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creation’s course is mine to set

quof is off to Japan, or an oil rig, I’m not clear which. Chill Guy from GGG is subbing for him. It always impresses me when someone subs in raid and picks up all our homebrew strats on the fly from quick verbal explanations. Some things are basically the same (e.g., classical concepts—just gotta re...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Dec. 6, 2023

a dumb injury

injured myself in the dumbest possible way: I was reaching down with my left hand to lift up the toilet lid, and I somehow strained a muscle. had pain at my side, radiating up to my armpit and down the back of my arm. it calmed down after around 10-15 minutes, and is mostly fine two hours later exce...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Nov. 27, 2023

misfortune hangs heavy on the prideful

newbie set up his game to replace Athena 2’s music with Return to Oblivion, which he says has improved his quality of life considerably. “Same except for White Stone Black,” said quof. “You’re a sick, disgusting person,” said numbers. (I’m just glad people are finally appreciating White Stone Black....

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Nov. 6, 2023

battleboard

I think of myself as someone who does a lot of battling. Reinhardt started roughly 150 stats below the Rav pups, but he rose above them all (save for Rhallwyn, who used metric tons of guarana). Many of the Rav pups stuck around for this generation, and Armitage rose above them again (save for Zoey, ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 27, 2023

this misbegotten world is to blame

I don’t think I’ve mentioned quof’s cognitohazard yet. During Superchain Theory I, for the second orb, we get into light party stacks. Light debuffs go on the left, dark debuffs go on the right, except the people with the laser debuffs do the opposite (light laser goes right, dark laser goes left). ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 23, 2023

drinking on the job

They say sleepy driving is as bad as drunk driving in terms of impairment. Now imagine completing most of an important work project while drunk. 3:45 am: Project complete!! I didn’t send it in immediately because it’s gauche to be sending emails at nearly 4 am, and I always do a final proofread in t...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 19, 2023

teh sux, continued

Running off my fourth day of sleep deprivation, one might ask: If it was impacting my raid performance that severely, what’s it doing to my work performance? Well, at this point, it can’t be helped. I stayed up past 4 am last night working on my project before admitting that I had no hope of finishi...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 17, 2023

a singularly resolute soul

My favorite wipe: During reductive rhomboid, newbie was supposed to step in a tower but he stepped on Carbuncle instead. Apparently they were both glowing so he couldn’t tell the difference?? With Saturday’s Themis reclear, we are officially done with Themis forever. Unfortunately, my play against A...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 16, 2023

three cats and a stoat

I missed newbie’s Hokma suppression clear. He was streaming near midnight on Tuesday, and I figured he could potentially be there for hours, and I had better sign off and start preparing for bed. Then he cleared half an hour later and I MISSED IT nooo. Apparently he got green midnight. All my homies...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 12, 2023

Chinese fries

The term “Chinese fries” does not exist. This is mindblowing. I’ve called them “Chinese fries” all my life and it turns out my parents just made the term up. Apparently, as a small child, I was like “what’s this?” and my parents were like “Chinese fries!” because it was something an American kid wou...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 6, 2023

head honcho big boncho

Mom’s kind of a big deal now, work-wise. I already knew this, but it still feels weird. On Friday she was going to meet Dad and me for lunch, and she pulled up her scheduling spreadsheet and was like, okay, I cleared time from noon to 2 pm. A scheduling spreadsheet?? Who does that?? Then one of her ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Oct. 2, 2023

remote excursion

Visiting family this weekend. I’m taking the afternoon train down on Thursday, working remotely on Friday, and then on Saturday we drive back up and possibly my parents do some cleaning. My parents are very gung-ho about this cleaning thing. They’ve been talking about it for literally months. They k...

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Achaius (Lvl. 46) - Sept. 28, 2023

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