Wandering Adventure Party

Today we begin the long process where we wait for the PM to only discover that the ask is simply impossible in the given time frame once it’s too late.

Only a hit dog will holler. ​​

SNAP benefits are going to lapse because of the shutdown. Not only is this going to hurt people (some I know personally), but it’s going to further strain the food bank system, which has been under stress already. It’s going to get ugly. In political terms; this is where people are paying with fire.

The fact that we’re still in government shutdown and pretty much everyone is comfortable with the current game of chicken is just a marker of how broken things are right now. And people are so overwhelmed by it all that they’re just normalizing and moving on with life. We’re 4 weeks in and it’s barely on the front page. ​​ the fact that we aren’t losing our goddamn minds is proof we already have lost our goddamn minds.

You’ve been seen.

I told someone they could look at my shelves and borrow something and they got pretty annoyed at me.When I moved here, I made the deliberate choice to only loosely organize my books (series and authors together, but that's it), and then just ... let them kinda freeflow around the shelves.I rarely need to look for a specific old book, but when I do, I find the exercise of just ... exploring randomly through the shelves really invigorating. I have a lot of half-finished or 'bought for later' books, and It gets me to reconnect and pull them off the shelves.But it does something fierce to the compulsive organized people.

The Banished Court Magician Aims to Become the Strongest...If you've seen one of this subgenre (What do we even call it?) of a prodigy who is kicked out of his unappreciative party and goes on to spite them then ... you've seen this show. I played it in the background just for noise and I am still disappointed. Zero imagination. It's just the same schlock with no new additions. Original party sucks, guy gets picked up by a girl in a better one, and you know the drill. Pass.#anime

I am having a bit of a hard time with this one. The concept is basically Samurai Flamenco - Someone's childhood obsession driving them to superheroics. That show kinda sheds some of the cringe by its slower ramp-up, and frankly, dumber and younger protagonist.With the way Tojima is framed ... he comes across as a bit cringe. It's harder seeing an older guy with this kind of obsession. Which whatever, its still a fun concept, right?...Then Okada shows up to bring in some emergency bustline (sigh). Sorta disappointed in that. Then it kinda switches gears really fast into "Shocker is real", which feels like super-fast pacing to me.I'm going to give this one a little longer, but I am not sure I am on board for it.#anime

Well, it only took work about 4 days to turn that promise into a lie. So that’s cool.

Protagonist is a <former military member>This in a synopsis is just an immediate drop. Too many naive writers equate this to weird badassry powers and it makes their protagonists too convenient.

I had to replace the air filters today. This would be fine if it wasn’t in the crawl space and I wasn’t somewhat claustrophobic. If I find who’s idea that was I will beat the ever living shit out of them. ​​Also replace your furnace’s air filters if you can access it. Your landlord won’t and it’ll help you breathe better.

I have to interact with someone whom (according to multiple sources besides myself) alters their memory pretty freely to put themselves in the right or make themselves look better. They probably do this unconsciously, because they can’t be dumb enough to read me the (falsified) Deep Magics when I was there at their writing. This person kind of terrifies me. To be that, to do that, would be to live in a hellish prison cell without knowing.

It really wants to understand it all, but It is weak. From this will and deficit in strength, the difference will be found in pain.

“If you’re not going to file a bug about it you shouldn’t complain.”Look friend, just let me bitch and blow some steam. I accept the software authors have zero responsibility to fix my issue, which also means I have zero responsibility to spend hours figuring out exact reproduction steps, building from the latest commit with debug symbols, and filling out forms so I don’t get a “could not reproduce, closed” response if anything at all. We grant each other the right to walk away and complain behind each others back. That’s what AS IS implies.

@yon@sakurajima.moe a baker can make a cobbler, but that cobbler will make no shoes.

Weeks of “I’m going to handle it” turned up nothing, and frankly it doesn’t look like they can monetarily afford to handle the thing. So I handled it in an afternoon. Now they’re kinda pissy and being fake polite about it. But like … other people were waiting on this to get done and were complaining to get it done. What am I supposed to do? I don’t suffer ego with problems - it gets done the moment it starts to be my problem. Im sorry if that interrupted your nebulous plans you never communicated.

I think I need to buy a watch. I turned off my phone and wandered for a few hours. The worst part was honestly that I couldn’t figure out the time.I feel like this will give me less excuses to check my phone.

It is 2025. A symbol on the left is a frog. A symbol on the right is a frog Like man, what’s going on…

@yon@sakurajima.moe I am not sure I understand the question, but tigers can hiss! ​​