Caoimhe @cailleach@abhlach.ie

I have made a wok brown

d'fhéachas air An Cailín Ciúin

toot

what size wok should I get?

NPM has been installing shit for half an hour

I am sick of my job.

I was actually wrong in this instance because the integration tests were being run in a weird way I wasn't aware of.

Workmate thinks that the exceptions in the logs have nothing to do with the integration tests failing because the error is about data processing. What do you think the integration tests are _doing_?

Signs of impending civilisational collapse: Torrent sites are getting slower to upload new episodes.

I hunger

It's surprising that it took this long for Star Trek to just do Omelas

I have an issue on Ubuntu: When I launch GUI applications from the terminal (Kitty in my case, but it also happens in the default one) they are sometimes scaled wrong and far too big to be usable. Does anyone know a fix or workaround for this?

I will say that, as much as I don't like the resurrection plotline, the fact that Sadako is not actually the mastermind pulling the strings here and has no idea how she came back to life, then just goes to the cinema, is really funny. It makes a very sharp contrast to the usual image of her from adaptations.

The ending of Ring is undermined from all angles and this Spiral tries to try to repeat basically the same ending again (only much stupider) with the main character choosing a chance to be with his family over the fate of humanity.

Ryuji haunts the entire novel. Suzuki clearly thought he had come up with the most engaging character ever with this stupid edgelord. He apparently masterminded everything, even though it makes absolutely no sense and contracts his inner thoughts that we see in the first book.

The virus is less a force of nature or, well, virus, and more a monster with a will and its own agenda. That's less interesting to me and it doesn't help that it's agenda is complete nonsense.

It also undermines that implied existential threat to the reader by making the virus much more arbitrary in its behaviour. It spares people it thinks will be useful. It kills people it has no need for even though they follow what were assumed to be the original instructions. The week deadline doesn't really apply any more if it wants you.

But it fails to go all the way in that. Ring in-universe is not credited to Koji Suzuki and the movie adaptation mentioned in the ending doesn't line up with the movie that was coming out when this book was written, it's being made far too soon.