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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Guild wars 2 is the only MMO that didn’t bore or annoy me.

    • feels like a real video game. You can jump and dodge and stuff
    • much quality of life stuff is free and baked in. Deposit most stuff to the bank from anywhere, craft from the bank, etc
    • minimal gear grind. The tier you can buy for cheap is good enough. The next tier is a small improvement.
    • generally helpful folks
    • lots of different stuff to do.


  • I don’t buy a game solely because it’s the zeitgeist or whatever. A friend of mine routinely buys games that are “the new shiny” and then doesn’t finish them, or loses interest quickly. I usually wait for a sale, some patches, and/or the dlc to be bundled into a goty edition.

    Some exceptions:

    I bought elden ring near launch because I’m a big enjoyer of the genre, and my friend confirmed it was good. No regrets.

    I bought bg3 shortly before it’s full access. I’d liked the other games larian did, and a friend told me it was good. No regrets.

    Both of those were pretty light on DLC. No season pass or “goty” editions were likely.

    I’m going to wait for the dragon age game to go on sale. I don’t really trust Bioware, and I don’t know if they plan to do a bunch of dlc that will get bundled up later.

    I’ve been waiting for Lies of P to get cheap. The demo was just ok when I played it, but a friend tells me it’s phenomenal.

    Right now I’m playing a MUD (aardwolf). It really distills some online RPG into the essence of “go kill some stuff to level up, get new skills, and kill bigger stuff”. It’s strangely satisfying.







  • Bandcamp mostly. They do writeups sometimes like “the best metal from Colorado” or “a deep dive into acid jazz”. They seem to be human written too and not ai slop, at least in the past.

    Also seeing who’s playing with who. If I like band A, and band B is opening for them, well I’ll check out band B. I saw “Year of the Cobra” play with “The Well” and it was a good show, and I bought their album.










  • There was a (fiction) book I was called “all the birds in the sky”. I really liked it. Highly recommend.

    One of the plot threads is a rich tech bro character that’s like “the world is doomed we need to abandon it for somewhere else. Better pour tons of resources into this sci-fi sounding project”. And I’m just screaming at the book “use that money for housing and transport and clean energy you absolute donkey”.

    There are a lot of well understood things we could be doing to make the world better, but they’re difficult for idiotic political reasons. Racism, nimbyism, emotional immaturity, etc.