Alchemist

@alchemist64

A black geek who likes anime, manga/manhwa/manhua, video games, visual novels, reading, occasionally writing. He/Him. Bi.

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Alchemist@alchemist64· 23d

A really minor point in the reaction to this reveal, I really like how Togashi does the layout here.

Panel 1: Gon overlooking a cliff on Whale Island, toward the sea he is followed by a smaller girl.

Panel 2: Killua and Alluka walking together in a crowded city. Alluka is yapping. Killua is smiling at his sister.

Behind the panels, below Panel 1: Kurapika is looking resolute to the left, drawing the reader's eyes toward Gon and Killua.

Behind the panels, below Panel 2: Oito is looking to the right, apprehensive, right before she gives Kurapika the information.

Alchemist@alchemist64· 23d

#hunterxhunter #chapter414 #spoilers The killing really taken off and there's some important revelations this chapter, but I'm still thinking about how really sweet this page is 🥹.

Panel 1: Kurapika kneeling in front of Oito holding her sister's baby.
Kurapika: "I promise...I have friends I can trust more than myself! I swear on my life."

Panel 2: close-up of Kurapika.
Kurapika: "They will..."

Panel 3: close-up of Oito
Kurapika: "...Protect the Prince!"

Alchemist@alchemist64· 29d

"Verify your age"

Screenshot of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet

Alchemist@alchemist64· Jun 25

Thanos is staring at a pot. The image caption in big yellow letters reads, "WHAT WAS HE COOKING?"

Alchemist@alchemist64· Jun 20

Pictured: Garnet putting a hand on Steven's shoulder.

Garnet: "I Think We're Gonna Have To Kill This Guy, Steven."
Steven: "Damn."

Alchemist@alchemist64· Jun 17

Mostly tried to keep the list to the the more obscure games I've played (or watched in the case of KSAB). There are a couple more known ones on there as spot fillers that I just don't see played much today.

9 Steam Games I Want to Spread

Marfusha: Sentinel Girls
Reverse Collapse: Codename Bakery
Star Traders: Frontiers
Tales of Maj'Eyal
Your Only Move Is Hustle
Twilight Struggle
Kinki Spiritual Affairs Bureau
Into the Breach
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

Alchemist@alchemist64· Jun 16

lol

Amazingly, Richard Nixon, the most nefarious American political personality of the 1970s, appears to be making a comeback, at least online. It's being called Nixonmaxxing, and it involves a series of slickly edited social media videos that cut archival Nixon footage to rap tracks and turn the 37th president into the sort of stone-cold, sigma male-style antihero that Gen Z bros can't get enough of these days.

As it turns out, the videos are the work of the Richard Nixon Foundation, a Yorba Linda, California-based nonprofit founded in 1983 - by Nixon himself - that has long been dedicated to protecting Tricky Dick's public image. Which they've now apparently decided should look something like Walton Goggins in a Tarantino pic.

Alchemist@alchemist64· May 24

Kuuko Karahari from Kamisama Dolls

Panel 1
Close up of a gun
Kuuko: Hey!

Panel 2
Kuuko Karahari holding a gun while standing over a tied up, half-naked Aki Kuga.
Kuuko: Today that only exists because of what happened yesterday! Tomorrow that only follows on from today! It's so boring!

Panel 3
Close of up Kuuko's face
Kuuko: I'd like something more messed up!

Alchemist@alchemist64· May 14

Wesley Snipes crying while holding a gun

Alchemist@alchemist64· May 8

This is literally what the writer says if you read the post all the way through

Why the Misreadings Happened

So far, this has read as a defense of Blades against careless critics. But the hosts aren’t reading it carelessly. They’re reading it carefully, and they’re still landing in the same place that a lot of both casual and careful readers land. That recurrence deserves explanation, and the explanation isn’t flattering to the book. Blades is genuinely hard to extract the right play model from a cover-to-cover read. This arises from three presentational problems: the rules are organized in a way that muddies their fiction-first intent, the rules text itself comes across as highly procedural, and the play loop is presented as a fixed sequence.6

Let’s start with the organization. The first 160 pages — which all three hosts agree are very strong — front-loads mechanical apparatus: action ratings, position and effect, stress, trauma, harm, resistance, Devil’s Bargains, flashbacks, playbooks, downtime, load. It’s easy to see this as the real meat and potatoes of the game. It’s a very common way to organize TTRPGs, and for good reason, since often players and GMs need that baseline to understand later material. It’s just in Blades’ case, the mechanics in play are nested within the player and GM principles (which comprise the following 55 pages). A reader with trad instincts opens the book, sees a mechanical chassis up front, and naturally reads the later chapters as flavor commentary. When seeing the chapter titled

Alchemist@alchemist64· May 6

This is the funniest way to retroactively ruin the praised decision to *not* show the backstory this time around.

