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Tron Ares is a frustrating movie. Visually and musically, it's fine. But Legacy has a solid story with a small but great cast of characters. I can't say that I care for anyone in Ares.

I don't have any desire to rewatch Ares ever again, unlike Legacy that I am always happy to watch.
February 8, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Writer's block sure is fun.
February 2, 2026 at 3:37 AM
I didn't spend a ton of time with it due to it being unlikely to get the game anytime soon, but the character creator in Nioh 3 is pretty good. Aethmal and Seralin both turned out nice without too much effort.
January 31, 2026 at 4:53 AM
I wish I felt comfortable enough to try a Hetzner IPv6-only server. User support should be there mostly nowadays. But I still worry about the random people it might cut off.

Would probably get rid of a *a lot* of bot traffic to my servers though.
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 AM
“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once.”

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:18 AM
I've had many gripes over the years about the inefficiencies of Element/Matrix. But maybe now sentiment to move away from US-based companies and tech, especially within the EU, might give it the push it needs.

I would love for my currently negative outlook on it to be turned around.
January 28, 2026 at 7:07 AM
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
January 25, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Lemix is done. I didn't get to do everything I wanted in it, but had fun regardless.

Can't wait to see the next remix event!
January 22, 2026 at 2:39 AM
There are days where I wonder if falling back to a command-line-only computing life wouldn’t be preferable. Forces a more focused workflow, quieter, and if there’s something I really need that doesn’t exist, it forces me to build it.

Although I guess I’d just waste time in IRC instead of Discord…
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 AM
I studied political science and criminology for nearly a decade. Even with the brilliant professors I had to helped me throughout my education, it's hard to use those teachings to make sense of the idiocy that the world has fallen into.
January 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Even if my sleep has yet to quantitatively improve, I already feel a lot better now that I no longer work a graveyard schedule. Being awake during the day and able to go out and do things is wonderful.

I’ll miss some aspects of graveyard, but the mental and physical costs of it were just too much.
January 7, 2026 at 11:51 AM
What kind of damn fool goes for an early morning walk in the rain and 37F temperatures while wearing Vans?

Oh right. Me.
December 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Is it sacrilegious to unbind HJKL in vim and exclusively use the arrow keys?

#neovim #vim
December 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I sometimes wonder about a world where "AI" was properly focused on the niche tasks it excels at. Not as a first step towards AGI that is worth burning the world down over, or a destroyer of the arts, but an efficient tool for specific fields.

Altman and the rest really did the world a disservice.
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
This is incredible. Already gave it a test run and it works just as easy as it sounds in the blog. Once more browsers support this, I'm going to find a few uses for it on my own websites.

webkit.org/blog/17660/i...

#html #css
Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
It’s here, the future of masonry layouts on the web!
webkit.org
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Blizzard, you're always finding ways to drag me back into the game. The paladin plays great! I'm having a lot more fun with it than I did the Crusader in Diablo 3.
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
First graduate quarter done. Feels good to get a couple of weeks for personal projects before having to jump back into the grind for next quarter.
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A few loose ends to tie up over winter break, but Legion Remix has been so much fun. Looking forward to the next one!

#wow #lemix
December 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
At some point we’re going to talk about whether so much of the internet should be centralized behind Cloudflare, right?
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Every year, I sit down to do Advent of Code and am reminded how much I dislike having to deal with input parsing every single day. I have finite time to dedicate to this, and spending anymore than 10 seconds in string manipulation and regex patterns is more time than I want to spend on it.
December 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I've been waiting literally more than half my life for this moment. I'm going to spend months playing The Sims in Azeroth.

#worldofwarcraft #wow
December 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Eversong, my beloved...

I never thought I'd get to explore a new version of my favorite section of the game. 19 years later, and here we are.

youtu.be/ELteqGtpLJc

#worldofwarcraft #wow #midnight
World of Warcraft Midnight Alpha - Flying Over Eversong
YouTube video by OberstKrueger
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I find myself more out-of-step with the Swift community with each passing year. Every time I look at some new framework or template, it's just abstraction upon abstraction upon abstraction, and forgetting so many lessons I thought were understood.

I miss what Swift drove towards 3 versions ago.
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I remember thinking it was cool that the game had no software renderer, as it was one of the early games to require a GPU. Those requirements really take me back though. 8 megs of VRAM is incredible by modern standards.
November 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM