Pilz

Cat

Benjamin Blümchen, the famed German children's cartoon character of the eponymous TV series?

Incomprehensible even to me & maybe not much to talk about, I nevertheless find that these over time foster a subcons. dimensionality to how one engages & experiences such media. Plus, in the absence of deep stringent analyses, they capture best what I feel games like BP are artistically 'going for'

A "genre" of articles I'd in this regard recommend for personal reading are pieces of continental phil. offering very impressionistic & viscerally compelling analyses of the, as it were, "urban experience", like this one: flore.unifi.it/handle/2158/...

Forgot-it-not

This being the case, 'exploring' different HyperCard programmes would be nice just to compare with other applications.

Well, maybe it wasn't "lack of purpose" as such, but that it was the first and superceded by the time people figured out what to do with this technology.

Way to make me read a lengthy project proposal for a language learning app.

As regards the program: I've had a look around, and the literature seems to affirm HyperCard's lack of clear purpose mentioned in your first article. Mostly peripheral treatments and pedagogical reviews

Thank you for the article! I'm surprised I had never heard of this before – excited for the eventual exploration stream, if you're still up for it

Bird

This is where I post from

Colour fidelity unable to capture magnificence of the sky above

The Commission has pulled back the curtain on its plan to let member states ramp up defense spending within the EU fiscal rules.

It’s a fix—which is good—but it’s also a quick and pretty rough one. And it could come back to bite the EU on multiple fronts.

Quick thoughts:

Bluesky's gonna really take off once people discover joking

(Also, funny how little Xi-chun featured so far despite being the one introduced in Limbus)

An aside – I found this paper analysing the 12 Beauties, in the novel and in modern adaptations. The line spacing is, as ever, unfortunate, but it's still useful:

repository.wellesley.edu/object/ir533

While I've been hoping that the males would get more elaboration (esp. Rong and Qiang), I'm resigned to their remaining peripheral concerns. At least Xue Pan is a bit of a mainstay, whom I've come to like as the charming scoundrel in spite of myself and his early presentation.

Oh, the poetry is a good point. I've been enjoying the cleverness in her productions, and the imagery in Xiang-yun's; the poetry club is a very welcome development after the common interpersonal trudgery.

Xiang-yun and Li Wan for their parts are my second and third favourites.

Well, still on Volume 2, so that might all be subject to change*. I do promise to catch up at least to the end of Volume 3 in-time for the Canto release!

*apart from Xi-feng, god bless her

Most enjoyable I'm finding the depiction of social functions and especially the familial dealings apart from Bao-yu and the Garden dwellers. Xi-feng of course stands out as my favourite, but I'm finding myself wanting for more on characters like Rong and Qiang. And I miss Yu-cun.

Not unexpected! I like the goings-on of the servantfolk as well; but I'm unhappy to report that it's a bit tinged by my dislike for Bao-yu and disinterest in his interpersonal drama; Dai-yu and him deserve each other at least on that account.

Drinking grape juice while eating grapes seems oddly perverse

Good work! I'm but halfway through Volume 2 myself, but hoping to catch up in time for the Canto. What characters and aspects of the novel are you enjoying most?

KJH, that's not a cube

Dream of the Red Chamber / Story of the Stone

Cascadian anthem

is that–

Merz gives such 5'8 vibes that this comes as a shock to me too

I'll have to do the next Railway in 56 turns then

Limbus Company

Honestly a bit peeved over the broken series