*halo deathmatch voice* little strawberry

trying new artstyle

An interesting facet of the whole US tariff situation from a tabletop publishing perspective is seeing exactly how many small-time US book printers who swore they were domestic manufacturers have been straight up lying to their clients and having their stuff printed overseas anyway, and are now caught in that lie.

that one crow meme but it's actually Selene

corvid activities

Showed Surge to a friend and her first reaction was to send me a picture of goofy from kingdom hearts. I don’t know how to process this

...It was too funny.

what a feat of strength it is that robert kurvitz has not killed himself. disco elyisum was just a tiny piece of the massive work kurvitz (and his team) had painstakingly crafted over so many years. he wrote so, so much about elysium- its inner workings, the people that lived there, the wars that occurred and the cultures that survived (or didn't), down to the symbols and colors flown by their governments. elysium was not simply a fictional universe of characters, but a living world. kurvitz carefully threaded every vein and artery in its beating heart just to have it ripped out of his hands. it boggles my mind that it's just gone. the theft of ZA/UM, and subsequently the loss of elysium, is in my opinion one of the greatest losses of modern fiction as a whole.

main character energy as in a little rabbit from a children's storybook who eats carrots and sits under the sun and does fuck all

it's called the Switch 2 because you Switch 2 a cheaper hobby

ive sent you a cashapp request for the soul of the last good knight

Kirby's Dream Land 3 (SNES) (1998)

The nostalgia for Skype is so fucking funny. Like come on. Even now discord is objectively better than it ever was. Skype was genuinely dogshit and anyone trying to pretend like it wasn't either never used it or has completely forgotten what it was like

Skype's groupchats were limited to like 100 people and started lagging and becoming unstable way before you got to that point. The moderation features were extremely basic and close to nonexistent. Your screen was locked into a permanent blinding white light. No distinct channels, no voice chats and no options for customization. No roles, no custom emotes, no officially supported bot API (from what I can remember), the mobile app is (was) dogshit etc etc etc. Like come on. Be serious.

this culminates in people posting the memes comparing Discord's file upload functionality with Skype's file upload functionality which I initially assumed to be ironic in a similar way as those memes comparing a brick and a windows pc where the conclusion is that brick wins because it can't run league of legends...

but at this point a nonzero number of people are taking it seriously, in which case I need to remind people that the reason why Discord limits file sizes is because it stores them pretty much indefinitely for you, for free, as opposed to Skype's file upload where both the sender and the receiver (yes, it's strictly point-to-point) have to be present for file transfer to succeed, the internet connection at no point can fail, so good luck uploading that 2GB file over your dinky 50KB/s upload connection you would likely have at the prime of Skype's popularity (also in my experience getting Skype file upload almost never worked)

if this form of file transfer is desireable, we have modern solution for this, in the form of Magic Wormhole, which is in no form tied to an existing chat protocol or service, and does not require you to set up accounts anywhere.

I know I have a startlingly low tolerance for gimmick blogs but this run of Elvis blogs has been funny exactly 1 time (whoa mama I'm one of your mutuals). And it definitely didn't need offshoots

Let's pretend to be someone else for April Fools, as a joke, haha.

And then we continue to pretend, okay? And maybe we can do it whenever we want, okay?

And it's okay if it isn't a joke, you know? You can be someone else if you want to, with a new name and everything! And then you can keep being yourself and we can understand that that wasn't you, okay? And we can keep them separate people and that can be nice. And you can be yourself and that can be someone else!

Doesn't that sound fun?