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愛にできることはまだあるかい[^1] Set forth, and seize your destiny (TNO[^2] [^1]: “Ai ni dekiru koto wa mada aru kai” —“Is there still something love can do?” —a song by RADWIMPS composed for Makoto Shinkai’s film Weathering with You (天気の子, 2019).[^2]: TNO —The New Order: Last Days of Europe, a renowned alternate-history mod for Hearts of Iron IV depicting a world where the Axis powers won World War II. Known for its deeply narrative-driven and often harrowing portrayal of totalitarianism, war, and the...

Last night I had a fever and it was like being possessed[^possessed] Maybe because I was reading Les Misérables before bed, and then I dreamed about the French Revolution (but Les Misérables isn’t about the French Revolution Because we couldn’t stand the heavy taxes, we all chopped off Louis together Then followed Napoleon from Toulon, the Alps, Egypt all the way to the Brumaire I had barely reached the Arc de Triomphe when I woke up, and then in a very muddled state I was in bed trying despe...

The undefeated genius has thus passed, the unyielding emperor is thus bornTokai Teio[^1], a miraculous revival! 💬 Comments Zhuifeng Shaonian (2022-07-10 18:08): Holy shit, Uma Musume[^2] [^1]: Tokai Teio (トウカイテイオー) — a legendary Japanese racehorse who won the Japanese Triple Crown in 1991 but suffered multiple career-threatening injuries, yet miraculously returned to win the Takarazuka Kinen in 1993. In Uma Musume: Pretty Derby, she is personified as a cheerful, determined horse gir...

A super cool new version cover art, and just now remembering it’s Stellaris’s sixth anniversary. (Which reminds me — last year for the 5th anniversary I kept remembering it, figured I’d go home for the weekend and catch the big event, but when I got back even the 5th anniversary trailer was just gameplay footage + wooden voiceover, SO DISAPPOINTED AAAAAAHHHHH)

All week at school I kept thinking about Victoria 3, and then I come home to find a development Beta has leaked (Paradox, do you dare outsource again?) Crashes / English-only / bugs / variable names — I pushed through for a few hours but the experience was honestly miserable. Even though a lot of the big promises from the dev diaries did make it in, I’ll just wait for Queen Victoria’s birthday in May to meet again. (Victoria 3 Beta clinks — the soul of the Crassus Donkey ascend...

The new Hearts of Iron IV DLC No Step Back dropped, and while I was firing up a Soviet playthrough to check out the new focus tree and decisions, I suddenly noticed the text under the difficulty selection — those few passages, resonant and full of power, paired with the New Year, really did feel like “a new year, a new beginning.”It’s exactly the moment to set out again, traveling light. Perhaps we all need a little momentum to carry us forward sometimes, to face the tense and exhausting days...

On December 25, 1991, at 19:32, the Soviet flag slowly descended over the Kremlin, replaced by the Slavic tricolor. “The entire Red Square lay pitch-black, like an unfathomable ocean — only the howling freezing wind and that colossal red star atop the Spasskaya Tower watched over this night with cold indifference.” Gazing back into endless silence amid the cold, there was once a time when the fire of ideals ignited this eternally bitter land. The deep-winter wind sends one into a daze — as if...

Gasoline on the tour bus, thinking itself a passenger too.

To the forever great revolutionary teacher, Lenin’s 150th birthday! The red flag shall continue to fly, The Internationale shall ultimately resound across the earth, and every thunderclap shall be a salute to the revolutionaries of the old world! “I want people to know that in that pathetic era of idealism, a group of Communist Youth League members came to the depths of the Siberian forests, chasing a phantom there, and devoted their entire lives to it.”?Liu Cixin, Ball Lightning ** Comm...

Paradox’s Stellaris ×Three-Body Problem fan crossover ✓ (mind gone haywire)DOUBLE FANDOM ECSTASY