This sounds like something Adrian Tchaikovsky would write

QTP with a video game that transports you back to your childhood

I’ve found it’s really interesting reading manga adaptations of light novels in Japanese

They tend to get treated as shounen, so there’s full furigana, but there’s often a lot of literary words you would never see in original manga. It’s very helpful for learning

Congratulations Hungary. I’m so happy for you

It could be changing political landscapes if it’s an older movie, or it could be not wanting to get sued

Finally finished up my deluge of library books, so it’s time to start Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I’m really excited because this is one of my favorite series

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It’s the usual thing where the technology isn’t the problem. It’s the companies exploiting people with the technology

I love all the space trivia all over my timeline like how they go crazy with the cayenne peppers in astronaut food because of how zero gravity affects their sense of taste

Cover art for Hyrule Warriors Definitive Edition showing the core cast and characters who were originally DLC

Guilty pleasure:

I don’t really believe in feeling guilty about games, but when I look at my playtime in Hyrule Warriors…

Art of Umineko When They Cry showing the full cast posed against each other

Underrated game:

Ok, so basically it’s an Agatha Christie style murder mystery that may or may not have magic involved

a cartoon character with yellow eyes and the words the black mage village Alt: Vivi from Final Fantasy IX looking up and spinning around

Favorite character:

Well that one’s easy

Frogger’s Adventures Temple of the Frog for the Gameboy Advance

First video game:

It was an interesting Christmas present

Alright, sounds fun

Shocking, but is it the good kind of garbage or just boring

I have a question for video game translators out there. What do you do when you have a puzzle that doesn’t translate and can’t write an entirely new puzzle?

I love how video games are a medium where one minute you’re complaining “this shit is impossible” and then you do the thing you were trying 5 minutes later

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Finished Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

It’s not the kind of thing I usually read, but sometimes it’s really nice to read a book that fully believes in the kindness of regular people

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posting AI art is an automatic block.

Sharing someone else's post is a strike.

ai is theft. you are a thief.

Cover of Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Next book from the library is…

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Well you already got my favorite one, so let’s go with when the protagonist has to work together with the antagonist

Finished Moving Pictures. That was very good for a book that early into Discworld. I especially appreciate how many movies got mixed into the climax

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In my cyberpunk WIP, food comes up frequently as a class signifier. The rich can afford regular access to food made from real plants and animals while the poor pay for their brain implants to register flavors in mass produced food paste. They even simulate drunkenness this way

And next book I’m reading is Katabasis by R.F. Quang. Finally done War and Peace

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* Camels are far too intelligent to admit to being intelligent. -Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

Thank you Sir Pratchett for your insight

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Library hold for Blood Meridian by Cormag McCarthy. 58th in line with one copy (loan term is 2-3 weeks)

Gotta love when you place a hold at the library, and the wait is 2 and a half years…

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For a long time I’ve had a policy that if I see a company’s ad more than once in a day, I will never give them any money.

Also YouTube has been increasing the amount of ads, especially on long videos and putting in more unskippable ones lately

The live action One Piece is even better than it was last season. It’s really interesting how Oda is seeding so much foreshadowing far earlier than it was in the manga. Also putting Bart in that early was cool

WATCH… This is space. It's sometimes called the final frontier. (Except that of course you can't have a final frontier, because there'd be nothing for it to be a frontier to, but as frontiers go, it's pretty penultimate.. - Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett

Reading Moving Pictures now, and right from the start, Pratchett has sass for Star Trek

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So I’m reading War and Peace again, and it’s very interesting how in the historical asides that seem to be in every 19th century novel, there is direct criticism of great man history

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Small Gods was really good. But now that that’s done, my next Discworld book is Moving Pictures

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