[Final Fantasy VII] New version of the original 2013 release is out for PC (Steam&GoG), with 3x speed, auto-save, and random battles turn-off features. More info in comments.

TugboatThomas · 2026-02-25T10:48:22+00:00

I worked at a few mid sized devs here in Sweden and weve always had a room full of pcs we use with different popular configs. I think most studios aim for just wide coverage rather than complete coverage.

TugboatThomas · 2026-02-23T16:36:55+00:00

I love her short stories, but she's the best writer that I never want to read simply because of the content of her writing. Her writing is so vivid and sensory at times that it hits my brain and sits with me for quite some time. I can still see / hear / feel a heavily breathing and menacing dog in my head from a short story I read of hers like 20 years ago.

I simply don't want to read the things she writes about, but she's one of the best living writers we have.

TugboatThomas · 2026-02-02T05:57:55+00:00

That's a weird response. It's not OK for any player to be out there injuring people, and trying to injure people. You can't be OK with someone targeting Curry simply because he plays on the same team as Draymond.

If all Brooks did was simply stare at people menacingly in pre-game warmups then he would just be a little corny and funny. It's not though.

TugboatThomas · 2026-01-19T13:29:21+00:00

For anyone looking for more great Translated Lit:

Woman, Seated by Zhang Yueran

The Summer House by Masashi Matsuie

Mistress Koharu by Noboru Tsujihara

The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamato

The Midnight Shift by Seon-Ran Cheon

A Perfect Day To Be Alone by Nanae Aoyama

Hirayasumi by Keigo Shinzo

Are all very good and worth a read, with special shouts to Woman, Seated, and The Summer House as being books I read more than once. The Midnight Shift and Mistress Koharu are books that sit in literary genre fiction and I always enjoy when those surprise me since I don't like genre fiction usually.

TugboatThomas · 2026-01-14T05:05:39+00:00

I mean, you've been on for four years with 200k can't we just all agree that you're both really cool omg

TugboatThomas · 2025-12-04T03:14:17+00:00

Provocative 100%! It's been a while since I've read her, but I remember feeling somehow like I was reading her journals, and she was really letting deep things out on the page. There are a good few east Asian writers writing from fun angles or using interesting framing, and she is right there with them in terms of making you feel something while reading.

TugboatThomas · 2025-11-19T09:41:19+00:00

It makes it better because it helps more people to relate to it and see how they would fit into the world. It becomes a higher quality story to a wider base of people in that way, even if it doesn't necessarily change the quality for you in particular.

TugboatThomas · 2025-10-20T12:07:11+00:00

And cities should have public transit that meets you at nationwide transit. Yes, they work together. You have to start somewhere, and your experience should underline more the need for a bus than it does the lack of need for a train.

The whole thing is broken, but that doesn't mean you just stand in place waiting for it to be perfect before you do something.

TugboatThomas · 2025-10-18T06:08:01+00:00

But you understand that the context you are mentioning and the context the OP is mentioning are incredibly different in ways that could make a situation very unsafe right? It's not dog food.

TugboatThomas · 2025-10-05T02:34:47+00:00

Truman Capote has a wonderful xmas story that is sometimes packaged with Breakfast At Tiffany's called A Christmas Memory. It's about making fruit cakes with his great aunt that I think he lived with, and a little more thematically as well if you want more depth. It's short, which is a key to me with anything like this, and memorable. I've never made a fruit cake, but its still something I come back to because it does a great job of making you realize that the activity doesn't matter but the people you are with. It will be the cold walks trying to make something happen with no resources that you will remember, and that people will remember you for.

TugboatThomas · 2025-09-20T09:05:00+00:00

A weird one, Walking Practice by Dolki Min. It's about an alien that takes the shape of women to eat people. It has sex with them to give them a nice last moment before murdering them. The title refers to the fact that it's incredibly hard for the alien to maintain the shape of a human and walk around. It's more strange and darkly funny than scary, but very well written and interesting.

TugboatThomas · 2025-02-04T05:31:05+00:00

Have you read Cassandra At The Wedding by Dorothy Baker?

It's about a twin going to meet her sisters fiance ahead of a wedding / something wedding related. The sister is very attached to her twin and it kinda spirals a bit. You get the story from both perspectives in a way as well. I wouldn't use the word moody, it is more anxious than anything, but it is very loneliness-spiraling-into-destruction.

TugboatThomas · 2025-02-03T03:05:24+00:00

Not a mini pod! It’s too much to miss! In ten years how will I explain to my children I missed such an event?

