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Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

I beat Dark Souls, AMA

Mar. 7th, 2026 12:15 pm
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[ID: shot of my character from the back as she looks into the blasted ruins of the Kiln of the First Flame. She is wearing mismatched red and yellow clothes and a silver helmet, and holding a halberd.]

And it only took 8 months, and a number of hours I will not disclose. Though, to be fair, since I unexpectedly got into the multi-player, a lot of the total hours actually represent me reading a book while waiting to be summoned.

Dark Souls is slow, janky, eccentric, flawed, wilfully obscure about some of its mechanics, and one of the best games I've ever played. I am in love. Ask me anything.

WARNING

Mar. 4th, 2026 06:55 am
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That Puzzle has hit Tumblr:

https://www.tumblr.com/vassraptor/810048615228866560

Take the warnings seriously, if you are at all susceptible to the lure of Sorting Things.

From the tags:

#if you’ve ever thought about taking a quick break from keeping yourself alive properly #this will make you forget to drink water

It's not even a "logic puzzle" per se, just an invitation to sort a very large number of things into different groups.

A friend sent it to me in December and I lost a solid day to it. Had a great time, but wow it really was like having my brain hijacked.

You know that odd bit of vampire mythology in some countries/traditions where you can delay a vampire chasing you by throwing down sand or seeds or other tiny objects because they will be compelled to stop and count every grain?

Some of us are like that with Sorting Things. You know who you are. Protect yourself.

(On the other hand, if right now you need to be not thinking about some things, and you don't have urgent tasks that can't wait a day or two, and having your brain consumed sounds good: CAN REC.)

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