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Marie from Peripeteia:

 
I like her creepy doll face

I saw a guy that I used to watch devolve into a baittuber in just a few months. It was both sad and extremely pathetic.
 
Face cam, clickbait ALL CAPS titles, open mouth reaction thumbnails, copying whatever the big streamers are doing, jumping immediately into the current trend, bending down to the algorithm, torturing himself with bad stuff because it "generates more clicks", demanding people to leave their PCs on to fake audience for advertisement streams, stopping doing stuff because it was "not getting views".
 
The first red flag was set during one stream I joined and noticed the views had dropped by almost half of what it was a few hours before, so I asked what happened and he immediately snapped thinking I was insinuating he lost views because he was ranting (again).
The second flag was set when he stopped a stream for one hour to review his blocked word list and it was entirely made of single words that made him mad, including common verbs and even a few colors.
Then what made me stop watching was when I joined a stream and , like always, every ""joke"" was "haha cock", "haha gay" or "haha doing your mom". I made a side comment saying "recently all his jokes are either "penis" or "haha gay"" and he once again snapped saying "fuck you, you are not even subscribed".

Did you know that there's supposed to be a siren and a scream at the start?  I didn't until I heard it in doom.
 
EDIT: This made me realize that if you want to hear old midis as their composers intended them to be heard, your best bet might be to make a doom wad, put the desired songs as level music, then load the wad into some ZDoom variant (including GZDoom).  All the actual music players I know of that play midis use the Windows library, which usually doesn't match the AdLib sounds people were going for.
 
EDIT2: I have spent a half an hour trying to find a better way to play AdLib midi files without loading them into Doom.  I have found a DOS player which I can't get to work at all in DOS Box; all sounds are silent for midi files and files that I KNOW were for AdLib claim that they are in an unsupported format.  I did get the AdPlug plugin for Winamp working, kind of.  Now Winamp won't play normal midi files (including the infamous ghostbusters one) but it WILL play the Doom soundtrack files correctly, however I need to rename them from .MUS to .MID files.  I know for a fact that the Ghostbusters one IS intended for Adlib, but it's possible (and actually pretty likely) that the version I have is a conversion from .MUS to .MID that somehow destroyed the file format.
 
Conclusion: I wasn't joking when I said that the easiest way to listen to these songs properly is to put them as background music for a Doom wad and then load that wad up.

Black was a great game in a lot of ways, and I'm still wondering why I've never seen another FPS toy with the concept of dynamic reloads/weapon swapping (faster in combat, slower out of combat). It's such a small feature but it really improves the "flow" of the game, especially since they're new animations, not just sped up ones.
 
Example of a fast reload:
 
 
Slow reload:
 
 
After I first played it about 15 years ago I was thinking that there's got to be other games with this feature, but I've not seen them yet. Which is strange, since it's a really neat TECHNOLOGY feature to have. The closest I've seen was Killing Floor 2 changing some reload animations with perks, but that's not really the same thing (though it is also cool).

While I was browsing around trying to fix some other terrible fucking Origin shitshow related to buying the titanfall 2 steam release while owning the inferior origin release and that causing the steam version to be unplayable (never found the solution btw and I'm not convinced there is one) I ran across a classic support forum happening

"just right click and press exit anyway lol" god I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry

You remind me of this really good dev commentary node from a mod called "Half-Life C.A.G.E.D.". https://vocaroo.com/1hrZvB6PLlju
 
The "Big Lolly" mod he was talking about
 
I wonder if he knows how much of an impact his map, pl_hightower, had on the tf2 community... https://caylegeorge.com/

I was digging the depths of my hard drive and I just want to dump some old TF2 media here.
 
It's not the Black Box we got, but has ideas later used for the Beggar's Bazooka.
 
BUT THERE IS ONE THEY FEAR
 
Gang Garrison Engineer
 
The Holy Canteen
 
Part of a Fake Engineer update. Never got a nailgun, but the Cloak draining and EMP ideas were used in the Pompson and Short Circuit.
 
How tob eat spycicle
 
Pirate Fortress, Someone made models for them, don't know if they were ever released.
 
Before Collector's quality weapons, there was Science Achieved.
 
What if we could burn like... way more stuff?
 
I don't know if this was ever released as a mod.
 
