Diagram of the animation career path, illustrated with a winding road on which Cyriak joyfully skips as he navigates his creative journey. Places of note along this circuitous route include "detour via job centre", "boring office job" and "making loads of weird videos". The journey ends with Cyriak striding purposefully into the future, though his hair takes a different path

Diagram of "The Process Rainbow", dividing the creative process into a spectrum of "making it up as i go along". The spectrum ranges from "no idea what I'm doing" (red), to "kind of know what i'm doing" (yellow), to "totally know what i'm doing" (blue). These categories are ordered along a vertical axis according to their "messing about level", from "not much" (blue) to "loads" (red). The horizontal axis measures "weirdness level" with blue being "normal-ish" and red being "crazy shit"

Did a talk recently and thought I should share a couple of slides from my presentation that perhaps warrant further study.

Call me a raving radical but I literally do not care whether your imperialist massacre of children is “constitutional” or not.

Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say Behind a basic age check, researchers say Persona’s system runs extensive identity, watchlist, and adverse-media screening.

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

Side 1 of the Fukuzatsu cheat sheet, a wall of text.

Side 2 of the Fukuzatsu cheat sheet, of the major Tarot effects.

Made a cheat sheet for @neonrot.bsky.social 's Fukuzatsu, doesn't quite match the print-version's insanity but tries anyway, also doesn't make much sense without the book.

Needed a thing I could print 5 copies of, since passing the book around was slowing things down.

It demonstrably isn't the same thing, it's worse in a lot of ways, but to people paying attention it is also the same cast of characters.

I don't think his friend is doin' so good

Typing on a Mechanical Typewriter in the Year of Our Lord 2025 I want the font color to be Blue. I currently have a purple ribbon loaded, so that needs to come out. The gloves I wear are wet purple, making it look like I tried to strangle a...

First blogpost in a while: I've been typing on a typewriter... why?
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Typing on a Mechanical Typewriter in the Year of Our Lord 2025 I want the font color to be Blue. I currently have a purple ribbon loaded, so that needs to come out. The gloves I wear are wet purple, making it look like I tried to strangle a...

First blogpost in a while: I've been typing on a typewriter... why?
mrblacksbox.net/posts/rants/...

All the critters from yesterday’s piece that Bsky didn’t want you to see 🔥👹🔥

I am finding like, no secrets in this new chapter of CULTIC

Due to recent interest, I've decided to reopen this until Oct 5th. Go Go Go!

I am closing this poll on the 12th

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M.U.L.E. Zine Interest Survey I have been seeing some interest in getting a physical edition of "Colony Not Included". I am interested in that too, but I need some idea of how much interest there is actually out there. Please fe...

I'm attempting to gauge interest in a print run of zine, please fill out if you are interested and share:

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As long as you link back to the website, that's fine

UNLOVED I have been playing this game for something like 7 years. Some players have a toxic relationship with Destiny, others with Call of Duty, but mine is Unloved.

I wrote about something like that for UNLOVED, in which everything you do has the potential to piss an unseen entity off.
I landed on "Esotericism"

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Oh man, print is a whole 'nother ball game. I'll need a minute to figure out how that'd even work, as much as I'd like to.

Download and play:
muleonline.com

I'm not on a ton of socials anymore but that link should be fine to post wherever!

Colony Not Included Zine A print and read zine about one of the Atari games that launched a publisher juggernaut.

My zine about M.U.L.E. is done! REJOICE!
(It took me like 7 months to make this please clap)

mrblacksbox.net/mule/zine.html

This zine I've been working on since the beginning of the year is ALMOST DONE

Hello.

It's almost been 10 years since UNDERTALE released.

Now, I'm looking for your memories.

Let's turn back together.

Face the flower and speak.

memories.undertale.com

Always on the lookout for eggless recipes, thanks for sharing!

Anyway, adding to the body of knowledge for science. Hope this helps.

If we used a more neutral tasting shortening, I suspect that the ginger will be more forward-tasting.

They aren't the sweetest cookies I've had either, and like the Biscoff wafer comparison, I'd describe them as a coffee cookie. That's how I'll have them.

A sizzle picture of a pack of Biscoff wafers.

Given the ingredients you may be expecting a gingerbread cookie, but that isn't really the case. I would describe the result to be analogous to a soft baked Biscoff wafer. The bacon brings a smokiness and you only really taste a hint of ginger.

Grinding up that much ginger made my partner's eyes water (I couldn't smell it, uh-oh) and we feared that the ginger we were using would be too pure. That turned out to not be a problem.

We baked on parchment paper instead of greased pans, was easier to get them on a cooling rack that way and less to clean.

We had a lap timer for 7 minutes and checked it at those intervals as they baked.

We had no idea how long to bake these things, qualitatively you are looking for the edges to brown somewhat but how long that takes depends on the chilling, rack position, and luck. One of our batches took 16 minutes, one more like 24.