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Maki (Aya's sister's friend from episode 3) take Miki on a road trip and they discuss her personal growth.
The vice-chair of the student council turns down the suggestion for a board game cafe, but the chair comes by to see what it's all about.
Ono has been working on her game for a while, but is it really ready? After an encounter with a professional, she pushes to finish it and gets the other girls to help her playtest.
It still needs a lot of work. But it's exactly feedback from others that helps a designer succeed.
Remember when people thought Neoreaction was going to go big?
A whole lot of monarchists out there, huh?
It's becoming clear that I don't want a Unix system. I want a little pocket of Unix for my development envisioned, and a system I don't have to fuck with outside of that.
On Mac, I use homebrew for my dev tools. On Windows, I use Git, which installs a suite of shell utilities.
You are experimented on by a mad scientist who installs a new erogenous zone without your consent. You later escape.
Do you want your partner to touch you there during foreplay?
Oh man, you ever see an XSU fan attribute a property to XA&M fans using almost exactly the same language the XA&M fans use to attribute that property to the XSU fans?
It is, of course, mandatory to have a beach episode. And no one takes board games to the beach. But at the hotel the girls find a rare Goita set, and get a chance to play this local game.
Which is fine. It's better to back up than to not back up, and Time Machine made a lot of people do that.
But I'm gonna look for something better for the future. Something cross platform, that backs up to plain files.
And Apple's been layering stuff on top of it.
There are special ACLs and System Integrity Protection things that prevent you from manipulating the backups in any useful way.
So it's just a proprietary backup system with a nice UI now.
And APFS doesn't support directory hard links either, so if your drive is APFS formatted, you back up to an image as well!
So we've gone from just files to a special unique image file.
And people get burned by this: if the image file gets corrupted, you lose the entire backup.
It was a trick at the beginning, of course, because it relied on an unusual feature that was only available on HFS+ filesystems: directory hard links.
But if you back up to a network drive, you're really backing up to a file system image with an HFS+ filesystem inside it.
So let's talk about the devolution of Time Machine.
Time machine is great as a no-decisions system backup with a nice UI. That's always been its strength.
But early on, Time Machine promised that its storage was just files, and this is getting less and less true over time.
So it finally completed and I'm now backing up to my network drive.
I used to believe that public school was about babysitting children so their parents could work.
But now, having seen how they handled COVID, it's become clear that public schools are about distributing food to poor people.
But the vice-chair thinks games aren't important at all. She'll convince Ono one way or the other!
Well then how about a little wager. We'll play a game of 6 Nimmt, and the loser has to obey the winner in this.
(Ono wins, of course.)
The Vice-chair of the student council wants Ono to help her organize for the upcoming festival. Can't she just quit her job?
No way. This job is the first step towards Ono's dream of becoming a published game author.
Miki has a history of being bullied. When Aya's sisters's friend joins them for a game of Incan Gold, that history comes out.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15512/diamant
Can you learn to be brave by pressing your luck? Does the support of your friends give you courage?
But Aya is bad at bluffing and at reading people. She's certain that Tanoue has his heart set on Ono due to their status as childhood frenemies.
Love is not likely to bloom here.
Shouta Tanoue, Aya's seat-neighbor in class is in love with her, but hasn't managed to get a chance to tell her yet. When he tries to catch her after class he gets roped into a game of Cockroach Poker. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11971/cockroach-poker
Miki figures out what's going on immediately.
