Lux Fero

Opus (1995-1996)

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:09:26 +0300

Kon’s best works are cursed, and this one is not an exeption. It explores a bunch of very complex themes and on the moment where it gets to the point of catarsis, the book just ends because of external problems

I still highly recommend everybody who is into art to read this thing. Of course it is not as profound and genius as Kon’s movies, but it is still a good as his first work with his style of breaking perception of reality. Like in the moments of panel breaking, city background just falling over like it’s made out of cardboard, or even playing with 3 levels of narrative reality

Anyway, this manga ended in the best way it could. I genuenly have no idea how else it might end other than the sudden intervention from boring reality

Understanding Comics — Invisible Art

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:38:26 +0300

It’s at the core of art that are most important question is finally asked: “Why am I doing this?”

This is a comic about comics. what can be better? Getting into the deep ends of history and the core reasons behind creativity and art itself, of course :)

Seriously, you think i had renewed this book at the library and still returned it late for “prolonging my enjoyment”? I had read it twice and later torrented the digital copy only to reread it later while taking notes

Sifu (2023) — Age 52, Student

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:26:51 +0300

For a game known for it’s difficulty this was a pretty easy and fun run. I got through it for just 4 hours and 32 deaths of which 10 were gotten from Yang, 6 from the Artist and 5 from CEO

Now i need to complete it with higher difficulty so i would curse myself for saying that it was easy >:)

Witch Hat Atelier (2026)

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:47:27 +0300

Just go and watch it. It is going to be best anime of the year

STRATO-SPEAR (2022)

Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:51:55 +0300

A small prototype of a DMC-like made for a jam. Pretty good combat basis, completed in about 15-20 minutes, not too hard. Downloaded because wanted to see what else Pseudoregalia’s dev made

Pseudoregalia (2023)

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:41:36 +0300

It is a great and short game and any platformer-fan must play it. Great physics, cool moves of the heroine, atmospheric locations, retro style remenising of N64, but also no story and ultimatly lacking combat. Still it is exactly what i wanted from Motorslice’s Demo, but made good. It was a nice small game for a couple evenings of jumping around as a [goat/bunny/cat]-girl

But using bilinear filtering on textures lower res then 720p is a very bad idea, and i don’t care that Nintendo 64 had this texture filter, it looks very bad on a screen with more then 360 pixels in width, and pixelisation filter in-game helps a bit, but it doesn’t save the blurry mess of the locations upclose

Also on final boss i got a bug and stopped taking damage which made an already anticlimactic fight even more anticlimactic :|

Fantastic Four Volume 5 - Aliens, Ghosts, And Alternate Earths (2025)

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:19:58 +0300

Wanna see how I can light myself on fire?

This volume has my favorite story of the run in the 25th issue. And overall makes a nice prelude to the Our World Under Doom

MOTORSLICE Demo (2025)

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:12:37 +0300

Meet the, Potencial Game!! queue tf2 music

Cool setting(without proper level-design), anime tan with a chainsaw(and no character), diagetic camera drone(that makes me puke), parkour in megastructure(that is just not working properly)

So it is a cool concept, but realised poorly and needs some work done before going into a full version

Daredevil: Born Again — Season 2 E1-4

Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:16:51 +0300

Not bad, definitely better than season 1

And the cold open of episode 4 is great

Yakuza 0: Director's Cut

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:42:00 +0300

In short 42 hours i finished Yakuza 0, and i must say that it was a very interesting gaming experience. And that is because it is two games in one, and it is not because of the two protagonists i played as

The selling-point of the series is the slice-of-life element integrated into a serious crime story. Simply speaking, in the middle of the yakuza families’ territory war in Tokyo you can: help a rockband with delinquent aesthetics behave like delinquents, find a complex password for the black market purely to find it out, help two lovers with their relationship by the means of crossword, help a guy go through the bridge full of people he pisses of with his jacket, pull out a bunch of toys from SEGA’s UFO Catcher™ for a little girl, and my favorite: write a bunch of letters for a radio-show and get a million yen prize, by this point i had about 200 mills :)

The main story is divided into two arcs. And for me, one of them is way more interesting than another one. I’ll not spoil anything, but i’ll say that first half of the game you’ll think that devs tried to put two games into one, but after chapter 6 you’ll finally start seeing the connections. And you’ll feel pain, i genuinely teared up a bit in the finale

As a whole this two lines can be described as a story about a boy becoming a man, and a man breaking down

Also you can throw money into people >:)

Project Hail Mary (2026)

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:41:53 +0300

This movie is full of small fascinating details for fans of space. And it is one of the few realistic sci-fi movies that are not going into full on cyberpunk. And i am sure this is the first movie in this century with first contact being a real problem to solve and not just shorthanded to move the story faster

And of cource, i miss seeing competent people saving the world

P.S. This is somehow third time this week i hear about Tau-Ceti system, it seems like a neat place

Batman – The Killing Joke (1988)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:56:02 +0300

It is a classic story. I don’t really like it. Moore written better works and modern recolored editions look like they were made by amatures who just opened Photoshop and not original artist

Funny sketch :)

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:51:43 +0300

Sorry but i lost my source file for this vid to translate it properly, will make subtitles then i get how to make subtitles

Marathon | Reveal Cinematic Short (2025)

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:30:03 +0300

I don’t like Gen Z memes, but i cannot describe this short as anything but PEAK CINEMA!!! ⌊( ・_・)⌋

This short has everything i love: heightened realism style Alberto Mielgo’s and pinkman.tv’s works are known for, odd paranoid rythmic soundtrack that seems like the tracks that were made for Utopia Tv Show OST, sci-fi based around space horror and the nature of human mind and consciousness, graphic design that was heavily inspired by Designer’s Republic, the calm moment before shit hits the fan, the namesake ship the story happens on fly to the star system from my favorite funny song by Vladimir Vysotsky(which is definitely a coincidence, but come on small coincidences like that make me believe in fate). This thing seems to be made specifically for me

I hadn’t understood shit, but fuck i loved every second of it. Some bugs printing android bodies that later get minds downloaded and go through mental checks of remembering their life, and yes, they slowly get their digital brains scrambled like my breakfast. Some guys barfing in their vacsuits and start hanging on air. The namesake ship stuck through the moon! You know all the good stuff i like

How i had missed the latest short film of my favorite animation team? And how the hell i missed the most stylish game made for big money? And why the hell the most stylish game money can make is an session-based extraction shooter with minimum requirements of exactly my computer?

Because in any multiplayer game minimum requirements slowly grow out of my computer(like Helldivers II for example, it doesn’t even run anymore) so i cannot even fucking try it without being disappointed by shitty optimization later… To be fair i don’t really like PvP shooters, so i don’t really miss anything that is not available in other places :)

MAD About DC (2026)

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:38:16 +0300

“What publication is even less respected than comic books? One that can make me feel better by comparison?” That’s when it hit me: MAD Magazine

An April Fools one-shot of a bunch of DC’s writers and artists making short comedy. It was pretty hit or miss. A whole lot of milenial humor of “Had we really did this stupid thing?”. A small bit of really smart pages that made me giggle. So yea the cover is not lying, comedy is subjective. And i don’t like most modern comedy because i have taste

I liked Weid’s, Coover’s, North’s and Taylor’s sketches

Split Fiction (2025)

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:26:50 +0300

If you are playing a cooperative game and both you and your mate think outloud “When it will finally end?”, then it was a bad coop game. And Split Fiction is not bad game, it was boring and disappointing

I genuinely don’t understand how this game gets any praises for the whole, most of the game was a slog to go through. Except for small meme moments and the final level

Bosses are too long. Half the dialog can be cutted out and the game would only get better. It seems that devs thought with any imagination and proper story only for fantasy settings and sci-fi here was just boring in terms of design(and i like bad sci-fi). Characters are non-persons with no real interesting edge to them. Main story is just stupid. “Stories” we dive into are not stories at all, they are just settings, list of tropes, sometimes a metaphor for character’s life experience in a vacuum. Screen had no need to be splited for most of the game. Camera should been “magneting” to the focal points like bosses or hooks like good games do. Control scheme is leaving me with questions like: had devs even played a videogame before?

But the worst part is: i liked moments of this game. It had fun and clever parts, but most of this 12-15 hours were so damn long and drawn-out to pain. Why Josef Fares needed to make such a long game? “Kill your darlings” is not written into all of writing and design books for nothing you know. Cut down most of the slogish parts of this game and it will be a great 6-7 hour experience. And clever use of the split-screen would be nice to see in the main game

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Volume 2

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:38:35 +0300

So the part of the story that got adapted is now over in the manga. I got 4 volumes left. And now story will go in absolutely different way, and nobody is able to spoil me on it >:)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run — Episode 1

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:18:48 +0300

JoJo 7 is out!!! And i love it! Seriously it was a perfect episode to start the best part of the series. If you have no idea what JoJo is, then watch this episode. You’ll not loose any context, this is a series reboot. But that’s a pity that other episodes will come out god knows then, to be fair we have a manga

Goddamnit Gyro Zeppeli is so cool i cannot give his coolness justice with text. He is the perfect combination of Clint Eastwood and avarage Shonen protagonist’s more interesting friend. And SPIN had been shown perfectly, i felt my limbs twist into a churro with the way this skill is shown

Johnny is the shitiest of Joestars at this point. But i understand that his ego is the point, this egoistical desire to get back to his normal self makes him the most interesting character in this part. He definetly doesn’t care about 50 pre-great depression dollars(add a couple zeros to the sum, because definetly Araki forgot™ that dollar’s value in 2000s was significantly lower then in 1890s due to inflation). The only interest of Johnny is healing his paralysis

And oh my god, the signature JoJo combat grade bullshit™ with horses is great. The honor to start the farce parade was given to reincarnated Dio-saurus :) and his way of evasion was great. And the way mr. Zeppeli used SPIN to get through the first stage of the race shows how exactly this new power system will use this two balls — with no real limits. I am scared to imagine how this will be even more limitless then Gyro get’s a Stand. And of cource Pokoloko’s happy-go-lucky tactic of getting from being late from this race to getting to the 3rd place is peak comedy. And of cource he was lucky enough to be the first stand user on this race

Absolute Batman #18

Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:08:33 +0300

What a disappointing mess. Ivy was beaten by pointing a gun at her still human heart. And Batman in the end shot her anyway because fuck her i presume. What he expected by that? Snapping last straw between her humanity and godhood? And Bruce got not one but two pep-talks with Gordon and got nothing from them

I understand that Bruce is a deeply broken man at this point going through a couple months of constant mental and physical torture, but this twist from being Batman that is willing to go with more blood than usual to an edge-lord’s view of trigger happy Batman is just idiotic. Snyder has truly messed this moment up and this constant switching from scene to scene gets more jarring with each issue.

