kakkahousu

the more I think about it the more I believe that why waves hands The Modern Isekai Tropes (as exemplified most recently in the dialogue that appears in Forspoken) bother me so much is that they seem to signal a sort of irreverent carelessness of the work's own setting &/or lore.

Like, if the main character, meant to be some sort of newcomer to this place, sees no issue with mocking/goofing on the traditions of the world that they are a newcomer to, why the fuck should I, the audience, care about the world? I feel like I am being told "this does not matter, don't worry about it"

discord's new font sucks. it is EXTRAORDINARILY eyestrain-inducing. here is how to go back to the old one! quick note: don't copy/include any backticks (`) in the instructions; they're just the tech equivalent of quotes since quotes often do specific things in code.

1. go to %AppData%/Discord/ in your file browser on windows, or ~/Library/Application Support/discord/ on mac. open settings.json in any text-editing program (even notepad will do.)
2. in settings.json, add a comma after the last line but before the final } symbol. then add a new line, two spaces, and the following text: "DANGEROUS_ENABLE_DEVTOOLS_ONLY_ENABLE_IF_YOU_KNOW_WHAT_YOURE_DOING": true^{(like so. my text editor is a full code editor so don't worry about colors and stuff; as long as the text matches, you're fine.)}
3. save the file. then, fully restart discord. clicking the x button probably won't be enough; you may have to kill it in your task manager.
4. once you have restarted discord, press CTRL + SHIFT + I on windows, or CMD + OPTION + I on mac. this should open a panel to the right.
5. about halfway down the panel, you'll see a little tab called "styles" followed by a search filter box. in that box, type :root. scroll down the list until you see a section with the words font-primary in it.
6. delete "gg sans", from the list of fonts, including the comma and quotes.^{the panel, with "gg sans" already deleted from the list}
   discord should instantly update after this, getting rid of the old font! you can also delete gg sans from the font-display list too; i don't know where font-display is used, but it can't hurt.

kudos to this reddit post for providing the first half of these instructions for me, and to @veryroundbird and @binary for tipping me off to the location of the file on mac.

I made an RPG I can wheat paste on the street