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So I decided to post some April Fools jokes some companies have been doing on the Moon.

Type-Moon

GIGA (Baldr series) (This is a crossover game between their two latest games)

Eushully (Ikusa Megami series, Genrin series, Kamidori Alchemy Master, Himegari Dungeon Meister) (WEBSITE HAS BEEN SOLD)

Alicesoft (Rance series, Toushin series, Dai-series) (Amuzon, a play on Amazon. Also Rance Quest Nitro) - Doesn't work for foreigners.

French Bread ...

Or random things the post with another name.

This week was not my week. Monday's shooting, Tuesday's stupidity, Wednesday's calmness, Thursday's distractedness and today's tiredness. Wednesday was the best day tho. All day of playing Tales of Graces f instead of going to work/school so I could relax. As I have said mental health > everything else.

"Lily ghosts of the rooftop" (that yuri VN I have talked about before) came out yesterday! I will probably play ...

So, today I finally settled in to read the Mahoyo trial. And I'm already in love with Aoko's chest with the vibe from it. Once again, I just adore all things Type Moon for the odd mix of mundane and magical that comes out as a very humanizing experience...

And then Soujurou doing his flash-step gardening was about as awesome a thing I've ever seen in a visual novel.

Also, dammit, I find it probably just as easy to identify with Soujurou as I do with Shirou, since I am ...

After doing quite a lot of reading, I've come to the conclusion that the assassination of Julius Caesar may have, in fact, been a strategic suicide on Caesar's part, a reversal of the plot of Cassius Longinus and Junius Brutus. I believe that Caesar intended this suicide after some contemplation as a pragmatic method of creating an empire or ensuring lasting political power in Rome.

I'll write up a full pseudo-essay later on, possibly tomorrow.

Let me start by saying that Nasuverse is a very complex setting to work with. It is full of background and interesting minutiae, the sort of world-building stuff I enjoy trying to piece together and make sense of in my spare time, so I can nerd-rage about inconsistencies and nonsensical elements until my heart is content.

The problem with complex settings is, if you're on a budget and stuck in a specific timeframe, you can only show so much of that setting at any given time. So lots ...