Behold this ancient crossword puzzle.
 

Misaki's introduction.  This one had an obvious difficulty in the fact that most of the information is behind her tails, and both removing the text and repeating the effect on English text was definitely beyond my image manipulation abilities.  But this caused me less difficulty, since I decided early on to just leave it as is and put the translations to the side.  I guess that means that those of you who know some Japanese (which I guess means one person) can more easily critique my translations.
 

 
In panel two the three children each have a kanji making up the word "children" (子　供　達).  I did my best to mimic this in English.
 
The phrase "I use no tricks or gimmicks" is originally 種も仕掛けもない, meaning the same thing, and is apparently a stock phrase that magicians use in Japan.  If I recall correctly Trucy Wright says that even in the translation.  I originally changed it to "I have nothing up my sleeves!", the western equivalent stock phrase, but then Miko's retort didn't work as well.  And I've heard magicians make very similar statements in English so I ended up leaving it as is.
 
The text in the fourth panel is crossed out in the original.  Literally the first paragraph means something like "she loosens her expressions" but as far as I can tell this is an idiom to mean looking fiercely determined.  But it's crossed out presumably to indicate that no, she just ahs a fox's head at this point.
 
In the second to last panel the kids are screaming about a monster.  I almost changed it since I could have replaced that text, but at this point I just want this chapter to be done with.
 
There's a pun I didn't translate in the last panel.  "Master fox" corresponds to a word 達人 except 人 is literally crossed out and replaced with 狐.  The word 達人 means something like "master", i.e. someone very skilled in his field, and the second kanji literally means "person" or "human."  So the joke is that since Misaki isn't a human but rather a fox she should properly be a 達狐.  I couldn't find a way to preserve the pun, but if you can think of one let me know.
 

 
Now we get to the most tertiary character of all, Yuzu.  I don't much to say here other than to remind you that a "Yuzu" is a type of citrus fruit, which Yuzu is holding.
 

 
The title of the chapter is tricky to translate.  It means something like "a relationship decreed by fate" which could refer to Yuzu ending up living with Miko and Misaki, but I am taking to reference to how she's stuck being thought of as "that shrine girl."
 
I have no idea what the cloud is on panel 3.  Presumably some sort of spirit, but spoiler alert: it never shows up again in the comic (not even in the extra art pages provided in the pdf.)  All we know is that it's kind of like a cloud, it's hazy and it can take on other shapes.
 
The game Kokkuri is basically the Japanese version of Ouija.  You write out the kana on a piece of paper and have different people touch a yen coin which then gets moved to spell out messages in response to questions.  You may have seen it in anime without realizing it, for example Yukko tries to get Mio to play it in an episode of Nichijou.  The reason why Yuzu is getting asked about it is that rather than a ghost (like in Ouija) Kokkuri is supposed to be a fox spirit, like in the Kokkuri anime.
 
And that's it for the introduction.  I have drafts done of several of the later chapter, but since I need to revise and polish a lot I'm not going to give an estimate on when you'll see them.  (I don't think that actually lets you dodge the comic curse, but it doesn't hurt to try.)
 
EDIT: I just realized that I didn't replace Miko's text on panel two of the last page, and I'm definitely beyond caring enough to repost the image.  She's just saying "okaerinasai", i.e. the standard welcome you say to people when they get back home.

As long as we're doing blasts from the past.
 
 

This popped up in my recommendations and I was forcefully sent back in time to middle school.
 
 

Something I've been reminded of after working for 9 months is the things people just do without realizing it. I'm referring to myself in the sense of - when walking, I generally try to make as quiet of footsteps as possible. I've accidentally scared coworkers and to compensate I do loud stomps whenever I enter the lab or approach their office.
 
Another thing is that when walking, I generally have my vision angle pointing slightly downward, which I'm guessing is a habit I picked up as a kid when looking for coins or wanting to step in between the lines of tiles. I haven't really run into anyone (at work at least), but it explains why my shoes are cleaner than others since I try and avoid more spills or grossness I suppose.

This is pretty half-assed. Mainly done to convince myself that I can actually still parse Japanese sentences despite slacking off and to remind myself how to use the image software.
 