"Spider-Man was one of my favorite characters growing up, If not my favorite," Joe Russo said in an exclusive interview with CBR's Sean O'Connell. "And what I related to was this idea of a kid with incredible responsibility, right? And I think you could manifest that
responsibility through accidental death, right? And feeling the pressure, and the sense of loss in your life in a way that would keep the spirit that we wanted.
Russo continued: "[But] what Tom Holland is as an actor, if he blamed himself for his Uncle Ben's death, I think he becomes a very different character. So in our minds, no, he wasn't responsible for Uncle Ben's death. That would have been a different interpretation. A more intense interpretation of the character."

Alchemist@alchemist64· Apr 23

Mr. Bedtime @InternetHippo
New right wing thing is describing crimes as generically as possible to pretend like they're not crimes. Someone gets convicted of conspiracy and they start yelling "Wow so it's illegal to make plans with friends now"

Alchemist@alchemist64· Apr 20

Mambo #5 [Server tag: DORK] 11:39 AM
They aren't allowed to make costumes anymore that aren't the equivalent of $10 sexy Halloween costume at spirit Halloween

Alchemist@alchemist64· Apr 18

Opening the Steam client for #GirlsFrontline, a game I haven't played since apparently 2021, and trying to recollect wtf I was doing with my echelons again.

Echelon 1
Combat Effectiveness: 51142
Night Battle: 30190

M4A1 Mod III (5-star)
AR
DL x5
Max Bond
HP 565/565
CE: 10113

IWS 2000 (5-star)
RF
DL x5
Max Bond
HP 440/440
CE: 8390

M950A Mod II (6-star)
HG
DL x5
Max Bond
HP 400/400
CE: 5112

Gr Mk23 (4-star)
HG
DL x5
Max Bond
HP 400/400
CE: 4208

Stetchkin Mod I (5-star)
HG
DL x5
Max Bond
HP 420/420
CE: 4574

Taunt Fairy (4-star)
Lvl. 88
Critical I

Other than the fairy, I think I got this formation from the now defunct dead link Gamepress Wiki for GFL.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 29

Lol prediction #4 came true

Alchemist
12/17/25, 6:46 PM
D) even if the first season is somehow successful, we're on Modern Streaming Show Production Time, so it'll probably take like 3 years before a season 2 comes out, which introduces multiple potential pitfalls here (I.e. kid actors aging faster than their characters like with Stranger Things, some scandal causing a cast change in between seasons, etc.)

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 20

This is one of the funniest NPC blocks I've ever read

CLOSET FASCIST (2 HP)
- Civilian clothing (0 ARMOR)
- Propaganda pamphlet (reduces dogwhistle-effect CHOKE score to 5, one use)
- Ontologically evil
DOGWHISTLE: The closet fascist is a curious beast. They don't wear armbands and jackboots, they say they mean no harm, they claim to
be “just asking questions." When this enemy is present (and begins asking questions), all characters that a) aren't obviously anti-fascist,
or b) haven't been thoroughly vetted as antifascist gain a new CHOKE score, “CHOKE 6: Humor the fascist." Upon choking, the NPC transforms into another “closet fascist" enemy, but retains any previous items and abilties.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 20

Hot take but I think this says more about your taste in games and curation then it does about games in general.

*I don't know shit about Crimson Desert, but it seems very much like a videogame. It's soulless and gluttonous, so I hear, but can we tell the truth? So are most games.* Even our darling Pokopia is a bit of a time-waster. Sure, its 25–30-hour campaign is pleasurably paced and dapper in its dressing, but at the end of the day, it too employs events and daily goals meant to keep us on that most familiar of gaming experiences: the treadmill. You get on for a certain amount of time, do as much work as you feel like doing, and then you get off. I'm a guy who likes treadmills, so this isn't necessarily an insult. It's honesty.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 16

An upset Soyjack wears a blue and gold ribbon that says, "Fell For It Again Award."

