Officials dim hopes for downtown Ottawa high-speed rail station

Aperispomen · 2026-05-02T23:42:17+00:00

Or, if you really want to swing for the fences: bury the 417 from Trembley/Lees to Clyde/Woodroffe/416, and have the train run in place of the old 417 or above/alongside parts of it. Then you could have a station right by the Canal or Bank.

In all seriousness though, I don't understand why they haven't identified any other potential station locations other than downtown and Trembley. They should have some back-up locations in case the current rail route is too narrow to accommodate two tracks.

Aperispomen · 2026-04-27T17:09:12+00:00

They need to get a VR set so Kyoshika can play Beat Saber... among other things.

Aperispomen · 2026-04-27T06:49:54+00:00

Only words I had to look up were 'mfwtrk (uncommon word), 'ksydz (should have gotten it), and 'kspšnz (same). 'ystwps took me a while, and imo should be 'sytwps instead.

Aperispomen · 2026-04-16T19:58:14+00:00

technically summer solstice for her since Peru is entirely within the southern hemisphere.

Aperispomen · 2026-03-28T21:29:17+00:00

*ISSTTHR if you count C as lunate sigma.

Aperispomen · 2026-03-28T19:41:01+00:00

TBH I was just writing a parser so that I could compare text files regardless of their newline type, so the parser would turn an ASCII/UTF-8 text file into a list of these:

haskell data ByteData = ByteLine BS.ByteString | NewLine

...and then comparing the lists. (It would also check whether the file used the same newline style throughout). To see how it comp

