Souls Like Strings

Now I understand why Moomin was so eager for him to come back in the sequel

Why

• Cozy art
• Funny/charming writing lives up to the brand
• Chill enough for your non-gamer SO to play

Why Not

• A somewhat noticeable step down from Winter's Warmth if you played that first

Impressions

My evil plan to ease The Wife into gaming via the Moomin franchise continues, this time with the first game in the series. Watching her play definitely gave me an appreciation of how much the devs improved from this to Winter's Warmth, but the...

Bunny by Mona Awad.

Feels like it'd hit different if I was a woman

Reading Bunny feels like playing Unbeatable; a non-stop chaotic, kinetic mess that's always making you feel something. Unlike Unbeatable the thing you're feeling tends to vacillate between mild unease and horror.

Bunny is essentially Mean Girls but if the titular girls were a coven and the movie was R18+/way darker. I frequently finished a chapter then took a break because I'd just been gifted some fresh nightmare, but I quickly picked it back up again to see what else could go horribly...

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.

Definitely written in the 1950s by an old white British dude

An interesting answer to "What if aliens invaded culturally, by improving our lives?", Childhood's End works as a title on many levels. The book opens with gigantic, untouchable alien ships appearing over Earth's major cities, proceeds to demonstrate just how superior said aliens are to us then spends its runtime uncritically accepting the alien's influence as positive in a way which leads one to believe the author believes in the British Empire a little too much. Also as with most...

• Yahoo Japan is a completely separate company from Yahoo US
  • Which obviously means they have different API docs for OIDC...
• ID tokens from an OIDC flow are often delivered as signed JWTs, meaning you need another network request to get the keys to decode them
  • Of course you can cache the keys, but caching is not exactly known for reducing complexity
• CHECK IF YOU HAVE A GEM THAT DOES SOMETHING BEFORE WRITING A SUPER DETAILED RFC FOR HOW TO DO THAT THING
  • Also check if there's a more generic gem which...

All the Living and the Dead by Haley Campbell.

You might not enjoy reading it, but you'll be glad you did

Most people spend their lives trying to avoid thinking about death; Haley Campbell may have tried a little too hard to do the opposite. Many chapters in this book lead me to think 'huh, I guess it makes sense that exists' about jobs I never would have considered without reading it. Many chapters also made me more than a little squeamish, or sad, or uncomfortable. Despite this I'm glad I read it, and I think most...