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mechanics

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 ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - June 22, 2024

baby-led weaning

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...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - June 21, 2024

microstanding

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...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - June 20, 2024

easy life, hectic life

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...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - June 19, 2024

such is your power

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 ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - May 29, 2024

walking culture

My alarm was set for 7:40 a.m. At 7:33 I was woken up by the sound of the doorbell. This was entirely a product of my dream imagination—I don’t even have a doorbell—but it got me up, and I figured it wasn’t worth going back to sleep for seven more minutes. We live in times of plenty. It’s fine. I ha...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - May 23, 2024

time to get up

I’m doing the thing where I check Discord on my desktop (there’s no new posts) so I pull my phone out of my pocket and check Discord (of course, there’s no new posts there either). It’s time to get up and step away from the computer for a bit.

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - May 8, 2024

artificial witchcraft

There is so much AI witchhunting on twitter these days. I constantly get threads on how to identify AI art. Admittedly I am not helping my feed by clicking on them, but I get curious. The thing is, I commit most of these art foibles myself. Fingers look weird? Structures and accessories have no clea...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - May 7, 2024

hillfort home

My main base is in a hollowed-out hill slightly to the west of my spawn. Everyone likes the hill house. (Well, newbie likes it. HGR was like “you made a dwarf fortress!!” which is close enough in my opinion.) Starting a second playthrough right after the first has been nice because I can arrange eve...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - April 27, 2024

terraria calamity

Recently finished a Terraria Calamity playthrough (first time playing non-vanilla) with newbie, HGR, and Dante, whereupon all of us except Dante immediately started solo playthroughs. It’s that good. HGR naturally wants to do a hardcore Revengeance Infernum playthrough. He’s currently doing a regula...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - April 19, 2024

always changing, but always full

“what’s always changing, but always full?” - HGR a couple days ago, HGR couldn’t find his Calamitas treasure bag and newbie got him to post a screenshot of his inventory to verify that it wasn’t in there. what is all this junk?? why do you have two blue slime banners hotkeyed? also two crimson mushr...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - April 17, 2024

the microwave crisis of 2024

I broke the microwave by cooking too much spaghetti but it’s okay now lol A couple Thursdays ago, I cooked an entire box of spaghetti for dinner (lots of leftovers). Water sloshed over the sides of the tub. That’s not unusual. But I left the next day to go visit my parents, so I didn’t clean it up....

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - April 11, 2024

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