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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Little of both.

    He’s got a healthy love for video games, and there’s certainly plenty of overlap in favorite titles (Celeste, Mario Odyssey, Pokemon, Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Link’s Awakening). But there’s also games he enjoys that I don’t (Bloons TD, Gemcraft, Mario + Rabbids, Mario Maker) and games I enjoy that he doesn’t (Hollow Knight, Breath of the Wild, Factorio, Satisfactory).

    We also watch a handful of different animes/cartoons/shows together (with some episodes or scenes excepted). We’ve done Avatar: The Last Airbender, Futurama, Sword Art Online, Death Note, Animaniacs, and we’re currently working through The Owl House and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

    On top of that, he’s got hobbies I’m not into. He loves drawing and takes Karate classes. We play D&D together as a family, but it’s not really my thing otherwise. As it happens, these are all interests he shares with his mother.


  • On the topic of exploration, world design, story… basically everything except combat, it’s fantastic. Everything Elden Ring is, but better. Which is par for the course for FromSoft DLC.

    On the topic of combat (boss combat in particular) it’s also everything Elden Ring is, but intensified. Which is rather disappointing for me, they’ve amplified some of the worst aspects of Elden Ring’s combat: the speed, the combo chaining, the utter lack of response windows… I can’t tell if they’re trying to cater to hitless runners, or they’re trying to start an arms race with hitless runners. Either way, I’m already seeing some long time FromSoft fans, end even Elden Ring fans, feeling alienated. People who don’t have the skill or can’t invest the time to learn to play like a hitless runner. A minority of them, for sure, but it’s a trend I hope gets rectified in the future.

    The difficulty scaling mechanic is definitely interesting, I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. There was one very valid point someone else made that it makes the combat and boss fights feel somewhat pointless, since the runes you earn don’t actually help you in DLC-land. I wonder if just make a whole separate type of “shadow runes” specific to the Realm of Shadow would have been a better choice.



  • Not that there’s anything I’m seeing wrong in the pic, but since you’re asking…

    Never walk away while cooking them. They’ll burn REAL quick.

    Try heating a little bit of oil in the pan, before plopping in each quesadilla. The tortillas get a nice crispy fried texture. I can take it or leave it, but my wife insists on them that way.

    I tend to cover the pan while cooking, to make sure there’s enough heat to get everything inside thoroughly melted.

    Let them cool, ideally on a wire rack, for a minute or two before cutting, otherwise you can squish all the innards out.









  • Shit shit shit, I just remembered I haven’t attended English class all semester.

    Shit shit shit, I can’t remember my locker combination, and I can’t find the orientation sheet that has it, also I can’t find my class schedule, I have no idea what class I’m supposed to be in right now.

    Plus a few other variations. All High School. I dunno why the focus on High School, I’m 34. I get one of these once or twice a month.