Graham Oliver

Saw on the train today, Fukushima prefecture is doing a tourism campaign in partnership with Square-Enix, promoting Final Fantasy-like landscapes & touristic spots.

Cute stuff, I only found the 1st one in good quality.

I feel like I’m yelling at a girlfriend who keeps taking her drug dealing boyfriend back. The private sector is just not that into you!

On Almost Buying a Sofa Friends, For the first time, I’ve translated my previous newsletter into Chinese. It took too much time for me to commit to doing it each month yet, but...

wrote about being excited to buy a sofa soon and about the existential dread that the taipei international book expo's AI focus instilled in me

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Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course? The human subconscious is such an interesting thing. No matter how much you think you’ve got it figured out, it’ll always spit out the most random stuff. Take me, for example. After coming home from a...

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Pinyin keyboard is pretty good at predicting the correct character, but one it constantly messes up is 狗 (dog) vs 夠 (enough). No, I don't want to say "it's hard to get dog protein as a vegetarian" or "I think you have dog stress".

Leon S. Kennedy is a car salesman now Stop pretending this man is cool

"In some action games, your trigger finger is disabled if you aim your gun at your NPC allies, making it impossible to shoot your story-critical friends. In Resident Evil Requiem, you cannot shoot the Porsche."

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for me:
ffxiv's story, community, and characters are great but it's gameplay largely sucks
wow's community and story is bad but its gameplay is great

so i bounce back and forth, but tbh i'd play basically any pve mmo with the right people

visiting this place had me all up in my feelings. being surrounded by people excited the simple pleasures of this world and these characters. i really, really miss having a group of friends to mmo with.

I want a slice of life manga that's just 18 and Krillin going through daily existence

Pearls before swine and all of that.

Residents carry the Earth God palanquin around Shezidao village during the Lantern Festival in Taipei, Taiwan

📸 I-hwa Cheng

It is kind of interesting how much less important Piccolo seems in the manga than in my memory of the anime.

Starting the Cell saga now, which I've only previously encountered through Wiki summaries and short clips on YouTube. When I was a kid, it seemed like every single DBZ episode on Toonami was Goku vs Frieza, Goku training in the afterlife, and Piccolo training Gohan.

Sorry I didn't mean the action was unclear, I more meant how silly the action paired with the onomatopoeias was~

Everyone else doesn't know just how wrong we can be!

I love that a key plot point in the Frieza saga is that characters who have telekinesis, space ships, and can destroy whole planets can't carry the seven Dragonballs while flying.

You can't read manga fights literally panel by panel, instead you have to let them wash over you like an impressionist painting.

Otherwise it would just be silly.

Yeah we watched, my wife's high school classmate ran it

I might have seen her!

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Single women plan community home in Osaka to age together | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis Their vision came together over tea, desserts and an array of colorful sticky notes.

Single women plan community home in Osaka to age together
Their vision is simple but, in today’s Japan, still radical: if the kind of home they need does not exist, they will create it themselves.

EORZEA CAFE

Had no idea one of the early plotlines involves fighting a Nazi-like group for the Dragonballs

Advice of the day I wish I had gotten and followed: learn best strategies for talking to someone undergoing delusions so you have some idea of what to say if the situation arises.

I'm always saying this

For me it's context. Declare isn't colloquial on its own either, but my grandma saying "I do declare it's going to be a hot one" or "I reckon we should head on back" are both colloquial dialogue to me?

Culture

Whole lot of masochists here to run in the cold

Reading Dragonball for the first time.