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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 12h

replaying xenogears, time to repost keyboards

a blue and grey keyboard with red lettering sitting in front a Weltall figurine

a red and black keyboard with blue lighting sitting in front of a red Weltall-Id figurine

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

she lacus my litore until i castrum

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

yeah can i get a little bit of that

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barnabus @othersome.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Watching 'The Sopranos' Until They Say Something That PISSES Me Off! 🤬

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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

i might need to buy some of the Kraft dinner soda just to have, like some horrid relic

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

no one in that image did anything wrong

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i wonder if the incidence rate is high enough that cutting this off would also save them a not insignificant amount of compute cost

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is union-busting. Tim Schafer is a boss and him and his management team did what bosses do.

This included managers. Legally, the only union-related prohibition for managers was that they could not give employees their opinions on unions or encourage them one way or another. But several union supporters said they directly heard managers express concerns that they were no longer allowed to speak to their employees about anything, and a few people told me their own managers or senior members of their teams stopped speaking to them entirely, even about the games they were working on. “They helped enforce this narrative where you couldn’t talk to people when nothing about neutrality required that to happen,” said one union supporter. “Supporters who were confused saw that, and bought into it.”

Other union-supportive employees told me they received the cold shoulder from people they didn’t work closely with, but had previously been friendly with. There were accusations of strongly anti-union employees trying to scare off prospective members, sharing hypothetical or even at times outright false information about the impacts a union would have at Double Fine, or making what sources asserted were false accusations about the organizers themselves and their tactics.

The spin-off from Microsoft precipitated new fears. Would there be layoffs? Would Double Fine get to keep ownership of its games? Would the studio even have enough runway to survive for long without Microsoft’s backing? The answer to these questions came rather quickly. On July 28, 23 people were laid off from Double Fine amid the split. These layoffs took place after Double Fine’s departure from Xbox, and Schafer was the final deciding voice as to who stayed and who went. Among those 23 were all eight organizing committee members who had signed the letter to the studio announcing the petition withdrawal. The majority of the rest, though not all, had been vocally or, in a few cases, privately supportive of the union, even if they’d been ineligible to join it. In total, the layoffs comprised roughly one-fourth of Double Fine.

“Management absolutely mishandled the situation…The manager training was weeks late and landed after the brunt of the drama. The lack of direct communication made an already clique-y culture even worse. And studio leadership overall was not only extremely influenced by their proximity to Tim, but there was a large amount of ignorance towards the role of a union or how they work.”

In the weeks and months since the petition withdrawal, those at Double Fine who had openly or even privately supported the union tell me they have laid low, afraid of further retribution or ostracization. “It feels like they want you to leave,” one person said. “And it’s working. I’m looking for other jobs.” Unfortunately, as they and others pointed out to me, the games industry job market is so bad that jobs are in short supply.

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

like, yes that's how it's written in the perfect works book, but also so is 'Shitan' and 'Bartholomei' so it sure seems like they're picking and choosing based on vibes

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i like the perfect works project a lot, particularly around gameplay improvements like text speed (oh my god base xenogears is so slow), but some of the translation changes they went with are...questionable. changing Kahran to Carlin is one that i'm kinda ehhhhhhh on

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

why does elly high going into Drive withdrawal look like the wheeze comic guy

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

isn't that the title of that karate kid reboot show

A screenshot of Xenogears. A character is pulling an item out of a chest called 'Cobra Cracka'

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

got through my first week of gym warmups so today it’s back to actually pushing it

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the real lesson is i gotta get back to thumper

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

reminds me of that one jamiroquai song in elite beat agents. i could feel out the rhythm in every other song in that game but just that one song always felt off rhythm so it was infuriating to play except this was in EVERY level

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

presentationally it was cool but i also just never got into a rhythm with the music and movement so it just made me more and more annoyed

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the constant wavering camera on top of the floaty controls was annoying then it would end every sequence with that annoying call out of a rank just had me gritting my fucking teeth

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

after hearing a bunch of people talk up sayonara wild hearts i tried it out and after like just 30 minutes it had me so aggravated i had to request a refund

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

oh yeah that guys a jerk. the boss that got my ass as a kid was the one that picks up a gear and if you attack he counters you and messes you up and i was too dumb to realise

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

tried doing 2 in a row and only 1.5 sad

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

its just a hidden super boss near the end isn’t it? I think I watched a video of someone fighting it a while ago

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

picking up a copy just to get to and then get my ass beaten by xenogears

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

did an unassisted pull up and didn’t feel any stitches pop wahoo

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

listened to a friend talk about working on the mtg stuff recently and i was so happy that they somehow managed to cram 'in the pale moonlight' into a card

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

plus he lives in california so it doesn't matter either way

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

oh so now it's a bad thing to visit flavour country?

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memento hikikomori @zellyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

nurse said everything seems fine and the stitches breaking isn’t a problem but maybe go a little slower and lighter😔

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