How am I, a complete nobody, on this list lol (they’re not wrong about my feelings about AI though 😂)

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

As another type of sour flavor, I mean. I wasn’t trying to say that plums are a citrus…..

Japanese sour plum-flavored chips opened my eyes to how good of a combo citrus and potato chips are

I’m not used to this much attention lol. I’m a lurker!!

Bluesky is barely holding itself together, but somehow people are still finding and liking the picture of my dog I posted yesterday…

Yup!

He is 30 pounds

He is a certified organic banana (he’s just been peeled)

Brotherhood’s greatest folly (and the reason why the manga will always be the best version) is assuming people had seen 03 and rushing through the early story. In hindsight it’s so frustrating and makes it harder to recommend Brotherhood to people who don’t read manga

I wish this was a bit and not a true story lol

Me in the morning: I’m not going to spend all day playing Pokopia
Me in the evening: Oops I spent all day playing Pokopia

A meme where in the upper image, a child is shown potentially injuring themselves when the various Japanese counters are used, and in the lower image they are shown as safe when つ is used

I abide by the classic rule (from @suika.bsky.social if I recall correctly):

I tried to read the manga once and was like nah, actually I’m fine with just the anime

Silver Spoon is good!

What’s a girl gotta do to get more anime like Tamon’s B-Side and Journal with Witch?

Translation is a form of creation. The translator has to make decisions about preserving style over direct content, about cultural equivalence, about how to preserve a sense of pun or sentence structure from one language to the next. People who assume an LLM can do it are not understanding the task.

I haven’t lived in Japan for several years now, but I seem to recall many of the gas stations being completely full service. The attendants even stop oncoming traffic to help you pull out of the gas station

I've been doing some historical research lately on relations between the various Pacific naval powers in the Pacific after World War I, never mind why, but it has really been a good reminder of how unhelpful it is that American kids learn it like "and then Japan just BOMBED us out of NOWHERE!"

The inclusion of Kirkland and Bellevue is hilarious, because you can literally see Seattle from them, they’re that close. AND they are actually more expensive to live in than Seattle. They are basically extensions of Seattle

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

【速報】メーテル役の声優の池田昌子さん死去

Punishing student protestors only to get mad at them for not protesting anymore reminds me of how survivors are sued and harassed for coming forward only to then be blamed for not wanting to name and report their perpetrators anymore

In the last quarter century the Pentagon literally lost $2.3 *trillion* in its accountong, it has never passed a single audit.

There has *always* been enough money for good things instead of atrocities, it's just that absolutely no one in power in the past quarter century has wanted good things.

Octopath Traveler/Octopath Traveler 2, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Splatoon 3, Katamari Damacy, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Okami, Final Fantasy IX, Ace Attorney (the original trilogy), Xenoblade Chronicles 3

I’m probably forgetting something…
#my9games

Octopath Traveler/Octopath Traveler 2, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Splatoon 3, Katamari Damacy, Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Okami, Final Fantasy IX, Ace Attorney (the original trilogy), Xenoblade Chronicles 3

I’m probably forgetting something…
#my9games

Why did you have to remind me of the condiment cow? I had successfully buried that trauma 😭

The existential pain of that lifetime of disillusionment is difficult to articulate or live with, sometimes I think about it and I have trouble breathing

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