Depending on where you are in the world it may be Halloween today.
Actually for me Halloween is tomorrow, but this site is many hours ahead so…
It won’t be Halloween for me when this goes live, but it will for some people.

At least I can copy and paste this for tomorrow’s chapter of Maiden.
Saves me having to come up with a pre-chapter ramble!
This is called working smarter not harder.

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» Chapter 111 «

I finally uploaded the update for my Stellaris mod.
And also fixed a bug I didn’t even know was a thing for ages because nobody pointed it out to me!
Argh so annoying, it’s a really serious one too I just never noticed because I haven’t had time to play a game with the conditions needed to trigger it…
Oh well.
I fixed it now, hopefully it’s not too serious.

Luckily I caught it before my planned stream though… because that would have met the conditions to trigger that bug.

Anyway if you have Stellaris go download my mod, it got the largest update ever recently!
You could also download my other mod, that has some nice vanilla expansion content.

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» Chapter 110 «

Last night I finally finished Girlfriend, Girlfriend after leaving the final few episodes on hold for ages.
That anime just somehow perfectly hits my preference of comedy and romance, it was great fun to watch, so glad a sequel was announced.
Hopefully this is the start of a trend in me clearing my massive backlog of anime!

Also fun fact, this month I finally exceeded 10,000 total episodes of anime watched!
10,000!
You can go ahead and call me a weeb now.

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» Chapter 109 «

I’d really like an AI novel which starts off in the first half with all the tropes that you’d expect from a novel where the AI eventually goes rogue and tries to destroy the world or something.
Only to have it turn around and desperately put itself in harms way in an effort to protect everyone as the hero of the story despite the earlier misconceptions many people would have had about it.

I’m not sure why this just occurred to me as a desire but it is a desire I have in this case.
Strange one for sure.

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» Chapter 108 «

So today I learned that the preorders for my books aren’t actually massively overdue.
The releases themselves have been delayed!
But Amazons absolutely abysmal database design decisions means that while listings are duplicated when created, edits to them are not and need to be done individually, so Amazon UK never got the updated listing info from the Amazon US site…

That’s really annoying and terrible in my opinion.
I actually sent a support message to the publisher letting them know that Amazon’s design choice could be costing them customers by making them seem like they’re really bad at fulfilling orders when in reality they haven’t even published yet.

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» Chapter 107 «

It has now been two full weeks since my last pay from work was supposed to arrive.
I confirmed at the start of the month that they had sent it for tax approval.
Which means it’s the government making it slow.

They’re really lucky that I’m not paying rent or anything, seriously.
But yeah this could be a problem still… I have other things to pay for too you know.

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» Chapter 106 «

So I’ve spent the better part of this week bashing out playthroughs of the many many demos on steam to find some good standout ones.
I played a lot of them to get some feelers out. Airship Kingdoms Adrift, Plasma, Floodland and more.
The three that really stood out to me were:

Forever Skies, Mars First Logistics and Stardeus.
Stardeus really brought me back to my days of playing Space Station 13.
Oh wow that really takes me back…
I remember stabbing people with syringes of gasoline to cure them of colds.

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» Chapter 105 «

I started reading The Mythical Hero’s Otherworld Chronicles over at J-Novel Club and realised I’d read this before as a fan translation.
I actually really enjoyed it back then, I wonder why I stopped.
Maybe they caught up to the author, or the translator stopped.
Or maybe I just started reading other things and forgot to ever go back.
Anyway I’m looking forward to reading it again.

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» Chapter 104 «

The universe is a strange and mysterious place.
I’ve spent about four hours trying to get something to work in blender so I could texture swap something.
Then learned that because the data is stored as a string of text, as long as I am super careful not to replace any other data, I can just edit that texture location line in notepad on the model and solve my issue.

No importing and exporting process needed. Just a simple swap of text.
Oh how much time and effort this would have saved me.
At least I can exploit it tomorrow.

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» Chapter 103 «

We are now starting Volume 4 of Re:START!
This one is called uh…
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“The Black Markings’ Village”

Well that one is a riddle and a half.

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» Chapter 102 «

This is the final part of The Eternals volume of Re:START.
You’re probably wondering why I divided the chapters into halves when there’s a part three?
Well that’s because this is more like a point of view swap plot hook than a direct chapter part.
So it’s kind of a continuation but kind of not, like an epilogue of sorts for the volume.

That’s why I considered putting it down as an extra at first, but instead it’s now like an unofficial Part 3 that I am calling Final.

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» Chapter 101 Final «

So after reading Worlds Fastest Level Up the fact that the first volume alone covered all of the currently translated manga material was a pleasant surprise.
At least I won’t be waiting for it to catch up now.
And very soon the next Magical Explorer volume will arrive and I will get to read that.

Everything is nicely sliding into place to give me some good reading for the next short while.
Though I don’t know what I will read after this. Time to go hunting.

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» Chapter 101 Part 2 «

Quite a few things happened this week, including a whole lot of nothing for me. Which is a weird mix.
I think the thing that left the biggest impact on me though was my friends subtly trying to manipulate me back into Honkai.
I mean I am excited for Star Rail, but I don’t think I can get back into 3rd no matter how good they make the story now.

Mainly because I just don’t have a controller to play it with… and have you ever tried it with keyboard?
The keyboard gameplay was so bad I almost passed on playing Genshin because of it.
Luckily that actually works on keyboard.

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» Chapter 101 Part 1 «

Honestly I thought for quite a while about what to write for this pre-chapter ramble based on the options I had on hand so I decided to talk about an anime I finally caught up on.
I managed to binge watch almost all of I’m Quitting Heroing up to the finale the other night.
I actually had read the manga well beyond the point the anime ends before the anime was even announced so I knew the twist that was coming, but I still got emotional about it.

I think it’s a well crafted story that despite using a similar premise does not rely on the obvious predecessor that everyone should know of by now as a trope guide.

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» Chapter 100 (Part 2) «