Arhat

@arhat.bsky.social

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Half tech/politics, half gaming and FFXIV nonsense. No, I will not be separating into two accounts to fix that.

Me, holding a hardcover copy of John Wiswell's new book, The Dragon Has Some Complaints, as well as a nice new Flooded Strand for one of my Commander decks.
Fucking Notepad on one of my customer's new laptops downloading an AI model, the piece of shit that it has become.
Tahra, a wee lass of a white mage, so young, so plain, so glamours-didn't-exist-in-the-game-yet, so proud of that relic weapon.
she doesn't seem to like alpha very much alpha is sad
A digital illustration of an Elezen gunbreaker wielding the TEA gunblade and generally lookin' cool as heck.
Sega statement about how they used AI in development of Crazy Taxi World Tour. They're careful to point out they didn't replace "performers."
Favorite Game: Xenogears Best Story: 1000xRESIST Favorite Art Style: Sea of Stars Biggest Personal Impact: Final Fantasy VII Best Combat: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Overhated: Octopath Traveler Underrated: Breath of Fire IV Overrated: Skyrim Needs a Remake: Xenogears Criminally Overlooked: The Looker (no pun intended and it's short and it's free you guys just play it) Favorite Protagonist: Legacy of Kain: Defiance (cheating by naming a game with two protagonists :3) Favorite Antagonist: Fallout 1 (The Master was so ahead of the time for video game writing) Best Soundtrack: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Best Multiplayer: Final Fantasy XIV (Shadowbringers if I have to pick an era) Not Usually My Thing, But...: Pacific Drive Turn My Brain Off: Vampire Survivors Best With Frineds FFXIV again, I have so many memories... Best Retro Game: Chrono Trigger Nostalgic Childhood Game: Sonic 3 & Knuckles Game Everyone Should Play: Outer Wilds (oh, I'm one of *those* people)
Nine Magic cards in a 3x3 grid: Cabal Coffers Haakon, Stromgald Scourge Arcbound Ravager Gilded Drake Gaea's Cradle Simulacrum Synthesizer Smallpox Akroma, Angel of Wrath Kamahl, Fist of Krosa
Top: Scheele, floppy elezen ears lowered. Bottom: Someone's dog, floppy dog ears lowered.
To Green Angel Tower, Tad Williams
The Journeyman Project: Turbo
BOOKS OF 2025 ⦁ Lords of Uncreation, Adrian Tchaikovsky (finished the trilogy) ⦁ The Way of Kings, ⦁ Words of Radiance, ⦁ Edgedancer, ⦁ Oathbringer, ⦁ Dawnshard, ⦁ Rhythm of War, ⦁ Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson (rereads then finishing the series) ⦁ Threshold, Will Wight ⦁ The City That Would Eat the World, John Bierce (READ THIS BOOK) ⦁ A River Enchanted, ⦁ A Fire Endless, Rebecca Ross ⦁ Iron Prince, ⦁ Fire and Song, Bryce O'Connor ⦁ Heretical Fishing 1, ⦁ Heretical Fishing 2, ⦁ Heretical Fishing 3, Haylock Jobson Then, the Summer of Feist began... ⦁ Magician: Apprentice, ⦁ Magician: Master, ⦁ Silverthorn, ⦁ A Darkness at Sethanon, ⦁ Daughter of the Empire, ⦁ Servant of the Empire, ⦁ Mistress of the Empire, ⦁ Prince of the Blood, ⦁ The King's Buccaneer, ⦁ Shadow of a Dark Queen, ⦁ Rise of a Merchant Prince, ⦁ Rage of a Demon King, ⦁ Shards of a Broken Crown, Raymond E. Feist Whew, that was a lot. Time for a break. ⦁ Titan Hoppers, ⦁ Spire Climbers, ⦁ Fleet Champions, ⦁ Black Cloaks, Rob J. Hayes ⦁ I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, Baek Sehee ⦁ Gift of the Shaper, DL Jennings (DNF) ⦁ The Dragonbone Chair, ⦁ The Stone of Farewell, ⦁ To Green Angel Tower, Tad Williams
A text excerpt from "To Green Angel Tower," by Tad Williams, featuring a SMILING MAN.
A Firefox 1.0 t-shirt, from 2004.
A die-cast model of the Cerritos from Star Trek Lower Decks.
mimics. a lot. of. mimics.
A fat black puddle of a cat, with utterly indecipherable anatomy, stares worriedly at the camera.
The sideways 29th century combadge.
A fearful, wide-eyed cat, extraordinarily black and bafflingly blob shaped, with limbs protruding at awkward, unlikely angles, gazes up in clear worry.
Four adorable little shits sitting on bales of hay, with matching head-tilts of intrigue