Well I would never have imagined it.
J-Novel licensed Endo and Kobayashi.

When I saw one of the hints for the novel announcements I did suspect it but I didn’t want to commit to the idea out of fear of being wrong.
Didn’t want to get my hopes up!
Well they did license it! One of my favourite comedies is here!

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 66 «

Again, messed up with the scheduling for this one and had to last minute fix things, I accidentally rescheduled the previous two chapters.
Would have been a mess.

Anyway, been playing Stellaris a lot recently, and today it hit me.
I’ve only ever actually dealt with the end game crises in this game about two or three times.
I also stop in the late mid-game and never reach the end game.

I think it’s because I’m not very warlike and once the borders stagnate it becomes hard for me to do anything interesting.
There’s only so many times I can press a repeatable tech button and not get bored!

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 65 «

So I accidentally almost scheduled the same chapters twice.
I messed up and didn’t save my footnotes…
Sorry.
I can’t remember them and going through the chapter again to recreate them felt really forced and unfunny.

So you’ll have to go without for these couple of chapters.

Please forgive me!

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 64 «

My friend took pity on me today, and managed to find a piece of music I used to listen to that was deleted from youtube.
Well I say took pity, it only took them a couple of seconds to search.
Although they had to send it to me by proxy since for some reason I just couldn’t download it.

I think my computer is being weird.
Well that’s to be expected from windows.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 63 «

So I’m scheduling this while watching the artist work on the piece I commissioned.
It’s very exciting stuff.

So the theme for this piece was really basic just “my character in a position of having been defeated”.
And the direction they’ve taken it is one of the three I predicted they might choose.
The one they chose was a kneeling position after having lost the energy to fight.

The other two I predicted were her laying collapsed on the ground, or leaning on her sword for support.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 62 «

I don’t really have much to say this time,
so let’s see….

Anyone have any suggestions for anime this season that they’ve been enjoying?
In my case the surprise hit for me was tsukimichi.
I loved the novels, but I was a bit dismayed when the anime aimed for a comedic tone instead of a serious one.
However the tone has grown on me.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 61 «

You know what sucks, not having ad revenue during the one period of the year you want to spend money the most.
So many cool new gacha characters.
So many art commissions I want to make.
So many games I need to catch up on.

Right now I am spending all my money on commissions because I might have an addiction.
I’m thinking of saving up for a month or two as well, so I can commission a relatively famous artist from Japan.
I want to see how they interpret and style my character.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 60 «

The UN is at it again with poor management, terrible employees and general incompetence.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the UN and I think the UN is the first step towards what should be a far better future for the world.
But ideals just don’t hold up in reality.

The UN isn’t up to the task it’s taken on, and when an organisation is that big and under that much red tape, exploitation is rife.
It’s a shame, but it’s true.

I wish I could just magically take over and fix the UN honestly, as a futurist.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 59 «

I commissioned another piece of art today!
This time it’s got a bit of spice involved.

Well not really, but when you have a Princess Knight it’s obvious what you need to do with it!
That’s right, the iconic, the classic, the one and only…. “just kill me” trope!

I exaggerate in a way, but the concept behind the art piece is basically the “if she was a gacha game character, this would be her damaged or defeated sprite” type of deal.
I think it will turn out interestingly.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 58 «

Recently I have been lured back into Euro Truck Simulator 2 again.
No particular reason, my friends are playing it again.
Although I think the convoy multiplayer update has something to do with it, it can’t be all of it because we played the multiplayer mod before too.

Either way, it’s been fun to get back into it.
I’m very rich and the new quality of life changes are great.
I’m working to level myself up and buy the fancy new digital DAF truck.
Seems cool.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 57 «

I finally gave in and decided to raise talents on Genshin Impact.
Until now I’ve only ever got them to level 6 and then left them.
But today I got one of Zhongli’s to 10, and I got all of Keqing’s to 10.
I still have three more crowns to 10 some more skills but I think I will save those for if I need them in the future.

Maybe for Eula when she gets rerun.
We’ll see what the future holds.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 56 «

Hello folks!
Today marks the first day that you guys will be seeing a chapter by our new translator!
Patreon peeps will already be familiar with them since they’ve done a lot of chapters which you can read with early access!

The plan is to have this new translator help share the load, hopefully speeding up releases or at least getting them more consistently since all the pressure isn’t on one person.
Unlike some translation sites we recognise that translators are not machines.
Shots fired.

Also the author realised their counting mistake here so I went back and fixed the previous ones.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 55 «

So let’s talk about trailers today.
No particular reason, I just watched quite a few trailers today!

For starters lets discuss the Laika anime, soviet space vampire! Honestly the trailer seemed pretty cute, I’m excited to see how it goes.
I do have to wonder about the logistics of a vampire in space though. Like does sunlight still burn them? Is there a concentration needed?
Gotta wonder, after all there’s no shelter on the moon.

Then let’s discuss…. Frostpunk 2?
I never actually played the first Frostpunk but I think it has a really neat concept, and the premise of the second one seems interesting too.
Highlighting the technological progress from the steam age to the modern age. Oil and electricity!

And lastly. Spiderman.
Well boy that was a trailer! Finally!
Like seriously, didn’t expect that twist though. And the crossover premise is hype.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 55 «

I opened a video which was going to explain why Sloop ships are superior to Brigs.
I was expecting to use this information to add another layer of realism to the naval aspects of my novel.

Anyway turned out it was discussing balance designs in some video game…
Not useful at all.
I watched it all anyway because it was mildly interesting seeing why there was a balance issue but……..

Well I’ll just forget in a few minutes anyway.

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» Vol. 4: Chapter 54 «