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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 18h

Aaaaand that's 23 pages. Loving how the setup of the sophomore novel is shaping up.

Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 20h

And after just under six years of living in the same apartment, I finally interacted with one of my neighbors a little more than just saying "hi" in the stairway. Brought an apparently dysfunctional Casio keyboard for me to diagnose - worked fine as far as I could tell, though.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

18 pages in the sophomore novel.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The latest random vlog is doing actually insane numbers by my standards. Still can't put my finger on how it's accumulating so many views. Love to see it, though.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, it looks like my sophomore novel is already underway. First 10 pages down, an indefinite number to go.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thing had a good run. I just wish I'd taken the time to contribute to more than one of the jams. Taken the time to produce something better the one time I did participate. But well, such is life.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Looks like the next Metroidvania Month is gonna be the last one. Actually kinda sad to see it go, even if I only managed to contribute to it once.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay, so the easy solution is to not use the selection tool at all, it turns out.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fuck me, moving just one selected section of a layer in Krita is a pain in the ass.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dear YouTubers, MrBeast has enough free publicity, please stop contributing to it by reviewing his book. Besides, we already know it sucks. Sincerely, A guy on the internet

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I gotta play Dead Estate more. Still haven't cracked even 10 hours in it. Game's fun.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Banger quote I just heard: "God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape."

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Already getting ideas for at least two new novels, maybe three. Expanding on the universe established in The Harashima Obituary and Prologues, of course. Question is, which one will I end up writing first? Time will tell.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hot take: 720p is a perfectly acceptable video resolution. And I say this as someone with two 1080p monitors.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My toxic trait is being bothered by lack of lip-sync in an indie game that obviously didn't have the budget for it.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I need to stop and appreciate the atmosphere of CP2077 more often. Most of the time, I'm just breezing through the quests and not taking in the sights proper.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ICYMI, I released my debut novel The Harashima Obituary the other day. Go grab it for free here: mfg38.itch.io/the-harashim...

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The Harashima Obituary by Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen

Questions about truth and justice wrapped in a murder mystery.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy to announce that my debut novel The Harashima Obituary is now finished and readable! Grab it from the following location: mfg38.itch.io/the-harashim... Will also be submitting to free-ebooks.net, but I'm not trusting the approval process to be particularly quick.

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The Harashima Obituary by Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen

Questions about truth and justice wrapped in a murder mystery.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

221 pages. In the debut novel as of today, I mean.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wanna say the thing is tantalizingly close to the finish line. Maybe a chapter and a half left to write, barring any additional ideas that may or may not pop up.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tiny bit of novel progress again. Up to 219 pages.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel so fucking bad for Songbird, man. Wish I could detangle more of that particular ball of yarn without risking spoiler territory.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wasn't expecting CP2077: Phantom Liberty to go Alien: Isolation in the final section of Reed's side of the story. Or to cry towards the end.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

End results for Yours Truly: 1-3-1. Best I've ever done at a prerelease - just happy that it wasn't the usual 0-5-0.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stats two rounds in: one 2-0 win, one 0-2 loss. My first ever win at a prerelease.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

YouTube feature idea: show the upload dates of shorts underneath the title.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Debut novel's up to 214 pages. Not far from the finish line now, I dare say.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Trees are beautiful this time of year.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Seriously amazing what you can do with just one synth and a reverb pedal. This is what I love about synthesizers and analog gear.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New dark ambient improvisation by Yours Truly: "Spire of Industry". This one was done with a Behringer Phara-O Mini and a Mooer A7 Ambience reverb pedal. mfg38.bandcamp.com/track/spire-...

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Spire of Industry, by MFG38

track by MFG38

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Analog synths are just so cool, man. If I had more money and space in my apartment, I'd build a whole-ass synth station to play around with.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll get it to the finish line one of these days either way. I love the story too much to abandon it - I'd just feel bad if I did.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Progress on the thing has slowed down a lot after the initial burst of inspiration, but I'm happy that it's still chugging along. Most of the writing energy lately has been going into figuring out how to fill in the few gaps that still remain.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Debut novel page count update for today: 207.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I ordered this card the better part of a year ago and now it FINALLY arrived. Who to pin this horrible delay on? Honestly not sure, but I sort of hope it wasn't the national post office's fault.

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Santtu "MFG38" Pesonen @mfg38.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For the first time in my 32-year life, I have just seen someone censoring the word "burn". Are you fucking kidding me?

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