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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 31/07/2025

As an Australian (albeit from a different state), it was rather nice seeing Untitled Goose game's credits pointing out the Victorian support they got.

Credit graphic "With assistance from Victoria state government, Film Victoria". White font on blue.

This is a snapshot from the untitled goose game website https://goose.game/credits/ rather than the actual game end credits. For illustration purposes

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 25/01/2025

Twenty-sided Tavern, a very fun improv DnD show at the Sydney Opera House Studio. For the venue itself, CO2 was not great, not the most terrible. The rowdy show meant more audience exhalations than a normal play or musical. It's also smaller than the usual places with better quality.

View from the seat towards the stage, where the show title is projected on a wide screen. The venue is darkened.

Aranet CO2 graph, starting from mid 800 at 1400, plateauing around 1100 from 1430 until show's end at 1630

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 17/01/2025

This Drager 1920 with a half-torn strap was brand new. First time I've seen damage/defect like that in the last couple of years. Well that's why there are spares! Been using a new one daily (two if it's a long day) for the last month on the road in the Japanese winter. Nice comfy units.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 13/01/2025

Thanks to this heads up from @elizabethtasker.bsky.social earlier, the kiddo and I managed to catch the sample return exhibit in Ueno on its final day. What a treat!

A tiny shard of Bennu under a microscope that displays a larger version of it on a screen This is a well lit up display with a model of the spacecraft that gathered the sample.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 12/01/2025

Even though it is mostly empty, there has been at least a couple of occasional coughers onboard throughout.

Graph of CO2 levels from roughly when the trip began (just before 9:00) to 11:30, while the trip was still ongoing. The line stays between just above 600 to beneath 900.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 12/01/2025

Nozomi Shinkansen, Hiroshima to Tokyo. The green car is maybe 20% occupied so the CO2 level has been decent. Plenty of time to have lunch onboard but we had a big enough breakfast to sidestep the risk altogether.

Aranet reading 769. It is placed on a Shinkansen seat tray. In the background there are the backs of more mostly empty seats.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 12/01/2025

Sora-Iro Cola. Delicious for the first half, a little too cloying for the rest.

Bottle with blue cola liquid on a sunlit windowsill, looking out a window at some Hiroshima city buildings

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 10/01/2025

A tranquil Itsukushima Jinja at sparrows before the day trippers arrive in earnest.

A view from the temple, with its timber boards, over the water to the famous res torrii

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 31/12/2024

Nogizaka46 singing "Let it go" is a #kohaku highlight I didn't expect.

Screenshot of Nogizaka46 in the medley segment

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 31/12/2024

Original shots of the cinema ad, in case of translation nuances.

Ad about peace of mind, with a diagram of a nose exhaling, aerosols in the air, and filters

Ad about theatre being chosen based on atmosphere. Red cinema chair on green grass against a blue sky

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 31/12/2024

In the pre-movie ads, the AEON cinema made it a point to mention the "Train Triple Air Shield" large scale anti-virus air conditioning system. The tagline: "From now on, movie theatres will be chosen based on the atmosphere"

Cinema ad titled Triple Air Shield ". Originally in Japanese but translated with google Lens

Ad: With triple air shield, you can enjoy your viewing experience with peace of mind.

Ad: From now on, movie theatres will be chosen based on the atmosphere

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 31/12/2024

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim at the Aeon Forus on a rainy Kanazawa morning. An empty theatre is cheating but will take this CO2 level any day!

Aranet showing 552, pointing towards the screen in an empty theatre

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 30/12/2024

I want my shower walls grouted like Kanazawa castle.

Exterior view of Kanazawa castle's wall, with distinctive white mortar protruding between the tiles.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 29/12/2024

"If any event you're going to has a terrible Covid-19 policy, I invite you to shame them by pointing out an EROTIC HYPNOSIS CONFERENCE does a better job than them."

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 27/12/2024

Now Nogizaka46. What is this Super Live goodness?

