nonesensed: My cat is a happy cat (Default)
My current stress relief is getting waaaaay too into a video game - a fairly popular one, so I'm dodging spoilers like crazy 😅

Anyone else playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 right now? I've reached Act II and am suitably emotional about what's happened in-game thus far 😭💖 Don't think I'm playing "optimally" 'cause I never was good at turn-based strategy games, BUT I am almost good at dodging and parrying, which is something at least 😆

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, here's the trailer (and a song from the game's soundtrack, 'cause it's neat):



sheliak: Rachel Summers, fencing and looking gleeful. (Rachel: swashbuckle)
The game's not out yet; it's in kickstarter. But it looks really fun—a gonzo space opera setting, elective monarchy politics IN SPACE—the creator's several kickstarted games have all apparently came out when she said they would, and I did like Long Live the Queen a lot. So! Excitement. And icons.

40 icons from promotional screenshots + trailer )

it's getting bad people

May. 28th, 2025 09:28 pm[personal profile] esteefee
esteefee: Diefenbaker from due South licking his chops (flavr)
Hostess Donettes claim to be "America's #1 Mini-donut" but I don't remember there being a nationwide referendum. Just another example of the rampant corruption going on right before our very eyes.

3 Weeks - 21

May. 27th, 2025 03:28 am[personal profile] esteefee
esteefee: John and Rodney in sepiatone, back to back shooting their big guns with the caption 'Ass to Ass.' (ass2ass)


You guyssssss I felt a profound sense of satisfaction for completing the Three Weeks challenge and very much enjoyed my long weekend after an exasperating work week only to discover I had one post left! Oh noes!

Fortunately, [personal profile] runpunkrun and [personal profile] mific gave me something to post about! They did an awesome mcshep collab while I was away and what a treat! So awesome to have terrific art and podfic and story as one. Like the fandom days of old *sobs in old-timey*

It was a marvelous distraction from my usual hobby of staring in blank horror at the news. Speaking of which...

I beg everyone to please contact your senators about the Big PoS Bill! For too many reasons, but also because I just found out it includes sneaky provisions that completely undermine the judiciary, including *retroactively* making previous rulings and court orders unenforceable! Such as, oh, orders to return US Citizens and illegally deported immigrants from overseas gulags. The administration is angry at the lower courts for ruling against them, so they are trying to use Congress to render the judiciary impotent. See Section 70302 of One Big Beautiful Bill Act 119th Congress (2025-2026). Not to mention, of course, the bill raises taxes on the poorest, adds trillions to the deficit, drops the tax on gun silencers (what?), chops SNAP, medicare, and medicaid, and lines the pockets of the already wealthy with more and more tax cuts. I want to puke.

If you live the US, please CONTACT YOUR SENATORS and tell them you are so very against this Big Ugly Bill for more reasons than can be counted. Tell them to kill it or they will smell your vengeance come midterms.

Thanks, my friends.

3 Weeks - 20

May. 21st, 2025 08:05 pm[personal profile] esteefee
esteefee: Watson smirking at Holmes, whos looking away in faux hurt (sh_izumi)


Today I had a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, my first in a long time, and I realized I slice up my banana the exact same way my pops did: diagonal cuts so the slices fall off the knife instead of sticking to it. I don't remember deciding to adopt his method. But there you go.

How do you slice your banana? Are there other tricks you picked up from parents or friends unconsciously?
sideways: (â–ºhappy being someone)
Auspol is my favourite sport this year. Election results so savage the conservatives have appointed a woman leader for the first time because they're literally running out of seated men, and then straight-up had an internal collapse that would make it impossible to form government at any other election either if it were to be maintained. (It will not be maintained, for that exact reason, but I can hyena laugh for now.)

And it all happened after the leadership stint of probably my second least favourite Aussie politician ever. It's like Christmas.
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