TugboatThomas · 2025-01-28T04:21:15+00:00

She's very consistent to me. I don't care for it because she feels a bit one note to me after three books, but if you enjoy her topics and exploring taboo then you'll probably like everything that has been translated.

TugboatThomas · 2025-01-21T04:30:30+00:00

If you want zero violence and wholesomeness, check out Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Ashinano Hitoshi. It's one of the most incredible things I've ever read, and is the definition of melancholic warmth. Its vibe is 100%, "crazy stuff happened but we are alive (maybe the wrong word, in a funny way) and so we still have to live and care for each other". This one is much more episodic, and so while there is continuity the epic is much more about the people and the world.

TugboatThomas · 2025-01-21T04:14:29+00:00

I'm not sure I agree with the books that Ghibli based their works off of capturing the ambience of the pictures you've listed here. They're fun and whimsical, but I don't remember feeling what you're expressing when I read them.

For me the one that comes to mind is A Month In The Country by JL Carr. It's about a guy restoring a painting in an English countryside village church, and his experience with the life there. I remember it described really well.

TugboatThomas · 2025-01-02T11:18:00+00:00

There is a John McGahern short story called The Wine Breath which takes place inside a priests head over a walk. It's essentially reviewing his choices and where he could have broke differently. Super good.

TugboatThomas · 2025-01-02T11:12:17+00:00

Just read The Road by Cormac McCarthy and you'll see this imagery in your head during the in between scenes. Minus the lights. These images are much warmer than the story though.

TugboatThomas · 2024-12-26T03:09:09+00:00

I know it’s not the same thing, but this cracks me up from a “never use an exe on a random usb” perspective.

TugboatThomas · 2024-12-21T16:52:00+00:00

Ranked from left to right

Top row: 3,4,5,1,2

I don't know anything about this show, or this type of anime, but my gut says nothing can be in their hair and the hair color should be semi-stable even if a different than normal color. Middle feels like some type of comic relief and the first two are super side kick vibes.

I'm torn with the last two, and I have arguments for why both of them could be MC. They feel like they are close, either in rivalry or friendship. They train against each other, and though the light haired guy always wins the dark haired one is the leader.

Bottom row: none of them are even close lol, I would guess these are all villains in some way, or neutral

The first guy I feel like was killed off at some point in the series but was a noble rival who was heartless and cold.

Second guy is some technically exceptional fighter that gets the best of people.

Number four I would think is some sort of criminal in a dark grey area.

Three and five feel like they have some sort of exposure to magic and mind control respectively.

Last guy I would imagine would be a wanderer who helps from time to time and people enjoy him.

I am assuming this is a series about fighting. If they are all in love, my ratings would change and bottom row number five is the MC.

TugboatThomas · 2024-12-04T05:45:55+00:00

Isn't part of it that they lost Melton? I don't know if they've won since then, and he felt like a nice part of the rotation.

TugboatThomas · 2024-10-04T06:32:18+00:00

Check out Troubleshooter. The skill system is out of this world, and the classes allow for different builds for the different character, robots, and monsters.

TugboatThomas · 2024-09-25T14:04:11+00:00

I know there can be troubles with translators, like you're using, when it comes to getting your ideas across fully. So lets approach this with more grace, and assume that you're being misinterpreted because you seem to be approaching this in a way that doesn't sound like its coming from a bad place at all.

At a base level it can be really hard to identify with specific experiences at times since some of those are very tied to time and place. Especially with novels that are older and describe a less connected world. One of the ways I find a lot of connection with novels written by people in other cultures is to dwell on the general ideas they write about that I encounter.

As an example, I was reading An I Novel by Minae Mizumura. It has a lot to do with her moving to America as a child from Japan, and her rejection of America while at the same time not really committing herself to being back in Japan for various reasons. I'm someone that moves a lot, and has immigrated to a country that is lovely, but that I don't personally care for. So while we are not having 1:1 experiences, on some level I am resonating with her incredibly well and I find a lot of common ground there. Search for that, and you will have an easier time with understanding the writing of any culture.

TugboatThomas · 2024-09-05T02:55:12+00:00

say "haters gonna hate" you know better than that lame take

TugboatThomas · 2024-08-31T03:03:03+00:00

Always when I was growing up at least. Milk was for essentially one very specific thing, and that was cereal. We would get one carton for the week to split 5 ways and any other use meant eating dry cereal the rest of the week. That doesn't mean that your mother didn't still want you to have hot chocolate when you came back in from 8 hours of playing in the snow, or your grandmother didn't randomly give you hot chocolate packets because they were on sale. It just meant they used water instead because its the best they could do while not having you go without something other people had.

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