Trying out this homestyle chili I bought on a whim. Turns out “homestyle” means watery and tomatoey. It’s not bad—makes a decent soup—but not really what I want from chili. Guess I’m going back to my usual after finishing this batch.After last week’s heat wave broke, we had a nice cool week for Flam...
The weather finally caught on that it’s Flameforger’s month instead of Thundercrack month. Wednesday has pivoted to being the hottest day of the week. 95 degrees out today, with a heat index of 111. Boss texted that we could work from home due to the heat, but I was considering going down anyway—I w...
numbers declared Friday night to be a drunk night. We played Fake Artist Goes to New York and Codenames. The most memorable Codenames moment: HGR was spymaster for the opposing team and gave them the clue “ground.” They were like, maybe a pool? You can have a pool in the ground? But they eventually ...
GGG beat Athena 2 on Friday night. (HGR was skeptical—“We’re going to spend three hours not beating the door boss,” he said beforehand—but they did it.) As always, pizza is behind, but less so than in previous tiers. On Saturday we had a couple of 1% enrages on Themis, and then on Sunday we beat him...
Pandemonium reclear zone: I was super out of it during Saturday’s raid, due to staying up late all week to watch HGR and Dante stream Lingo, an open-world word puzzle game. It was great times (what’s a four-letter synonym for “forge” that is also a dessert?) but I was only semi-functional for combat...
[redacted spoiler discussion in which newbie calls out Elidibus on his BS] We beat Pandemonium on Saturday. We’re steamrolling this tier (editor’s note: not actually true). GGG likes to talk about Pandemoniac Bonds 3 being the hardest mechanic in the raid. imo it’s not actually that bad. It works li...
“Who says ‘like unto’?” said HGR. “What a nerd.” We’re currently on P10S, Pandemonium’s spidersona. Harrowing Hell was our prog point for a long time. numbers’ original plan was to put one web in front to mitigate damage and one in back to protect us from knockback. I thought this was a neat idea, b...
Ever since I’ve started coming in on Wednesdays, the weather on Wednesdays is notably worse than any other day of the week. Today, for example: my phone warned of all-day thunderstorms, a flash flood warning, a tornado watch, the works. When I woke up at 6:45 I could hear a torrential downpour outsi...
The thing about weekend road trips is that they don’t feel like actual weekends. You get home on Sunday afternoon, ready for the weekend to start, and you realize it’s almost over. This time around was fortunate: boss gave us Monday July 3 off, and of course the 4th was Independence Day, so I got an...
HGR: “newbie, ‘where’s Destiny’ has become your most frequent phrase of 2023.” Der Freischutz’s gun damages friend and foe indiscriminately. HGR tipped me off to this in advance, so I didn’t use it. newbie is cooler than me, so he gave the weapon to his man Destiny and does a lot of careful position...
newbie’s doomed timeline in Lobcorp from days 22-24 was an absolute masterwork. Under HGR’s expert advice in picking abnormalities, the Central Command department became a garbage fire beyond all compare. As mentioned, on day 22, newbie got Express Train to Hell. On day 23, he got a cute girl wing o...
New raid tier! Team composition: Kan has left to join a serious static (they’ve already cleared the tier), and we’ve recruited quof in his stead. quof is a member of GGG, widely famed as the best static in the West. However, this is his debut as tank. It’s been a steep learning curve. numbers (playi...