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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Installed a rain barrel in the garden. Levelled the surface last night, hooked it up this morning. Should be just in time for this month's rain.

Plastic green rain barrel without lid pictured from above.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This dishwasher is oven and microwave safe.

Bottom of the ovendish, which reads OVEN AND MICROWAVE SAFE DISHWASHER

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Also treated myself to my first mechanical keyboard, replacing the ergonomical work horse that served me well the past 15 years. The sound it makes is very nostalgic. :ablobcatrave:

Worn down Microsoft keyboard on the top, a Fairphone 6 in the bottom-left and a Ducky One mechanical keyboard on the bottom-right. The Ducky keyboard keys features a black to pink gradient pattern.

Close up of the new keyboard. The keys in black, white and pink also feature Japanese characters.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My #murena_eos #fairphone came in! Finally a #smartphone I'm genuinely excited for. :ablobcathappypaws:

White box of a fairphone on a wooden table.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Halfway through #FinalFantasy9 disc-wise. It's superb, wish I had more time to pick up the pace a little.

Change disc screen from Final Fantasy IX, which consists of shots from full-motion videos.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

During my lunch break I explored a part of #Leiden I don't usually visit. Wish my neighbourhood loved plants as much as they love (parking) their cars (on the pavement).

A street with houses partially covered in greenery. There's an orange hose in the foreground and a bike halfway through the street.

Cute neighbour garden. The gate is covered in grape vines. A cutely decorated sign on the left reads 'Welkom in de buurttuin'.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Biked the eldest to a party and claimed the time until pickup for myself. I can think of worse ways to spend three hours than reading #UrsulaKLeGuin at this very bench in #Warmond .

A bench shaded by trees overlooking a river and meadows.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

First-time #FinalFantasy9 player installs Moguri Mod among other mods and nearly weeps tears of joy and anemoia. #AmPlaying #FinalFantasy #Games #JRPG

Titel screen for Final Fantasy IX. An airship approaches a castle during sunset.

Zidane, a blonde, tailed human, kneels in front of a hooded characters, saying "I shall hereby do my best to kidnap you!"

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

As expected, ReStory: Chill Electronics Repairs is such a me game.

A dirty, dusty PlayStation Portable floating above a desk during sunset.

The screen of aforementioned PlayStation Portable is being cleaned.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Finished #Utawarerumono : Past and Present rediscovered. And with it, the last game of the saga. Even though like its predecessor it doesn't reach the heights of the original trilogy, I still had a blast with the game. #AmPlaying #JRPG #Games

Two men in capes watch the sunset in a hilly environment. One man has long blond hair and holds his greatsword that's plunged into the ground. The other has dark hair and also leans on his sword.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Forgot my wife got me this notebook during our visit to the National #Ainu Museum in #Upopoy . Its design is based on a embroidery on a mantari (waist apron) found in the museum. It's believed mantari is derived from the Japanese word for apron, 前垂れ (maedare).

White Rollbahn note book with a blue pattern resembling embroidery on it.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Started the new #Utawarerumono already, but also wanted to wrap up #AceCombat 7's replay first. Teared up after the Daredevil drop, flew into the Arsenal Bird. Love this game. #AmPlaying #Games

A white aircraft that consists mostly of wings is surrounded by a blue-ish barrier, stopping incoming attacks. Its flying above sea.

Multiple fighter jets flying in a V formation toward the viewer. In the background is a space elevator in the middle of a sea.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Gave in to that #AceCombat itch and picked up 7 again. Started fresh on #SteamDeck , where it runs surprisingly flawless. Instead of just making my through campaign, I'm also replaying missions to experiment with plane setups and to, you know, get somewhat decent at these marvelously fun games.

Six fighter jets flying in formation above clouds and snow covered mountains.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Finished #FireEmblem : Path of Radiance. As I've been told these past twenty years, it's really good across the board. Ike's growth throughout the story, the exploration of laguz/beorc relations, the actual gameplay, the writing, pacing. All of it was fantastic. Except you, Oscar. You sucked.

Screenshot of a caped man and a woman in an orange dress walking away from the viewer toward a light. They're holding hands.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Returned from a week in #Bilbao . Beautiful city, full of kind people, delicious food and gorgeous surroundings. Special shout-out to its green and well-designed public spaces!

Overview of the city taken from Etxebarria parkea, with the river Bilboko itsasadarra running through the centre.

Rocky coast east of the Barinatxe beach.

Greenery along the main street, the Gran Vía.

Shot of the city near the Zubizuri bridge: one-directional lane for cars, bi-directional lanes for bikes, grass-covered tram tracks and a wide walkway for pedestrians. Love it!

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Found it at the Yodobashi in Osaka. They had Argreion as well, but Valimar alone was challenging enough to fit in the luggage.

