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a singularly resolute soul

My favorite wipe: During reductive rhomboid, newbie was supposed to step in a tower but he stepped on Carbuncle instead. Apparently they were both glowing so he couldn’t tell the difference?? With Saturday’s Themis reclear, we are officially done with Themis forever. Unfortunately, my play against A...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 16, 2023

three cats and a stoat

I missed newbie’s Hokma suppression clear. He was streaming near midnight on Tuesday, and I figured he could potentially be there for hours, and I had better sign off and start preparing for bed. Then he cleared half an hour later and I MISSED IT nooo. Apparently he got green midnight. All my homies...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 12, 2023

Chinese fries

The term “Chinese fries” does not exist. This is mindblowing. I’ve called them “Chinese fries” all my life and it turns out my parents just made the term up. Apparently, as a small child, I was like “what’s this?” and my parents were like “Chinese fries!” because it was something an American kid wou...

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

head honcho big boncho

Mom’s kind of a big deal now, work-wise. I already knew this, but it still feels weird. On Friday she was going to meet Dad and me for lunch, and she pulled up her scheduling spreadsheet and was like, okay, I cleared time from noon to 2 pm. A scheduling spreadsheet?? Who does that?? Then one of her ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Oct. 2, 2023

remote excursion

Visiting family this weekend. I’m taking the afternoon train down on Thursday, working remotely on Friday, and then on Saturday we drive back up and possibly my parents do some cleaning. My parents are very gung-ho about this cleaning thing. They’ve been talking about it for literally months. They k...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 28, 2023

but a glimpse of a god’s strength

It’s time for the hit new game of 2023, World of Warcraft. GGG is apparently getting together a raiding crew. Dante and HGR spent Saturday evening and most of Sunday leveling up their characters, which meant I got to hear all about the adventures of Chillmonger and Aioniopyr. (The name Aioniopyr was...

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

lunchtime thoughts

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...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Sept. 4, 2023

flameforger’s 2023

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...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 25, 2023

chains forged from the fabric of creation

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 ...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 24, 2023

you have done well to reach the seat of godhood

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...

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

will you be judged worthy to exist

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...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - Aug. 7, 2023

the emissary

[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...

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Achaius (Lvl. 40) - July 26, 2023

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