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august gratitude

Mom's cooking: salmon! (10x better than my salmon) fresh salsa! pork steak! Korean pancakes! a long walk in the woods yeahhhhh I'm glad the artfight site craps out at the start of July every year so we get makeup time in August. I mean this genuinely, I get lots of mileage out of the August time won...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Sept. 2, 2020

the time value of life crystals

Now that we've completed Factorio, it's time for adventures in Terraria featuring me ("A factory robot"), newbie ("Kyrie Hotdogger"), and HGR ("Junior Burgeoner"). It's newbie's first time playing Terraria. Exciting stuff. HGR gifted him the game, and he was literally the only person on HGR's friend...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Sept. 2, 2020

yet another quarantine report

Five and a half months into quarantine, I've largely settled into my new way of life. I would still enjoy a nice long walk downtown, but I don't crave it any more, you know? I'm content. In Clockwork Boys, Caliban is imprisoned for several months, and when he gets out, he's hit by severe agoraphob...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Sept. 1, 2020

the long road to space

I thought last night's Factorio session would be our last. In fact, I expected to finish well before midnight and have time for other things. I was a schmuck. We played until 2 am and still had a long way to go. There were a couple issues. First, I underestimated the amount of stuff we still had t...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 28, 2020

factorio full circle

Our Factorio playthrough has come full circle. In the earlygame, everything was jank because we had no idea how anything worked. We had random buildings here and there, we ran back and forth ferrying materials between miners and furnaces, how do you even hook up a steam boiler, who knows. As HGR sai...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 27, 2020

a terraria murder mystery

As I mentioned, the stylist and the fisherman are best friends. They live together at a remote seaside resort. In theory, they're guarding the ocean pylon, but there's not much guarding to do out there; it's a very quiet area. I was back in town when I received a notification that Ruby the stylist...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 23, 2020

tales of lost blue and the surrounding lands

8/18 Finally decided to invest in fast travel. Made a jungle outpost (with pylon) and a dungeon outpost (to get the forest pylon, which I placed in town). I also got a mimic minion, which keeps japing me because I keep thinking I see a chest and it's literally my own minion. But it's worth it becau...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 20, 2020

review dump

I've gotten into the habit of writing my mini-reviews straight on Goodreads and not copying them into my journal, but I should keep a backup in case the site goes down or something. === King of Scars | Leigh Bardugo | 3.5 stars This book started slow, but ramped up to a 4-star book at the end, ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 18, 2020

get in loser, we're fighting skeletron prime

Last week, I was hoping we'd hit enrage on Ifrit. Instead, we didn't even get past Ramuh. Kan had a power flicker during an early Ramuh run, and then he kept disconnecting during later runs, usually shortly before Fury's Fourteen. Finally we decided it was a lost cause and adjourned. "The static i...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 18, 2020

OC design and artfight roster thoughts

It's the yearly post-Artfight ritual: I pledge to draw more of my own OCs, both new and existing ones. It feels kinda bad that for one month I draw everyone else's characters, and then for the remaining 11 months I neglect my own characters. For some reason, I find it easier to create characters f...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 15, 2020

heroes & zeroes

To recap: ComEd: heroes, worked through the night to get our power restored Comcast: zeroes, doing NOTHING, probably all taking off work to play the new FFXIV patch while I can't because I have no internet Monday's storm also knocked out the internet in our area. It's Thursday night, and internet...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 14, 2020

why do you refuse to gain power

Mid-afternoon, Dante warned me that a big storm was headed my way. I checked Google and saw alerts for tornadoes, 70-100 mph winds, hail, all kinds of stuff. But it was still a bright summer day. I thanked Dante and went to take a nap. As a precaution, instead of going to bed, I napped in the closet...

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Achaius (Lvl. 47) - Aug. 12, 2020

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