At least Ivy’s origin is properly tragic. And most importantly she cannot be redeemed into a hero on a whim due to her obsession with evolution

P.S. Oh no Martha is dead. Who expected it. She is definitely died off-screen and this Tallon definitely shot at her… Come on Scott, this is just bad manners at this point. This trope doesn’t work if you use it as a cliffhanger

Sandstorm (2015)

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:56:04 +0300

A small game full of confusion and disorientation. You had been stranded in a middle of the sandstorm and have only your wagon, five sticks to stick in the desert and a camel that escapes from me on every morning

And this smol game has more than enough content to play around with: letters, anomalies and small tools left without proper instructions(i hadn’t caught that the compass for example was really showing north, but i still have no idea what a wiggly wire does)

The best thing this game has is it’s camera. In combination with DOOM-like sprites the camera’s constant random circling will confuse you, bamboozle you, make you go in circles and thinking: “Had i walked by this dry broken stump or not?”

And i couldn’t finish it. Because i am very much sure that the camel’s position is truly random so this double-hunchbacked bastard on the fourth day is usually spawning too far away for me and my sticks and finding him was realistically impossible. And to add salt to my wound it had been making one single sound to let me know there this thing is, it was useless… So i just fuck around untill timer runs out and this run is over.

So yes this game is not for people with topographical cretinism

If you wanna try it for yourself, here’s the game, it’s free

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind — Volume 1

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:46:13 +0300

First volume of “Nausicaä” is great, i love it. The art is marvelous, heroine is interesting, aircrafts here got charisma, bugs are disgustingly charming, and the story raises the issues we still have in current day

The Stranger (2025)

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:54:39 +0300

Wow that was a nice adaptation of the book i read yesterday, i hope it doesn’t get me laughing in the cinema by a bad choice of credit song

Meanwhile the Cure

The Stranger

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:54:35 +0300

That’s all for today, Monsieur Antichrist

I’ll be honest, i had read this book only to prove to myself that i could read a full book. And this book was chosen only because it was short. I really hadn’t liked it that much

I understand that this is a classic, but it is visible that Albert had put in this book everything he could

But it is inherently funny that the monsieur Mersault got the french king’s treatment de facto for having a pokerface on his mother’s funeral

One Piece — Into the Grand Line

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:36:44 +0300

I cannot state enough how much i missed One Piece from my life.

Genuinely i missed this crew. Even if i dropped anime after Thriller Bark because it was unwatchable with it’s pacing.

But live action TV adaptation of One Piece cannot afford the sluggish pacing of anime and needed to go through first half of Alabasta Saga with only 8 hours, which is about 80 time less than anime needed for that. Surprisingly they even added some stuff that was reckoned in later chapters in current episodes…

# Loguetown

I was pleasantly surprised with how the show handled Loguetown

It was a single episode, and it had shown everything we needed to know and a bit more(I have no idea who Bartolomeo is, but he seems funny)

Also the first scene with Miss All Sunday was fucking amazing. And her role as a whole got widened in the show

# Reverse Mountain

Another arc collapsed into a single episode. It was fun. The Baroque Works calling cards replacing the flying posters were a good choice, now i want the similar thing for the Marines, maybe it could be an ID or badge

I had cried like a little bitch after Luffy sang the song to the whale. And who would expect Brooke to be casted so early to the show?

# Whisky Peak

It is very interesting that live action seems to be way more “trigger-happy” with killing off parts of the cast that have no more real use. Which adds nice suspense with who exactly gonna be dead and put every secondary character on the list

Special props to the stuntmen because all of the Zoro fights looked great

# Little Garden

MY BOY USSOP GOT A PERSONAL ARC! I repeat. MY BOY GOT A SPOTLIGHT

Also Sanji got his moment too, but most importantly

MY BOI HAD WON A FIGHT AGAINST TWO REAL OPPONENTS BY USING ONLY THE POWER OF WIT, SLINGSHOT AND ENDURANCE!!!

# Drum Island

Choppa had became another victim to the Cheburashka’s VFX team. Why they hadn’t made him a muppet or a kid in a deer makeup? Poor boy looks hideous, especially in his monster form(which was done practically)

But i’ll not hide that i had been crying like a bitch then Hiriluk died

Nier: Automata (2017) — flowers for m[A]chines

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:02:15 +0300

…become as gods! …become as gods! …become as gods! …become as gods! …become as gods!

I finally really finished Nier: Automata. And i finished it on the flowers for m[A]chines, and i had been under impression by it

A very confusing impression that needs a semi-philosophical ramble of text

WARNING!!! I had written this post while i was a bit drunk

WARNING №2!!! There will be spoilers to the best part of this game

# Part one

Last time we stoped on the entrance to the Shopping Center. Going through it i got to the Forest. In the Forest i got to meet and kill a bunch of robo-knights that were protecting their King. Then i got through the castle to the throne room i met the King… Well it was more of a Prince… Specifically it was a robo-baby in the robo-crib. No need to worry, my bigotry towards the machines is not big enough to hurt a baby. But my kindness didn’t help it then deserter YoRHa named A2 got to it. She killed the kid. Then i got the order to kill the deserter and we fought. I almost won and the bitch escaped with words “I am not an enemy, your command are your real enemy”. And i hadn’t seen her after that. This whole plotline is practically abandoned by the story. Maybe if got to complete “Traitors of YoRHa” i would get answers, but i wasn’t able to do that

I walked back from the Forest using the shortcut kindly provided by Pascal. From there i transported back to rebel base, there the leader given me the mission to protect a missile on the Sunken City shores. She said that there was nowhere to hurry and if i had other YoRHa business to do i could do it before dealing with the rocket. And i should’ve listened to her

# The moment of no return

That was one of this moments that just automatically made all non-completed sidequests into the failed state. And i can understand such practice for the last hour of the compain, but there were at least 4 full hours of game after that >:(

I hadn’t mentioned him before, but i had a companion during my adventures. His name was 9S and he irritated me :)

Sooo, in the Sunken City after i fought off some machines , me and my companion 9S got summoned to protect the aircraft carrier. And about 3 minutes later that carrier got eaten by a robo-whale weaponized with a machine factory, tonns of guns and radiowave jammers. I wasted about 20 minutes on destroying the jammers on this whale’s back. Then played a mini-game of “press the button B then the Whale opens it’s mouth”. And then Pascal got to help us the best he could. And 9S made up an ingenuious plan of me doing the same shit and him shooting the Checkov’s missile

Results: Whale is dead and stands in the sea, dozen of androids(including 9S) got spread on the map, and i was dealing with all of the consequences

# Fight club or how i killed Adam

To find 9S and other YoRHas i was issued a scanner. And i found all missing androids exept for 9S

And while i was searching for the boy on the shores of the Sunken City i found an underground fight club where androids beaten uping machines. I got to win one fight and was gifted a pack of hair dye. But after i saw that machines in there were having same rights as circus lions, i had no wish in continuing my participation in this

On the way back i finally found breadcrumb trails of 9S. They got me to the elevator in the caves next to the Alien Mothership. Going down this elevator i saw the small town built of white voxels built by non-other than Adam. The same Adam who got born this morning and same Adam i beaten up twice. He was surrounded by corpses of players(corpses here work in the same way lost packages work in Death Stranding). And since our last confrontation he got some nice clothes and capture 9S. We fought for the third time, i killed him after two attempts

The best part of this fight was that 9S got damaged enough to be laying in the hospital till the finale :)

The interesting part was in the Adam’s monologue. As it was characteristic to the machines’ fascination towards the humanity and human way of life, Adam wanted to feel all of the aspects of the human life. That was the reason behind creating this town, that was the reason of him disconecting from the network, and that is why he wanted to die

That was the moment i knew — the things go towards real serious themes i had started this game for

# Back to the factory

As in any good story, in Nier: Automata the story is built in the cycle. After killing Adam, i got a call from Pascal. He asked to assist him on the peace treaty talk with other settlement of the machines. They were living in the factory from the beginning of the game

Entering there me as Pascal got to see the religious life thriving in the place previously promoting progress and industrial triumph. They had all signs of centralized religion: they wore robes and funny hats, spoken about god and chanted songs, all that stuff. They were not dangerous. Until we got down to meet their leader

