You have no idea how scared I was that that IBM CD wouldn't dump. It's super scratched.

It was only 60 MB and it dumped in 20 seconds...

This is a proper Bin+cue rip of the disc with all sector data included, done to Redump specifications and ripped with a Plextor drive. Most Mac disc dumpers just keep using ISO format on CDs and I'm like... why. Why do you do this. Isos are not for CDs. CDs are Bincues. Not Isos. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are you like thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis.

Ahem.

I didn't upload the other disc because I'm dumb and need to redo the dump. :p

The above is a small CD with 10 mini trailers for IBM published games.

But wait, there's more!

Exams suck, combined with the fact I'm writing a scientific research paper, I'm supprised I haven't burnt out yet

Do you want to know the truth, babe? There’s nothing you can do about any of it. This is just the way things are, after all. You can’t run away and hide from reality. No matter how badly you want to pretend things can be different; no matter what transient comforts you might find along the way; no matter how much it hurts just to keep going day after day... This is all that you get. This… world where the only way to exist is to perpetuate and participate in its cycle of violence. This is what you deserve.
“Now, tell me what you did, Gravity Gales.

As my light novel is getting closer and closer to release later this year, I've decided to share some out-of-context excerpts to draw up some interest!

Now that I've started the final editing passes and begun working with a friend of mine on the illustrations, it's finally starting to feel real in a way that I wouldn't have dared dream of before.

Anyway, to help you feel some of the excitement I am currently feeling, please enjoy another out-of-context chapter (about 2,500 words) from my forthcoming pulp fantasy novel: Summoned to Another World, But All I'm Supposed to Do is Farm Mythic-Rarity Raid Drops.

listen, i am so excited to share this soon, i refuse to let folks be uninterested in my silly video game isekai bullshit.

That post about heresy reminded me about this year's Ukrainian Eurovision entry. It could have been controversial, if there weren't bigger things going on. The Teresa & Maria in the lyrics are Mother Teresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, and Mary, Mother of God.

All the divas were born as human beings

I think it's very funny in English to call the virgin Mary a diva, but apparently that's what they call her in Ukraine. Diva Maria - "diva" comes from the Latin for goddess. Anyway, controversies that never were:

• Mother Teresa might have been canonised, but she's faced a lot more criticism in recent years.
• It turns out that Catholics don't really think Mary was Just Like Us. Apparently, she was born without original sin. Wild.