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 27/12/2024

A very pleasant surprise to turn on the hotel tv and see live Hinatazaka46 and Sakurazaka46 songs back to back..

Tv screen with Sakurazaka46 performing Ikutsu no Koro ni Modoritai no ka?

Members are wearing Santa like dresses

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 26/12/2024

Good museums tend to have decent food and the excellent Gifu Sekigahara Battlefield Memorial Museum is no exception. Reenactments may have taken place during the enjoyment of this appropriately decorated curry. Plenty of outdoor cafe seating, easy peasy for the covid aware tourist.

Place of curry beef with rice (lots of sauce) on a plate and tray on an outdoor cafe table. It is a sunny day and you can see the sky and mountains beyond the museum carpark

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 25/12/2024

Luigi takes out greedy boss. Also at the Nintendo Museum.

Mario kart podium. Luigi first, Wario second, Mario third

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 25/12/2024

A rival theory on how Santa delivers gifts to millions of households in one night is the "Spacetime Santa model."

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Graphic of Santa and his reindeers entering a wormhole.

A rival theory on how Santa delivers gifts to millions of households in one night is the "Spacetime Santa model."

Physicist Chad Orzel says Santa uses wormholes to tunnel through spacetime. The tunnels are crafted to appear in households on Christmas Eve, but Santa and his team enter the wormholes with gifts on different days of the year.

The wormhole mouth is located in the chimney, where no one is likely to be standing in the wee hours of Christmas morning.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 24/12/2024

The delightful GEAR non-verbal theatre show made for a lovely way to bring in Christmas in Kyoto this year. The show itself is a weaving together of multiple performance and circus type arts into a charming and visually stunning tale. Highly recommended!

Five colourfully dressed actors (men in all red, yellow, green, blue, and woman in rainbow ballerina dress with santa shoulder cloak) smiling at the crowd while sitting on a stage covered with so much paper it is like snow. The show itself is not Christmas themed but this is from a post-show Christmas themed session where the audience is allowed to take photos.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 19/12/2024

Spy x Family exhibition at the top floor of a Kobe department store. Got to to sit in the iconic chairs from the manga covers too. Waku waku indeed. en.japantravel.com/hyogo/spy-fa...

Exhibition section with Spy X Family title text on the wall like the manga covers. Three of the chairs used in the manga covers are there. A white egg shaped chair with red interior. A white lounging chair and another chair made from many round flat cushions of different colours

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 17/12/2024

Namco Akihabara: Wrapped up the first Tokyo day with some Gundam gaming with the kiddo. Thrashed by everybody except CPU bots, terrific fun just like we remembered. CO2 stayed under 700 while the area was < 30% full and moved near 750 when we got more neighbours, but by then we were done.

Aranet reading 687, 21.2C, place low on a Gundam arcade unit. The photo is angled so that you see five lit-up arcade units all up into the distance.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 12/12/2024

On the way to the Jupiter Trojans asteroids.

NASA Lucy Spacecraft’s second Earth gravity assist (EGA) dramatically alters the spacecraft’s trajectory, enabling it to travel through the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. Lucy’s trajectory prior to the EGA is shown in solid red, while the trajectory afterward is shown by a dashed red curve. The orbits of the nearby planets are shown for reference, and the grey regions indicate the approximate location of the main asteroid belt and the leading (L4) Jupiter trojan asteroids.
The main belt asteroid, Donaldjohanson, and the Trojan asteroid, Eurybates, are shown at the time of Lucy’s encounters. Credit: NASA/SwRI

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 10/12/2024

This latest batch of Dräger X-plore 1920 V FFP2 respirator Australian stock, received directly from them, has an expiry date of 12/27.

