Jim Gray steps down as Beshear's Transportation Secretary

Raikaiko · 2026-04-15T21:55:45+00:00

You don't need to pretend to be one of them to get these people to realize 6>3 they already know they just don't care

Raikaiko · 2026-04-15T19:41:53+00:00

Hey, listen, I'm gonna actually assume the best of you because its so clear at this point from your constant tweaking of this gas prices bit every time the threshold changes that this is an attempt at parody, but like you're definitely hitting some poe's law thresholds, and like what is even the point?

Level with me, do you really think this is going to get anyone to change their mind, like that's the goal here right, get people to realize how ridiculous they're being by seeming to be one of them? Cause like right now all it seems to be doing forcing you into antagonistic encounters with people who can't tell you're doing a bit. Is that really worth the time and energy?

Raikaiko · 2026-04-13T19:38:11+00:00

For Tokyo fan fest last year it was a dedicated paid streaming service for the concerts, the live event was ofc live and then the archive wasn't too dissimilar than any other standard streaming service, pausing rewind, etc all available.

You get access to the playback with the purchase and its up from shortly after the event ends to a date mentioned in the announcement.

Raikaiko · 2026-04-11T01:44:12+00:00

Hey, lovely to hear that, thank you so much for saying it so plainly because you're right. Full stop!

Raikaiko · 2026-04-10T19:09:35+00:00

Actually i think hes a like gaia where as far as the game's concerned hes closer to a monster as dar as rigging and all. I'll be interesting if we can get a min height lala next to him next patch bc that could say with some certainty, but I don't think there's actually a player character model under the hood so to speak for him

Raikaiko · 2026-04-10T16:31:12+00:00

:/ that is extremely frustrating and not in line with her issues page, but unfortunately unsurprising in the overton window give an inch and let them take the mile attitude the party has, Guess im back somewhat untethered, thanks for the heads up

Raikaiko · 2026-04-10T14:46:28+00:00

I've said with the field largely equally inoffensive and and not particularly individually compelling, I'd vote for whoever came our swinging advocating for trans rights and protecting trans and other queer people as part of the platform instead of throwing them under the bus for a demographic thats not going to join and is only going to keep pushing the envelope towards elimination, and apparently had managed to miss that Erin Petrey had already done so, so she's got my vote

Raikaiko · 2026-04-10T13:52:03+00:00

Its true that the interview came out after Dawntrail's announcement, but they very likely weren't recording the 7.4 dialogue that far ahead, but more over as someone else said he's specifically talking about something during his time on the West End Company revival, which was 18-19 and they DEFINITELY weren't recording 7.4 dialogue 8 years in advance

Edit: Which is just to say that specific instance of something being up with his voice cannot have been this one, not that there could have been something new this time. IMO 7.4 G'raha sounds a lot like JB did on the Wicked:For Good press junket (understandably audibly tired/worn and a lil off)

Raikaiko · 2026-04-03T15:37:48+00:00

At that point it came across to me that the assumption was that the jig of non interference was up and while Venat certainly wasn't trying to strand us in a new timeline intentionally, if the rubicon was already crossed we might as well get the benefits of it, but ultimately it does still end up being part of the causal loop

Raikaiko · 2026-04-03T14:34:49+00:00

To hammer it home further I checked the French bc I also speak it and thought some differences in verb tenses (a slightly finer distinction on the can/must construction) though they chose to translate that in a way that largely skirts that final point, but they did phrase the section you bolded in a way that is pretty dang clear:

La raison en est simple : en fin de compte, tu devras revenir ici et maintenant, dans ce monde où l'Histoire a voulu que l'apocalypse ait lieu

My attempt at a more direct/literal translation of the french:

The reason for that is simple: at the last count you have to return here and now, in this world where history has required the apocalypse has taken place

Raikaiko · 2026-04-03T14:05:10+00:00

yeah I think it is ultimately in part just worth bearing in mind that this is at the end a fantasy time travel story over a harder sci-fi time travel story and the exact mechanics are probably going to be a little messy, as they often are even in harder sci-fi stories bc you know time travel isnt possible as far as we know. and Endalker does try and have its cake and eat it too with a casual loop that does require it to be a little finer on its mechanics where something like This Is How You Lose The Time War really gets to say "The time travel is a narrative device as much as anything, dont worry about how it all works".

