Surtr vs Laevatain

Uhhhhhh

omg!!

A Konami Paseli machine, green unit with an e-amusement pass reader, a small touch display, and note inlet. On the side is the Paseli logo, a big P with eyes.

They let this lad take over.

being a programmer do be like this sometimes

We have Create trains on our Minecraft server and I jokingly said "imagine if we could use our Suicas at the gates"

CC:Tweaked w/ Advanced Peripherals, websockets server in Python, and I forked an app that reads raw data from ICs

No AI code whatsoever because fuck your Claude, I can do it myself

Aim to live life with the level of joy that this Japanese tourist group at the hotel I'm in is currently experiencing over the concept of a full english breakfast.

Oh that is beautiful. 😍

Honestly no first person shooter before or since has come even close to the sheer fun I have had as a Mercy main just darting around the map and getting good at positioning, backing up the tanks on a serious objective push, or pulling the game back from the brink of defeat with a huge resurrection.

Getting that urge to install Overwatch again. Damn that Jeff Kaplan interview (and the Dinoflask edit of it) reminding me of the golden era. 😭

Battersea Power Station in all its red brick glory, with a stage setup out front and large LED walls featuring an Apple logo and the text “50 Years of Thinking Different”.

👀

パ⁠フ⁠ォ⁠ー⁠マ⁠ン⁠ス⁠：Mori Calliope - 創⁠造⁠性⁠とテ⁠ク⁠ノ⁠ロ⁠ジ⁠ー⁠の祝⁠典 - Apple（日本) Apple⁠が50⁠年⁠に⁠わ⁠た⁠り掲⁠げ⁠て⁠き⁠た「⁠Think Different⁠」⁠の精⁠神⁠をMori Calliope⁠の特⁠別⁠なラ⁠イ⁠ブ⁠パ⁠フ⁠ォ⁠ー⁠マ⁠ン⁠ス⁠と⁠共⁠にお⁠祝⁠い⁠し⁠ま⁠せ⁠ん⁠か⁠？

Imagining having to explain to even just my past self that in the year 2026, Mori Calliope would be heading up Apple's 50th anniversary celebrations in Japan and be a featured artist on Apple Music with her own Essentials playlist.

apple.co/mc

To think just a few years ago I was having to explain to Certain People what VTubers and Hololive even was.

Having seen inside their billing systems, I'm not surprised. :p

So many such cases. :(

If I recall correctly, Japan has super soft tap water compared to pretty much anywhere in the UK. Significantly less mineral content, which is great for skin and especially hair.

Even Endfield has this as a game that has barely had time to cook. You can roughly tell that Valley IV was the playground for mechanics and that they largely formed the story beats and art direction before they went back and added the intro sequence or anything in Wuling.

It is rather cute how you can look at the content in games that were either developed or received new content over many years.

FFXIV has a lot of this where you can see through-lines from them experimenting with mechanics in earlier content, refining it, then standardising what worked well.

There's probably a lesson of “let them cook” in a significant percentage of the video games I could recommend having a first section that ranges from a slog to mid, then you hit the second area/expansion/year and you suddenly truly hit peak.

do you all understand. do you see. does this make sense.

All for one EU screening

Me: I'd go to a Hololive event if they did one in Europe.
COVER: Alright bet.

Damn, never thought I'd see the day.
www.allforonescreening.com

Joking? I thought it was well known that Ingress was a data collection front for Google Maps, and that Pokémon Go's AR feature was an advancement of this.

Endfield 1.1 review: Tangtang is the strongest woman of all time to not immediately fold the moment Mi Fu calls her “little kitty”.

Apologies to my neighbours. In my defence, Apple Music's Jungle/D&B mix has been absolute fire this morning.

Ah, so many memories of that one. :)

Need an FT review of the economics of how this one woman who runs my local bubble tea shop can serve significantly better food using HK family recipes for less money than so many London restaurants who are cost optimising their supply chains constantly.

Martin Lewis MoneySavingExpert how to get the most songs out of a 10 minute pfree on IIDX

It was looking so good from the trailers I watched. 😭

I'm so sorry they made an ass movie about you @scarlet.systems 💔

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...