Product label for a box of Draeger X-plore 1920 V FFP2 M/L respirators. Apart from the usual product certifications and ref/lot labels(censored by me), it shows an expiry of 2027-12

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 10/12/2024

If you must gamble on manufactured misery, there's always 1 v 1 subsoccer.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 10/12/2024

Does anyone know the model of the chair that Loid Forger from #SpyxFamily is sitting in here? The comic features plenty of fabulous chairs with ridiculous price tags, but this one looks very comfy and perhaps affordable.

Screenshot from SpyxFamily season 1, episode 9. Blond haired man (Loid Forger) is sitting in a comfortable roundish recliner-type chair (not reclined) chair, reading with a floor standing lamp next to him, in a bedroom.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 05/12/2024

From the Mini range: Cooper, Countryman, Aceman...

From the MINI car website, listing models of Countryman, Cooper and Aceman. A picture of each mini accompanies each car.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 28/11/2024

Dragon age: Veilguard's photo mode is so realistic that my Rook photos came out blurry.

A naturally blurry screenshot (straight from photo mode) of a male chubby elf with a bow on his back, facing the camera in the building.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 28/11/2024

Windows LTSC is what normal windows should be. From the MS website: "Feature updates are offered in new LTSC releases every several years instead of every few months. You can choose to install them as in-place upgrades, or even skip releases, what's best for your business requirements"

Windows LTSC description from MS website:

"With the LTSC servicing model, you can delay receiving feature updates and instead only receive monthly quality updates on devices. Features from Windows 10 and 11 that could be updated with new functionality, including Microsoft Edge and in-box Windows apps, are also not included. Feature updates are offered in new LTSC releases every several years instead of every few months. You can choose to install them as in-place upgrades, or even skip releases, what's best for your business requirements."

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 20/11/2024

3. No search function for profiles, including my own This at least doesn't sound right. I mainly use a browser for bsky and the search function works as you'd expect.

Screenshot of bsky in a web browser, searching for "dame sa" and Dame sa being the first of three profiles showing up (more profiles were actually returned by the screenshot is clipped to these three)

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 20/11/2024

Early start and not finishing till late. Broke open the last emergency 7-11 coffee souvenir to get through the day.

A sachet of 7-11 black coffee. Japanese text on the black sachet, on a white background

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 18/11/2024

He should rock this for the courts. No idea what the producers of Annie the musical (2012) thought they were doing casting him. Regretfully my watching it indirectly funded this prick.

Alan Jones in a pinstripped suit in the wheel chair, as Roosevelt(?) in the 2012 production of Annie in Australia.

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 14/11/2024

Not saying these LLM-derived numbers are accurate, but now I'm wondering how one could extend coffee shelf life to Fallout-like durations, for a century or more.

ChatGPT generated table: Summary of shelf life for coffee (in perfect conditions).

Whole Beans 2 to 5 years
Ground Coffee 6 months to 1 year
Instant Coffee 20 to 30 years
Freeze-Dried Coffee 20 to 30 years or more
Coffee Pods 2 to 5 years
Canned Coffee 2 to 5 years

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 06/11/2024

Diversification should be built in and decoupling should always be possible. This must underpin any service that wants to be durable.

Post by Eugene Rochko (Mastodon creator) Nov 6 2024: "I think it's going to be more important than ever that #Mastodon and the #fediverse are not centrally operated out of the US unlike almost every other social media platform out there."

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 01/11/2024

Dragon Age: Veilguard. What a breath of fresh air it is to start a new game and see graphical settings that makes it accessible from a motion sickness point of view. Notably the field of view slider, as well as the disabling of camera shakes and motion blur. All games should do this.

Screenshot of the "Camera effects settings" for DA Veilguard. Of particular interest are settings for motion blur (off) and a Field of View slider (maxed out at 160%)

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Hearted Hoof @heartedhoof.discretised.space · 30/10/2024

Still sluggish for me, with the feeds and notifications coming up with a "pipethrough network error" now and again. Good way to start developing an intuitive feel of how bluesky/AT protocol works, by seeing how it breaks...

Screenshot of failed reply with a pipethrough network error.

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