Let’s talk for a bit about how Peter Lukas’ attempted ritual makes no sense whatsoever.“Deceptively spacious” apartments with no rooms large enough for “a decent-sized sofa”: You know what doesn’t take up much space? A loveseat. You are encouraging people to buy loveseats.“Cooking facilities that se...
Did Arcadion normals last night! I don’t have strong thoughts on the tier yet, except for the Queen Bee fight, which took us four tries to clear (pub queue). It was actually way more fun than a straightforward clear. Our third run was super close. We were at 8.9% with only the tanks and one dps surv...
(Minor spoilers for zone 5 of Dawntrail. I don't think this one is a huge deal so I'm not doing a huge spoiler block, but here's a bit of space and text) . . The memory deletion mechanic in zone 5 is wild. It fits with one of the major themes of Dawntrail, namely, that seemingly odd local practice...
DAWNTRAIL SPOILERS IN THIS POST. Major zone 6 spoilers. You have been warned. I'm going to type a bunch of extraneous stuff so that no spoilers will show up in the preview window. I like how Koana's a machinist. I feel like I've seen more machinists in duties ever since Dawntrail came out and I like...
On office mornings I always get a Starbucks mocha frappuccino for breakfast. While in line this morning, I saw an advertisement for their new boba lemonade and decided I’d check it out later. I went to get one this afternoon. I felt awkward going to Starbucks twice in the same day, so instead I walk...
who authorized Artfight starting a few days after the release of Dawntrail?? Dawntrail early access opened last Thursday. I’ve been barreling through this expansion by my own standards, playing several hours a day, which is to say that everyone else in the static is ahead of me, even meisnewbie. I c...
One of the reasons I find BB fascinating is that he’s constantly watching and learning and making connections and pushing his own boundaries. Just in the few days I was with him, he had a bunch of tiny milestones and firsts. One of his favorite toys is a set of eight wooden carrots and a wooden bloc...
BB loves looking out the screen door to the balcony. (What does he see out there? Maybe it’s just a nice shade of green. Or maybe he sees a place he hasn’t been and wants to go there.) On Friday he kept pointing at it, and I’d pick him up and let him look outside. On Saturday, Mom opened the screen ...
On the dining table there was a library book about baby-led weaning. I read the intro out of curiosity. It’s pretty wild:Baby eats whatever the family eats. No special meals for baby.Baby is given food in “adult” form (with safety concessions like removing nuts and other possible choking hazards). B...
The trip up was uneventful. Mom’s headphones weren’t working, so she put her Zoom meeting on speakerphone and we got treated to an hour-long discussion of revenue projections for the upcoming fiscal year. Anyway, BB! He had his first birthday a couple weeks ago. He’s a pro at crawling (Mom said he s...
Ninety-one degrees as I got off the train downtown. Big oof. The pigeons outside the station were enjoying a burger and fries. Pretty sure someone feeds them at that spot every day. Too much random food there for it to be coincidence. Usually it's donuts, but one time they had an entire carton of pa...
One month before Dawntrail, it’s the triumphant return of RAID. We’re doing EXs with Tirofog (who we haven’t raided with since attempting Thordan in like 2021). oh geez how do I shoot gun. It turned out okay—muscle memory mostly took over, although it took over a bit too strongly and I was doing my ...