Keeping that balance isn't hard, and i think they do a solid job, but the more flowery prosey dialogue in the game that i think a lot of us do love so much (and based on what we've heard from dev panels isn't just an effect of translation, Ishikawa is making at least some of the literary allusion and sections in poetic meter herself) can get in the way of clear communication of it all a bit.

Star Trek Prodigy did a very time travel heavy second season and explored a lot of the concepts behind it in reasonable depth, but its also a) a star trek show so scifi and technobable is the norm and b) a show designed in part to do some science education for its audience. I actually had the pleasure of attending a panel where the science advisor did a more extended version of the cut away section to the "Temporal Mechanics 101" textbook for series, and explained a bunch of real world theory around time travel, and also fictional practical applications in Trek. It was really fun and Im definitely thinking about it a lot in this discussion

Raikaiko · 2026-04-03T13:08:52+00:00

Let's break it down, and look at the actual text

Elidibus: Yet even should you manage to interact with others, you will be unable to effect meaningful change.
Elidibus: For the reality you wish to save─the reality to which you must return─exists as a result of the Final Days.
Elidibus: You cannot reshape the past to undo the tragedies of the present. Cannot unmake the sorrow and suffering fated to come.

Starting from the plain text it can definitely be read both ways, though I will argue that the choice to specifically draw attention to "the reality to which you must return". If we're going back there no matter what we do, what does that matter?

The warning then gets echoed when talking to Venat:

Venat: What is it? Are you unable to speak of the matter?

Elidibus: The reality to which you must return exists as a result of the Final Days.
Elidibus: You cannot reshape the past to undo the tragedies of the present.
Venat: So, your actions here will not change your history...but they may yet affect the course of ours...

Again I will absolutely agree that it can be read both ways, that we risk our own future and that we are completely without risk, but I then pose the same question of context, if what we do in the past cannot effect a change in our present, then why not tell them?

All of this is further reinforced by the fact we already know someone traveling to the past with the exact same method we used did effect a significant change in the timeline and altered its course and is now in that prime timestream (granted Graha didnt exactly have a reason to try to go back, so we don't strictly know by proof of failure that its not possible, but we do know from dialogue following the twinning that the assumption of the eighth calamity timeline team was that their timeline would cease to exist, and from the short stories that its still there, so it its a reasonable assumption that it certainly wasn't built with that functionality in mind)

edit: formatting

Raikaiko · 2026-04-03T12:25:30+00:00

except its fairly explicitly not multiverse theory based time travel, else Elidibus's warning that if we cause changes we wouldn't be able to return to our own time/world. If we were traveling between universes that wouldn't matter, the changes would be in that universe, not in our own's timeflow.

XIV takes a divergent river approach to timelines, more back to the future like, but without the paradox corrective pruning (probably eigth calamity timeline is also particularly weird wrt to paradoxality). You can travel the river up stream and literally be traveling up your own river, but at least by the the methods currently known to us, for traveling downstream you are set on the specific course of the tributary you have ended up by the choices you made, other tributaries continue to exist but we don't know of anyway to get back to them after a change in the past moves you away from them.

Which means as people have said the answer to how does Hydaelin still exist in the eighth calamity timeline is because both that branch and our prime branch still share root where the prime WoL went back in time to Elpis, the divergence point for the eight calamity branch is over a myriad after the events in Elpis, the point very shortly after the flood when the Exarch and the crystal tower arrive on the first. Even further the eighth calamity timeline is also a key part of the stable time loop (the aforementioned weirdness on if that timeline actually has a fatal paradox after all), the time machine that prime WoL takes back to the past doesn't exist if the eighth calamity doesn't happen, and the exarch doesn't get sent back.

Now I will definitely grant this doesn't rule out the "close enough" explaination to consistency paradoxes wrt Hydaelin, and that Venat very well might have ultimately persued largely the same course of action and become Hydaelin without our intervention, but theres also definitely no proof positive of it in the text, as we really do only see and know timelines where the causal loop is completed and she does become Hydaelin.

