Category: Commentary

I don’t expect this news to be that exciting, but I got a new phone which somehow proves I’m a real person in the eyes of the bots who run Discord.

Barelin wrote an expanded version of Applying for a Job (with my permission).

It’s over here on The Storyboard, for anyone interested.

Exciting news. I just moved to Japan! I’ve always been a bit of weeb, so this is a a dream come true. When my employer offered me a long term contract in their Fukushima decontamination division it was too good to pass up. Obviously I’ll be busy settling in, so please excuse me if the blog is a little less active for a while. Also, I know this may be disappointing to some, but I do of course have to comply with local indecency laws, so from now on (or as long as I’m living here anyway) I’ll have to apply pixelation to the images. I hope you understand.

April Fools!

Time to get rid of those pixels.

Oops. I just noticed no one had made any comments for a couple days… they were broken, weren’t they? I think a wordpress update must have broken the captcha plugin. I’m not sure if it will be possible to get that working again, that plugin hasn’t been updated in four years. So I might need to find a replacement when I have more time. For now, captchas are disabled. I hope this doesn’t let too much spam in.

Merry Christmas everyone. Especially the folks on Discord who I haven’t had a chance to interact with in a while. Am I missing any excitement on there?

I just got  a notice that I’ve received a few discord messages. However my discord account is still inaccessible so I can’t log in and view them. At this point it’s somewhat doubtful if I’ll be getting back in. So… if anyone had anything important to say, please send it through the contact form or email (address also on the contact page) instead.

But with that event over, I think I’m due for another semi-vacation on the blog. I’ve got a few things to take care of, including trying to get back on Discord, though if they’re dead set on getting a non-prepaid phone number from me, there may not be much I can do. Anyways, I’ll still do an update or two per day, but it’s gonna be less than usual for a bit.

Edit to add: Speaking of taking care of things, I just updated WordPress and a bunch of plug-ins. Let me know if you notice any unexpected behavior.

It seems I’ve lost access to my Discord account, for the time being at least. Needless to say, this is a pain in the ass since I can’t even manage my server. But I’m mostly posting this to let anyone who may message me there know why I’m not responding. Sorry, this happened very suddenly. Anyway they’re demanding “verification”, and it seems my prepaid phone isn’t good enough for them, so I’m stuck.

I will make further efforts to resolve this at a later date, but I can’t make any promises. I’m certainly not getting a new phone plan just to please some idiot at Discord HQ.

If anyone was having a problem with the main page not updating, or with the Random link going to the same post repeatedly, I think it’s fixed now. Let me know if I’m wrong. You may need to clear your cache or force-reload once to get it working again. Worst case, it should resolve in a week, because that was the longest I set anything to cache for previously.