Leon ._.

Postcard of a photo of a family on an airplane in the 80s, and the child is reading a book that's ignited into flames, with gray smoke billowing out

Just loaded up http://Postcardware.net on a whim and instantly hit solid gold

I know right

Game is called "Spooky Express"

Looks inside

Stopping at all stations

As a personal opinion… I feel like the big appeal of train networks is that they connect distant places into a single vast "system", so I feel this premise would have been solidly ideal for a contiguous world you could admire from afar such as in Monster's Expedition. Oh well.

#IPlayed Spooky Express (the train sokoban from Draknek). Not too bad, but I will say the final world being a haunted carnival but having no new mechanics beyond "the train platforms are longer" was a bit weak. I at least expected merry-go-rounds you can shunt passengers onto.

Oerlikon 20mm cannon

Oerlikon in Super Mario RPG's localisation is named after this thing??

Who is this reference even FOR

I also think a good deal of the humour and surprise/shock value is lost without having played Higurashi first, but they are mostly different genres (albeit with similar approaches to mystery and suspense).

FWIW the Steam version's translation is just a repack of the original mid-00s fan translation, for all that entails. Yes you can turn off the art also.

I just watched this again and can't believe I missed the hopscotch at 0:15

Thinking about this and reflecting on how, conversely, everyone and anyone emulated EarthBound…… entirely because of Smash Bros

Yeah, sorry, I can't make it today, real embarrassing but Madotsuki turned into a stoplight and changed to red. Now she's just walking on different tiles to play sound effects. Yeah, no, yeah, it's her base walk speed so it's gonna be awhile yet. Tomorrow's probably good. Sorry.

Just been informed that the Pythonic equivalent of e.flatMap(w => w['tags']) is a nested list comprehension of the form "[tag for w in e for tag in w['tags']]", once again keeping me humble about my programming language assumptions.

AO3 stands for Archive Trioxide

Because alt+drag is actually a useful combination in Firefox, I bound it to Windows key+drag (having already unbound the Windows key's bind to the Start menu years ago because I find pressing it by accident way too annoying for what *should* just be a modifier key…)

I agreed… but then I thought, surely there's a better way to drag a window in 2025 than that one barren strip.

Anyway, I installed something that lets you modifier-key-click any part of the window to drag, which has apparently been a standard Linux feature for over a decade.

I was reading a reddit thread about window title bars versus "header bars" (header bars are essentially toolbars or tab bars, such as in Chrome) and the main argument was that, as title bars are the only way to drag a window, header bars eat into that precious space too much.

If you have Fate/stay night installed, then pressing the F8 key should launch it. It's not like anything's using that key for something more important.

To the wise, Halloween is just a more specific April Fools

THAT'S ALL!! I decided to shell out a lot more than I normally would to grab a good sample of this bothersomely large comic offering, so I hope y'all can use these recommendations as a good guide for the remaining… two hours of the sale… and counting.

Fallen into the Garden (https://is.gd/sfDmLo) – I liked this artist's previous comic, and while this continues last year's themes of space-faring culture-shock among sagely women, this one is more romantic and visceral. (Maybe the conclusion is a little abrupt, though.)

Fallen into the Garden (https://is.gd/sfDmLo) – I liked this artist's previous comic, and while this continues last year's themes of space-faring culture-shock among sagely women, this one is more romantic and visceral. (Maybe the conclusion is a little abrupt, though.)

Bagatto (https://is.gd/toPJhy) – This comic is a platter of iridescent, sumptuous art and surreal dream scenes… maybe it doesn't have much to say writing-wise, but it successfully plays to its own strengths.

Aimé (https://is.gd/MAFHBU) – What initially seemed like a somewhat standard fairytale-type story with a simplistic art style managed to shock me with a few surprisingly touching scenes (including the climax) as well as several moments of artistic beauty.

Extraterrestrial (https://is.gd/yvkU1T) – A cute story with incredible colouring. Even if the characters and expressions might be a little too hammy, the dialogue is funny enough to keep up the story's momentum.

Sharpie's Mission of Rage and Justice (https://is.gd/7VXq9y) – A fun little wacky comic with great character interactions and dialogue that feels like it fits a lot into a little.

Li'l Burgers (https://is.gd/KpFGfM) – Funny and impressively well-drawn social satire about the contradictions of patriotism and globalisation, where national symbols violently and fruitlessly attack their own cultural irrelevance.

In Case of Turbulence (https://is.gd/PcPtrf) – While this is just a series of disposable memoir-type gag comics without any real conclusion, it gets my nod just for how snappy the punch-lines are.

Ladies of the Living Princess (https://is.gd/z7AfuL) – Despite a slow start (and somewhat muted ending), this grows to be quite the entertaining supernatural story with a surprisingly fun main couple.

Dead Horses (is.gd/cem4L8) – This one EASILY ranks as the best among the ones I tried this year. Excellent imagery and pacing, with a simple but not entirely predictable story, and characters who keep unfolding even far later than you'd expect.