April 30, 2025

Random thoughts

This is a sentence. Another sentence follows that sentence, whose purpose has a rather roundabout, redundant way of saying there hasn't been much in the way of rambling lately.

And the final sentence of this prelude promises to solve that dilemma.

Can't believe it myself, but FFXIV won me over pretty accidentally-like. It's way too damn complicated at times, but there is lots of appreciable detail, too. The music ranges from epic and heartfelt to deep and sublime. I am also quite content to do nowhere near everything that it offers. But I suppose you don't want to do everything in the real world, either.

Kind of surprised how good Eisbrecher's latest record is. If you like industrial/electronic stuff you'll probably like Kaltfront. Perplexing though is that they got practically zero attention on it, unlike the last album.

Bit of a shame, but sadly music is worthless on Earth now. I'm just glad it got made. Truly, when I learned Noel Pix had departed I wondered how any of their trademark elements could possibly be preserved. Instead, Kaltfront proved not only a good step forward, but it ended up being the only record I liked every song from! There's this weird thing where I'm a fan of 80-90 percent of the material, but never all. Interesting.

Wait. Shit. That means I can't wear their merch.

By the way, I've gotten a few bug reports over the years from people who all had one thing in common - they were using OpenEmu. Those bugs were not the result of a bad rom, patcher or header - they've got nothing to do with me, either.

Don't play my mods with OpenEmu - you will encounter bugs. A perfectly good, regular ass emulator will do you swimmingly. To further that end, both RHDN and the Mods page have been updated to specifically recommend several.

yojimbo.

April 19, 2025

lol

You can barely say anything in youtube comments without it getting deleted. Half wondering if it's targeting specific users now

Did I mention yet on this blog that comments about the prison planet get scrubbed? Found out by accident a few months back. Now really, that has got nothing to do with current buzz topics. Fascinating huh? Like someone wanted to prepare for if it became one

..yeah. I doubt it will. It is just is too many layers above the reality people live in day to day. Only way I can see that knowledge permeating this sphere at scale would be after it is too late; the entire planet is designed to prevent it from happening at all and AFAIK it never has

also, fuck that nintendo switch "2"

March 31, 2025

FF1 3.4

Twice the mega power.

♥ Major Fixes
♥ Colorful Bows & Harps
♥ Hit Count Display in Status Menus
♥ Music Continuity in Menus
♥ Blue Rose Rework
♥ INT Bonuses for Cure & Heal
♥ Regenerative Enemies & Weapons
♥ Five-Letter Character Names
♥ Snappier Combat + Enemy Death Sounds
♥ More Seasons
♥ In-Game Menu Colorizer

(changelog)

March 11, 2025

They're already erasing words, people, places, and history.

My voice is far from large. And I did not want this to be my first writing of the year. But the western state of affairs will have ripple effects for generations across this world.

This is fascism. This is 1984. This is Animal Farm. This is a monument to the suffering of old men who got their way for far too long. And the new right hand, who keeps his kid on his shoulders to help soak up bullets, literally did the thing.

I wonder whether women or trans people will be first to enter the camps.

To those who voted for this, I hope you are ready; siding with the bad guy never ends well. Your movies should have taught you that. "Move fast and break things" is not how you lead a world, nor a business. And a nation is not a business.

It will not be long before protests are outlawed. It is already being discussed. Meanwhile, criminals are being freed for speaking favorably of the cult.

My 'About' page was recently scrubbed from my website (I added it back) and given how fast things are being atomized it probably won't be the last thing taken from me. But I will not forget who I am, nor who I was, even if I am invalidated of every last conceivable identifier.

Spirit above all.