Shou Hozen

He went on a radio stream today and apparently just went off on Twitter (Note: I am illiterate so I'm relying on machine translations of @tara_touhou on twitter and @progre.me on bluesky)

To summarize, "Twitter sucks ass, their security is useless, the first thing I saw after creating a new account was porn, the monetization of it made all the replies annoying foreigners saying the same thing over and over and all the people I hate are on there."

"Bluesky is great because it just shows me pictures of mushrooms and stuff."

Also important for archival, a group of people archived most, if not all of ZUN's twitter

Link to it here

SO SOME ASSHOLE GOT HOLD OF MY PHONE AND CHANGE ALL MY CONTACT NAMES, ICONS AND RINGTONES TO THIS FUCKING THING

Yes, after a few eons you'd run out of things to master and learn, but like... The idea that observing humanity or other sapient beings is something that would ever get "boring" or you'd tire of makes no sense to me, considering we're the species that keeps making stories and art and sharing it with each other. I find it much more interesting to frame such characters as becoming passive observers than disillusioned with immortality.

To be clear, I don't think the idea of observer immortals is bad either. But I think there's a lot of opportunity being ignored by just saying jaded immortals don't make sense. By looking at what makes people jaded over the course of a mere few years, you can frame what someone would feel over centuries. comparing thousands of ideas from hundreds of years to a small handful of concepts they adored when young. Or perhaps not even remembering those concepts, and just comparing things to a vague sense of nostalgia. And when you have a character like this, you can work around what could be done to change their mindset or bring them joy. What does it really take to help someone like this appreciate the little differences in life? A characters like this not only offers a lot of interesting stories or scenarios, but also shows people that have lost their 'enjoyment' for new things in life that they are acknowledged. That they aren't just rejected or ignored because they don't follow the common desire for new experiences or sights.

I didn’t want to get arrested so I just never asked my mom for spaghettis after that. Lesson, learned. Don’t ask mom for spaghettis or she’ll call the damn police on you. 

So I have this memory in my head, and it goes unquestioned until I say it outload for the first time a few months back and as soon as I say the words “When I was six, my mom called the cops on me for asking for spaghettis” My adult logic slams into place and is like “Hang on. Your mother definatly did not call the police on a 6 year old for asking for spaghetti.” 

So obviously that’s not what really went down. I call up my mom to tell her how I remember it and on top of her figuring out why her kid has always been really cagey around spaghettis for the last 3 decades she tells me what really happened. 

So on that night, a man tried to break into our house through the front window. It was just my mom, and her kids so she did what she felt she had too and shot him in the head. He’d been wearing a helmet, which landed on the floor under the window.

Now I just want ya’ll to put yourselves in my moms shoes for a minute here. This woman has just taken a human life. The trauma of that- the instant agony, the panic, the guilt, the fear- all of it hitting her at once, her only solace the knowledge that her children are safe. She protected her daughters. No matter the cost to her soul- her children are safe.

the pursuit of perfection is a dead end road that can only burn you in the long term as you constantly try to improve and improve beyond your ceiling. embrace your limits and don't be afraid to create things that are average.

ff14 basically has free posing and you can just kind of do whatever you want to take screenshots and make basic poses. meanwhile, pso2 doesn't have that, but there's nearly a thousand different emotes and dances you can do, along with commands to adjust where your eyes face, your character's head turns, etc

basically ff14 players click one button to pose for a screenshot, while pso2 players end up basically writing out an entire line of code in chat commands.

meanwhile in pso2 you see stuff like this

I mean, it’s a made-up word in the sense that all words are made up, but it had a prior meaning. I keep seeing posts where it’s included in a list of gibberish words we made up For The Meme recently, but…Plinko is a game from The Price Is Right. It’s been around for almost forty years.