Alright now this is scheduled I can finally go and play Stellaris Federations!
I’m super hyped for this expansion, since it finally adds the mechanics I most love in strategy games!
Alliances!

There is just something satisfying about becoming a political heavyweight in games. Knowing you can achieve your goal without having to go out of your way.
In Stellaris before I used to do this with roundabout techniques, like creating a hub that links wormholes, gateways and l-gates to make travel around the galaxy really fast. But by doing so I could cut off access to my systems and thus force some empires to travel the long way while the ones I wanted to win had my shortcuts.

Also Origins! Finally background flare for my empires!

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So I finished catching up on Realist Hero, one day I’ll buy the paperback copies of that series, I really enjoy it.
So now I’ve started reading Welcome to Japan, Ms Elf.
Which is a reverse-isekai about touring Japan with a fantasy elf, with your more typical isekai fantasy segments mixed in as an extra.
The elf is suuuuuuuuuuper cute and sexy though!

I wish I got isekaid every time I was dreaming, that’d be great.

Tiny chapter this time! How weird.

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I had to get the bus today, and it was really amusing because each time the bus arrived at its destination they’d have like a cleaning crew come in and wipe down every part. Every handrail, every button, every handle.
Was really amusing to watch a pair of guys having to run over a bus.

Well if I die then I can blame them for failing me.
Please send your donations to Silva so he can forward them to me, thank you very much.

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Story for the archives today!
I was fighting the Ether Drake in Stellaris, and when you defeat it you get a Dragonslayer leader trait for one of your Admirals. But it’s not actually scripted to give it to only Admirals.
So the science ship I had sent in first, then told to hide on the other side of the system, had technically initiated combat with the Ether Drake as my main fleet arrived to kill it.

Because the first fleet in combat was technically my science ship, which is technically occupied by a leader, the Dragonslayer trait went to my Scientist instead of the Admiral of the main fleet.
Yes that’s right, my empire had the glorious Scientist Monval ka Pinnate! Dragonslayer!

Too bad he died of old age, had he been one of my Synths then he’d be immortal – literally.

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Lately I’ve been listening to this song called Edelweiss on loop.
Edelweiss is actually a word I really like, it’s a type of flower apparently, but it means Noble White.
I use it a lot in my fiction as the names of flagships or prototype weapons. I might have mentioned this before.
But this song is quite nice, apparently the anime it’s from is really bland but I found it in an amazing Index novel MAD.

New topic: Have you ever wondered about what sort of anime world you would like to visit?
I always find the answers amusing because pretty much every anime world is either really not that interesting (Like K-On or whatever) or has some seriously seriously messed up realities (Like pretty much every action anime ever).
Even the seemingly good ones have some surprising flaws.
Of course this discussion is predicated on you getting transported over with just what you have on you.
Log Horizon’s setting is probably the safest bet.

Personally I would have liked to say “To Aru!” gimme that Raildex! I wanna become an esper!
But Academy City is seriously messed up! Plus you have to pay tuition to become an esper at Academy City! As an isekai person I can’t afford that!
Worst case scenario I become a Child Error and used for some horrific experiment!
And there’s an upper age limit on when Esper development can start! Even the oldest espers are only highschoolers! I’m in my 20’s!
I’d have to become a magician instead…but then I’d probably be hunted for violating the Magic-Science Treaty.

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I have a headache.
I want to sleep.
Yes, I shall do that once these chapters are scheduled.

Oh right that reminds me, I haven’t had time to finish plotting my fanfic but I think I should be able to start writing some chapters soon.

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I’ve been proofreading another novel today and it took me about 10 hours to do just the first pass.
I normally do three passes before I send off the corrected version as checked, but it’s the first time I’ve been burned out this hard.
The novel is done in a weird present tense too so it’s hard to work out the grammar for some sentences because it reads like past tense.

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