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shiro lolitas are god's bravest soldiers. they have to be perfect every time. dirt only has to be lucky once

whoever subtitled the ebook release of Natalie Zina Walschots's Villain

"A Sharp and Hilarious Superhero Sequel Where the Auditor Goes on the Offensive"

should be mulched. this one has very little hilarity about it.  it's quite a bit pointier than Hench. it is "queer and neurodiverse" like the first paragraph of the execrable ad copy says, but this story is actually about the exercise of power, either clothed by institution or naked and personal.

at some point when you deconstruct capeshit, you have to sit down and work out whether you're okay with the implied body count, but that's literally what Hench was about, so Villain is the followup that makes the reader pay for buying into that calculus.

anyway, i liked it. great summer beach read 🏖️

phew, i'm ready to take a break from scary ocean game. i should catch up on my funny picture books. oh hello, final volume of wacky far future nonbinary gem people, i don't know how i missed you in the reading stack…

feels unfair to my character to be snacking on strawberries and cream irl when i know she's going to be eating nothing but fish jerky and a seaweed described as having the flavor of "cinnamon and alcohol" for the next 20–40 hours

#VyrPlaysSubnautica2

personally i like my games about 80% vertigo, 20% simulation, and the rest can fuck off. Lumines Arise and Sektori meant more to me than pretty much anything that came out last year and i'll be forever baffled that this isn't a universal.

references:

• quote is from Addiction By Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
• quote references Man, Play, and Games

just released slurp 1.1.1, which fixes a boneheaded bug that broke imports entirely. thanks to @lucy for the diagnosis and patch.

binaries here: https://codeberg.org/vyr/slurp/releases/tag/v1.1.1

i've added a test that covers the prereqs for archive import and some helpers to make writing future GTS-testrig-based tests easier.

#slurp

some motherfucker on Reddit just described Subnautica as a "cozy game" because it has a similar "gameplay loop" as Stardew Valley. suggestions in the thread also included:

• Abiotic Factor
• Citizen Sleeper
• The Long Dark
• Dredge
• Inscryption
• Rimworld
• Final Fantasy XIV

thread also contains gems like

Lately, I’ve been tweaking settings to make the game really easy or remove big stressors. I think there’s a stigma that prevents people from doing this, but I’m over it.

i'm going to walk into the sea

these make a much better fidget toy than the factory set

PSA: you wouldn't think a well-known festival wear vendor would give a shit about plus sizes (especially if you've ever tried to buy festival/club stuff retail or from unvetted online vendors), and yet IHeartRaves actually does, to the point of having plus size models. user report: the clothes are lit.

i ordered one of their bodysuits (Flashbang Matrix) and one of their overalls (Lucid Lava) for a thing in the desert. both fit, which is a genuine surprise to me with bodysuits especially. after a day i noticed the overalls even had a second set of buttons that i've never seen on pants before that were apparently put there to be adjusted to make my hips look even better. the quality's solid, the zippers are smooth (i've got stuff from rando Amazon vendors where that's absolutely not the case, apparently zippers are a common cost cut), the fabric breathes more than i expected.

i'm getting compliments from strangers, i'm honestly floored. i kinda expected i'd be doing this in like… a sports bra and cargo pants, or something else partly unisex and depressing like that. but no, i get to look femme and hot. hence the post midnight PSA before i forget.

#fashion #plussize #plussizefashion

Reincarnated Into the Future Because the Goddess Didn't Listen?! Now It's the 2400s and All of My Harem Members Are In Opposing Factions of the Great Solar Expansion War!! Somebody Help Me I Throw Up Every Time I Enter Hyperspace and I Am Not Good With Diplomacy, What Is Even Happening, Surely Space Is Plenty Big for All These Women!!

autocomplete insists it has to be "Pesto-Bismol", which i don't think is correct, nor should it be allowed to mean anything

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-HFS-Fixes-Linux-7.1 yay!

plus size fashion take: i'm so fucking tired of people recommending Lucy & Yak, NooWorx, Big Bud Press, Wildfang, and other eye-searing pattern-clashing shit in cuts and colors that signal "i am no longer interested in being perceived as attractive"

i'm sorry for whatever happened to you, but that is no reason to suggest that just because i am also fat, i should buy a boxy shirt that costs $120 and is made out of a tablecloth from the 1970s

#fashion #plussize #plussizefashion

why can't the AI do my fucking laundry

every time someone who wasn't there tries to explain Empty Spaces, take a shot

every time they cite a post facto web page rather than some of the actual tweets from the actual writers, finish the bottle/magazine

Expanding Swift's IDE Support

okay, good title, page at https://swift.org/blog/expanding-swift-ide-support/

You can now write Swift in a broader range of popular IDEs, including Cursor, VSCodium, AWS’s Kiro, and Google’s Antigravity.

wait. cue the Donnie Darko meme. real IDEs or VSCode again?

By leveraging VS Code extension compatibility,

god dammit

Linux installer is telling me that i need to enable Secure Boob with an owner key or my GPU driver won't work. call me old fashioned but i think that should be between me and my girlfriend and not involve Nvidia

idk what my cat's complaining about. i'm not doing anything to her that i wouldn't put up with myself:

• spayed
• collared
• other females in my territory
• antidepressants

a week of fish and i'm never going back