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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know that abomination at the bottom is supposed to be an 'a', but I can't help but see a fucked-up backwards 'より' digraph. It can't decide what it wants to be; is it supposed to be double-storey (a), or single-storey (ɑ)?

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#RandomGameSaturday I neglected to do a post last week, but here's 'Silent Hill 3'. It's my favourite of the series, but rarely does it get the attention it deserves. Viscerally horrifying with themes I could go on at length over. And Heather is a great character, as well.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

'Heaven' by Mieko Kawakami (trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd) I think I needed this book. It's been a while that a book made me feel visceral anger.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I guess Bluesky's shitting itself again.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I would like to make a point real quick. There's an art trend going about, you almost certainly already know what it is. If you are an artist and you are considering taking part in it, please consider what it represents, and please consider what it furthers.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's time for me to finish another playthrough of this game. I started this playthrough last month. This'll be funny. #RetroGaming #Livestream LINKS: YouTube: youtube.com/live/QyWnlXu... Twitch: twitch.tv/daniellearmo...

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ARMAGEDDON - Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies (Retro Import Stream Pt.6)

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A significant amount of work today still demands physical labour. However, there were occupations millennia ago which didn't demand physical labour. Furthermore, gyms have also existed for millennia. Also, we already have 'gyms for our brains': they're called libraries and schools.

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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Silent Hill f (2025) I'm a year late. But damn was it worth the wait. Immaculate mood and style, a fascinating tale and sublime acting manage to smooth out erratic performance and combat that's functional if inelegant. That was my first playthrough. I'm diving back in when I have the time.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, if it were actually using generative AI, the appropriate term would be '生成AI'. Avoiding using 'generation' to differentiate the two: '世代' = era, age '生成' = creation, formation

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

'The Hotel Avocado' by Bob Mortimer Mortimer's quirky wit is on full display here, and there's a surprisingly intricate plot with a great cast of characters that'll bring out a gamut of reactions from you, mostly laughter. Definitely read 'The Satsuma Complex' before this one.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Silent Hill 3 is my favourite in the series. There are so many layers to it that I would gladly talk people's ears off over it. Boy fucking howdy they better be ready to hear about it.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Believe what you want, I guess. I think it's set pop culture and reading back decades and would strongly recommend people read something else, but I can't change people's behaviour. I'm just not here for people furthering and buying into (willfully or not) the views of a reprehensible person.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And yet it still keeps the franchise in the public conscious. It keeps it relevant. It continuing to be relevant enables people to go and engage in the franchise more, which in turn benefits a disgusting person with wholly abominable views. You cannot in good conscience claim this is separable.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like, I've refused to buy Ubisoft games for God knows how long (roughly a decade at any rate), and Silent Hill f is the first properly new Konami game I bought since...what, MGS V: The Phantom Pain? You start messing me about, I'm not gonna invest in your stuff. It's really that simple.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's funny seeing people go "gamers will just forget the bad stuff a company did and just consume product". Hope you're not lumping me into all that; I'm a stubborn fucker who absolutely will refuse to buy a company's stuff if they start playing silly buggers. Take note, @playstation.com.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"...as Redemption Arc Starts" The 'Redemption Arc' in question:

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Mascot Texorcism 🐯 @texsaber.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've had this stupid joke in my head for the past 3 weeks, I had to put it into drawing

Theatrical poster for "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me," except the portrait of Laura Palmer is replaced with a Walkling from the game Big Walk, and the film name is replaced with "Big Walk with Me"

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Think they're a few millennia early on showing off Leto II...

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Doing my Anki input and, err... I'm realising now one of the core plot points of 犬神家の一族 is derived from a fucking pun.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Bluesky shitting itself yet again? Getting all too frequent now...

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I personally really like it, but I did feel when the trailer came out that it was going to be very divisive. I do think the people saying that it's genuinely awful are being very harsh, though.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gee, wonder what was dropped over Nagasaki in 1945...I sure do wonder what the connection could be between that and the character!