Then we got to the throne room, their leader had lost his head, and the surrounding choir started chanting “His grace became a god!”, “We will become as gods!” and most importantly “You will become as gods!”. They attacked us and blocked off the main entrance. So me and Pascal needed to take a long way around the factory

And belive me or not, this was the hardest moment in the game for me. And reason is simple: this cultists come out of nowhere and have suicide bombers

Remember that after death 2B leaves a corpse? Well this corpses contain all of your chips except for the HUD and OS. And i lost all of my upgrades to the one-shoting industrial press. Which ment i had lost: running speed, HP regeneration, melee and gun damage, item magnet, autouse of healthpacks on low HP and damn good fishing spot detector >:(

And without this chips i cannot react to this &#Ъ%!@$ machines and started constantly dieing

After wasting an hour of my time on suicide bombers and presses, me and Pascal finally ran of the most infuriating part. And i am thankful for this marathon of pain, because after third attempt i started seeing that not all robo-cultists wanted to kill us, they had no interest in dieing themselves. They were hiding in the corners, praying for their god, they feared for theirselfs and their friends

The peak of this pain was the last fight with cultists. In it among attacking machines there were scared machines that just got into the fetal pose and prayed for help. Both sides wore same robes, same funny hats, had same models, same voice and same faith

After that i had beaten the boss, which really hadn’t mattered

And then everything was over, me and Pascal got to see the soulcrashing image. In the smeltery cultists started throwing themselfs into the pit of melted metal with maniacal laughter and words like “I feel good!”. Repeating “God… God… God… God…God… God… God…”, “All we need is to die”, “I am scared”, “We will be free of our tourment” and to give me a proper gut punch they said “Bye-Bye”… The whole factory was full of corpses of dead machines in robes…

And it seems Pascal got traumatized enough to get a fuge and forget what was happening in there, the only thing he said is that the factory was huge and he wanted to revisit it

I was sitting in the shower for about an hour thinking of this scene…

# flowers for m[A]chines

And now finally, finalle

I will not spoil it, but i’ll say a thing: i had tricked you again

I hadn’t really finished with Nier: Automata. Because flowers for m[A]chines even if it has real credit sequence and zeroes out the safe, is still a fake ending

It was an overly soppy and underdeveloped. Right after catharsis of the Abandoned Factory last two hours of the game felt meaningless. It hadn’t added a thing to the metaphorical dialog between me and Yoko Taro. This was nothing. Story just ended with absolutely tasteless, nothing-burger sequence of events unusually boring for this game. After credits i felt far less emotions than after eating Mackerel thanks to my stupidity

And i was ready for this ending. Because Nier: Automata is a game with whole english alphabet and one greek letter worth of endings. And it was obvious that the ending with main condition of “just finish the game for the first time” will have nothing of value

And even without knowledge of the alphabet i would anyway expect this result due to dozens of locked out locations, the fact that some sidequests are not completable due to this locks or even just absence of needed characters. Or that names of some bosses are written in sci-fi hieroglyphics. Or even the hacking minigame that in this story featured exactly once in the easily dodgable attack of one of the bosses. And most importantly: plotlines with no resolution

So yea, i hadn’t completed Nier: Automata

One Piece — Season 1

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:13:09 +0300

Wealth. Fame. Power. I found everything this world has to offer. Free yourselves! Take to the seas! My treasure is yours to find.

I rewatched first season and i must say that it is still the best currently running adaptation of the manga that i hadn’t read yet :)

Currently waiting for season 2

Absolute Superman #15-17 — "The never-ending begins" (2025-2026)

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:56:48 +0300

Proper status quo Absoulute Superman was pretty good. This small arc continues breadcrumb trail from the Absolute Evil. Hawkman sucks in the best way possible. Clarks daily life is fascinating and shows that realistic and gritty Superman still can and should be a kind person. Parasite given me some long needed dose of body-horror. And Absolute Lex Luthor is a kindest and chillest family guy ever. Untill Brainiac comes to his home

And this part was truly painful to watch. Especially the reveal page on which Lex just sits alone in the aftermath of the massacre that Brainiac done for some idiotic reason. The only thing the open brain accomplished by that was gaining the enemy potentially far worse than any kryptonian

Ultimate Universe (2023)

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:34:47 +0300

Why they made this part of Ultimate Invasion into a separate one-shot? I have no idea

But this one was definetly a better story than Invasion. It shows us how Iron Lad and Doctor Doom get their revolutionary crew together. And now Maker’s cabal reacted on his sudden disappearance. Spoiler they gone with the act of domestic terrorism

Most of this issue is about freeing Thor from his cell, well less about phisical cell and more about motivating him to escape and fight for his rightfull right for Asgard’s throne. Thor could escape at any moment and just needed a good push. Also Lady Sif is with this team now, not much else to say about her really. She’s behaving like a tsundere i suppose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also Lad and Doom dug out Capitan America

And for a finale, as i previously said, the shadow government had shot New-York from Stark Sr.’s satellite pointing at Stark Jr. Getting three things done at once: discredited Tony and Doom, destroying their base of operation and killing a bunch of civilians as a treat. The last scene with TV broadcast teases Black Panther, minimaly shows protagonist of the X-Men book and shows the inciding incident for Spider-Man, bacause in this attack Harry Osborn’s parents die, and also Aunt May had also died in there :|

Also as a bonus they given us a couple of pages from Ultimate X-Men, and judging by them it seems we’ll get a light body-horror, inspired by works of Junji Ito. Which is honestly the best way to make X-Men in my opinion

Ultimate Invasion (2023)

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:01:57 +0300

And so, what exactly does one do with the full knowledge of their enemies and the unlimited capacity to engage them before they even have the faintest idea that you exist?

It’s simple really. Whatever one wants.

This is a prelude for the second Ultimate Marvel Universe. And it was a very average comic. And it is the same situation as with DC’s Absolute Universe.

But the world this book introduced looks promising

And i hadn’t mentioned Absolute for no reason, the main concept of both of this lines is quite similar. Ultimate started a year before though, and how exactly this funny coincidence happened is a very good question i have no interest in answering

So what’s going on in here? The Maker(evil Reed Richards from previous Ultimate Verse) had escaped his imprisonment on Earth 616 and wanted to play God on a biggest scale he had done it yet. He got Earth 6160 and modified it in his own image. Specifically he removed all the heroes and villains from the picture(some got killed some were removed in more peaceful way), divided the planet to 7 territories and given control of them to the most malleable of leftover supes, and for shits and giggles tortured Reed Richards of this world into becoming Dr. Doom using a time bubble

And from other things worthy of my attention:

Tony Stark now has an alive dad who is the Iron Man of this world or at least Schrödinger’s dad :) Tony meanwhile is only an Iron Lad
Only non-evil Russians of Marvel Universe(Colossus and Magik) are now part of Maker’s cabal
Peter Parker was saved from becoming Spider-Man Of course he’ll be given a choice to become one, then he will have wife, kids, student debt and alive Uncle Ben :|
On the world map, that contained the borders of the 7 countries, Vakanda was just standing as a big black dot in a middle of Africa marked as “Undiscovered Territory”

Should you read this book? Honestly, this is a bit more complex prelude than with Absolute. DC did the right thing and you can start at any series without much issue. But Ultimate’s main guy is Jonathan Hickman, a guy known for his very lore heavy run on X-Men, in which you needed to read two series at the same time to get what’s going on in other X-Men adjacent books. He made X-Men into a fucking Game of Thrones with bureaucratic procedures for mutant rebirth

And according to Reddit, this same format is working in here too. It is not a bunch of self contained books that you can just pick up from no.1. It is an anthology series with episodes going simultaneously in different parts of the world. And you’ll need to at least read this book and another oneshot after it to get what is going on in other books.

Simply put: it is kinda like the stucture of MCU, but with comics. And no MCU doesn’t have the comic structure for it’s storytelling, it is too serialized

I currently plan to read Ultimates, Spider-Man and X-Men. And thank god most of this runs are already over and i can just binge them arc by arc

Nier: Automata (2017) — aji wo [K]utta

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:03:56 +0300

Oh no… I forgot to save…

I had completed Nier: Automata for the third time. This time though i have no excuses for my stupidity, i was warned about not eating the fish, but i just eaten it

As a result of this action, 2B had all her bodily fluids congealed, muscles paralyzed and her last thought before sweet embrace of death was “It was good, though, exquisite even. No wonder humans used to eat them…”. And that’s how i got another set of credits and aji wo [K]utta ending

And before this terrible act of idiocy i had:

Founded stolen chips with secret data for a sketchy behaving guy. He promised to introduce me to his family
Got to participate in challenges from robo-shamans with rules for every occasion
Helped Jackass(that’s her name) in her scientific pursuits, that mostly consisted in killing a bunch of machines. She also was the one who had given me the Mackerel to check one of her other hypothesis
Found the Alien Mothership. There i also met Adam and Eve. Both were guys and both had killed all of the aliens on board of this ship, next up on their plan were humans on the Moonbase
Raced against the blue flying machine who had been overtaking me by literal meter each and every time >:(
Met a philosopher machine named Jean-Paul. Who to my disappointment was ~~speaking in nonsense~~ an existentialist
And finally started a trip to the forest to meet the forest king. In the Shopping Mall on the way there i met a bizarre ball with bizarre face inside one of machine’s heads, that got away before i got a chance to understand what had just happened
And that was the moment i had eaten Mackerel out of boredom

To my happiness, i had only lost the progress just before meeting the bizarre ball with bizarre face

Absolute Wonder Woman #17 (2026)

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:45:58 +0300

Tropelet Annataz ot ytefas.

