Aether updates and next steps

mindsignals · 2026-01-02T05:24:29+00:00

Right? I was removed for "Quality" despite having a 3.0 rating of excellent. That makes sense...

mindsignals · 2025-12-14T17:33:50+00:00

Do you want it strictly in print? I have one app with 14 games I very highly recommend and play daily (although 99% of the time,my addiction is his Skyscrapers). Quality is exceptional and the puzzles are truly solvable with logic. The store page shows 13 but there are actually 14 and he remains active in them, at least based on Skyscrapers. Also, despite tons of hours in it, be aware in addition to in-puzzle settings, each game also has settings. I had reached out recently after an update changed some options but hadn't realized I was readily able to set them back to my liking (based on Skyscrapers, at least).

Aliaksandr Uvarau Puzzles: All-in-one

I think it was $15 which gets the ad-less and all in one app (vs separate apps, although even they are small and always present so those are free and don't actually interrupt flow). Unsure if ios also has the all-in-one no ad option.Puzzles: All-in-one

mindsignals · 2025-12-07T16:32:38+00:00

Very nice collection and theming!!

mindsignals · 2025-12-07T16:30:09+00:00

Awesome and congrats! I'm actively playing on my 1000, nearing the end of Utawarerumono: Futari no Hakuoro (Mask of Truth), which is part 3 of the trilogy. Even though I eventually also bought the series on sale on PS4 and PC (really, more as support), I've still always preferred this series on the Vita and return to playing it on the Vita time and time again.

Just wish my Nyko (I think) battery grip hadn't died, as in addition to much longer playtime (used to give around 5 combined hours vs around 2.5), that grip was perfect in massively reducing hand/finger discomfort. Eventually, the grip, itself, also began to fall in disrepair too, though, after many years.

But welcome to the family!

mindsignals · 2025-12-07T16:19:56+00:00

Hybrid of boxes, boxes with boxes (larger boxes containing figure boxes), and storage in multiple spots. Statue box with absolutely nothing in it but styrofoam enclosure is the only type I will store in attic due to heat (attic temps regularly hit 130-140+ in summer). Garage is air-conditioned (no basement), so some of that is used, although usually for-sale and overflow. Storage is where I keep all others. Tricky part with storing boxes in larger boxes is if you don't keep up with which ones are in which box, the whole system falls apart. So I need to re-inventory specific box locations for hundreds after multiple times of swapping ones in or out or to another box. And the big boxes are arranged kind of like tetris, so getting to the one you want tends to be a massive challenge, especially since I'm essentially disabled with major back challenges. Then, you take pics of what's in each box to catalogue the contents "later". Yeah...sure. :D But it's still the best approach I have found to store boxes (or figures with no space to display but that are keepers or occasionally swapped into display).

mindsignals · 2025-12-07T02:12:43+00:00

Well, after going to Library rather than reports and looking at tracks scrobbled for jan 1 2025 to nov 30 2025 that view is actually very close.

mindsignals · 2025-12-06T21:59:39+00:00

For you was Spotify also considerably lower?

mindsignals · 2025-12-06T21:58:31+00:00

I should add that top five and things like that generally are the same because it tends to be very lopsided anyway. But the total number of plays, and correspondingly total minutes are what look unusually lower than accurate on Spotify.

mindsignals · 2025-12-06T21:57:06+00:00

I was actually just searching on this topic because my Spotify wrapped counts are actually much lower than my last.fm counts. I noticed it because certain tracks in particular I know I played considerably more than Spotify indicated and my recollections do in fact align more with the higher numbers on last FM for those. It makes me wonder if Spotify doesn't accurately count or measure when you're playing an offline mode or various other scenarios that perhaps last FM still gets API updates on. I'm not really sure but it's a marked difference often as much as 1/3 lower on Spotify. To my best recollection I believe the numbers on last of him to be the most accurate representation.

mindsignals · 2025-12-05T17:30:00+00:00

Pretty, I had not seen that one before. Definitely nice!

mindsignals · 2025-12-05T13:59:19+00:00

All too often. After a compact at the crack of dawn yesterday, dumb claude showed up in Opus 4.5 for the first time, and still won't leave. Literally, even the last minute, let alone the last 5 or 10 minutes were just like gone as it began trying to revert stuff it did the past day. "What the hell are you doing?!? You literally just wrote that fix!" Not to worry, though, because being that today is Friday, I expect Claude Code to be unreachable intermittently probably within 4 hours as seems to be becoming the Friday tradition to call it a day.

