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26 May, 2025

• My team at work published our last few months of research tracing the thoughts of an LLM. I helped make a lot of pretty diagrams, like the one explaining how Claude adds two two-digit numbers according to our analysis, which is notably different from how it claims to have added them if you ask it. For better or worse I don't write a lot about work on personal channels because I feel like everything I have to say is already out there. But sometimes I forget that making these interactive diagrams might well be my dream job and I should bask in it a little.
• Blue Prince came out. There was so much hype in my circles that I was a bit apprehensive I'd be let down by the actual game, but I bought it on launch and it sunk its teeth into me; I scuppered a bunch of my other plans to play it 4–5 hours a day for a week or two, and am now on, what, hour 140? "Puzzle roguelike" is an absurd-sounding combination, but they pulled it off, and the game just keeps going! The puzzles did eventually become so hard/obscure that I regularly begged others who were ahead of me for hints, an option I would recommend having available. Another bit of advice I wish I had is that several of the puzzles don't operate under the puzzlehunt conventions I'm used to, where I expect the solve path to "use all the information"; some puzzles are solved by correctly identifying the little bit of information that's relevant and discarding the rest.
• The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy came out. This is the brainchild of Kodaka (best known for Danganronpa) and Uchikoshi (best known for Zero Escape). So far I see they've kept all the parts of Danganronpa (the cast of wacky high school students, the art style and music) except for the murder mystery conceit. 20 hours in, I'm afraid this game is also very long.
• Monster Train 2 came out. I haven't even started this, but I enjoyed the original Monster Train a lot and the reviews look good.
• Oh jeez when are Deltarune chapters 3 and 4 coming out? There ain't no rest for the wicked.
• I was (am still) doing the new FFXIV savage raids. I chose not to raid in a static¹ this time, which I think was definitely the right choice, enabling me to, for example, scupper my plans and play Blue Prince for 4–5 hours a day for a week or two.
• I finished some improv classes and started some singing classes. I don't know if this even counts, it's less time-consuming than everything else going on.
• I traveled to Atlanta earlier this month (hmm, I wonder why) and then I got a sore throat that knocked me out for a solid week and a half.
• At some point when I slip out of the groove of blogging, it becomes a vicious cycle because I forget what it feels like to post a bad post and be okay with it. What is even the point of this post? If nothing else, lowering my standards to get back into the groove. While in Atlanta I happened to be at a karaoke bar and signed up with one of my go-tos, "Another Day of Sun"; but the guy who sang before me was way, way too good and I definitely sang worse as a result. So. It's like that.