Anonymous asked:

how's the ear situation bro?

It's mostly improved. I'm far past the point where the mere act of typing is inducing inner ear spasms, although they still happen in reaction to the vibrations of my freezer.

Also: you said you hurt your ears "while doing something completely innocuous". Just so we don't do the same innocuous thing, please protect your readers by telling them "kids, don't do this". What was it?

Hearing sound. Go on, protect yourself from that one.

Basically, I was exposed to what seemed like a completely reasonable level of sound, if a little high. I was aware that loud sound levels could cause hearing damage, but this situation caught me off-guard because the volume seemed innocuous, and was far from the loudest thing I've ever heard. What I didn't realize is that duration is also a major factor: from what I've read, there's no known hearing loss associated with listening to music at something like 80 dB for a short while, but if you were to stand on a loud street corner for eight-ish hours, that would wear down and start to kill the cilia in your ears. Essentially, although it wasn't "loud" loud, it was apparently, subtly, a little too loud for a little too long, and that killed off patches of cilia in an upper range of my hearing.

For hours after this, everything in my right ear sounded like it was coming out of a broken speaker. As mentioned, it left me with ear spasms every time I tried to work, plus the joys of permanent tinnitus. Unlike the way it's usually described, as "ringing", this is more of an erratic high-pitched whine, which resembles the way a CRT television sounds when you have the volume turned off—only with dozens of minor pitch changes and several little "ping, ping, ping-PING-ping, ping" sounds per second. It's basically Chinese water torture for your ears. That has also gotten somewhat easier to live with, but there was a period there where I was genuinely contemplating suicide as a potential treatment option, in true Canadian fashion.

Anonymous asked:

Do you think Lilith would still make non-gacha games? I don't see any of the current series having a sequel except Academia

I think the creative staff probably still have ideas written down for some, but it's also obvious that the gacha model has completely taken over the company. Even when they did make a couple games in recent years, it was with the normal Lilith-Soft label, which always sold well, but has a different audience from the others. And given that they can't even sell or advertise one of those games on their own site, doing anything in the Black range is probably considered too risky, even if it did make enough profit.

Anonymous asked:

cum?

I won't, and you can't make me.

Hey, whaddya know, I actually managed to put a new update on the Rentry page when I said I would.

Anonymous asked:

how are you doing old man?

The situation is becoming farcical. My father's cancer is eating his spine, so he needs a walker. My mother fractured two ribs trying to move said walker through a door. So now I'm playing full-time babysitter and nurse for both of them. And today, I was making food for them, when I chopped partway through my finger. I'm getting a little too familiar with that hospital for my liking. Nothing to worry about, though, except inasmuch as my knife now has a taste for human flesh.