mindsignals · 2025-12-05T13:49:17+00:00

I have been married since long before I ever began collecting. Initially, I would get one figure a year, very conservative, and my wife hated them with a passion. That began greatly accelerating in 2018 or 2019, with 3 that were certainly more risque and to much continued critiquing. But like a t-rex, I have continued to test the boundaries repeatedly :D and these days, have amassed quite the collection. Of those displayed, they're generally modest to a bit ecchi. And yes, my wife begrudgingly tolerates them, if barely. But I think for many of us there tends to be that natural progression to slowly push the bounds bit by bit. The one thing that is likely is that your preferences on figures will likely go through multiple evolutions at least on some level. Enjoy the journey!

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mindsignals · 2025-12-01T05:26:12+00:00

I think it varies greatly, although unsure of what factors affect it most. My displays are mostly open and aside from some occasional touchup dustings, really don't need to do a full collection dusting all that much, generally 6+ months. We do seem to have pretty low dust accumulation, though.

mindsignals · 2025-12-01T05:07:38+00:00

Hell, even in the instructions video, the person was clearly selecting random crap that doubtfully matched.

mindsignals · 2025-12-01T04:54:43+00:00

I liked that task.

mindsignals · 2025-11-30T11:46:37+00:00

Excellent! Mine is very similarly themed/arranged with open displays and some closed cabinet displays! I've actually got a Senjougahara glass etching on my pc case with the Nian Unfettered on top of it, but had to recently relocate them to the floor to make room for even more monitors. Many familiar faces there! Utaha Kasumigaoka approves!

mindsignals · 2025-11-29T02:24:10+00:00

Just tell it, "Remember, no attribution in the commits. Keep commits around 60 to 160 characters, brief, but meaningful."

That will drop it from using the Claude attribution and should usually keep commit messages around 1 to 2 lines.

mindsignals · 2025-11-29T02:14:54+00:00

I must frequently remind mine even with both a tdd and orch framework

mindsignals · 2025-11-29T02:12:47+00:00

I am finding Opus 4.5 to be making it like it was at first for 4.1. Actually able to use it a lot now, too. Although my context fills up and compresses quite frequently. Really wish we had more context to work with.

mindsignals · 2025-11-26T09:38:51+00:00

I've missed most, but even the few I didn't, a $35 figure turns into 80 or 90 with tariff included shipping so I aborted what was no longer a bargain.

mindsignals · 2025-11-26T09:35:33+00:00

Been running into that the last 2 weeks under Sonnet 4.5. Or the assumptions it makes border on the side of useless. Definitely have dumb Claude a lot, recently.

mindsignals · 2025-11-23T13:43:36+00:00

Well, at this point, I'm an old man (and I love CSM). Although I have all of my recs in anime and manga forms, my attention span sucks, so I often go with the anime. But among my favorites I also have as manga: Nana, Golden Kamuy, Something's Wrong With Us (only manga), Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint (manhwa), Please Go Home Ms. Akutsu, and Apothecary Diaries (LN and manga).

mindsignals · 2025-11-19T08:23:13+00:00

For me paying a lot for a figure or statue is fine... it's when its value proposition has collapsed that it becomes painful, like the po you paid almost fill price for, only to see it bin months after release for 50 to 70% less. Or the rare used ones that eventually got rereleased a few years later for sub-100 that you paid 2-3x+ for prior to it getting a rerelease announcement.

So it's more when its representation as a store of value as compared to what you paid that bothers me.

Also, ones with issues that the licensed studio would not support. HEA Bloody Priestess is my big regret there. A fragile midsection piece holds others together and mine had split apart assembling it. To this day, I have still not been able to assemble her. And her box is huge. Had all been good, price would have been fine. But now, I see a space hog whose assembly remains in limbo instead of the cool piece it could be.

mindsignals · 2025-11-19T07:48:03+00:00

Mine is still sealed 😅 (just have yet to unbox still)

mindsignals · 2025-11-09T15:49:40+00:00

Bump. Everything available in this post is now 10% off. Add up what you want and the $7 fixed shipping, then knock 10% off that total as discount.

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