Haven’t written one of these in a while. I bought these CDs in batches this time, and every time a few arrived I’d think “eh, let me listen more before writing,” and then it dragged on until now.
There’s quite a lot this time — some good discs, some really shit ones. Let’s go through them slowly.
On Ubuntu Unity 18.04, the default datetime format is pretty weird.
If you enable the weekday display, it shows “三” instead of “星期三”.
So you have to change it.
Grab it from the Ubuntu kernel Mainline PPA
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.17.1/
Download the deb files and install them. “unsigned” means no Secure Boot support.
Indicator-keylock can handle your feature keys status easily.
And there is a new PPA for Ubuntu 18.04.
Soy sauce fried rice is a dead simple dish, but it tastes way better than it has any right to.
The stuff you’re frying is basically just rice — day-old rice is best — and then whatever else you feel like throwing in. Boiled corn, lettuce, shiitake, shrimp, bacon, whatever you’ve got, just dump it in. The soy sauce is the point.
This bug is filed on Launchpad: Elantech touchpad stops working after suspend.
Every time you wake the laptop from suspend, you have to “unload and reload the psmouse module by hand.”
神待ち
読み方：かみまち
「救いの手を差し伸べてくれる人を待つ」といった意味であるが、特に、家出した女性が自分を泊めてくれる男性を電子掲示板などで探すことを意味する表現。
Read as: kamimachi
Literally “waiting for someone to reach out and save you,” but these days it usually means a runaway girl hunting the internet for some guy who’ll put her up for the night.
I’ve played a fair number of visual novels, and there’s one thing I’ve never quite understood.
Since most visual novels are eroge—18+ games whose selling point is the presence of sex scenes—they should by definition sit squarely in the adult game category.
People who buy adult games are, for the most part, adults (at least on paper). So when it comes to how the content is presented, you’d think the “adult factor” would be played up even more.
But here’s the ridiculous part: in the visual novel market, aside from the handful of developers who actually deliver on “adult game,” the majority of mainstream players have some really weird demands:
Logically, an “adult-rated” story worth its salt is bound to have cruel elements—the better it is, the more indispensable the cruelty. Yet the visual novel audience refuses to accept it.
If you won’t accept a “cruel” story, then you must like pure love stories, right? But the sex is still mandatory—and not just any sex, you need all kinds of positions, all kinds of play to be satisfied…
So what kind of twisted demographic are you people who play 18X visual novels, anyway…
A while back I noticed a bunch of problems with the Sony Xperia Z Premium. First, one of the external speakers stopped working — put simply, only one speaker produced sound.
I also found yellow spots along the edge of the screen, maybe a screen issue.
Since mine was a China-market unit, I went to Sony after-sales service.
This time the Sony service location had moved to the Erqi Square area of Zhengzhou, on Dehua Street. I don’t think I’ve been here in ages… it’s changed quite a bit.
Sometimes I stop and wonder how long it’s been since I last played a landmine game.
Maybe I’ve just gotten more sensitive lately. One look at a game’s setup and I can tell if it’s shit, so I haven’t stepped on one since the second half of last year…
But there’s one thing I can’t resist: the art style. If the art hits my tastes just right, I’ll overlook the landmine parts and be willing to forgive a whole lot more.
And it’s not just me. According to a poll I ran on some dumbass social media site, over half the people said “a work with good-looking characters but a boring story” beats “a work with a great story but characters you can’t stand to look at.” It’s a shallow world, I guess. And I love Sesena Yau’s art that much. Even though one of her previous games was mind-numbingly dull, this time I fired up her new one without hesitation—even though I vaguely remembered seeing someone on Weibo tear it apart with a long screenshot post calling it garbage.
The game is Natsuiro Ramune. And just like I said at the start, it’s a landmine. Sesena Yau drew another landmine.