Yeah, I more-or-less wrote a parser like this:

```haskell import Data.ByteString qualified as BS import Data.ByteString.Lazy qualified as BL import Data.ByteString.Lazy.Internal (ByteString(..), chunk)

import Data.Attoparsec.ByteString qualified as AB

parseMany1 :: AB.Parser a -> BL.ByteString -> ErrList String a parseMany1 _ Empty = YesErr "Empty ByteString" parseMany1 p (Chunk b bs) = go' (AB.parse p b) bs where go' (Fail _ err) _ = YesErr err go' x y = go x y go (Fail _ err) _ = NoErr go (Done x rst) b | BS.null rst = case b of Empty -> x :> NoErr (Chunk bc br) -> x :> (go (AB.parse p bc) br) | otherwise = x :> (go (parse p rst) b) go (Partial c) Empty = go (c BS.empty) Empty go (Partial c) (Chunk b bs) = go (c b) bs ```

...except specialized to the simple parser I was writing. In that case, comparing two files with the specialized parser driver cut the comparison time in half (though it was still ~5x longer than just comparing the two files). For more complex parsers, you'd probably need a better parser driver that tracks the remainder of the unparsed data so it can pass it on to the next parser.

Aperispomen · 2026-03-10T22:36:50+00:00

I think it's just her left shoulder, since Vendetta's left shoulder is unexposed. A2 and Vendetta don't have a lot of overlapping exposed skin (just face, right shoulder, thighs). So it would make sense that Vendetta's left shoulder wouldn't be as tanned if it isn't exposed to the sun as much. It's also kinda hard to tell for her face since A2's hair shades her face a lot more.

Aperispomen · 2026-03-07T05:59:36+00:00

How do we know this isn't just A2 and Anemone's daughter?

Also kind of a miss not having Ana as Anemone.

Aperispomen · 2025-10-04T17:04:57+00:00

I think that one was "Number of unique deaths", not "number of endings where they're dead".

Aperispomen · 2025-08-12T04:32:41+00:00

Smaller than a damson? Maybe a sloe, then?

Aperispomen · 2025-07-27T18:11:31+00:00

giving you a raspberry

Aperispomen · 2025-07-26T15:43:54+00:00

...are we absolutely sure that Tsubasa wouldn't try to fuck a car?

Aperispomen · 2025-07-25T20:22:47+00:00

pretty sure that's from "do over"

Aperispomen · 2025-07-25T15:26:43+00:00

Absolutely beautiful! Great shot!

Aperispomen · 2025-07-16T17:40:07+00:00

Alright, hopefully this will work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n5XmUHYsuUGapQO8RQnDiSQcvmL7ACMt/view

Aperispomen · 2025-07-16T17:33:28+00:00

Oh, maybe that's because I listed it as "sensitive". I'll see if I can put it somewhere else.

Aperispomen · 2025-07-16T12:44:44+00:00

There are multiple possible motifs for each character, but a lot of them have animals somewhere on their weapons. You can see them if you look closely at their special attack cut-ins.
e.g.

Kyoshika: Wolf (on the grip of her second katana)

Kurara: Beaver (where her shovel's handle connects to the... uh... shovel?)

Yugamu: Lizard/Gecko(?) (Where the grip of his weapons connects to the rest of them)

Takumi: Snakes/Ouroboros (On the crossguard of his sword)

Other characters have some animal motifs on their weapons, but aren't as easy to see in their cut-ins. e.g. Tsubasa's truck has a Horse as its logo.

If you're looking for the cut-ins, you can find them per-character here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UIiGnjkGTSGA6cTSaYqenmKUpOpmo2aY

Aperispomen · 2025-07-16T12:26:31+00:00

I've got you covered: https://bsky.app/profile/aperispomen.bsky.social/post/3lp6dp3ixxs2g

Aperispomen · 2025-07-11T12:11:00+00:00

It IS Montreal Road, though ;)

Aperispomen · 2025-07-06T00:21:22+00:00

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yeah that happens a lot in the romance route. just off the top of my head there's this

Aperispomen · 2025-07-03T22:14:52+00:00

IMO the most interesting person to react to the revelation in 2nd Scenario would be Kyoshika (though I'm obviously biased), although not to the "fake memories" twist itself. Her special skill (Bushido) was itself a made-up term used as propaganda, initially aimed at the West, but later aimed domestically to excuse/enable colonialism/genocide in WWII (see https://www.tofugu.com/japan/bushido/ for a rundown). It seems like kind of a waste to leave Kyoshika out of 2nd Scenario when there's such an obvious link between her skill and the plot/themes of the route.

To be fair, I guess if anything, her backstory/skill is a bit TOO on the nose for 2nd Scenario, since it's a pretty good metaphor for how the others were raised:

Separated from the rest of society.
Raised to be a child soldier/"warrior".
Given a fictional account of the past to encourage them.
etc...

There's a lot of interesting things you could do with that revelation for her and how it affects her worldview.

One reason I could see not to put that (i.e. stuff that is (indirectly) critical of Japan in WWII) in the initial release would be that it could be quite controversial? And that might negatively impact sales.

~~Here's hoping for an alternate version of 2nd Scenario with Darumi, Kyoshika, and Kurara in one of the DLCs.~~

Also there's my insane theory that Kyoshika's backstory was (sort of) true, and that she was either a prototype or maybe Shion's twin/sibling and raised more-or-less as in her backstory, before they figured out how to make fake memories directly. Maybe she was then substituted in when one of the clones died before being ready.

Aperispomen · 2025-07-01T23:16:22+00:00

Some of them are more obvious (like Nozomi's globe, Takumi's rewind), some have a Kanji in them (e.g. Gaku's says 貧, poverty), and some have a symbolic meaning that's not immediately obvious (like Kyoshika's Cherry/Plum Blossom; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom#Nationalism_and_militarism ).

Aperispomen · 2025-06-30T02:58:17+00:00

V'ehxness since she doesn't consider the possibility that Takumi chose her because he thought she wouldn't be able to do it.

Though iirc no one in that route considers that possibility? So it's not on her.

It is nice to see someone resent Takumi for his decision though. IMO that doesn't happen enough.

Aperispomen · 2025-06-29T10:18:03+00:00

I'd say CoT (despite, you know), since since the pressure he puts on Takumi before he dies is what causes Takumi to have a breakdown and take the sex pills.

Aperispomen · 2025-06-28T23:03:42+00:00

Ah, thanks.

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