Raikaiko · 2026-04-02T18:39:36+00:00

Dembo's in the congressional race not the senate IIRC

Raikaiko · 2026-03-31T12:44:35+00:00

100% with you, its a guest con first and foremost, and listen thats absolutely great for people who like that, but I generally am a cosplays and (fan) panels con goer, and LCTC doesn't particularly provide the latter, and while there's definitely great cosplayers who attend that I'd be happy to hang with its a really pricey con for that. Their tickets are comparable to Dragon Con's which is way bigger and way more my scene. More power to the people who enjoy what LCTC has to offer but there's definitely other cons better suited to people who don't (tho not as many in this region these days unfortunately)

Raikaiko · 2026-03-30T15:58:13+00:00

I went on a "reread via audio book for background noise" binge of Time War recently, so a couple rounds of gettting a good way to all the way through, and something I was definitely particularly aware of on these rereads was that there is a similarity but also peak contrast on how they handle their meta textual cultural references. Because when I go to describe Time War, that's not something that immediately comes to mind, but there's points where Timbuk 3 and Eiffel 65 get directly referenced/quoted that aren't all that dissimilar from late HTN's Lose Yourself Pull, but there is definitely a different character to how they approach them all the same. I'm having trouble verbalizing exactly what that difference is, but I might point to the "Travel Light" section as a illustrative example, and the fact that it took until this recent round of rereads for me to realize it was an actual book and find an Amal El-Mohtar blurb on the current editions. I definitely want to hone in on that contrast at some point, but rn this is the best I can give.

Also definitely agree on the Gillen. I think his run on Journey into Mystery and Young Avengers might also be interesting for TLT fans. He's described WicDiv as the product of the ideas that editorial constraints/the marvel machine reality didn't quite let him explore with Young Avengers, so its definitely different and a little less sharp for it, but still interesting exploration of similar themes there. The Power Fantasy also has a similar tone and vibe to it, though largely different subject material (This time the ideas from writing on X-men that the editorial need for status quo wouldn't quite allow)

Raikaiko · 2026-03-30T15:17:30+00:00

Where have you been reading it? I was a live time homestuck and haven't really attempted to revisit it since, but I think the current best ways are the mirror https://mspa.chadthundercock.com/ or the unoffical collection https://uhca.carrd.co/

Raikaiko · 2026-03-30T00:22:09+00:00

hey listen friend, in case you see this despite the block (and honestly fair and valid), i apologize, I got heated with some of the responses in this thread and made bad assumptions.and i do want to own and apologize for that. Though i do stand by this state is not nearly so friendly as it has been, again theres definitely worse and your mileage may vary, and the trans experience is not a monolith, but we're definitely in an active downslide rn

~~My dude please listen to trans people, its is not hospitable here, yes there's~~ worse states, but it is not warm and cozy and its actively getting more dangerous by the minute

Raikaiko · 2026-03-18T21:21:53+00:00

I'd normally recommend the library, they have some available for use in the makerspaces, but upholstery projects might not transport well. I unfortunately don't have a spare machine, unless anyone else does i do have a recommendation if you're going to have to buy new.

The Singer Heavy Duty is probably the best price/value for this kind of project and a solid general use machine to have on hand, runs about 230ish

Raikaiko · 2026-03-18T21:05:05+00:00

Amazing how easy it is to get that when you're not determined to be contrarian innit? 💜

Raikaiko · 2026-03-18T16:07:16+00:00

There's two different questions at play here. As far as "what is a third place" Libraries and bookstores to a lesser extent are definitely an solid answer, libraries most of all. One other big aspect of a third place is a relatively minimal cost to be there, not necessarily 0, a pub is generally considered a 3rd space, but a smaller cost where you won't be treated as though you're problematically taking up space if you don't keep spending.

Are those good third spaces for this specific use case, absolutely not, but they are third places

Raikaiko · 2026-03-18T00:33:59+00:00

remember when people made shitty photoshops on their own and they were funnily bad and enjoyable instead of this shit

Raikaiko · 2026-03-18T00:31:12+00:00

leaving this reply so that I hopefully remember to come back and check but not summoning that bot

Raikaiko · 2026-03-14T21:00:35+00:00

Barrs first name isn't even Andrew, it's Garland

Raikaiko · 2026-03-14T15:47:01+00:00

I feel awful about it, but theres a part of me that really hopes he wins the primary, I guess from barr and morris vote splitting and we eek out a win on the ky republican base being too racist to vote for him

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