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 12

It's a 2d12 table, but...

Play goes clockwise. On your turn, *roll a d12 and a
d20* and consult the Things 5E Players Love
table. The result you roll is something that people
can do in your game.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 10

Demi Lovato under the user handle "ddlovato":
GET A JOB
STAY AWAY FROM HER

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 10

I...don't like Soppo's redesign for #GirlsFrontline2. She's had horny alts before, but this design being the default skin feels OOC.

Soppo
On the right is a girl (T-Doll) with a red streak in her hair. She is a wearing a wolf mask on her neck, black bra and a black jacket mostly opened, with the zipper around her crotch, over a red skirt. She is holding a large gun and a gas canister.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 5

My 3x3 my9games.com/s/ec9de23aa3...

From left to right, top to bottom: Slay the Spire, RimWorld, Stellaris, The Last Federation, I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Civilization V, Marfusha: Sentinel Girls, Dwarf Fortress, Tsukihime

Alchemist@alchemist64· Mar 2

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Slay the Spire
The Defect stands with 7 HP and 34 Block. It has 1 darkness orb and 16/22 and 2 electric orbs at 13 passive damage each. To the right is the Corrupt Heart, the final boss, about to do a 5x15 attack. However, it only has 14 HP left. It will die upon clicking End Turn.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Feb 25

Alchemist@alchemist64· Feb 21

Endless Space 2 doesn't seem to have a system to set up rally points like other space 4x games so you gotta manually finagle all those fleets of ships you just built to the staging point.

Football coach Jose Mourinho in focus, ripping off his headset in disgust.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Feb 21

#FateStayNightRemastered "Shirou Emiya is fully aware Taiga's grandfather is yakuza and reconciles this with his hero ideals by compartmentalizing it" is one of those little details along with his part-time job that never make it into adaptations due to excising anything not plot-relevant.

Though to be honest, I don't have any administrative abilities.
So things like inheritance, property taxes, and any other complicated things are all handled by Old Man Fujimura.
Old Man Fujimura is a major businessman who lives nearby. Kiritsugu described Old Man Fujimura as an old man who's "like a yakuza boss."
Obviously, that was his own biased view.
In fact, Old Man Fujimura is not *like* a yakuza boss, he *is* a yakuza boss.
...
That may be a problem in itself, but I try not to dwell on it.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Feb 18

#HunterxHunter re-read, these two panels from Heaven's Arena are extremely hilarious in hindsight of the current ongoing Succession War arc

Wing, a man with black hair glasses, says, "Through Nen, a piece of paper can become a *blade*. Your body can fend off *harm* as if clad in *steel armor*."

Wing, a man with black hair glasses, says, "With application and effort, anyone *can* learn Nen. That's why care must be taken in choosing who *shall* learn."

Alchemist@alchemist64· Feb 17

Absolutely hilarious that the AI fucked up well-known images from a very famous git branching model and no one caught it.

A graph of the famous Gitflow branching model. The y-axis is Time. The master branch is the rightmost line, which only contains tagged nodes. The develop branch to its left is where the main development happens. Feature, release, and hotfix branches split off and merge with these branches, shown via arrows.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Feb 8

LRPs: I've been re-reading the fate/stay-night VN, and I forgot how much stuff is set up in the prologue. Like they mention Reality Marbles really early in.

"Servants are spirits first. Our very existence is similar to grudges or obsessions. That makes us sensitive to lingering emotions such as these. There were other areas around town that felt dense with such a feeling, but this is on a different level. From our point of view, it's almost like a Reality Marble."
Tohsaka mutters under her breath.
Archer's inflectionless voice mentions an unusual bit of
magical jargon:
Innate Bounded Fields. Mages call them Reality Marbles. Reality Marbles are considered one of the apexes of magecraft. They're said to be infinitely close to True Magic.

Bounded Fields are conventionally erected on a piece of land
or a building to guard against outside threats.
They're merely an alteration of an area that already exists.
Reality Marbles, however, are something else entirely.
You can think of them as a space that consumes reality itself.
When a mage materializes their imaginary - a representation of their mind - and overwrites the real world with it, we call the resulting field a Reality Marble.
It's a large-area magecraft that twists - no, rebuilds the
world according to a mage's wishes.

Alchemist@alchemist64· Feb 6

Me every time playboy red-haired student council prez flirts with Utena: