Weekly

I released a new long(ish)-form blog article Please take a look at my latest single topic article, on understanding systems from different points of view, when you get the chance! I worked hard on this! It has been in draft form for more than 2 years -_- I’m glad I finally sat down and cleaned up my thoughts on this topic this week. Airsonic Possibly the last time I will write about Airsonic for a while, not because of any issues, but because of how well it is going.

Airsonic + beets My airsonic + beets journey continues. It turns out there’s no really good way to merge singletons into an album in beets aside from re-importing (references here and here). So the tracks I imported with the -s flag have been an enormous pain the ass. In addition I somehow did something, I don’t know what, that wiped all the track data for the Umurangi Generation and Umurangi Generation Macro soundtracks.

Japanese Word of the day: くだらない - from Jisho.org: good-for-nothing; stupid; trivial; worthless My friend sent me the sentence “この世界はただのくだらないゲームです” as a quote from No Game No Life - “This world is just a shit game”. I’m not actually sure where he pulled that quote from. So I’m not sure if that’s the exact wording from the novels or not. I’ve really enjoyed NGNL and this is one of my favorite quotes from the series.

This year sucked. However some things worked. Tops Video game of the year Magic the Gathering Arena Arena reignited my interest in Magic for the first time since the Scars of Mirrodin block (2010-2011). Right after New Phyrexia was released I ended up putting my time into fighting games, especially Vampire Savior and I didn’t have any time for Magic anymore. After playing this game a lot off and on since about a month before the open beta I’ve also bought a decent amount of cards and attended a prerelease.