Recently, a Japanese account "Shiten Akiyama" is getting buzz for reaching out to, and getting positive response from, international fans for his manga who are willing to support him out-of-band:

https://x.com/shiten_room/status/2045819701511758010

Apparently he uploaded translations of his own manga to MangaDex before his publisher forced him to take it down. He posted that the sales of his book weren't great, but he supported overseas fans who wanted to read his work, and only asked them they throw some money into his Ko-Fi account if they couldn't buy it legally.

As a result, he now has almost a million yen in donations from the Ko-Fi, and the goodwill of a lot of overseas manga readers.

Part of me is suspicious that such a perfect example has fallen into our lap right in the middle of the whole Japan/copyright spat, but maybe he and his people were waiting for just this opportunity to make the same point I always wanted to make.

In either case, there's now a very solid counterargument to the "foreigners just want to steal our mangos" cope. I'm going to follow this gentleman's career with great interest.

I picked up "Idols of Ash" on Steam for next to nothing, but holy shit this is a good game. Incredibly simple premise, incredibly fun and challenging to play:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4450800/Idols_of_Ash/

Imagine spelunking from the surface to the bottom of an impossibly deep pit, but something is hunting you all the way down. I've only played it for like 30 minutes but it's great.

"Saturday Night Stealth: The Dark Mod FM, A Collector's Errand - the VOD!" is now available on Odysee:

https://odysee.com/@PeerTubeVODs:4/darkmod_collector_vod:d

I was so enthralled by the last episode of METH ORCS (and the new ending song for it) that I decided to create a whole new loading video for the Daggerfall streams:

https://peertube.anon-kenkai.com/w/2CS9enBRd8WQxenQNBKQMt

"Fuddruckers" is a weird restaurant name, but if I'd named it, it'd be called "Frederico Fumpernikels Fantastical Foodnasium"

Saturday Night Stealth: The Dark Mod FM, "A Collector's Errand"

Saturday Night Stealth is back, with The Dark Mod v2.14 and a new Fan Mission. This time, thieves are already robbing the manor... and we need to get ahead of them and steal the valuable painting before they get their hands on it.

Saturday Night Stealth: The Dark Mod FM, "A Collector's Errand" is this Saturday, April 18th, only on PeerTube

WHEN: https://time.is/0830PM_18_Apr_2026_in_JST

WHERE: https://peertube.anon-kenkai.com/w/fw3FVDxM8VYZsUTMBSJsJv

Man, the whole Japan vs the West Copyright Argument is still going strong. This is like the mirror universe inversion of the online BBQ Party.

"Let's Play: Daggerfall Unity, starring Treshtog the Skooma Orc [Part 2] - the VOD!" is now available on Odysee:

https://odysee.com/@PeerTubeVODs:4/daggerfall_vod2:5

New Treshtog Theme Song dropped:

https://sexualobster.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-racist-but-i-like-killing-elves