Robin Marx
@robinmarx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Tokyo-based American working in the video game industry handling localization and international licensing. Occasional writer and goth/industrial music fan. Other […]
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Reposted by Robin Marx
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
My wife is trying to bully me into speaking at the elementary school career day about my “cool” game industry job. She also wants me to be visible as a “foreigner contributing to Japan” in this era of Sanseito and normalized xenophobia.
(Are any jobs really “cool”? I wouldn’t be here if I […]
(Are any jobs really “cool”? I wouldn’t be here if I […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My wife is trying to bully me into speaking at the elementary school career day about my “cool” game industry job. She also wants me to be visible as a “foreigner contributing to Japan” in this era of Sanseito and normalized xenophobia.
(Are any jobs really “cool”? I wouldn’t be here if I […]
(Are any jobs really “cool”? I wouldn’t be here if I […]
I got the The Archer archetype!
https://mastodon.social/@RobinMarx/wrapstodon/2025/4ece11c6b11b09f4
#wrapstodon2025
https://mastodon.social/@RobinMarx/wrapstodon/2025/4ece11c6b11b09f4
#wrapstodon2025
Wrapstodon 2025 for Robin Marx
See how Robin Marx used Mastodon this year!
mastodon.social
December 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I got the The Archer archetype!
https://mastodon.social/@RobinMarx/wrapstodon/2025/4ece11c6b11b09f4
#wrapstodon2025
https://mastodon.social/@RobinMarx/wrapstodon/2025/4ece11c6b11b09f4
#wrapstodon2025
Reposted by Robin Marx
Police in Nagareyama, Chiba, arranged for ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman to address pupils at a junior high school about cross-cultural exchange. That's not a sentence a younger me would have expected to write. www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/455803
「来日する外国人の99.9％は怖くない」 マーティ・フリードマンさんが中学生に伝えた異文化交流の大切さ：東京新聞デジタル
ヘビーメタルバンド「メガデス」の全盛期を支えたギタリストで、現在、日本を拠点に活動する米国出身のマーティ・フリードマンさん（63）が1...
www.tokyo-np.co.jp
December 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Police in Nagareyama, Chiba, arranged for ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman to address pupils at a junior high school about cross-cultural exchange. That's not a sentence a younger me would have expected to write. www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/455803
[Alcohol]
A new addition to the grocery store’s beer shelf: Kamakura Route 134 Beer. A “bitter/delicious IPA.”
It’s decent, but like a lot of Japanese IPAs it’s not as aggressively hoppy as is the trend on the West Coast of the US.
#beer
A new addition to the grocery store’s beer shelf: Kamakura Route 134 Beer. A “bitter/delicious IPA.”
It’s decent, but like a lot of Japanese IPAs it’s not as aggressively hoppy as is the trend on the West Coast of the US.
#beer
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
[Alcohol]
A new addition to the grocery store’s beer shelf: Kamakura Route 134 Beer. A “bitter/delicious IPA.”
It’s decent, but like a lot of Japanese IPAs it’s not as aggressively hoppy as is the trend on the West Coast of the US.
#beer
A new addition to the grocery store’s beer shelf: Kamakura Route 134 Beer. A “bitter/delicious IPA.”
It’s decent, but like a lot of Japanese IPAs it’s not as aggressively hoppy as is the trend on the West Coast of the US.
#beer
Reposted by Robin Marx
if any of these guys died on a friday, their replacement would be at their old desk by monday
December 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
if any of these guys died on a friday, their replacement would be at their old desk by monday
December 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
[Loss of a child]
Today marks six months since the death of my ten-year-old daughter.
I took the money I would’ve spent on her Christmas presents and donated it to the Yokohama Children’s Hospice Project.
Medical research foundations are great, but supporting organizations that help incurable […]
Today marks six months since the death of my ten-year-old daughter.
I took the money I would’ve spent on her Christmas presents and donated it to the Yokohama Children’s Hospice Project.
Medical research foundations are great, but supporting organizations that help incurable […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
[Loss of a child]
Today marks six months since the death of my ten-year-old daughter.
I took the money I would’ve spent on her Christmas presents and donated it to the Yokohama Children’s Hospice Project.
Medical research foundations are great, but supporting organizations that help incurable […]
Today marks six months since the death of my ten-year-old daughter.
