whamageddon.

Recharging his gremlin energy.

*Laughs in now having air conditioning at home*

Finally have the ball rolling to get air conditioning installed at home in the next few weeks. Can't wait, summer last year was horrendous without it, especially when doing sim racing.

Not a strong track for me, and still can't say I enjoy it but I feel like I continued to improve throughout. An unfortunate internet dropout for me set us back, and it was always just trying to recover from there. One to forget, but looking forward to the Daytona 24h in January.

In the process of getting quotes for home solar and battery installation, and had to tell the sales guy not to bother quoting me for the Tesla battery. No way I'm financially supporting the absolute shitbag who owns them.

Official Announcement! The 'Red Lantern- Windrose' Kickstarter is launching this upcoming Monday, 11/11/24 This is the Novelization of the main comic story, in completion, as a Trilogy of illustrated books. Give our launch page a watch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ruk...

Getting my predictions in early for the front-runners in the next Republican party primaries.

Vote Asteroid 2028.

A really worryingly high proportion of Americans are pretty dumb, hey?

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

And that's a wrap for the team! After 10 Hours, and an unfortunate accident, we ended the race at P7 in class ,and p10 overall! Not the most ideal but we're happy with what we achieved in this race.

Slowly being driven insane by trying to identify the location of drops of rain falling on something plastic outside, only for it to stop as I get closer. I am now aware of the existence of striped marsh frogs.

"Tell me where you're from with a food pic"

I'm looking at a $20-25k bill for surgery mid next year. I'm not asking for donations, but please consider sharing this post and purchasing a book from the links below! Every sale is that little bit closer to my goal, so please consider helping out!

Seriously, who the fuck washes their car at 12:30am? Think one of my neighbours must be on some of the good stuff.

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Raby Bay Boulevard Park.

Hey folks, There is a gofundme for @dragoneer.bsky.social 's mom to with his final expenses and to help keep FA going. Dragoneer worked his ass off for this community. It's too late to help him, but we can help his family and keep his labor of love Furaffinity alive. gofund.me/2c131578

I wrote a Cohost article reflecting upon Dragoneer's passing, my experience briefly working in hospital billing in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lessons that I feel we can take from that experience as we grieve as a community. cohost.org/ScaniGryph/p...

I know I don't live there any more, but obviously I'm still heavily invested in the fate of the UK. Thank FUCK the Conservatives have been voted out.

Went back and watched some of the Obama v Romney debate. The difference is...profound.

Hi friends! I'm running the Pride & Remembrance Run this Saturday - Toronto's queerest 5K, part of Pride weekend - and fundraising for various LGBTQ2S+ organizations in the process. You can donate below. I'm aiming to get to $1,000 so all contributions very welcome! raceroster.com/events/2024/...

Sometimes I wish I could just give my brain a slap and remind it I'm not in imminent danger and my fight or flight response isn't presently required. Been on edge all afternoon from work stresses. Sub-optimal.

Can finally tick off the 24 Hours of Nürburgring on my list of completed iRacing endurance events. This one is undoubtedly the toughest and most punishing. I need to keep on trying to improve here. Finished in 12th after a very eventful race. Thanks to my teammates for all of their efforts.

You love to see it. Same price as the old 100/40 connection for the next 6 months, then just 10 dollarydoos more per month after that.

It's been years since I've made any Lego models. Now to put up a shelf near my sim racing rig for these to go on.

I'm in a weird place where I'm struggling to have much enthusiasm for, or to take enjoyment out of, anything right now. A notable exception is seeing how much the wife is thriving on her trans journey. Need to get back on my weight loss routine, the effect on my mental health was profound.

Orange.

Another quality ABC article, sets the wrong tone in the very first sentence. There is no such thing as an essential carb. We have essential fats and proteins which the body can't make and must be consumed, but it will make it's own glucose as required through a process called gluconeogenesis.

I've come to the realisation that getting older is having an increasing number of random aches, pains and twinges in various parts of your body, and hoping that they don't mean you're dying.

Kudos to Labor for the proposed changes to the stage 3 tax cuts. Naturally the Coalition respond with "won't someone please think of the people earning over $150k" because they remain resolutely out of touch.

Finally deactivated my Musk site accounts. Wading through rivers of effluent to find the odd nugget of content gold is no longer worth it.

Hobby reacquired! Been over a decade since I played regularly, guess the bug has bitten again.

14th of December and I'm already over Christmas.

Hoping that this will be the last summer spent without air conditioning installed in our place🥵