As i predicted Absolute Zathana is not evil. She was mindcontrolled by a starfish living in her throat. On literally third page she had coughed it out and ran away

Also this issue had a fight between two giant women :)

And as you could’ve concluded the Suicide Squad that was built up in past issue turned out to be a bunch of incompetent villains. Which was expected honestly. Half of the squad either were gone in first 8 pages or got beaten up by their allies. Cheetah for example was useless and got unceremoniously killed off to introduce Zee’s <evil/chaotic/uncontrollable> ghost dad

The main event of this issue was a fight with Giganta for which, as i already said, Diana had used magic to grow a couple dozen times and give evil giantess an uppercut and subdue her by strangling. It was sick!

The main question for me is mostly how Cale still gets all that government money if she cannot control competent part of her crew and how incompetent does it’s job so badly that i feel shame they should feel? Absolute Universe had set evil triumphing as law of nature, but Diana got problems of same stakes as average season finale of My Little Pony

Which is not really bad, but looking at what Bruce and Clark are currently going through you’ll definitely see how much demiurge of this world really plays favorites with the Last Amazon

Fallout - Season 2 (2026)

Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:31:34 +0300

Showrunners finally remembered that fans love New Vegas

I hadn’t played New Vegas. I hadn’t really liked most of this season

Robert House was interesting, tho.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:17:36 +0300

I should’ve stayed on a fucking boat!!!

I watched this movie in the cinema and i must say: cinema is truly a magical place. The sheer scale of the screen had given me cinematic experience truly had fucked me and my mate, whom i by my idiocy invited to watch this film for fun then it was put on the listing of our local cinema

Remember my words on Evangelion? So yea this is another piece of art after which i had been sitting in my shower for an hour while thinking: “Why we still here? Just to suffer? WTF is wrong with humanity? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

And yes, i definitely had enjoyed watching this film and definitely will not stay the same man ever again. Also my fear of getting drafted to the army had enlarged in logarithmic progression :)

Also thanks to my local theatre and Project “Нефть” for re-screening this masterpiece. I wouldn’t had experienced it as much if i watched it at home

Nier: Automata (2017)

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Now it is definetly the finale :)

As i promised, i’ll write on all the endings i’ll get. And this time i fully consciously removed 2B’s OS Chip and got fa[T]al error

And no i hadn’t done it for shits and giggles, it was a very logical solution to a problem i got myself in

When i had tried to find a shortcut to the Pascal’s village, i had found a quick way to get back into the ruins, but i hadn’t understood that it was a one-way road and to get back to this place i needed to make another hook through the Amusement Park

And my usual hubris and single-mindedness got me in trouble then i tried to parkour back to the village through this one way shortcut in the same manner a person might try to put the toothpaste back into the tube.

As a result i had fallen down into the cavern. It seemed to be a way later location than my character should’ve been prepared for. Machines there were of 30th-40th levels, my usual at this point were maximum 15th. But they hadn’t been much trouble. The trouble was that i got stuck in this cave and hadn’t found a way back to the surface.

So i got to use the old reliable samurai’s solution of killing myself. I activated 2B’s Self Destruct mode. But i hadn’t considered that my automatic health injector wouldn’t deactivate for this. And so i got 2B with concussion and a disintegrated dress. I open the chip menu to remove the auto-heal and remembered that i can remove any component from 2B’s RAM, including her OS.

So i removed the OS and got to the second round of 10x credits :)

So here is my opinion on the game as a whole at this moment: i love it. It has everything i love in a good game: confusing lore, unique gameplay mechanics that give both lols(as i given in this story) and unusual gaming experience, secondary quests that are small personal stories or straight up comedy sketches(a machine tries to scam money from me, but i’ll not be a stupid girl it thinks i am) and philosophy that definitely hides behind the corner

Absolute Batman #17

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:47:56 +0300

In this episode of “Life and torture of Bruce Wayne” we finally have long awaited debut of Poison Ivy. And damn she is fabulous, especially in her true form

This issue has three plots run simultaneously. First is Bruce’s daily life going to hell. Second is Ivy’s origin full of delightful deranged philosophy. And third happens in current time with Ivy taking over the center of Gotham and corrupting it with her idea of “the Seventh Kingdom of Life”

I fell in love with this Ivy because she definitely, without any small print of goodness saying that she is right: delusional in her conquest. Absolute Poison Ivy is no longer an eco-terrorist with good point and horrible execution, she is no longer anything resembling a human being. She became something more in her own eyes and she wants to let this more to sprout and grow throughout humanity. She is a fascinating monster with minimum requirement in origin to still be sympathetic and tragic in her own right

So it would be very fun to see what circle of hell Ivy will make Batman go through and what irreversible damage will be done on poor poor Bruce this time

Absolute Wonder Woman Annual

Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:37:01 +0300

Honestly out of the annual issue i expected more. Of course it was good to see how much compassion Diana is holding and how she was impacted by her temporary transformation into Medusa. And it was good to see her try to fix real Medusa’s curse after feeling how torturous this form was. But it could’ve been done better

Especially in a way they incorporated Athena. It is truly a great fumble to not give Athena a real true bad action and pretend that she hadn’t cursed Medusa and it was just misinterpretation and lies. She is a greek goddess for Pete’s sake, gods cursing people on whim is kinda the main thing of greek myphos

But the moment then Diana looks Medusa in her eyes and Medusa cries from finally seeing somebody’s living face after thousands of years of her torturous existence. I almost had cried by myself.

Batman – Green Arrow – The Question – Arcadia #2 (2026)

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 12:29:03 +0300

Automation could do the work faster.
We do the work cheaper.

I read this series for The Question and Green Arrow, and i have and idea why Batman is here, but i cannot explain it without swearing :)

This comicbook series is about a liberterian-billionare building the floating city with the power of the slave labor. This is the perfect setup for both Question, who is an ex-libertarian and current street philosopher, and perfect for Green Arrow, his whole character is about fighting capitalism and social inequality. And there is Batman, who seems to be here for company

And i liked this comic, exept for one thing… excluding Batman… this book is too preachy with it’s ideas. I am not going here with grey morals, i very much agree with most of them. I am speaking about lines like “He’s fitting us into his narrative.” and “We are just people fighing back. Because we care.” If this two lines were said by Arrow or Question(esspecially Question) i wouldn’t had had any questions. They both are psycotic in different but fun ways. But it was said by a random guerrilla woman. Why in a middle of a shootout she would say something this simple in this overly complicated way? And that is half of the dialogue here. It just ozzes the energy of “i live in LA and i give a f%@&, look at how much f%@&s i give!” and this lines just need a good editor to either cut em or replace. That is a basic mistake that i did, and i still regretting myself for allowing it. Seriously read my Þe Orb and proove to me that last paragraph doesn’t ruin this short story

And the way the book delt with The Question is great, the writer does well in balancing between Ditko’s psycotic noir detective and O’Niel’s philosophising self-reflecting Question(even if it is still far from perfect). Also this spin-off version of the character is better than modern mainline version(i hadn’t read 52 yet btw)

City of Gods (2026)

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It’s a nice city.

This small fan made comic about Marvel Universe. It’ main question stands as “Why heroes had chosen New York”. And the answers we get are all different from different people including the heroes themselves, but most of them boil down to “it’s New York, of cource they live in here”

I loved how this comic handled the cameo/tribute to Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, esspecially how Ditko gone to the long tirade about how heroes just wanna be above the normal folk and how they all just wanna brag about it with the help of journalists and bla, bla, bla. And then Kirby just says “It’s a nice city.”. And knowing and loving both of this guy’s works, it tracks

And art in this comic is marvelous as well, it switches between Smallwood style retro-modern art by Ribeiro and in-world advert posters by Pessoa. And one posters i would love to frame on my wall but the release is pretty overly compressed so printing it on A3 sheet of shiny paper wouldn’t do it justice

Also i recommend to watch this video by the writer of this comic exactly making sence of putting the books setting in the 60s

Nier: Automata (2017) — broken [W]ings

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Well, i presume the game is over :)

As you could’ve guessed i technically had completed Automata on the most shameful of endings — broken [W]ings

Simply speaking got killed during the tutorial. And considering that i’ve seen the ending titled(even if they’ve been sped up), so let’s count it as a completed walkthrough. And from the second attempt i had finally properly passed through the tutorial and got to propely save

And now i played the game through the Desert area and got to fill up 2B’s RAM with most essential software: fishing detector, sound visualizer and additional walking speed

Studio (2026)

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was a fun show exept for episode 9 which was going with Rogen’s ol’ reliable drug joke for the whole episode

Shooting the whole show in a sequence of long takes is a very odd choice, but it works

“The Missing Reel” was a very stupid but fun parody of neo-noir detectives

Wonder Woman – Black & Gold Special #1 (2026)

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was a nice and simple anthology comic about Wonder Woman. All of the stories had a very different tone, so it gone from pseudo-philosophy on human nature of dillusion to a funny kid story about somebody stealing peaches

I had really liked only the last story in here

Absolute Wonder Woman #16 (2026)

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

ABSOLUTE ZATANNA IS HERE!!! For whole 3 pages

AND NOW SHE IS A BAD GIRL!!! In a Suicide Squad and her own book was announced. So most likely she is not really evil

AND SHE’S HOT! Which is true

And that is why you should never trust comic book marketing.

