(from Finnish graphic novel "Laulu yön lapsista" ["Song of the Children of the Night"], by Petri Hiltunen, 2003)

I love it when the Internet culture collides with Stuff and it ends up being bloody horrifying.

Fulfils the cyberpunk aesthetic, does it not? Because the musicians come from the Demoscene. Even when the game is mostly about giant robots beating themselves up. (Ok maybe that's a bit cyberpunk too.)

This book SUCKED. And not due to its informational value!!!

It was because the pages tended to pop off. It's a shitty binding, see?

The publisher, Not a Number (aka Blender's custodian corp) issued a recall, and offered to do spiral binding on these things. I was a university entrant. Book swappage could have been expensive. Didn't do it.

So I have a book that creaks. Half of it dedicated to turbo rad late 1990s art.

("Blender v1.5 Manual", by Ton Roosendaal, published by Not a Number in 1998, ISBN 90-76519-01-3)

What with all of the comparisons to Digg flying about, here's a contemporary comic from the Digg's downfall era.

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Photo by me

Original source

Butterfly Flew Away
Damac & Swallow

Once upon a time there
was a man who had no
friend.
One day he was sitting
on the grass of the
huge park.
Suddenly the butterfly
landed onto his hand,
and started to talk to
man:
"I came from heaven
and have you a messa
ge. Do not ever break
the wings of butterfly
or I will punish you
harder than anyone
ever..."
Suddenly the butterfly
disappeared as fast
as it had appeared.
The man thought
a while and understood
the meaning of life.
After that he was nev
er lonely or depressed

[1:07:28, channel: mrixrt]

Quick video summary:

1. There's a few charities, Comic Relief and Kids Relief. They've done a few questionable things over years.
2. Such as commissioning a few educational games aimed at children, and then put the net profit gained from them to good use. ...The games are AFK brainrot with gacha mechanics and zero educational value.
3. Also the games are on Roblox! We were talking about net profit here. Roblox eats a huge part of the pie.
4. And the development house themselves? It was started by a few YouTubers and it all goes downhill from there.

This is a twofer.

Combatant 1: Google.

Once every time period of questionable length, Google gives me an Android pop-up that I can't dismiss. This is to "comply" with the EU law. They want me to be extra sure of my rights to choose and want to know which search engine I'm using for the Android search widget and Chrome.

Well, as a matter of fact, I use Google! So I tell them that. I hope it makes them happy.

Combatant 2: ME

...I fucking hate the Android search bar and I'm this close to installing an alternative launcher just to get rid of it.

Also I use Firefox.

(What do you call it when there's two parties who want the same thing, but there's an arbitrary pointless grudge that both of them can see?)

OMG IS THE RADON EEL 🖤
(The 69 Eyes song warbling in the far horizon)

Been dumping my GameCube games for my own use. Noticing all kinds of weird things about the old games that I didn't notice before, or had forgotten, because it's been like two decades.

(Didn't get that much into Lost Kingdoms back in the day though. Because as far as inexplicably card-based RPGs go, I sunk so much more time into Baten Kaitos.)