My girlfriend and I are going through Fate/Apocrypha again. I stand by that it's "pretty good"; I mean, it has pew pew flashy stuff, and I'm here for the mechanics of magic stuff, but it's not afraid to get weird really quickly with the established Fate rules. And she and I had seen The El Melloi ...

Fascinating that you sequence your projects and tasks. How do you determine which order to put them in? What takes priority?


Well, in the case of physics, it's something I wish I learned instead of going all in on the humanities from a young age; but it has little direct relevance to my life ...

It's been just over two months since you posted this thread, how is your progress so far on this self teaching? Anything you've discovered and wish to share? Is it going how you hoped it would?


Actually, a related problem appeared — my own capacity to take up new projects from whole cloth and ...

My friend pointed out that I shouldn't get too introspective and instead just have a good time. So I think I'll write a bit on what I've enjoyed so far, now that we've migrated over to Hiroshima.

Bars

We went to two different ones in Nagasaki: one was a jass kissa and the other was a general ...

I was walking around yesterday and just recalled that I wanted to learn physics. Like, beyond watching YouTube videos and feeling philosophical awe, I wanted to get an undergraduate understanding of physics.

I figured that doing structured learning for myself worked pretty good -- I really like ...

This is currently in a state of flux for me. I'm considering publishing a notebook so that I can write shorter posts in a less "here's my full professional name" place, and remove some of my poems from that section and put it in the notebook instead. But so many other things are in flux that it ...

An old boss from a previous job the other week was saying that doing startups was 'playing the lottery,' it was essentially gambling, and gambling is an act of desperation. It is what you do when no other option makes sense (and it is what you do when you have an addiction...); it is itself an ...

The train was taking us back in time.

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I think that's how I can describe Kyushu, the further I go into it: it's getting older and older, a bit more rusty, lived in and hetereogenous. The houses are thinner, less densely ...

I'm in Japan again. I have been leaving my girlfriend daily voicemails this time, so I feel less compelled to journal the play-by-play as consistently as I did in the first thread. I think this time around I'd like to write infrequent, thinky sorts of posts.

So, that said, it's already happening ...

Sometimes I like to do editing passes with AI assistants on my blog — a recent entry I wrote on my general belief system was responded to with "this sounds reminiscent of Catholic personalism," a philosophy of which I've never really looked at. It turns out to be associated with the nonconformists ...

I'm in the process of making my way through "Konosuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Love for These Clothes of Desire!" which is, of course, not a mandatory play by any means. When I'm in the gaps between stages of life I tend to come back to Konosuba a lot. I remember rewatching the ...

Lent isn't coming up for a while — Ash Wednesday is March 5 — but I've started thinking about what I want to do for it anyway.

Last year I set a fairly absolute set of prohibitions on myself:

No alcohol
No meat
No caffeine (broke this one eventually)
No social media of any kind, no group ...

Song after song strung together in my head without really being called after — I guess I'm meant to be making a playlist. In a bunch of bad moods since 2025 started. Here's a playlist about it — titled "come what may..."

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Listenbrainz ...

i've honestly always cared a lot more about new year's, both because it ends up being a time of reflection about how the past year has gone, and because i usually try my best to make some plans to do something around that time… and where i end up tends to encapsulate who i am and what i care ...

I'm glad you get a conventional Christmas, @sinku. I mean, as long as the conversation is nice, don't you still get the warm fuzzies?

It's the second year now that I've spent Christmas with my girlfriend. Last year we weren't quite dating yet, and this year it feels like it makes "more sense," you ...