Well it was actually expected. It is a first issue of a new arc. So it’s point was to introduse the scenery in which the fight will happen. Also it introduses Aphrodite, who is depicted wearing a classic halloween sheet ghost costume that was soaked during Wet T-Shirt contest. Which is oddly fitting for a goddess of beauty

Also Steve Travor is finally a character. He gives a great speech on a senate hearing about him resigning from the army because US army cannot handle supernatural events that been happening during the events of the book.

Meanwhile Veronica Cale plans to commit act of domestic terrorism using Suicide Squad. Which in this version is consisting of Wondie’s classic enemies and Zatanna. And Zee got and upper hand.

To be continued… I’ll be waiting for next issue, book still works well

Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 7 (2020)

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:01 +0000

To get yall to the same page: Witch Hat Atelier is the best fantasy manga in my opinion.

This series had moved my opinion on potencially becoming a teacher from “God no, i hate kids. Flip off” to “Maybe yes, maybe no. The Fate is a funny mistress”.

And this volume gets into history and mystery of my favorite characters: Qifrey and Olruggio. I love seeing this guys doing everything they can to be the best mentors they can be. Qifrey’s internal conflict during this one is finally getting development and his backstory stops being as much of a mystery it was before.

And in later blurbs on this manga i’ll go in full spoiler mode, so either read it with me or don’t look. Manga reads quite fast and with my reading speeds you can get to me in no time. Good luck :)

Wonder Man (2026)

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I as most people hated how they delt with Mandarin in Iron Man 3, but without this shitshow that was IM3 we wouldn’t get this Wonder Man.

And Wonder Man is a really good show. It is not a superhero show, it is a show setted in the superhero world, and it works with superhero world way better than all other MCU projects combined.

Also it got a whole episode about Doorman, and that is something that nobody could’ve expected

Absolute Batman #16 (2025)

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:18:50 -0700

Never stand behind a centaur!

As you could’ve guessed i don’t realy like crossovers with Batman, i think that Bats is the parasite on any of this crossovers, he always becomes the center of attention, even if he dies he still lives. THAT HAPPENED TWICE!!

But i like Absolute Batman quite much, because unlike his mainline counterpart, Batbuilder has something odd that people call — conciquences.

And this issue is about him dealing with conciquences of getting his closest friends into his vigilante buisness, about him dealing with trauma.

And most importantly, getting kicked by a centaur :)

Absolute Wonder Woman #15 (2025)

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A long awaited 2 issue crossover arc of Batbrick and Wonder Woman.

And it’s first part feels quite inconciquential. It is nothing but a setup for an interesting part, the part that DC by their tradition given out to Batman…

>:(

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (2014)

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Memes. The DNA of the soul. They shape our will.

After finishing all of Bayonetta and MGS1 i got to this one. And it is the best of both worlds: absurd style of Bayo and a very fun but depressing in retrospective story of Metal Gear

Wicked: For Good (2025)

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Meh. Nothing really interesting had happened during this 2 hours

Running Man (2025)

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Firstly: Schwarz-bucks are funny

Second: Michal Sera rocks it with his borderline psycocotic guerrilla role

Thirdly: Making one reference to the cult-classic known in small circles 1967 tv show The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan is a maybe a quincidence, making whole two references to the cult-classic known in small circles 1967 tv show The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan shows that a brit had made this movie

UNBEATABLE (2025)

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was a fun game with interesting story and style, but damn it needs more time in the oven. Seriously, better wait for half more year till it gets fixed

Lil Gator Game (2021)

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It was the cutest game i’ve played. There is a whole bunch of cute animals you help to deal with some minor problems. And then you get everybody to make a cool fort out of cardboard. And also it is about how adulthood looks from kids perspective, and how hard it is to get adults into having fun

It is short, it is sweet, it is fun. Play it!

Superman (2025)

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rewatched this movie and it is still great. Loved mr. Terrific and the Justice Gang. Loved how this place feels like and already living world there 500m kaiju is just an inconvenience, a major inconvenience but still nothing out of the ordinary for Metropolians :)

Akira (1988)

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I understood nothing, it was a very interesting movie

Life of Brian (1979)

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Something is happening Redge!!

I am not enough of an individual to quote about everyone being an individual :(

My favorite stuff of 2025

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:25:08 +0300

So 2025 is almost over and i wanted to make something to honor it. So i had stolen a format from one irishman and will tell you about a bunch of stuff i liked during this year. Not only stuff that had been released this year, also stuff that i had <played/watched/listened/experienced/discovered> during this year

And that last sentence i put there for a reason, because i really had been catching up with “good stuff” this year. So here is a list of things i liked in no particular order

# Neon Genesis Evangelion

Congratulations!

You know this piece of media after which you get in the shower for an hour just to think about: “Why we still here? Just to suffer? WTF is wrong with my life? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”?

Well i will not invent the wheel by saying that i had been sitting in my shower for an hour while thinking: “Why we still here? Just to suffer? WTF is wrong with my life? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

I hadn’t been as depressed as after watching Eva’s original ending in a while, and then i watched the movie and the original ending is still my preferred ending

Evangelion is goddamn crazy, i hadn’t got what the hell was happening, but it was rather obvious to me that this was the greatest thing 90s anime industry had created. And thinking of what it had became made me even more depressed, because i am not sure how to feel about knowing full fact that Evangelion is the most popular collaboration material in Japan and it is a great anime but damn Eva’s collabs are the definition of saying How? before Should I?

I do not see any sense in describing how great Eva is. There is more that enough people who already did it, but i recommend not touching their analysis if you hadn’t seen the series before. I just must recommend taking your time and watch the series by yourself, in silence, give yourself a couple moments in between episodes just to think. And also this is the thing to be in proper mood before watching, not quite depressed, but definitely far from your best point in life

# Fantastic Four by Ryan North

I never liked Fantastic Four that much, i knew they existed, knew they were important, but never really got em. As i started getting into Marvel comics i of course started with Spider-man, hadn’t liked reading Spider-man that much. I hadn’t liked the format of the modern comic book. You get an issue per month and it is one sixth of the full arc. On paper sounds good, bigger and more complex stories give a way better stories right? The problem with this format is that there are always 6 issues per arc, and this format sucks. Because now any short 2 issue story will get prolonged to 6 issues because “we need to sell the volumes”. It sucks. So i was in search for more compact and better written stories and some guy on the net recommended North’s run of FF

And thanks to this guy, because it is currently my favorite comics and FF became my favorite comic. So for the basics let me explain a thing for people who know Marvel Universe only by Marvel movies — most likely modern comic’s status quo is long far from the status quo you know. X-Men already dumped through 5 full scale really impactful genocides of the nation. Avengers had changed their cast almost every 5 years since release. Spider-man is depressed, because he had sold his marridge to satan. And Fantastic Four is now not just Four people, it is a whole family with 5 adults, 4 children and that one uncle

I deeply adore everybody in this comic. I loved how Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben play off each other. I loved how Alicia is practically fifth member of the teams with less then no superpowers. I loved shenanigans Franklin, Valeria, Jo and Nicki got themselves into. I adore how wholesome their family is

Also i cannot praise Ryan North’s writing enough. I already known this guy from his “How to…” book duology, so i couldn’t expect a better guy to write a story about a group of scientists getting into science adventures. This guy had introduced me to a bunch of concepts i could’ve never get to know otherwise. His FF is not a superhero book, it is a high-concept science fiction series main cast of which wears spandex. Every new issue works with new concept. You can go from future predicting China brain to sentient dinosaur universe in a span of one volume. It is the exact mix of craziness and sincerity i missed in Doctor Who since Series 10

As a whole i hadn’t read all of this series yet(due to me being generally against modern trend of binging every piece of media you got), but i can be sure that North wouldn’t disappoint me with it

# Hundreds of Beavers

Had you ever seen a movie that is definitely shot on a budget of a six-pack of good beer and some diy costumes? Hundreds of Beavers is exactly this movie, and it wears it’s low budget proudly on it’s sleeve

The protagonist of this movie goes from a naked looser with nothing to his pocket to a guy abusing the mechanics of the world to build traps and scheme to get some food and sell for some tools

It is a batshit insane movie that is at the same time: a silent comedy, a video game let’s play, the stupidest excuse to wear a bunch of mascot costumes and it had a scene of hundreds of beavers of the forest combining into one big beaver mech

It is the movie you need to watch with some good company

# Umurangi Generation

I am not a big fan of making photos, but after i watched Evangelion and seen that there was a game that can be described only as: “Punk teens living in New Zealand during a Kaiju induced disaster that government cannot handle”

So of course i tried it, and i loved it

This game’s camera is currently my favorite in-game camera of all time, because it allows the right balance of film photo tactility, freedom of expression and simplicity. As a result of this game i got a whole bunch of cool photos for my desktop wallpapers. And the world of this game was a bit of continuation of my Evangelion induced depressive spiral on the state of humankind :)

Hey this one has a penguin too :)

Consequences.

