Battlerager

Music and video games. Opinions my own and mine only.

Pronouns: he / him/ his

[エス @mizo_uchi]

おやつがニンジンの日

[Duc de Vinny (comms open) @DucDeVinny]

Indomitable

[Yacht Club Games @YachtClubGames]

TRUE FINAL RELEASE DATE!! 🐭🙌
Mina the Hollower launches May 29 for only $19.99!
Prepare yourself for one of the greatest top-down adventures ever to be delivered directly to your soul for less than 20 bucks.
Mark your calendars. Tell your friends. Wishlist now - links below!🧵

[Daniel Franke @dfranke]

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection.

You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum.

You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom.

You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine.

You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two.

You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

[𝓐𝔂𝓸✯ @shefwayo]

when someone is laughing & socializing instead of taking their turn at the board game we're playing

[Battlerager @battlerager]

@roseromaunt The snake reveal Had me burst Out laughing

[hailey @haileyhmt]

we need more ppl like kevin

[Battlerager @battlerager]

@noinconsistency Can't Backseat the streamer if the Game doesn't exist, so why even Chat!?

[十筆斎 @jissunboshi96]

近所にいるレトリバー、飼い主でもない俺に笑顔を向けてくれる。大好き。

[Warhammer Society of Hoernchen @werhoernchen]

Nice one @tagesschau

[keegan @FranziaMom]

The diving board set up is other worldly. Film set shit. Gorgeous. What maniac designed this.

[十筆斎 @jissunboshi96]

たまに虎を描く。かっこ良くは
ないけど、評判は悪くない。

[TFG87 @TFG870]

Put it in the Louvre

[Friendly Neighborhood Butlerian @TheOneButlerian]

The Anti-AI Anti-Clanker rage is growing. Maybe the salespitch of “We’re gonna take all your jobs and make you and your family go extinct” wasn’t a bright idea. Alas, the Transhumanist filth is always destroyed by their own hubris.

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Respectfully, I don't think cooking together is romantic. Please move tf out of my way. One person cooks, the other sits at the counter and drinks wine and says things like "that smells so good" or "I love the things you cook."

[ソーサリープ @Sorcereap_M]

크리피캐슬 버터플라이
Butterfly from Creepy Castle
#CreepyCastle

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):

I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

[dopterra @dopterra]

Darking

[Battlerager @battlerager]

@dopterra You look very.... Ummm... Lively, yes!
Radiant, even