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My route tierlist (spoiler alert) for The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
(lmk if anyone wants the template for this)

I just realized that it's the year of the horse next year so maybe people will finally recognize Gunma-chan

You could spend a bunch of time learning new skills but if you're not making any money from it, people are gonna say "what are you doing with your life" 🫠 (vent over)

Screenshot from Gunma-chan S2 - 03. A mini Haniwa dressed like a dentistry-themed superhero with a tooth belt & cape holding a large toothbrush.

Just released Gunma-chan S2 - 03: Daruma Omikuji/Jomo Karuta Tournament/Gunma-chan Has a Toothache with NovaWorks.
This will be our final release of Gunma-chan, but I'm proud of what we've put together.
Thank you for following us this far and I hope you enjoy the rest with the officials. Mata ne~!

@oxfruit.art Hiya Hans! (Or should I say Slimu?) I just wanted to let you know that these wonderful animated gifs you made 25 years ago still live on as Discord emotes in my friends' servers 😃

And I love everything you've made since then as well! ❤️

Wishing you the best for 25 more years!

Happy New Years!

For those of you who don't like to just use a service like spotify and still like to curate your own music collection, you can get free (and open source) automated metadata tagging of your files by using Musicbrainz Picard. I only just learned about this semi-recently and it's great

Urging people to play #awaria, not just for the toxic yuri ghost girls, or because the dev previously made helltaker or because it's free. But because this is a vibe

(It's also a pretty hard game that goes hard)

Screenshot of Azutama, a 2001 fangame based on Azumanga Daiou, specifically the part where the gang decides to have a snowball fight

In case anyone else also had the sudden hankering to play really old 2001 JP windows games (me!) you can still do so with Lutris (with a tiny amount of tinkering). Just remember to set LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 and run fluidsynth in the background for the midi to work (with the standard gm.sf soundfont)

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!! (いただきます！)

All of a sudden, I am in the mood for obsessing about Nanao from Robot Alchemic Drive. In the memes, she is just the right amount of tragedy and (unintentional) comedy to tickle the part of my brain that is into that kind of stuff. And I wanna recreate that dynamic in the stuff I make going forward

I made Pico Park 2 whiteboard fanart of internet friends who played this game with me XD

If you have the right group of silly/whimsical friends in voice chat, Pico Park 2 is probably one of the best multiplayer games in spite of difficulty (or perhaps because of the difficulty XD)

Going to the gym and spending outdoors is actually fun for me now. What is happening to me!?!?!

I also logged into my 17 year old livejournal account and felt a distinct & different sort of evil stare back at me...

For the first time in almost a decade, I logged into the Facebook account that I had forgotten to delete. It felt like I had accidentally touched a Palantir and gazed into the eye of Sauron before I logged back out 😓

Going to let that sleeping dog lie just for a little longer

literally me when I think of all the friends who went missing

As someone who has lived a relatively long time on the internet, I've seen many personalities eventually move on from their brilliantly exciting chuuni phase to simply recede to some next phase of life. It's a bit poignant. Sometimes I wish they could stay for a little longer, just for me.

As someone who does a fair bit of 3d modeling and rigging, watching a Live2D tutorial and learning about all the things people do to rig a 2.5D vtuber model is blowing my mind right now

I've gotten old enough where I think that's the kind of life I want to live. Not the drawing cats part specifically, but the leisure and freedom of self-expression that sometimes takes the form of making silly art

I remember when I used to work in a game dev company, there was this artist who I would always pass by on the way to my desk. She was almost always slacking off drawing cats. Realistic cats, cartoon cats, cats in different kinds of sizes; she just really loves drawing cats.

LibreOffice Writer window with the following text: 「サンキュ。……自律神経のバランスが崩れ、免疫力の低下につながります。寝不足、 朝食抜き、お風呂はシャワーだけという人は気をつけましょう。日ごろの積み重ねが ウイルスに負けない強い体を作るのです。勉強と同じだな。一夜漬けで覚えた公式は 次のひのテストでは役に立っても丸一日たてばなにも残ってないだろ。受験も風邪対 策も、毎日の小さな努力が結果的に自分にとっての大きな力になるというわけだ。こ のホームルームの時間ひとつとってみてもそう。……今、こうしておれの話を真剣に きいてくれてる人は、普段の授業もまじめにきいてくれてると思う。授業だけじゃな い、そういう人たちは普段から友達や家族の話も真剣にきいてあげることのできる人 聞だと思う。……その一万でホームルームなんか早く終われと思ってる人間もいる。 佐々木先生はどういう方針か知らないが、おれはホームルームも大事な授業の一環だ と思っている。先生がしゃべっているときはちゃんと耳を傾ける、簡単だよな、幼稚 園児でもやってるよな。だけど残念なことに、このクラスにはそんな簡単なことがで きない人間がいる。……今だけじゃないぞ。授業中もそうだ。おれが前に立って大事 なことをしゃべってるときに、いつもおれの似顔絵を描いてるやつがいる！」 　パン！　と南先生が両手で教卓を叩いたのと同時にわたしは顔を上げた。 　先生はまっすぐにわたしの顔を見ていた。

On a whim, I've decided to transcribe Japanese novels by hand again. Japanese input on Linux isn't half bad these days. And I still remember my kanji for the most part

On a whiteboard is a drawing of two people are visibly excited about Yo-kai Watch(TM)

I've decided to repost some old sketches from the other social media account. May they never be lost to time

Messing around with haniwa 3d because craft is a big bang. Daiba Kuhatsu said so himself.

I finally made an ambigram design that I don't hate lol

some really bad lettering

I tried to make an ambigram of my internet handle, but the best I could do at the moment was a 2013-era Treasury Secretary Jacob Yew.

And I call myself a typesetter

I'll get there eventually 😭

On AMQ today, the host decided to set the game to insert songs only. I took it as my cue to say "Ok, that's all the time I've got. I gotta get back to playing Animal Crossing New Leaf on my New Nintendo 3DS."

Secret noro lore

Keroro Gunso's (Sgt. Frog) 5th OP You-You-You is my favorite because of POLYSICS. And I like POLYSICS because I also really like Devo

The last time I was at a Wework trying to cream my coffee, I looked through the fridge with 15 different containers of milk all with broken seals and more than half of them have gone bad while still within the expiry date

It had the energy of an apartment where all the roommates hate each other