The story goes like this: you are punk and your mates are punks, and you cannot do anything to save the world so you have time that one last time. You document how this disaster slowly but surely unveils into the full on destruction of civilization and civility itself, how rich of this world destroy society even more than Kaiju does, how much of this now inevitable tragedy being turned into the commercialized product of mass media about heroes saving the world, meanwhile you can only run around the town, do some shots and make some buck from selling this photos. But the question is who will need this money if the world had ended

# Novocaine

I like a good movie with a gimmick. A single watch through experience that you can watch and remember only the gimmick. This movie is exactly this type of movie. I also like then superpowers have consequences. So what if the gimmick movie got a gimmick there superpower has a logical consequence? We get this film

A guy named Nate doesn’t feel pain, any pain and you’ll be surprised how much of our tactile perception is pain. So if Nate gets hurt in any way from a papercut to getting a third degree burn, he’ll not feel it, but he will definitely die if he does not treat it in any way

It is a fun R rated movie for an evening to spare, stupid, predictable, but pretty good in choreography and ingenuity in fight scenes, it uses almost every potential to use it’s gimmick

# Luke Humphris’s channel

We are basically torturing an elder god…

This guy had became my favorite story teller from YouTube. His shorts are the exact vibe of comfort i needed at the moment. He mixes together things that shouldn’t be comfortable and makes them feel nice. Like post-apocalypse in which you can be sure that the civilization is dead, but humanity and goodness is not. Or getting into the unknown dimension in-between reality itself and seeing stuff that will for sure fuck you up, but if you know what you are doing you’ll be fine, even get back home

After each of this things i just like to think about life

# Bayonetta

I feel like a fucking celebrity in this town!

This quote is the exact sentence to describe how it feels to play this game. It is a crazy, absurd, sexy, stylish, cool, extravagant and a bunch of other words that can be made up to describe this game

Seriously in which game you can have a scene in which the main character does a pole dance to reverse time or use four guns at the same time: two are wielded normally and two are her fucking heels

Seriously this game is full on farce, more specific term here might be camp — aesthetics and theatricality over common sense and realism. In this type of art absurd, grotesque, over the top acting and vulgarity. And Bayonetta is the campiest game you can currently play. Each character dresses like they are having a shoot for the cover in some fashion magazine. Angels look in the Biblically accurate ways combined with greek sculptures and then you break through their facade of divinity you see the Gigeresque monstrosity they really are. The city of Vingrid seems like the mix of whole European architecture with heavy influence of Italy and occultism. And this whole stylistic and aesthetical mess gives us character of every place and person you’ll see on your journey

And this campiness also gives us humor. Bayonetta is the coolest heroine in gaming history and the bitch knows it. Her sexuality and confidence is amazing and it is hard not to laugh on it. She seems to physically incapable to not strike poses or even make a step like a normal person. And this stupid vulgarity works, and it doesn’t ruin her character. She is a real character, she got autonomy many modern characters lack. She got a goal, a motive and choices. Even if she got a very irritating trope of being a chosen one, but in this case it works because of all the camp. You cannot believe into the existence of this woman and this is the point

And the gameplay is fire too, it is all about the rhythm of ballet-like combat and unstoppable action and even QTE-s don’t feel like QTE-s. It feels like the most empowering combat system to ever exist. It doesn’t need a huge SSS in the corner of the screen to say how stylish you are, you see it with your own eyes: Bayonetta jumps around the arena, shoots everything that moves, summons huge fists and heels, does a breakdance while shooting off her heel guns then she gets surrounded and even has time to pose for a photo after all of this!

It is genuinely the best action game i ever played and i cannot afford making this New Year post into Bayonetta praising post. But i had marathoned the whole franchise and enjoyed it, but first game is still my favorite and i now want to make a simmilar game

# Superman by James Gunn

1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1A! 1! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

There had been an absurd amount of phrase towards this movie, so let’s add a bit of a personal element to it

I like Superman, i had read a bunch of comics about the guy, liked old movies with Reeve, watched a cartoon, but i never actually got the point of the character until i read All-Star Superman. Before that i was as many other people — a Batman fan. Now i genuinely tired of any non-Absolute Batman and love Superman, he is not my favorite superhero but definitely in my own top 5 of all superheros

Then Gunn’s movie got released in Russia(this is an important part because it got unofficially released only two weeks later and i got spoiled a bit) i got my mates and we gone to the cinema. It was a fun experience but it was a bit confusing to them, because let’s be honest James Gunn’s Superman doesn’t do a good job getting people who are more into One Piece and Breaking Bad but hadn’t been interested in superheroics for past 5 years. But it was a fun experience after all, we had a nice conversations about it

I liked the world of this movie, it felt like it had existed for a long time before we saw it and it is a nice feeling i only got before in parody shows like Venture Bros. or The Boys. And it was nice to see a bunch of stuff that hadn’t been ever in life-action suddenly gain meat and bones. Like Krypto or Guy Gardner or Superman’s robots who are definitely lieing about not having a soul

The twist involving Kal’s parents was not a good idea in a long run in my opinion, especially considering that they would be adapting Woman of Tomorrow next and it will not work when Krypton is suddenly a nationalist, harem loving utopia. Still hope it will get retconned by saying that “Oh Lex mingled with translation context a bit, don’t worry Clark your parents are not evil, they just don’t know that polyamory is not considered a normal thing on Earth”

Hypnoglasses are stupid too, David Corenswet’s way of playing Clark Kent persona works well without such a stupid explanation. Well David’s Superman is definitely one of the best we had. He is dorky, charming, fun, optimistic and all other things Superman is. He feels like the <Clark Kent/Kal El/Superman> i’ve read in the Morrison’s comic

Same for the whole cast honestly, they got the best casting for any important and unimportant character this movie had. Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane is the experienced, serious, very much hard to deal with journalist. Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor is definitely the most hateable guy in movie history of 2020s who is not a real guy. Edi Gathegi’s Mr.Terrific is just terrific and i want to see more of this smartass. Even Alan Tudyk’s Gary the robot is fun

And the soundtrack of this thing, it is goddamn marvelous(pun intended). I periodically re-listen to it and i love it every damn time. I love how Planet’s theme sounds like the newspaper press and a news program jingle at the same time. I love Luthorcorps’s theme with it’s guitar riff. I loved “5 Years Time”’s sudden inclusion in the best fight scene of the movie and i loved re-listening to it then my life gets ugly

Goddammit this movie is great, and it is definitely my favorite superhero movie of the year. But not my favorite movie of the year, it is a good movie and i loved it, but it is far from perfect. Hope then Man of Tomorrow releases we’ll get a perfect superhero movie, because it can be, i know it will be one

Also i would like to thank the awesome community of r/Earth25 for making my immersion into this world even more immersive :)

# This picture

I had lost the source of this pic, so if you know it,
comment to me and i'll replace this line with credit :)

I like it. It’s cute

# Mausritter(and non-DnD TTRPGs as a whole)

The mouse kingdoms survive on the edge of collapse. A harsh winter or heartless cat could spell the end for all. The settled mice huddle together, hidden in their settlements in trees and burrows and walls, scraping and saving. A tenuous existence.

But you are not like those settled mice.

It had started as a normal game of Tabletop Roleplaying, i was mastering, as most times. And I hadn’t been prepared at all, which was less than i usually did :|

So i had made-up a basic heist scenario — Get into the house. Steal a bottle of whiskey. GTFO before house owner sees it

Simple scenario innit? But to start it i made up a rat mafia, a Ford-T made out of soviet metal construction set, a smoke grenade under the pillow and also owner of the house was a little guy controlling a huge robot body

Also while other two mice were hiding from this huge robot and it’s shotgun, one of the players filled a bunch of space with darkness, lured the Cat into that darkness and started dodging this Cat like it was goddamn Dark Souls boss. And at the end of this encounter he used a fricking Lego™ Blaster(the one that is specifically didn’t did damage) to kait it to himself and stab it’s eye with a Lego™ Crowbar piece

And it was my average experience with <playing/mastering> any TTRPG i tried that hadn’t been DnD. Seriously if you tried DnD and hadn’t liked playing it i remind you that there is a better way of life, and it is called PLAYING ANOTHER DAMN GAME! HAVE FUN WITH YOUR FRIENDS!!

# Googly eyes

I hadn’t discovered them this year of course, just bought for the first time and started sticking them

This ingenious invention allows humans to make anything inanimate suddenly full of life

After i bought them, everything kinda face looking in the close facility gained eyes: my mic, my webcam, my lamp, my bass speaker, my binder clip can, parents’ robot vacuum, one random pedestrian crossing sign in my town, a presents i prepared for Secret Santa in the media club in the uni, etc. etc

# Ballerina

Merc1: It’s suicide, it’s fucking John Wick!
Merc2: He’s just one guy!

[Both of them get shot]

Sometimes you just need a stupid movie to laugh like a maniac with your mate in a cinema. And this movie had payed homage to legendary gunfight scene from Naked Gun but playing it straight and with flamethrowers

It is a very stupid movie, but with right friends it becomes the best comedy of this year

# 22 frames that always work

Wallace Allan Wood (1927 – 1981)

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up

This meme worthy cheat sheet for comic artists created by late and great Wally Wood is definitely one of the things that you see once and cannot unsee in other things, because most of dialog in comics is practically speaking this 22 panels, and they always work well

# Metal Gear Solid

What was she fighting for? What am I fighting for? What are you fighting for?

It’s not the first game by Hideo Kojima, it wasn’t even first Metal Gear, but it was the first properly realized Hideo Kojima Game™

And i still hadn’t finished it :| I got stuck on the REX fight. In my defense i was at the total death count of 140, and 26 of them can be attributed to REX. So let’s not speak about my embracing inability to play 26 year old stealth game, ok?

