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Once Upon a Katamari is fun, but holy shit is the game relentlessly railroading you through text boxes, cutscenes, and tutorials.
It's a Katamari game, let me roll the ball around, choose stages as I wish, then give me instructions on new game modes and challenges!

Finally got around to raising a noise complaint again.
Really shouldn't have put it off, but worrying that nothing will change takes over, so I avoided it.

While walking home yesterday I saw something shining in a neighbours window, I realised it was party decorations, as there was another part that said "girls just want to have fun".
I hope it's for a party they already had and not an upcoming one, but I guess we'll see

Looks like I've been unbanned! Root cause might've been the dev using a shared Pro API key. Oldtwitter (not the Tweetdeck addon I was using) was meant to be purely an aesthetic change, but it used that key for retweets bizarrely. Currently rate limited though, but that should clear up by tomorrow?

Samsung changed the default behaviour for notifications in Android 16.
Now you have to swipe down, then swipe right

Some people are saying they've been hit by the Twitter ban wave and they weren't using any addons, so I think they've been kind of overzealous

Kind of crazy that a platform full LLM generated replies will ban regular users for "inauthentic behaviour"

The other weekend I went to Midland Records to finally pick up my copy of Jamie Page's Constant Companions.

They had a larger range than I expected, with a fair few anime and game OSTs. There was even a Cassette Beasts record there!
Bit outside my price range for regular purchases though.

Habits I'm working on to save time:
- Leave tidying up as a before bed task. It gets me off my PC earlier and gives me more focus for day tasks
- Schedule my washing machine to end a little after I wake up. Then I don't miss out on sunlight + I have another reason to get out of bed in the morning

Hell yeah, a Mamdani win.
Also Adams got like nothing lol

Ukrainian computer game-style drone attack system goes ‘viral’ System rewards soldiers who achieve strikes with points that can be used to buy more weapons in an online store

This feels all kinds of fucked, I don't think you should be recreating Call of Duty and other gamification mechanics in an actual war. Also this creates really bad perverse incentives buff.ly/J7URUix

I'm hearing that the crystal people are now willingly bathing themselves in EMF because someone repackaged it as overpriced monitors that play Matrix screensavers at you.
Unsurprisingly the creators and sellers are suing each other buff.ly/24YAMfQ

Insane that people will seriously go on Linkedin of all places and be incredibly racist. Why the hell would you ever do that with your full name, city, and job attached

Finished handling my tax return earlier this week, so I've been able spend this Saturday taking care of chores and doing random research

Bought 8GB ram to help my ailing Yoga 460 (from 2017), forgot it only has one slot!
Put it in my even older laptop, but wasn't sure how that 16GB, turns out that one has two slots hidden under the keyboard!
Ordered a 16GB stick, which is rare in DDR3, as DDR4 came out around then

Last night I heard bland 2000s pop from my place even with windows closed. Play something spookier you cowards!

Here's the best decorations I saw for Halloween. Something weird's going on culturally as I feel like there was even less Halloween theming around Perth than last year

there's also this one lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wjyaF8ut_E

Video for context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isAQEU0mZBo
Maybe growing up in a country with a semi-annual long distance solar powered car competition has skewed my expectations of what should be possible

Either these people are stupid or they've been exposed to too much anti-renewable propaganda.

With efficient enough panels and blades of course a solar powered drone was going to be possible. There's not an anti-electronics aura around solar panels!

Keyboard customisation software has a really bad habit of overlapping jargon with existing terms (how is hold vs. tap "quantum"). Also don't like how the VIAL devs evade documentation responsibility for a bunch of settings they've renamed from the QMK docs!

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Cece's little AI clone is very cute, I hope she develops it further. The way it sighs and keeps saying honestly lmao buff.ly/qtG8VVE

haha yeah, especially with the line colour lol

This is why you don't buy gold when everyone is telling you "buy gold!!!"

Writing this kind of spiel for a Celeron laptop with no GPU in 2025 is insane. None of the specs come close to justifying $2000USD. They must have been paid off to promo like this, or they are mixing it up with another model.

Shock trainers now use the angle "wot if a snake bit your dog?" to sell negative reinforcement. Arguing against it on the spot made me wish I could just take this rubbish at face value.

Family telling me this even doubted the dog would remember and it requires yearly refreshers!

Yeah it is, but strange what noises I do hear versus those I don't. Like sirens and engine revvers are still an issue sometimes

Apparently this was last night, and only like a few hundred metres from my place and I couldn't hear it at all?
The noisiest thing here is occasional fireworks, the ventilation system, and the upstairs neighbours lol

Couldn't get my usual bread from Woolworths today, apparently some issue with the suppliers. The shelves had loads of Woolworths generic ones instead, and filled other space with tortillas. Wonder what happened there

Thank you World Bank, I don't know where we would be without revelatory insights like "when people grow older they reach working age"

Listened to a podcast last night where one of the guests briefly mentioned Vibram toe shoes as a fashion item that is anti-stilleto and not catering to the male gaze. Someone is very naive about the internet and the human psyche lol

lmao the retraction of a retraction. I keep running into comments trying to downplay the bigoted shit DHH keeps saying.
Definitely an annoying playbook from both the worst people and the proudly ignorant anti-politics crowd