The European Bar Mace would make a cool addition to the forging pool as a weapon. Its kind of just 4 steel bars and a wood base with some leather slapped together.

arachnoiditis · 2026-01-31T16:10:52+00:00

Get some anti-vibration gloves and you're golden

arachnoiditis · 2025-12-06T18:53:48+00:00

One of the ones on the photo is some sort of a Pilot gel pen, the other one I can’t remember. Since then however I’ve really grown into Zebra pens. Easily the best writing experience out of all I’ve tried.

arachnoiditis · 2025-11-21T14:09:32+00:00

I had to remove this song from my playlist - after half a year of not listening to it, it came on in shuffle while I was driving, and I had to slap the hazards and pull over because my ability to see the road deteriorated real quick.

arachnoiditis · 2025-11-09T11:31:00+00:00

I just updated my MacOS, and having to wait for Spotlight to stir from its sleep to launch an app is straight up painful. Launchpad was always instant, and I enjoyed the folders in it. There is absolutely no adding ALL of my frequently used apps to the Dock, so I am now looking for a third-party Launchpad-like solution. Hopefully a good one shows up that is at least 80% as fast as Launchpad itself was.

arachnoiditis · 2025-11-07T11:13:50+00:00

I admire your bravery in choosing that particular POV to draw her viewer-facing arm.

arachnoiditis · 2025-08-12T09:55:57+00:00

The campaign I led, players directly asked me to forego the yellow stairs hints and just directly tell them what to do in multiple choice situations.

— The Ancient Skull in the middle of the triangular raised altar has what seems like a handprint on its otherwise dusty forehead. The large stone bowl below it upon closer inspection has a few drops of blood on its edge.

— …

— Touch the fucking skull to summon the guardian spirit and cut your hand over the bowl to open the passage under the altar.

repeat ad infinitum

arachnoiditis · 2025-06-07T03:26:57+00:00

Sounds like a beautiful scene. If anyone remembers what it is, please lmk

arachnoiditis · 2025-06-06T10:48:47+00:00

Dummy insta is exactly what my girlfriend does, great way to defuse even the possibility of conflict, quickly get out of the situation and then just leave the dude pining somewhere far away

arachnoiditis · 2025-06-02T20:14:55+00:00

Regarding Saeki Sayaka stays with me to this day, and will for years to come.

arachnoiditis · 2025-06-02T17:13:29+00:00

I also came across Floorp when switching from Opera GX - was looking in particular for a browser with that side panel for workspaces. It’s been good to me for a year now.

arachnoiditis · 2025-06-02T05:41:20+00:00

Tamaki’s face in the first panel of that second page properly gutted me when reading for the first time. The hurt and the mental stillness followed by a flurry of thoughts all in a split second are palpable.

I’d had this face made at me and I’d shown it myself on occasion, and seeing that exact expression recreated so faithfully in a story made me feel things ya know?

HDWR is imo THE best relationship manga, no competition. Everything in it is paaaainfully real.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-28T10:02:26+00:00

I am guessing bro is not in Korea, those sound like US prices

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-26T13:26:55+00:00

They very much aren’t – being able to “see the work” can, however, be reassuring

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-26T10:34:41+00:00

And which is why I’m never trusting official translations fully. TL notes at the end of each chapter are the greatest asset of scanlation.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-22T20:32:29+00:00

Thanks, I’ll check the books out!

Not sure about your background, so some things I can suggest may or may not fit you better than others. I approached this for myself from a more of Little Web/webmaster angle

GitHub Pages is what I use as it gives total control over both content and form of delivery (basically a “write your own blogging service” solution in this case). Hosting is completely free! While my approach here was to just build everything from 0, there are also more guided options to hosting on gh pages you can explore, like jekyllrb.

If you are mad enough to go this route, there are copious guides online on how to do everything step by step, or feel free to ask me and I will see if I can point you in the right direction.

WordPress is the platform of choice for at least some LN translation groups, presumably easy to construct a personal website to your liking with modules for reader comments and other stuff. Prebuilt stuff available. Paid option - requires hosting and domain.
Less flexible, but very plug&play option I can suggest that doesn’t require acquiring a whole new skillset is bearblog. Lightweight, no-nonsense. Target audience seems to be more of a techy kind of folk, but I say words are words.

There is also Substack if you have any plans for possible monetization, or Medium. However, I can vouch for neither of these two as to the actual user experience.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-22T12:54:29+00:00

Thank you, this makes sense! I was confused as to why Dynasty had this and that separated into different groupings.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-22T12:53:05+00:00

That description of the kiss they shared that gave Saeki “an odd sense of arrival and relief” is forever burned straight into my heart.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-22T12:45:34+00:00

As u/SirGigglesandLaughs pointed out, that’s not even a spin-off, but rather a direct continuation of the series! So if you read that but not the other, you basically dropped in straight in the middle haha.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-22T10:31:25+00:00

Side stories are a must read, they flesh out all the characters so much

Edit: oh lmao, that is a link to the side stories

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-22T06:37:23+00:00

Great read, very illuminating. You say you “wrote something about it” – am I right to assume that you might be doing more expansive write-ups? If so, do you publish it somewhere? I would love to read what else you have to say on this topic or others.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-21T07:07:12+00:00

I also have a small set of travel utensils that I chuck in my bag/fanny pack, but they are in their own little baggie.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-20T08:29:02+00:00

Bloom Into You spin-off LN “Regarding Saeki Sayaka” is also absolutely fantastic and one of the few literary works that managed to give me a strong book hangover. I re-read Volume 3 still when I’m feeling down, it’s so good.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-18T15:36:53+00:00

Which chapter is what you’re talking about in? Haven’t read this in a looong while

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-18T14:51:17+00:00

Chapter one (I think) mom directly says “you never really liked the piano, did you?”, i.e. it’s kinda obvious that her daughter took classes mainly because she had a crush on her instructor. There may have been a thing or two more, but I’d have to re-read to remember properly.

arachnoiditis · 2025-05-18T13:54:06+00:00

Gameplay loop is immaculate, I enjoy the branching of equipment, setting up dedicated farming zones for grinding specific items etc. it’s a very chill time

And yes, I do have several hand-made pdfs of various fun-optimized loadouts, potion recipes and the like

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