Box of Moderoid model Argreion the Argent Knight from Trails of Cold Steel III. It's an elegant silver mecha with an enormous lance and silver/golden wings.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Assembled the Moderoid model of Valimar my wife got me for our anniversary. This was my first time putting something like this together, had a lot of fun with it! :ablobcatattention:

Figurine of Valimar, a grey/black mecha holding a sword. It's standing on the instruction manual, reading 'Valimar, the Ashen Knight'.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Finished #SakuraWars 2! If I wasn't a fan already now I am. Absolute peak.

Screenshot of Sakura catching cherry blossom petals in Spring. Sakura has dark-blue hair tied in a red ribbon and wears a pink kimono.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

My track record of keeping up with social networks is getting worse and worse... Anyway, I started playing #SakuraWars 2! Happy to hang out with this lovely cast again, even though Soletta's "Italian" accent is killing me. #AmPlaying #JRPG #Games

Screenshot of Soletta Origine introducing Herselt in Sakura Wars 2. In the background is a celebratory party going on.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Halfway through #ValkyrieProfile and so far it's living up the high expectations. First chapter or so was a little touch and go, but once things click into place, they click hard. #AmPlaying #PS1 #JRPG #Games

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Spent an hour on, like, figuring out what to do at the second #ValkyrieProfile boss. It was clear I needed bows but had none and the short bow I supposedly found earlier was gone (broken?). In the end I found the menu option Divine Item allows you to craft gear at a save point.

Screenshot after the battle. The protagonist brandishes her sword. The rest just stands there. They're in a dark dungeon. The text reads 'Purify Completion'.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I stopped collecting old #games , but I gladly made an exception for the #TheLegendOfHeroes #Gagharv trilogy. I'm extremely happy I finally managed to nab the full set in wonderful condition. #retrogaming #retrogames

Three minimalist video game boxes in a row. The first one is white and reads 白き魔女 (The White Witch), the second is red and reads 朱紅い雫 (A Tear of Vermilion) and the third one is blue and reads 海の檻歌 (A Cagesong of the Ocean).

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Finished #HollowKnight #Silksong ! Great game, well worth the wait. I only wish I'd found the Wanderer Crest before late Act 2 and that exploration in Act 3 wasn't such a pain. All in all, superb game. #AmPlaying #Metroidvania #Games

Game completion screen of Silksong. It reports 100% completion in 55 hours 32 minutes and 39 seconds. In the bottom-right is an achievement pop-up confirming the game's completion.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The latest Indie Wiki Buddy update helps you redirect search engine results to the Falcom Wiki. Install the extension for your browser of choice from here! getindie.wiki

Google search result for Estelle Bright redirecting to the Falcom Wiki.

DuckDuckGo search result for Adol Christin redirecting to the Falcom Wiki.

Startpage search result for Michel de Lap Haven redirecting to the Falcom Wiki.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

This definitely is a thing... Another reason I'm happy with NixOS is that I had to look into setting this up only once (which did take a long time), then added it to my configuration and ever since it works out of the gate on a fresh installation.

Code.

# Enable Japanese input, run fcitx5-config-qt, add Anthy and reboot.
i18n.inputMethod = {
enable = true;
type = "fcitx5";
fcitx5.addons = with pkgs; [
fcitx5-anthy
fcitx5-gtk
];
ibus.engines = with pkgs.ibus-engines; [ anthy ];
};

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

On behalf of the entire team, I'm excited to announce the launch of the Falcom Wiki! 🎉 A fan-driven, ad-free resource dedicated to documenting the worlds, characters, and history of Nihon Falcom. Come take a look, and help us grow the archive: falcom.wiki

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I found them IRL, does that count? 😊 (And yes, I teared up when I did)

A field of the Lunar Tear flowers as found in the Nier games.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Finished #Lufia2 last night. Loved the unconventional dungeon designs, the overall pacing, the music and that ending in particular. It has soul and it's a classic for a good reason. #AmPlaying #SNES #JRPG #Games

Screenshot of Lufia 2. Overworld view showing blue and pink balls of light leaving sparkling trails as they traverse across the world.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Got somewhat back into a rhythm after my amazing 4-week trip through #Japan . Even though it was pretty challenging combining the heat, crowdedness, travelling with two kids and an ambitious itinerary, I had an absolute blast.

Random railway crossing in Kamakura. The picture shows a neighbourhood with green in abundance and a railway crossing showing a red light.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

In the past week, I travelled through Aomori, Hakodate, Shiraoi, Sapporo and Otaru. Now I'm on my way back to Tokyo from Kamakura to unwind for the final days of this amazing #Japan trip.