Storywise this game was fantastic, each boss was great. Except for Ocelot, this ruski bastard made me quit my first attempt because he is goddamn unfair with default PS1 version, and our next duel for my sanity thrown me straight back to Mantis because i had forgotten to save…

I of course had teared up a bit from all the drama, and dropped an F-bomb per each time this game guessed the vibe of our current times. Which is depressing

“War is hell” is definitely not the line that humanity wants to hear repeat itself time and time again, but here we are…

So yea, the whole franchise is stuck in my head thanks to Revengence memes, so after i finish with Solids i will get to it. So next year there maybe going to be a whole bunch of sections there i will say same thing again and again: Kojima is a genius

# Hi-Fi RUSH

Miss Peppermint, please don’t confuse Mister Chai by implying that he is the brains behind the mission.

I waited for this game to properly come out of Denuvo shackles and region lock by Microsoft. And it was worth the wait.

It is an action game with rhythm based combat. But it doesn’t command you to attack on rhythm, it just gives you buffs, and it is nice

Story in this game is not really good or important to what really matters. And the main selling point of this game comedy and music. And the story exist only to drive comedy and music

Comedy in Hi-Fi RUSH is amazing, but characters are only for the comedy. If you try to see any real drama in them it does not work(which had been proven by one specific character). But good that all of the characters are interesting and funny. From the smallest robot courier to the stupidest idiot who you play as. My favorites are of course the living JoJo reference Zanzo, miss accent of the year Korsica and of course the robo-therapist CNMN

And the music here is great. Everything in the game runs in rhythm with music and it feels so great. Every level while playing through i tapped to the rhythm with my foot. And the tracks themselves are great too, i constantly re-listen to the whole album then i need a good bop to listen too

Also a little tip: don’t use the rhythm meter. The world itself is full of rhythm enough and this UI element will only disorient you

# Absolute Wonder Woman

Once upon a time there was a princess

I like good mythic stories. And Absolute Wonder Woman is the best mythic story to be currently published.

The basic premise of the whole Absolute Universe is “What if your heroes hadn’t had their foundation” and with Wonder Woman they delt with it in a pretty simple way: Themyscira an amazons no more, now Diana is the princess of Hell

And it doesn’t really change her character. To be honest Absolute Wonder Woman hadn’t really came far from her main concept. She is still a kind and wise soul with a set of combat skills, magic spells and good old cutting weaponry to use only if peaceful way is no longer an option

And i like this in this version Diana, she is a great character specifically because she can to kill everything and she can, but she has no interest in killing. She is fully autonomous in her choises. She is ready to talk with her enemy, ready to forgive them.

And this is why i think Absolute Univerce has an edge over the mainline one, because in this world, no matter how doomed it seems, true redemption is possible. Thanks for it having an expiration date. In metanarrative sence. Unlike Earth-0, in which any redemption is a temporary event and in 9 out of 10 cases ends in villian getting back to status quo. But with Absolute, i can afford to care about the story, i can be really surprised by it’s twists and turns

So if you wanna get into comics without much of the lore baggage of mainline DC books there is no better option for you than to check out any of the Absolute books, and Wonder Woman was my favorite one and the most rememberable one. Even if it suffers from the curse that is writing for trades that i explicitly said a couple kind words about in my section about FF

# Collective’s channel

Do you wanna know how normal people live in Russia, here are two perfect sources of seeing this, the problem is that both of this channels do not even subtitle their content so you’ll need to learn russian to watch it :|

Collective is more of a mess of ideas that had gotten into heads of the stuff. From “How modern teens live their lives” to “How you’ll get scammed by freelance service centers” to “Terrorists thought i was one of them”, this last one is my favorite one. In short 30 minute film you’ll get a suspenseful story of helicopter pilots saving school children from terrorists. It is the best piece of non-fiction movie making, and it’s a pity that it had only been translated by a goddamn YouTube auto-dubbing

# Raskadrovka’s channel

This one is a way more collected in it’s format. Raskadrovka is a channel about people’s jobs, their personal stories and real purpose of their profession. And people in this story varie from store workers, to truckers, to clowns, to doctors, to even police investigators. This guys make weekly stories about life, and i like them :)

# The Phoenician Scheme

You and your terrorists will provide security service for our party.

My favorite archetype is conmen, especially very well mannered conmen like Ostap Bender or Arcene Lupin. And my favorite director is Wes Anderson. So thing and thing get into the bed, and we get my new favorite movie of Wes Anderson

Zsa-zsa is of course nowhere near close the greatness of Ostap Bender, but he compensates by making his scheme the most absurd and marvelous 6 step plan i had seen in a movie. This guy gift’s his colleagues hand grenades with most calm and casual tone a person can gift somebody a hand grenade.

Also there is as always a stacked cast of people you definitely seen in all the memes and most importantly: a scene of “you look better without glasses” played by Michael Sera

# The Question by Dennis O’Neil

Rorschach sucks.

If you are long enough in the superhero comic space you start liking the main hit characters less and give attention to the guys that hadn’t been as popular or hadn’t had much adaptations or this adaptations were very bad. You know: Booster Gold, Moon Knight, Power Girl, Death’s Head, She-Hulk, and many many more. So i wholeheartedly must say that my favorite superhero of all time is The Question

And now i can hear you questioning: who the hell is Question? The answer is simple, he is pretty much a literally faceless, crazy noir detective with an objectively shitty set of worldviews based on the conspiratorial mindset and pseudo-philosophical works of author(even calling this woman an author is a disgrace for the whole profession) i genuinely hate. The ultimate “Literally me” character. But i fucking love the guy

I first met him in the Pax Americana by Grant Morrison, the Elseworld oneshot parodying Moore’s Watchman. Rorscharh was based around just being the offbrand Question from original Steve Ditko’s comic. Yes the same guy who made Spider-man had later made a true believer in Randian bullshit

So then i got to Dennis O’Niel run of The Question i expected the same deal: a crazy guy doing some psycotic detective work, but now in DC universe freshly rebooted by the Crisis. And i got everything i hadn’t expected. O’Niel had drowned original Question in the lake in the first issue. And then, this 30 something issue run was the most introspective story about slow and steady process of getting to be a better person and gaining faith. Not faith in God of course, but faith in a more philosophical way of life. Zen-Buddhism to be specific

And this amazing road to personal enlightenment is written fantasticly. Because the closest reference i can describe this series is Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov and other classics of literature

The main antagonist of the book doesn’t have a face. It is a city named Hub. And Hub City is a very depressing world way beyond saving. It is full of corruption, racism, violence, fear, and no hope for better tommorow. Unlike Gotham for example, there is no way Hub can be seen as anything but a shithole. And the whole place slowly destroys itself. No matter who is in charge it cannot be saved

Now imagine being a vigilante in here, you want it or not this place is fucked, you can just help it get a bit better, support the right people, but at the end. It is far beyond saving. But you still try

Yea, this thing had resonated with me quite well…

# The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch

Although i will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion… I just bought a Macintosh.

The Last Lecture is a lecture and a sort of epitaph of professor Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University. It is not a depressing lecture, it is actually a very optimistic story about making dreams come true

Randy starts with retelling how he got to live out his childhood dreams and he had the whole list completed. Then he starts talking about how he helped to create the “Dream Fulfillment Factory” and it is such a cool story. I cannot recommend watching this thing enough. I laughed during it, i teared up, i missed a person i never knew. It is a beautiful lecture everybody should see at least once

So here is a link, check it out after reading my post

# Cycling

What can be a better finale for this list than a personal story of a dying man? I’ll sound like a bastard, but how about a personal and wholesome slice-of-life story of a 20 year old man learning how to use a bicycle

Yes, i hadn’t been able to ride a bike for all of my life, it’s not like i hadn’t tried, i tried, just couldn’t do it thanks to a closest bike i could ride being on a dacha of grandma, and as any dacha this one had a traditional curse of rural area’s roads being practically non existent, also bike itself had seen better times and it hadn’t been setted up properly for my 1m 90cm height

So after one of this attempts i had been thinking that it is pretty shameful to not know how to ride a bike. At this point i often hang out with my friend(same friend i had been landing Switch to play Bayo 3 from). We were usually speaking about stuff like politics, life, videogames, internet bullcrap and a bunch of other fun stuff two twenty year old undergrads can speak about

So eventually, while speaking about not seeing sense in having a car in our current years and that bicycles are way better, i said something in a line of “Fuck i am 20 and still cannot ride a bike” so then he said “I can teach you if you want”

And so an August long saga of “Roman is learning how to ride a bike” started. During this time i had gone from being unable to ride for 15 meters without falling to the ground of an old garage complex road while humming King and Jester’s Forester to get into the rhythm of pushing the pedals, to riding through river Volga’s embarkment fairly competently while just getting out of breath every 100 or so meters

Of course for any quick progress you need to pay and i payed by almost breaking my mate’s parent’s bike by stepping on a wheel while falling over after hitting a pole(i was spiraling into a full on tree of events i might get into if i really had broken something in this damn Aist). Also i cut open my jeans’ and knee once while falling, literal minutes after which we met a guy who was searching for an emergency room and seemed to have a concussion, so we escorted him to the closest emergency and then came back home to deal with my knee and jeans…

So yea, it was fun to learn new useful skills :)

Death to subscriptions!!

Wed, 14 May 2025 23:05:28 +0300

After 5 or so years of active streaming usage. I ditched my only streaming subscription. The reason is quite simple and comically pragmatic — money. 500 stablely backwards growing money units per month is a bit to much for poor library and discustingly slow music app.

# Streaming is evil

Seriously, there is no streaming service that i could use without it getting in my way.

