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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • I don’t buy a game solely because it’s the zeitgeist or whatever. A friend of mine routinely buys games that are “the new shiny” and then doesn’t finish them, or loses interest quickly. I usually wait for a sale, some patches, and/or the dlc to be bundled into a goty edition.

    Some exceptions:

    I bought elden ring near launch because I’m a big enjoyer of the genre, and my friend confirmed it was good. No regrets.

    I bought bg3 shortly before it’s full access. I’d liked the other games larian did, and a friend told me it was good. No regrets.

    Both of those were pretty light on DLC. No season pass or “goty” editions were likely.

    I’m going to wait for the dragon age game to go on sale. I don’t really trust Bioware, and I don’t know if they plan to do a bunch of dlc that will get bundled up later.

    I’ve been waiting for Lies of P to get cheap. The demo was just ok when I played it, but a friend tells me it’s phenomenal.

    Right now I’m playing a MUD (aardwolf). It really distills some online RPG into the essence of “go kill some stuff to level up, get new skills, and kill bigger stuff”. It’s strangely satisfying.





  • Bandcamp mostly. They do writeups sometimes like “the best metal from Colorado” or “a deep dive into acid jazz”. They seem to be human written too and not ai slop, at least in the past.

    Also seeing who’s playing with who. If I like band A, and band B is opening for them, well I’ll check out band B. I saw “Year of the Cobra” play with “The Well” and it was a good show, and I bought their album.



  • I live in a walkable city so I have a lot of options by just going outside on foot.

    The park. Sometimes for a walk, sometimes for a bike ride.

    Grocery store or something nearby. Get a snack or something for dinner.

    Thrift store, though that’s a bike ride or train ride.

    Library. Just browse the stacks.

    Bookstore, less often, but sometimes it’s fun to see what they have.

    Record shop, rarely, because I don’t have a record player but a few friends do, and I might see something they’d like.

    Sometimes I just walk around without a goal. See what there is to see around here.




  • HR is not likely to side with the worker over the company.

    There’s also a certain kind of “hr energy” that makes my skin crawl. Like if you worked at a company called AB Tech they’d be up front in the meeting going “I SAY A, YOU SAY B! A!” and I’m just like no, please stop, I’m not that excited to make charts for assholes.

    The hr person where I work now seems nice, at least. My old job the main hr person gave me the creeps.








  • Thinking about it, a lot of things that I flag as idiotic come from putting emotions first. We’re all emotional creatures, but idiots are ruled by them. It’s idiotic to blow your rent money on candy, but the short term emotional high for an idiot is too appealing. It’s stupid to blow up at someone instead of admitting fault, but admitting fault feels bad, so the idiot can’t take that. Reading an essay is informative, but that’s boring work and the idiot might feel bad if they don’t understand it, so they’d avoid the whole thing. If the essay doesn’t agree with their worldview, that’s going to feel terrible.