HGR's latest game (also bankrolled by newbie) is Rabi-Ribi, a danmaku metroidvania with bunnygirls. HGR naturally took it upon himself to sequence break the game as much as possible. He ignored plot objectives to explore new areas and fight bosses for which he was massively underleveled. He used coo...
The flow of time has gotten weird. March lasted forever. April lasted, like, two days. But it was a good two days. WHOA I won the habitica challenge for taking a walk every day in March sunlight on the balcony! ALL HAIL my parents for offering to come up and bring me groceries this weekend (their c...
Meanwhile, at Mom and Dad's house, a pair of geese made a nest in the yard along the water's edge. One goose sits on the nest while the other patrols. Dad's been hungrily eyeing that nest for the past week. Last Thursday, he got his opening. "I was mowing this afternoon," he announced. "As you kno...
Today's exciting mission: CURBSIDE GROCERY DELIVERY Amazon Fresh doesn't deliver in our area, but Wal-Mart does. I placed my order last Friday morning (the 24th); today was the first available delivery time. Everything seemed in high demand. Several items sold out before I could check out. Most ha...
RE4 highlight of the day: HGR saying "I am a QTE god" with newbie laughing maniacally in the background This was the fight against Verdugo, who is a gimmicklord among gimmicklords. His main gimmick is that he has super armor, but there are liquid nitrogen canisters that you can tip onto him and te...
[12:37 PM] GANON1025: The ascians practice good social distancing, they’re often not even on the same star at the same time. And when they do have to meet, it’s on the moon away from the public "Debate me, Hades!" shouted newbie. "Yeah!" said Kan. "Debate me, coward!!" It's time for the true f...
Friday morning, HGR sent out the call for raid. Seven of us quickly checked in as being available both Saturday and Sunday. No response from Silver. When he still hadn't responded by Saturday morning, I figured it was off for the day. The odds of him waking up before 1 pm AND checking Discord AND de...
Apex Legends is all the rage these days. It's basically a reskinned PUBG, but with a few perks. First, it doesn't look absurdly ugly. Second, you can play as an edgelord skeleton (HGR shelled out a ton of legend tokens to unlock the edgelord skeleton). Third, there are ziplines. HGR to newbie: "Wh...
Last week I decided to bust out the Ghirardelli raspberry-filled chocolates that I found in the cabinet next to the laksa. Same stratum, probably around the same age. They have not kept quite as well, despite being billed on the package as "Moments of Timeless Pleasure," but it's chocolate and I'm g...
Today we fought Innocence EX. To get the true experience, we fought him at minimum item level (430, a significant cut). Also, half of us randomly decided to switch roles. numbers became our off-tank, while Dante switched to monk. Monk is notorious for having the most convoluted rotation in the game,...
(Monday 4/13): Woke up, logged in to Pokemon Go, and saw that the weather was snowy. Excited, I grabbed my coat and went outside. It seems like every year we have at least one freak snowfall in April, but we haven't had ours yet this year. There was no snow. Dry pavement, dry sky. Way to get my ho...
I'm firmly convinced that there's nothing inherently wrong with sleeping in. That's especially true in our coronavirus world, where classes and jobs have moved online and people are no longer bound to a 9-to-5 schedule. If you go to bed at 5 am every morning and sleep until noon, you have the same n...