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That fit is so unfit, it needs a heart bypass.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh neat, Motorsport Manager 2 stuff, let's see... >goes on Steam page >AI disclosure

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No doubt there will come a point where I stop doing Anki input; I already have enough vocab in there to take me through a massive chunk of 2028. But it's an easy, sufficiently painless way for me to pick up on things. Plus I just prefer reading on paper anyway. Just isn't the same on a screen.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The upshot of all this is this can have a noticeable positive impact on the flow of things. The book becomes easier to follow because I'm not tearing myself away from it so often, and less stuff to try and input into Anki makes everything take less time, so language input becomes much easier.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I started '犬神家の一族' just a few days ago, and once I got through the prologue, things have started to pick up in pace, mainly because I haven't had to put my head to my piece of paper to jot something I didn't recognise down.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, throughout November last year, I read '獄門島' (I figured I'd follow my English translation reading order), and whilst not easy, I encountered considerably fewer 'unfamiliars' throughout. Then in June/July this year I read '八つ墓村' and it was easier still.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To put that into perspective, these days, it's rare I breach 50 'unfamiliars'. Reading '本陣殺人事件', there were many days, especially early on, that I was noting down upwards of 100. This and one other book got me to write as tiny as I reasonably could to make everything fit the page.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading through '本陣殺人事件' as one of my first books was a "jumping into the deep end" moment for me; it features a number of terms I hadn't encountered yet, especially regarding religious (Buddhist), architectural, and criminal subjects. There were also a lot of verbs I didn't know at the time.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So far, in English, I've read all of his translated works (except 'She Walks At Night'; I'll read that this October), so I know the story beats and generally what names to look out for. In Japanese, I've only so far read three of the books and I'm currently on my fourth.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Now, doing this over time has given me a perspective on how familiarity can make things so much less daunting, and I'm going to use the works of Seishi Yokomizo for my example.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For context: my process is I read for an hour (sometimes less, occasionally as much as two hours), and as I read, I write down in pencil on a piece of thick A6 paper a word or phrase I don't recognise. Then, using dictionaries, I add what I can to Anki. It's not a short process, but it has helped.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So, throughout the last nearly two years, I've been reading Japanese books to try and get a level of familiarity with the language. I'm still a complete bozo where grammar is concerned, but what I can say is vocabulary has become so simple now.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea: Episode Two (2014) A very welcome change of pace to something slower and centred on stealth, with a pay-off that ties everything together. If this is the last BioShock game we ever get (it's been nearly 13 years now), it will have gone out on a high note.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Amsterdam' by Geert Mak (trans. Philipp Blom) Much like 'In Europe' and 'In America' which followed, it's a thoroughly-researched retelling of Amsterdam's history, from its days as a fishing village, to being a major port city, all the way to the 20th century.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just took delivery of a new bunch of books off Amazon Japan, and uhh... ...yeah, this ain't great.

A cardboard box whose contents are jumbled in disarray.

The obi (promotional sash) for the book 成瀬は信じた道をいく. It is split roughly in the middle on the side of the book's back cover.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea: Episode One (2013) Bit of a retread of things here. Rapture feels like a facade more than an actual place here, and the gameplay changes demand a rather different playstyle compared to anything from previous entries. Not bad but certainly the weakest BioShock game.

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#RandomGameSaturday Seeing as how we have F1 on today for a change, how about 'Formula 1'? A game spanning the 1995 season (despite releasing in 1996), it's something of a nostalgia trip to play this every once in a while. It even has the inimitable Murray Walker on commentary!

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Daniel Learmouth @daniellearmouth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is just a Disc Horse Bot post, right? Right...?

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Evangelion Screenshots @ngescreenshot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I do know that Pen Pen is meant to symbolize how the most levelheaded people are just sleepy little guys.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/09/2026

There is no plan aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...

master chief looking sad (even though he has a helmet on and you can't see his face; it's the body language, I think)

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