You know how it gets. You wanna listen to some beats, open an app, wait for a whole minute till it fucking loads, get an advert for the most well known musician just released a new piece of crap you will never listen, wanna listen to something new, press a legaly destinct very smart ai algorythm button, wait for another minute till this terminator loads up, and finally… listen for some of the blendest, most boring list of sounds played in sequence ever heard by human, squized to the size of a few kilobytes, say ‘fuck it’ and then go to ‘my favorites’ list.

It is horrible, i hated every moment of it, musicians are payed pennys of pennys, and who the hell thought it was a good way to listen to music?

# And now what this post is about

So how i solved my music listening problem? The answer is simple: legal purchase of the music discs and copying their data on a local device in flac format… by some good folk of the high seas :)

I’ve been using my local library for few weeks already and the result is pretty good by now. I finally started to listen to full albums… Got to know a bunch of new artists… And now i found some albums i would never discover under the recomendation algorithm dictate.

No seriously, who of you would listen to a bunch of random piano OST covers of one JRPG’s from 90s, about which i am sure even japaneese had forgotten. But this album is realy good actually. And i found out about it only thanks for a beautyful girl on the cover while scrolling through archive.org.

And with my wallet full of not much rubles. This is the closest feeling i’ll have with just browsing the vinyl store and getting something absolutely unexpected out of there. And i like this feeling

# My setup for music listening

I catalogued each album to the folders in my ~/Music directory, which in term was just a link to my second drive to not kill my SSD
Syncthing setted to send stuff from ~/Music on my PC to my phone(even if i think of getting a player)
Players: QMMP with WinAmp theme on my computer and Musicolet on my phone. Both of this players just work, launch quickly and don’t get in my way to listen to an album
Nice shloop to sail the high seas :)

# A moral question

Obviously puttin on a tricorn hat is not quite… legal.

But first, i would love to get music the right way, but there are few caviats in my way: i live in country there piracy stands victorious, so there is only one legal way to listen to most music, on streaming… full on three shitty streaming services, i would have no problems if Deezer was avalible, it at least gives me nice sound quolity, but it got under sanctions. Buying albums on Bandcamp is a pain in the ass too, fee for converting cityscapes to portraits is absurd, and thats if i have a right place to put this green things in, which i don’t. This hustle is just not worth it.

And last but not least, i am a student, which means i am broke.

So then shit stops being thrown on a goddamn ventilator i will buy all this albums, on disks. Digital purchase is still glamourized money burning anyway.

# As a result

To hell with steaming. Thanks to people from the seven seas. Sorry to musicians, i’ll be better.

I played a new ƏNA game

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:18:02 +0300

ENA is back! And now she’s a game. About doing chores!!

Of cource ENA: DREAM BBQ is not a game in a classic sense. It is an interactive expirience with gameplay elements. Of cource I am kidding, if people counted Miside as a game Dream BBQ is a game twoo.

Well it is a part of game. It’s a first chapter called The Lonely Door. And i’ll not spoil it. Just play through it ok?..

# THIS SECTION IS INTENDED FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY COMPLETED ENA: DREAM BBQ CHAPTER 1

Ok now we can start…

What in the love of god was that?

I felt like i’ve been druged. With all the drugs possible.

No seriously this thing is the most detailed trip you can get on Steam right now for free.

One scene goes to the next, and all of them are different. At one moment you buy a can of Mayo from a guy whos prohibited to sell stuff to Ena. In another you go demolish a village of some little guys(and each one of the houses has a unique animation of it). And before that I found Taximan’s severed head, while searching for pets/children/food that some wooden horse guy wanted to get. And all of it just to get to the

Yea that was one hell of a trip, i liked it…

My favorite characters (And also i hadn’t learned names of characters soo i’ll go with nicknames i made up for them):

Maniquins (they are great listeners)
Frogman (the closest person to a frend we got here)
Aussie-Disco-man (He’s a puppet, and i like aussie puppets)
The big head in the sky (ENA’s old friend :)
The shoppie (ENA CANNOT BUY THIS!!!)
Taxi man (he taxied till the end)

The Orb

Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

# 17.04.2025

Some time ago I noticed an orb hovering in the parking lot of a supermarket, exactly 150 cm from the ground, according to my tape measure at least.

Its diameter was about 30 cm, according to local news. Its material was similar to plastic painted to look like metal, but to the touch it was more like metal painted to look like plastic.

Although it would be a mistake for me to call this orb hovering. After all, it just was at a distance of 150 cm from the ground. You can’t move it, you can’t shake it, you can’t hit it. In general, it just was there. I even saw a stray cat sleeping peacefully on this orb.

# 30.08.2025

I was wrong about static nature of this orb… As it turned out, it was moving slowly approximately to the west. So slowly in fact that in the 4 months that I’ve known about it, it has moved for 4 centimeters.

For the expiriment sake I tried to hit this thing with a shovel, but it hadn’t given any interesting results. My shovel broken on hit. Now I have a broken stick and a bent metal sheet of a shovel.

# 25.11.2025

With first snow we got a new fun fact. This goddamn ball has friends all over the world. As it turned out, there are absolutely identical orbs in Kyoto, Riga, Omsk and even in Johannesburg of all places. This interesting revelation got us to get the exact point B for the orbs. And guess there this orbs are going?

That’s right, to the one place that hadn’t had eldritch orbs yet… Belgum! Bruges to be specific…

And more specifically, to the local beer museum. I and my orb-intrigued mates don’t know why the Bruges’ Beer Museum was so liked by 5 orbs. Of which even snow is afraid of.

Oh yea! I forgot to say: snow avoids this things! Literally!! Above this orbs, even the clouds don’t converge. But the cat, whom I called Barsik, doesn’t really care. He even likes sleeping on this space thing.

# 04.02.2026

Just for fun I made a little subreddit, where I with anons found few new orbs: in St. Petersburg, Tegucigalpe and Tallahassee(to this orb some Florida men tried to connect an internet cable and camera for the live feed). Orbs are still going to Bruges’ Beer Museum… Maybe aliens want to go to pubs? Then why they start with Bruges? Then why St. Petersburg’s orb doesn’t like her city?

Barsik lives with me now, by the way.

# 17.04.2026

The year had passed from the moment I met the orb. During this year it moved for 15 cm, which means that it accelerated by about 25% from last mesurement. Which in return means that I may even live to see moment then the orbs arrive in Bruges.

Now I with r/þe_orb’s community started setting bets on the result of orb’s arrival to Bruges. I betted 50 rubles for them just fuzing into each other and then just staying in a middle of Belgum. u/OhNo prefers another theory: he thinks that the collision moment will cause the world’s end. And somebody named u/allhailtheorb thinks that “The Conjunction of the Orbs” will start new era for humanity. Well good luck to him.

# 30.13.2029

The orb had already gone out of my town and got to penetrate a Kremlin. Which I watched, trying not to laugh, because it’d been penetrating it for about a year.

The most damage orb-N(named after city of origin) had done was definetly a part of the Mausoleum, after breaking it off it had pressed comrade Lenin into a pancake. That is literally all the interesting things that orb had done on it’s way to Belgum.

But the record of “most damage done by the orb” will most likely be holded by orb-Kyoto. It had broken half of Tokyo. Which is not big news for avarage Japanese citizen. Although it was especially embarrassing for u/tohito_yam, who watched as this orb just floated through his pretty small apartment for 4 long years.

During this time, he used it as: a chair, a clothes rack, and a bed for the cat. He found out about this specific application of the orb after I sent him a photo of the now deceased Barsik quietly purring on orb-N.

After Tokyo our spherical kaiju got to make a presice 30 cm in diametre tunnel through mount Fuji(few other tunnels like this were found on Ural mountains). Her next distanation was to make a hole in Lincoln statue in Washington, break off Lady Libery her leg and demolish few Scotish castles.

Orb-Johannesburg prefered to go more by quality than by quantity. It had destabilized the Leaning tower of Pisa.

# 19.10.2032

Florida man’s camera expiriment with orb-Tallahassee had failed right at the moment of going into international waters. Cable, that was holded by duct tape… had fallen off… and now somethere at the ocean there are a 50 kilos of copper wire and a GoPro camera.

# 17.04.2035

Here it comes. The moment of truth. The Orbs are flying now with speed of kilometers a day. 10 years of waiting and the orbs will finally reunite.

Also, now there are some suspicious people in white shirts with hidious ties asking me if “I would like to talk about the Orbs”

# 02.10.2036

Soo, that happened!..

I hadn’t seen the conjunction itself… AND HAIL TO GOD!!! Best 50 rubles I lost in a bet! In a matter of fact mister U/OhNo was more right than me.

Because literally everybody and everything in a 100 m radius from collision had just diappeared. Including a bunch of cultists who were in the area. This “Orb’s Witnesses” unknowingly saved a bunch of people from disintegration… It’s impressive how much of them were there realy…

And it wasn’t even a beautiful disintegration, they just were and then they were not… There had been made a perfect 200 meter diametre spherical hole in a middle of Bruges. About 800 people and a few kilotonns of dirt had fully disappeared from the face of Earth. This felt like God just pressed Ctrl+X on this piece of land. And the perfection of this cut was so percise that people on it’s edges were not as lucky as people in the centre.

Had you seen how a cross-section of a person looks like? Because I’ve seen. I’ve seen his robe, his brain, his skull, his organs, and his very percisely cutted off bag with his passport fallen off. His name was Johan…

As a result of this little adventure, I would like to say: this event was just a footnote of this year. With modern trend of 1 historic once in a lifetime event per week, disappearing of a part of a city hadn’t became a big news somehow. Like many other stories of this one ended in nothing… More literall definition of nothing, but still nothing…