I took the money I would’ve spent on her Christmas presents and donated it to the Yokohama Children’s Hospice Project.
Medical research foundations are great, but supporting organizations that help incurable […]
Reposted by Robin Marx
EMAIL WRAPPED 2025
This year, you received too fucking much email!
Number of emails that found you well: zero
Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero
Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]
This year, you received too fucking much email!
Number of emails that found you well: zero
Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero
Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]
Original post on discuss.systems
discuss.systems
December 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
EMAIL WRAPPED 2025
This year, you received too fucking much email!
Number of emails that found you well: zero
Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero
Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]
This year, you received too fucking much email!
Number of emails that found you well: zero
Number of emails that you printed, even though you didn't consider the environment: zero
Number of times an "out of office" autoresponder was immediately followed by the person […]
Felt that quake… Aomori?
December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Felt that quake… Aomori?
As of today, my wife and I have been married for 18 years. And we started dating in summer 2000. I still kinda like her.
December 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
As of today, my wife and I have been married for 18 years. And we started dating in summer 2000. I still kinda like her.
Reposted by Robin Marx
LB: Issues #5-7 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine are now available! I have a book review in issue #6!
https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/new-edge-sword-sorcery-issue-6-digital/
#bookstodon #bookreview #swordandsorcery
https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/new-edge-sword-sorcery-issue-6-digital/
#bookstodon #bookreview #swordandsorcery
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Issue #6 (Digital) – New Edge Sword & Sorcery
newedgeswordandsorcery.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
LB: Issues #5-7 of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine are now available! I have a book review in issue #6!
https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/new-edge-sword-sorcery-issue-6-digital/
#bookstodon #bookreview #swordandsorcery
https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/new-edge-sword-sorcery-issue-6-digital/
#bookstodon #bookreview #swordandsorcery
Reposted by Robin Marx
⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙♀️
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙♀️
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩
Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats
Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Pretty much. No guarantee next year will be any better, too.
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Pretty much. No guarantee next year will be any better, too.
They don't do any annual retrospective, but in terms of #bandcamp stuff, my most listened to stuff was Magnum Innominandum (barber beats/vaporwave/plunderphonics; this shit absolutely rocks), Caspro (chill synth), Mortiis (mainly his early dark dungeon music), Quest Master (dungeon synth), and […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
They don't do any annual retrospective, but in terms of #bandcamp stuff, my most listened to stuff was Magnum Innominandum (barber beats/vaporwave/plunderphonics; this shit absolutely rocks), Caspro (chill synth), Mortiis (mainly his early dark dungeon music), Quest Master (dungeon synth), and […]
Top albums of 2025:
- Yawning Balch: Volume Three (I just need to buy their shit, it's good stuff)
- Castle Rat: The Bestiary
- The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World
- Emil Rottmayer: Deflection
- Emil Rottmayer: Descend
- Plaindrifter: Echo Therapy
- Bonobo: Migration
- Acid Mammoth (self-titled)
- […]
- Yawning Balch: Volume Three (I just need to buy their shit, it's good stuff)
- Castle Rat: The Bestiary
- The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World
- Emil Rottmayer: Deflection
- Emil Rottmayer: Descend
- Plaindrifter: Echo Therapy
- Bonobo: Migration
- Acid Mammoth (self-titled)
- […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Top albums of 2025:
- Yawning Balch: Volume Three (I just need to buy their shit, it's good stuff)
- Castle Rat: The Bestiary
- The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World
- Emil Rottmayer: Deflection
- Emil Rottmayer: Descend
- Plaindrifter: Echo Therapy
- Bonobo: Migration
- Acid Mammoth (self-titled)
- […]
- Yawning Balch: Volume Three (I just need to buy their shit, it's good stuff)
- Castle Rat: The Bestiary
- The Cure: Mixes of a Lost World
- Emil Rottmayer: Deflection
- Emil Rottmayer: Descend
- Plaindrifter: Echo Therapy
- Bonobo: Migration
- Acid Mammoth (self-titled)
- […]
My top artists according to Apple Music Replay 2025:
- Emil Rottmayer (chill synth)
- Yawning Balch (desert rock/stoner metal)
- Black Sabbath (classic metal)
- Acid Mammoth (doom metal)
- Castle Rat (doom)
- The Cure (no intro necessary)
- High on Fire (honorary stoner because Matt Pike was in […]
- Emil Rottmayer (chill synth)
- Yawning Balch (desert rock/stoner metal)
- Black Sabbath (classic metal)
- Acid Mammoth (doom metal)
- Castle Rat (doom)
- The Cure (no intro necessary)
- High on Fire (honorary stoner because Matt Pike was in […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My top artists according to Apple Music Replay 2025:
- Emil Rottmayer (chill synth)
- Yawning Balch (desert rock/stoner metal)
- Black Sabbath (classic metal)
- Acid Mammoth (doom metal)
- Castle Rat (doom)
- The Cure (no intro necessary)
- High on Fire (honorary stoner because Matt Pike was in […]
- Emil Rottmayer (chill synth)
- Yawning Balch (desert rock/stoner metal)
- Black Sabbath (classic metal)
- Acid Mammoth (doom metal)
- Castle Rat (doom)
- The Cure (no intro necessary)
- High on Fire (honorary stoner because Matt Pike was in […]
Happy Thanksgiving to US folks!
