Cassie Selin

I don’t think I’ll be buying a windows pc again any time soon

I don’t think the metaphor of the doomsday clock makes any sense at all

she noticed 💅

Pokemon one and pokemon free

what's the go with bandcamp making your purchase history public. why did they do that.

So many details to notice. I also like spiritomb and the way oddish is chilling with its legs in the ground

stranger: what do you do for work?
me, shamefully: computer

Excadrill, a mole Pokemon, eating/napping with human miners

Love this Pokemon card art of Excadrill on a union break with human colleagues in a mine.

lmao the different font. Definitely a full sentence the email author typed out themselves

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

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it's so important that your pokemon knowledge is correct

Oh this is like looking for the original legend about a flying pig or a horse being led to water that won’t drink

you triggered my Pokémon/weeb/manga trivia side. If you look up the full phrase in Japanese you can also find a lot of references on the Japanese web just defining the idiom with no reference to Pokémon. Sorry for dragging your good name through the mud

Dungeon meshi is of course post Pokémon but I don’t feel like you’d work the phrase out backwards and then use it for a joke expecting your audience of potentially non-Pokémon fans to understand it. I’ve read it in other manga too but I knew for sure it was in dungeon meshi due to the food thing lol

Oh shit it’s in vol 1 and I have an book of that

I’ve read this phrase used in manga totally unrelated to Pokémon so I do think it’s a real saying. I think the Pokémon existing has made localisers confident in just translating it directly. When I get home I’ll look for a translation note at the back of a dungeon meshi volume, iirc it’s used there

Just being able to get some numbers on how many outdated things there are is handy for now!

This is handy! Next time I inherit an old site that needs a tune up I'll definitely be using this. Or can use the reporting from this to try to argue for CSS improvement budgets.

noo, hope you get better fast!

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i miss when this guy was the only LLM

Dai dark for making me clap my hands in glee this year

Also I of course read a billion comics this year as usual but that’s hard to summarise and track. Shout out to fool night for being particularly good ongoing, a guest in the house for being particularly good standalone, the dc comics app for making me frustrated and insane

the book of elsewhere was the one real dud.

a fisherman of the inland sea by ursula k le guin

I forgot one!!

Screenshot of book covers - absolution by jeff van der meer, the book of elsewhere by keanue reeves and china mieville, the scar by china mieville, flow my years the policeman said by philip k dick, ways of seeing by john berger, the ministry for the future by kim stanley robinson, blood meridian by cormac mcarthy, you must understand this if you want to live by max laverge, martian time slip by philip k dick, the long way to a small angry planet by becky chamgers, the player of games by ian m banks

books I read this year

also - deltarune and soulsov are obviously episodic and not done yet, but I'm counting them as ones I 'finished' for the year because I am allowed.

Tempopo, hades II, Death stranding 2, Synth riders, pokemon legends z-a, citizen sleeper 2 starward vector

yes I went back and played the DLC for citizen sleeper 1 but didn't finish 2 yet... other games defining my year even though they're not done yet

screenshots of the key art for: mouthwashing, citizen sleeper, kentucky route 0, emio the smiling man, slay the princess, deltarune, 1000x resist, clair obscur expedition 33, and soul of sovereignty prelude

I completed a pretty small number of videogames this year, a couple I played a lot but are still in progress (hades II and death stranding II) so I can't comment yet. Probably my most played game this year was synth riders. But these are the manageably-sized mostly narrative games I finished