Photograph of the city of Hakodate taken from the mountain. It's right after sunset, the lights of the city are on while the mountains in the back are still visible.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Taking the first train to Nara to trek through the quietude of its park was a blissful experience after being huddled together with fellow tourists for days. #Japan #JapanPhotography

Red torii surrounded by stone lanterns, a shiisa statue and trees. The stairs below the tori lead up, toward the Kasuga-taisha.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

All right, pretty much everything on the #homeserver is running again and running the way I want it to. Yay! Cherry on the cake is that I finally sat down to organise my (but mostly my wife's) ebooks in #Calibre . Once I'd tweaked the metadata source plug-ins in a way that worked for me, it was

Screenshot of Calibre-Web, showing the Fantasy category, showing the following books:
- The Teller of Small Fortunes by Leong, Julie
- Hera by Saint, Jennifer
- It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over by Marcken, Anne de
- Bride by Hazelwood, Ali
- OverLondon by Penney, George & Johnson, Tony
- Mammoths at the Gates by Vo, Nghi
- Shanghai Immortal by Chao, A. Y.
- Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Törzs, Emma
- Witch King by Wells, Martha
- Clytemnestra by Casati, Costanza
- The Bone Shard War by Stewart, Andrea
- Untethered Sky by Lee, Fonda
- When You Wish Upon a Star by Lim, Elizabeth
- Linghun by Jiang, Ai
- The Lies of the Ajungo by Utomi, Moses Ose
- Flowerheart by Bakewell, Catherine

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Finished the original 1996 #SakuraWars . I now understand why it garnered such a following. The cast is super fun, it's richly illustrated and beautifully animated. I didn't particularly care for the story direction in the final two chapters or the battle system at all. There's *a lot* to miss

Screenshot of a render of the imperial theatre in sepia. In the centre is the Chinese character for 'the end', surrounding by cherry blossom petals. The bottom of the screen contains the copyright information in pink.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Me: it never really grabbed me Also me: MORE! #AmPlaying #SakuraWars #Games

Screenshot of Sakura Wars. It shows three females and one male in stylish battle gear looking at the camera, smiling. The dark-haired Sakura encourages the team to strike a victory pose. There are cherry blossoms in the background.

Screenshot of Sakura Wars. It shows four females and one male in stylish battle gear looking at the camera, smiling, with the purple, pig-tail haired girl in the centre encouraging the team to strike a victory pose. The background is a forest.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Finished the 2019 #SakuraWars . Beautiful to look at and a fun cast, but it never really grabbed me. When the pacing picks up, it goes too fast and never really explores the consequences of what happens. I'd played the demo before, so my expectations for the combat segments was already

In-game photograph of the cast. Five women and one man with various hair colours and styles in military uniforms pose in front of a pink mech in a stadium. Everyone's looking cheerfully at the camera.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Getting a lot of mileage out of one #lemon . First the zest, then the juice, now the seeds. #Gardening

Six square pots with young seedlings on a window sill.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I thought this thumbnail said "rean Crow"

Bluesky thumbnail of a happy anime girl in a blue blazer in front of a pink background.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I finished #MonsterHunterWilds . I loved it. It's a fantastic game and I'm looking forward to whatever expansions Capcom has planned. #AmPlaying #MonsterHunter #Games

Monster Hunter Wilds screenshots, featuring a female hunter on the left and her Palico companion behind her. They're close to a light source.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I bet he's thinking about new ways to organise our #homeserver , weighing the pro's and cons of each scenario, what to keep in #Docker in a VM, what to move to #LXC and what services to combine. You bet I am. #selfhosting #homelab

I Bet He's Thinking About Other Women meme. An image of a woman and man in bed, backs toward each other.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is all I could find.

It's artwork from Popolocrois but with the face replaced by Dieter Crois.

Ancient Aliens meme with the text 'I'm not saying it's Orpheus but it's Orpheus'.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Finished my first two games of #Civilization6: a diplomatic victory with the Netherlands and a domination victory with Indonesia. I usually prefer the culture or science route, but I amassed diplomacy points too quickly and that Jong armada was too powerful not to use.

Civilization VI Diplomatic Victory screen, showing Wilhelmina on the right.

Civilization VI Domination Victory screen, showing Gitarja on the right.

Graph that details the number of cities captured as Indonesia. From turn 110, the line increases linearly until turn 160.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I also finished #Terranigma and #Halo 2. Great games. Terranigma had been on my shelf for ages, so I'm glad I finally got around playing it. Outside the Bloody Mary fight, I had a great time playing it. #AmPlaying #JRPG #Games

Box art for Terranigma on a wooden floor.

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Guan @gu4n.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I've been playing quite a bit of #Dorfromantik this week. Now I'm starting to get the hang of perfect placements, my score's starting to ramp up. #AmPlaying #NintendoSwitch #Games

Screenshot of an idyllic landscape built from hexagons overlaid with stats from the match.

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