It's Critter Time!

Minotaur wrote: Fri Jul 25, 2025 7:35 am https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ The Low-tech Magazine. The name is pretty self-explanatory. It's not always up, because the server is self-hosted and solar-powered!

Whoa, this is pretty neat. Definitely reading through some of what's here.

got myself a new one

Weasel wrote: Thu Jul 31, 2025 8:23 am I would love that, thanks! Hopefully there are some folks around whose timezones align.

Sure thing! I sent a DM with the invite.

Man, that sounds delightful . foxkawaii

If you want I can send you an invite. Even though the server was an outgrowth of another community, there's a ton of people in there now who have no real ties to it. So it's not uncommon for someone to get an invite and be like... "what the hell is RTVS ...

After a life spent avoiding them, I played Tekken 8 almost daily from May of last year to May or so of this year. I played some ranked but mostly I ended up playing in lobbies in a FGC Discord (the RTVS FightZone) that sprung up around a LGBTQ-friendly community.

And I got kinda lucky with the ...

when i saw Topaz i was like yes! yesss!!! yessssss!!!!!!

cool chess pieces btw! what clay did you use? would you recommend it?

Just booked hotel/registration for TFS 2025 . It's taking place August 14 to 17, and given how packed TFF 2025 was, I was honestly surprised that there was still room available in the hotel block.

Schedule's not out yet, but I get the impression it's going to be a laid-back affair.

Is anyone else ...

I'm kind of just producing scraps and letters and journaling a lot at the moment. I'm ears-deep in therapy and it's unblocked something in me that's resulted in me producing a lot more "raw material" than usual, because I'm trying really hard not to filter or edit myself, giving myself permission to ...

Yeah, most of what I read is non-fiction, at least right now. Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen was easily the most fascinating work I've read in a while -- just piles and piles of odd notes and observations and records of how rural France, even in the early 1900s, was way less French (or ...

I am on a self-imposed ban from all incremental games because I will absolutely let them devour all my free time.

But before that ban I dumped 10k+ hours into Realm Grinder , which played in a more puzzle-y way than I had expected from an "idle" game at the time; it's often about developing builds ...

[CW: Body horror. Well... I think to call this that is overselling it. But it might clear your bar even if it doesn't clear mine.]

I recently developed an allergy to certain types of human speech. It fades in like fog and vanishes like a toddler at a carnival. I cannot yet identify the reason or ...

Sounds like you’ve listened to more of and more recent prog rock than me :) The other big act I know is Genesis, which is where Phil Collins got his start. I haven’t listened to them much but I’d start with A Trick of the Tail maybe.


Haha, maybe. I still feel like I don't listen to "enough ...

Hi! I also like prog rock, or at least I grew up liking it; my tastes eventually drifted toward prog metal and calcified there as I stopped listening to music as much. Hopefully that changes since I want to go back and listen to things I missed before and after that time.

Yes and ELP are total ...

I picked one up but didn't really dig into it much -- I'm often intrigued by peripherals/etc. that go beyond just like, dpad/stick/buttons, because I like seeing what types of gameplay they open up. It definitely had potential and it's been cool seeing what people have done with it. Ended up selling ...

I'm excited for both of y'all to get to play more Deltarune! Cool icons, too! I just did a little sketch for mine but I was happy with how it turned out.

I didn't jump on chapters 3 and 4 right away; I think I waited about a week or so because I wasn't quite in the mood for it at launch. I think ...

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also don't feel like i have much of anything to add, on a few axes, but did want to +1 these posts


Same, though I did kinda wanna pitch in.

I feel the pain that others have experienced as a result of compulsory sexuality, as a result of feeling like I need to be ...

Guess it's been ten years since UNDERTALE dropped.

I feel lucky to have played it around launch and kept up with DELTARUNE as it released. Not like "I got in on the ground floor", more that it gave me the experience of seeing live some cross-section of the development of another person's art and ...

I am -- I got on for a while shortly after it opened, and started getting more active... a few months before the announcement. Just when I felt I was hitting my stride with it. So it goes.

I really liked the place but I hated the ways people would talk about how it was operated. But part of that ...

They moved you to night shift recently. I know because I swing by your place all the time. I'm trying to cut back, I swear. I know when you leave and can guess when you return.

Nights are hard, you know. Of course you know. I know, too. Feeling like everyone else's day is done, only for your day to ...

Like in this DaThings YTP I really latched onto this line:


god i've picked up and dropped so many things from her ytps from time to time. the mammoth of course. but also "we're getting ready to start, so you might want to grab a pop tart". the whole bas rutten YTP is absurdly memorable, as is ...

I'm on and off books at the moment. I have piles of quarter-finished works lying around. But the next on my list to finish up is Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities , which will probably be in the next day or two if I get my priorities right.

It's fascinating so far. It's basically a series of ...

Here's another rough draft -- bite-sized. This one fails the SFW vibes check so it's hosted on my site . (politely holler at me if I have failed to insulate it appropriately there; I don't want to burn anyone's mouth (as if I'm cooking hot enough to do so)). Contains discussion of eating habits as ...

the first thing i did when i clicked on this thread was whistle the chocobo theme... i love all chocobos...

i don't have a choco-sona but if i make another bird OC it will have to be chocobo-type for sure. my chocobo in ffxiv is lavender and wears a cool mask. i will try to post a picture sometime ...

"me, but whatever"... very relatable ivan moment lmao... I would do exactly that. cool art!!

I have illustrations that I've been working on but I'm not really confident or interested in posting them here at this time. It's mostly character art of past and future me-s as I continue to try to articulate myself and my histories and my dreams. Instead I wanted to post things I write about from ...