 
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/108169378

STOLEN VALOR
 
https://spufpowered.com/topic/19920-the-protomen/?tab=comments#comment-278045
 
 
If I recall correctly they intentionally made Act 1 in such a way as to go against everything they were taught in music school which is why a lot of it sounds so harsh and raw. I oscillate between whether or not I like Act 1 or Act 2 more - although Keep Quiet is always GOAT. Either way it's true that the Protomen have a super high depth-to-appearance ratio (if that makes sense).. Hell, the liner notes usually contain more words than the songs they're about and 90% of people won't see those.
 
Also new(-ish) song from Act 3:
 
 

As I play more TF2 and be insufferable on mic by saying "MY ULT IS READY MY ULT "GAS PASS" IS READY" when I have built up my Gas Passer damage, I really think making it recharge like Jarate might just be boring and there's room to make it more fun for the Pyro to use.
 
My three ideas that could be added on to it include:
1. Make those covered in gas take more damage from you specifically.
2. Give you a speed boost while people are on fire from it.
3. Heal you for every afterburn damage tick.
 
I'm not saying all three, but 1 and 3, or just 2, could make it more interesting. It really needs something besides damage if it wants to be different than the flare guns. Right now its only perks are setting pyros on fire as well as 5 seconds of "area denial" (which is why it can't be resupplied).
 
Reminder that Gas Passer is fun on Halloween maps with spells, since it's so easy to charge. Honorable mention to the Huo Long Heater, which is programmed to give you 25% bonus damage whenever it's deployed and someone's on fire (which makes your spells do 25% more damage while it's deployed, granted they're on fire. It's a good thing two spells set them on fire...).

I remember years ago someone posted about this album on here, I Iooked it up and thought it was a cute nerdy Megaman thing on the first listen
 
Revisiting it completely by chance last week I can't stop listening to it, it is absolutely fucking stellar

spring sux it's just allergy central

winter rules theres no bugs and relatively no allergies

I finally got it! Predictably, when I got in Google was having an aneurysm.
 

When you think about it, foxgirls are kind of an unsettling and disgusting concept, aren't they?

People also just need to curate where they visit better. I typically stay in higher quality discords and follow not a lot of people on twitter and I can avoid 90% of the boolshit.
 
But I still see that kind of stuff elsewhere or it can slip through the cracks on some discords I'm obligated to stay in, but I just don't bother most the time with that kinda stuff.

A bit late to the party, but I'm loving the insanity that is Rivals of Aether workshop characters.
 
 

Thoughts on Windows OS's, or rather public perception of them.
 
Windows XP is the king.  The only people who don't say this are the people who never used it or were thrown off by the default menu styles (which could easily be changed.)
 
Windows 7 is also well liked, because it currently holds the status of "the last good version of Windows."  It probably will maintain that status forever, honestly.
 
I think Windows 3.x and 98 are in the category of liked by people who use them, but a bit too old and obscure to have much perception in the general consciousness.
 
Windows 95 and Windows 2000 are in the "fine, but why bother using them" category.  I.e. 95 works but you might as well use 98 and 2000 works but you might as well use XP.  There's some point to using them with how good emulation tools are (so you might as well use the version of windows that a program was specifically designed for) but yeah 98 and 2000 almost make these obsolete.  (Though I guess Windows 2000 does allow compatibility with some hardware that XP does not, so maybe the question is really why use 98 when you could use 2000, I dunno.)
 
I think that Vista should be in the same category, in that it's fine but honestly you might as well use Windows 7.  But it will forever be tainted by its disastrous rollout.  If Microsoft had waited until drivers were common for Vista before pressuring PC manufactures to roll out with Vista, and didn't force it on to low end PCs that couldn't handle Aero, I think that Vista wouldn't have the bad reputation it does.  It does have some actually neat features; for example it's a hell of a lot easier setting up a LAN on Vista than XP.
 
ME is basically like Vista, but it deserves it.  Disastrous rollout, but never got into a usable state before being obsoleted by XP, and to make matters worse Windows 2000 was a better OS that had come out earlier.
 
The number of people who have actually used Windows 1.x and 2.x are miniscule, and there's really no point to using them as opposed to 3.0, 3.1 or 3.11.  You can't even have overlapping windows in 1.x.  Not that I'm saying they were horrible, since the very concept of a GUI on an OS was new at the time, but there's no point to them now except very particular historical interest, and they are largely unknown in the public consciousness.
 
Windows 8 was a mistake the whole way through, though it's unclear if Microsoft actually learned anything from it in the long term.  I do give it credit for trying to mix things up, since a lot of the Windows GUI has just lasted by inertia even if it is not particularly functional, but lazily copying smartphone design was not the way to go.  However Windows 8 did do wonders for the popularity of Windows 7 (I think before Windows 8 the consensus was that Windows 7 certainly was usable, but that XP was a better operating system for the time.  But after 8 came out you started having people legitimately argue that Windows 7 was the best of the OS line.)
 
Windows 10 isn't hated because it is usable, but it's pretty rough when compared to Windows 7.  This is definitely the version of Windows where Microsoft really started going "fuck you you don't own your computer, we do" though thankfully most of the worst of that stuff can be disabled.  The real problem with Windows 10 is that no one involved really knows what it is supposed to be.  I still don't understand why the start menu has an alphabetical listing of programs and I especially don't understand why you can't disable that entirely or replace it with a more convenient navigation system.  System settings are usually scattered across ten different places, often with overlaps and often with options that lie (in that nothing happens when you select them.)  Often workarounds work for a while and then mysteriously break for reasons that no one, not even Microsoft developers, understand.  It's a mess; a much bigger mess than Windows Vista, and I think it's more confused than Windows 8.  The only lesson that Microsoft really learned coming from 8 was "don't copy smartphones on desktop."
 
Windows 11 just doubles down on everything bad about Windows 10, and lazily steals design styles from Apple as a cherry on top.  But like 8 before, it is doing a good job of making people like the previous operating system.

People also just need to curate where they visit better. I typically stay in higher quality discords and follow not a lot of people on twitter and I can avoid 90% of the boolshit.
 
But I still see that kind of stuff elsewhere or it can slip through the cracks on some discords I'm obligated to stay in, but I just don't bother most the time with that kinda stuff.

The grind isn't bad, actually. Master Duel is a contender for most F2P friendly card game on the market. Which is wild because paper Yugioh decks make my heart palpitate when I look at the cost. Up until the Anniversary came out I had spent precisely $0 on the game, and have multiple decks of varying meta status, from tier 1 threats like Branded Despia and Swordsoul to almost-Rogue decks like 60 card Grass Zombies to "fun garbage" like Time Thief Raidraptors and P.U.N.K. PSY-Frames.
 
As for simulators, the interesting thing about Master Duel is I think part of what made me enjoy the game so much is the use of the OCG banlist. With one notable ex"C"eption, I think the OCG banlist philosophy of "let people have fun and play however they want" is way more interesting and feels less money grubby than the TCG approach of "If we nerf a deck, we're deleting it from the meta and crippling its playstyle entirely" so they can sell the next overtuned archetype.

Edit: Oh yeah and also the obvious benefit of not actually needing to learn the rules at the start, I ain't reading all that shit I'll just learn as I go.
 
PS: No

You know, belated appreciation post but I just want to thank (blame?) Corv for my current Yu-Gi-Oh! addiction, enabled by Master Duel. I started playing that game after not having played YGO since like...2008? I was in middle school anyway. And I immediately tried to get back into it building another Zombie deck, like my old one. It sucked, I tried to build Vendreads, 0/10 would not recommend, no not even with the most recent support.
 
Anyway, I was a bit dejected and trying to figure out what I could do with my limited resources, unsure if I'd permanently fucked myself pulling for the wrong packs. And suddenly, behold! A Dragonmaid Sheou from my most recent 10 pull, along with House Dragonmaid.
 
Not really my style, but two URs is hard to argue with and more importantly I had remembered Corv talking about them when they first came out, so my response was "Hey, I know these cards!"; familiar ground is comforting, and gives me an easy starting point.
 
Anyhoo I built a Dragonmaid deck, it was easy and did a lot of damage, and helped me grind gems easily early on so I could then build other decks (I built Branded Dragonmaids before it was cool), and I now have about 700 hours in Master Duel, am still having a ton of fun.
 
Thanks Corv!

But, erm... Look guys, look! One of my greatest achievements! Pizza Tower on the Steam Store! Hahahaha!