Graham Oliver

I don't think I've fallen this hard for an RPG since Persona 5. It's so good.

Nope, I broke my Google Voice number and that's going to be a huge pain in the butt.

Some people say they had im-morel character, but others say they're just a fun-gi.

They got in truffle with the law.

For the English speakers out there, the new introduction sentence written for the Copilot feature reads in Korean:
"Microsoft 365, now it is upgraded to AI companion Copilot, THAT HINDERS YOU FROM FINISHING YOUR WORK"

Oh well, they are not wrong. I don't want them in my Windows 11.

I guess there was not mushroom for them in Kaohsiung.

Migratory Patterns Navigating changes in my digital life in order to try to line it up with my values.

migrating from android is part of my longterm project of moving away from supporting bad actors and monopolies - wrote about this project a few months ago here: medium.com/@GrahamMOliv...

made the migration today and seems like everything is working okay, only regret is not backing up my LINE chats.

気になってる人が男じゃなかった VOL.1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Jana… 私が推している彼は、男じゃなかった。 CDショップで働いているミステリアスな「おにーさん」が気になってしょう…

Picked up this manga on a whim (browsing highly rated slice of life genre) and glad I did - so wholesome and warm and positive. The art is gorgeous, too.

English title - The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All

www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...

Traveling the Zero: Digital and Homesick Whether or not video games are "art" has been the subject of a good amount of writing, but it would be difficult to classify Kentucky Route Zero as anything but art.

it was so wild pulling up the map for the first time in that game since I grew up in western KY

11 years ago: www.full-stop.net/2014/02/27/b...

kind of surprised they're doing this instead of just ignoring quorum rules.

"Don't give up, skeleton!" makes me giggle every single time

This is kind of similar to Taipei - rent is low relatively low but buying is crazy high. From what I've heard it's because real estate is seen first as an investment due to future price; rent is just icing.

Can't imagine how much worse it'd be with corporate landlords, though.

原本我也想要等，然後我發現沒有其他想要看的節目，因此看得慢慢

At any rate, spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can’t stop you enjoying it. This is a satisfying reflection. How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the young corn, and thought of all the important persons who would stop me enjoying this if they could. But luckily they can’t. So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, Spring is still Spring. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.[2]

Makes me think of one of my favorite Orwell essays:

I think this is exactly right. You can kind of pick your level of difficulty and exactly what you have to be good at, but there *is* a way, and you *can* figure it out. Just the other day, I was at that “I don’t see how there’s any way to do this” point, and then I found it, and it felt GREAT.

Number one, Ninjas are mammals; Number two, Ninjas fight all the time; and Number three, the purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.

dark souls messages are my favorite comedy genre

I don't know for sure they're coming from the drains, and I don't know which bugs can swim! I just know it's helped.

We put new weather stripping on the back door and started covering our drains every night and now we get so many fewer bugs inside. Mad we didn't do it sooner.

今天逛逛的風景

need to shut down the podcasting ecosystem until we figure out what's going on

In East Asia, women appear freer than ever, but cultural norms still confine them. In East Asia, women appear freer than ever, but cultural norms still confine them.

When talking about the differences in gender equality between US and Taiwan, I often tell my US friends that Taiwan seems more equal in public and less equal in private (relative to the US).

The latest article from LEAP does a good job elaborating on what that looks like: medium.com/leap-voices-...

thought I was doing well with the jetlag - it's been six days and yesterday I woke up at 7:30 - but today I've been up since 3:30 :(

I think kids should not be constantly watched by their parents all the time, with the amount of supervision decreasing as the kid ages.

Apparently some people find this bizarre and think that parents should know everything a 15 year old does.

Yeah, liking the writing and the combat wayyyyyyyyyyy more here.

pics or gtfo

Past two days were quite nice. Now we pay for it.

Well, that intro was a massive exposition dump.

I played Yakuza 0 and liked the worldbuilding + side content, but found the main story meh and the combat bad. Hoping I like LaD better.

Ah, I don't know when they burn and I'm not sure I would feel comfortable recording my neighbors if they did :(