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bb bonanza

It’s a holiday bonanza. First Thanksgiving in Boston, now Christmas in Wisconsin with brother. As usual I took the train down to my parents’ on Friday afternoon, got a haircut (yesss no more veilspun cosplay), and then we drove up on Saturday morning. We were going to leave at 9 am, but Dad had to w...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Dec. 23, 2023

vacation plans(?)

Every vacation I think I can/might/will do so much with my spare time and this one is no different. Things I could do:Draw. My dragon art has improved over the past few months, especially with dragon-a-day inktober (I didn’t manage to draw every day, but I did a bunch of them).Write lore for dragons...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Dec. 22, 2023

why do you suffer this pathetic existence

Athena is perilously close to surviving 2023, since Dante and I will both be away over Christmas weekend, and I don’t know if people will be available over New Year’s weekend. We saw enrage, though! (It was a 15% enrage obtained by chain reviving through our first attempt at Gaiaochos II, A Real Mec...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Dec. 19, 2023

party in the house

Today’s the day of the office Christmas party—usually a time of great festivity. But here’s the thing. It’s been three years since covid. I don’t know any of these dudes. The food isn’t worth awkward conversations with strangers (or awkwardly sitting by myself, or awkwardly slinking out with a full ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Dec. 15, 2023

a productive day with no rolling

Over Thanksgiving I broke my Wolvden login streak of 1064 days. I just didn’t want to deal with managing my pack. More specifically, I didn’t want to deal with it on Tuesday, when we had multiple flights and a layover; I figured it would be dicey trying to get in all 60 hunts (we had overlap with Th...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Dec. 11, 2023

creation’s course is mine to set

quof is off to Japan, or an oil rig, I’m not clear which. Chill Guy from GGG is subbing for him. It always impresses me when someone subs in raid and picks up all our homebrew strats on the fly from quick verbal explanations. Some things are basically the same (e.g., classical concepts—just gotta re...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Dec. 6, 2023

a dumb injury

injured myself in the dumbest possible way: I was reaching down with my left hand to lift up the toilet lid, and I somehow strained a muscle. had pain at my side, radiating up to my armpit and down the back of my arm. it calmed down after around 10-15 minutes, and is mostly fine two hours later exce...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Nov. 27, 2023

misfortune hangs heavy on the prideful

newbie set up his game to replace Athena 2’s music with Return to Oblivion, which he says has improved his quality of life considerably. “Same except for White Stone Black,” said quof. “You’re a sick, disgusting person,” said numbers. (I’m just glad people are finally appreciating White Stone Black....

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Nov. 6, 2023

battleboard

I think of myself as someone who does a lot of battling. Reinhardt started roughly 150 stats below the Rav pups, but he rose above them all (save for Rhallwyn, who used metric tons of guarana). Many of the Rav pups stuck around for this generation, and Armitage rose above them again (save for Zoey, ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 27, 2023

this misbegotten world is to blame

I don’t think I’ve mentioned quof’s cognitohazard yet. During Superchain Theory I, for the second orb, we get into light party stacks. Light debuffs go on the left, dark debuffs go on the right, except the people with the laser debuffs do the opposite (light laser goes right, dark laser goes left). ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 23, 2023

drinking on the job

They say sleepy driving is as bad as drunk driving in terms of impairment. Now imagine completing most of an important work project while drunk. 3:45 am: Project complete!! I didn’t send it in immediately because it’s gauche to be sending emails at nearly 4 am, and I always do a final proofread in t...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 19, 2023

teh sux, continued

Running off my fourth day of sleep deprivation, one might ask: If it was impacting my raid performance that severely, what’s it doing to my work performance? Well, at this point, it can’t be helped. I stayed up past 4 am last night working on my project before admitting that I had no hope of finishi...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 17, 2023

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