For the first 20 days, newbie’s Lobcorp play was hyper-competent, which was still entertaining, but not maximally entertaining. He had nothing comparable to my early game snafus—day 2 Beauty and the Beast (literally did not have anyone who could work non-repression without going insane), the Nameles...
Shocking news: I am rethinking my commitment to quitting Wolvden on the spot if they nerf lead stat gains lmaoooo It sounded like a good idea when I was on vacation and tired of having to constantly check my phone to send out hunts. However, back at the ranch, I do genuinely enjoy having something t...
A Saturday without raid. A chill day. HGR has begun questioning whether I have conscious experiences, so I guess I’ll chronicle the day here. I took my usual morning walk, then sat down with mocha to browse discord and the FR forums. Mid-morning I got a grocery delivery. Due to bringing up the groce...
By Tuesday we were pretty much horsed out, so we visited a distillery and an arboretum. Kinda neat how everyone has their own area of expertise. Mom texted Jem about the distillery and he was like “Ooh fun! I’ve heard that James E. Pepper 1776 is pretty good, but I’ve never tried it. I think they al...
Everything’s coming up horse. Saturday we went to Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, in Louisville; Sunday we went to a horse park and museum in Lexington; Monday we went for a tour of a horse farm. Churchill Downs was the highlight. I explained to HGR: “The actual Derby was a few weeks ag...
We interrupt the travelogue for breaking Wolvden drama: It has always been the case that pack members are capped on daily stat gain (+2 originally, later boosted to +4) while leads are uncapped, meaning that lead is the prime stat grinding position. Without guarana, Fortinbras reached 2500, as did h...
“What are you going to do for a week in Kentucky?” said HGR. He says this about every vacation. I don’t know, though. I’m just along for the ride. I was feeling weirdly ambivalent about this vacation. I always get hyped about family vacations, regardless of destination; I want to go new places, see ...
The official Lorwolf launch came on May 5. I still don’t think it’s a particularly good game, but I’m playing it…for now. At the start, everyone just had their progens, so there was a scramble to befriend wild wolves to get a full team (you need three wolves + companions for a full campaign/gauntlet...
We finally had a clean run of Hephaistos 2. It was down to the wire; Hephaistos was casting the final Ego Death; all the veterans, who have seen this many times before, were like “it’s fine, it’s fine, just hit your buttons.” It was not fine. We got a 0.4% enrage. You hate to see it. “Technically, w...
Another week, another office day. It was a two-cat morning (the orange tabby and white-and-orange cat were looking out the window in apartment #1; the windowside cat bed was empty in apartment #2). The theoretical max is four, but I’ve never seen all four cats in a single trip. Office is a ghost tow...
(HGR) i predict we do not clear today (HGR) wait thats kind of gauche (HGR) nvm we're doin it True to form, we did not clear Hephaistos 2 this weekend. We got past Ego Death (I was right! we really did have to [redacted]) and then the Evil Earth started doing its thing and everything fell apa...
The weather has been wild this month. Last week we had temps in the upper 70s and had to turn on the air conditioning before even doing taxes. (Dante beat me in the great tax race of 2023: he did his taxes on the morning of April 15, I did mine that evening. It was fine. Tax day landed on a Saturday...