In the office as usual, and we’ll be doing the big meal on Sunday. But I’ve got the Mystery Science 3000 Turkey Day Marathon on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJ7_QI4aAk
#mst3k
In the office as usual, and we’ll be doing the big meal on Sunday. But I’ve got the Mystery Science 3000 Turkey Day Marathon on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJ7_QI4aAk
#mst3k
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to US folks!
In the office as usual, and we’ll be doing the big meal on Sunday. But I’ve got the Mystery Science 3000 Turkey Day Marathon on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJ7_QI4aAk
#mst3k
In the office as usual, and we’ll be doing the big meal on Sunday. But I’ve got the Mystery Science 3000 Turkey Day Marathon on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZJ7_QI4aAk
#mst3k
My 13-year-old daughter has added a new technique to the irritation toolbox: the dismissive thumbs-up.
Example usage:
“Dinner is ready, come to the table.”
Dismissive thumbs-up while refusing to look up from her phone. Doesn’t budge an inch otherwise.
👍
Example usage:
“Dinner is ready, come to the table.”
Dismissive thumbs-up while refusing to look up from her phone. Doesn’t budge an inch otherwise.
👍
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
My 13-year-old daughter has added a new technique to the irritation toolbox: the dismissive thumbs-up.
Example usage:
“Dinner is ready, come to the table.”
Dismissive thumbs-up while refusing to look up from her phone. Doesn’t budge an inch otherwise.
👍
Example usage:
“Dinner is ready, come to the table.”
Dismissive thumbs-up while refusing to look up from her phone. Doesn’t budge an inch otherwise.
👍
Reposted by Robin Marx
#Mosstodon comes to the ISS and the CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/space-moss-9.6984791 #cancon #iss
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
#Mosstodon comes to the ISS and the CBC https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/space-moss-9.6984791 #cancon #iss
Trying desperately to ward off sleepiness with some morning RevCo.
Shout out to the “backup dancer” who is falling out of her shirt and is visibly high as a kite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhtYwjRFvE
#industrialmusic
Shout out to the “backup dancer” who is falling out of her shirt and is visibly high as a kite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhtYwjRFvE
#industrialmusic
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Trying desperately to ward off sleepiness with some morning RevCo.
Shout out to the “backup dancer” who is falling out of her shirt and is visibly high as a kite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhtYwjRFvE
#industrialmusic
Shout out to the “backup dancer” who is falling out of her shirt and is visibly high as a kite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhtYwjRFvE
#industrialmusic
Goth song of the day. (I don’t always share one, but you betta believe there’s a goth song for every day.)
It’s about literal vampires, but the lyrics are pretty applicable to politicians as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wNL85rGr0
#gothic #darkwave
It’s about literal vampires, but the lyrics are pretty applicable to politicians as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wNL85rGr0
#gothic #darkwave
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Goth song of the day. (I don’t always share one, but you betta believe there’s a goth song for every day.)
It’s about literal vampires, but the lyrics are pretty applicable to politicians as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wNL85rGr0
#gothic #darkwave
It’s about literal vampires, but the lyrics are pretty applicable to politicians as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2wNL85rGr0
#gothic #darkwave