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Cake day: December 26th, 2023

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  • I’m tempted to say either The Witcher 3, Grand Theft Auto V, or Metal Gear Solid 5 (if you can look past the fact it’s unfinished).

    All three are exceptionally polished, have huge, highly detailed world’s to explore, cinematic moments with blockbuster action scenes, smooth and balanced gameplay, are suitable for gaming noobs and veterans, and has moments to goof off and dick around.

    It’s hard not to be biased, though I’ll state I don’t personally like GTAV, I think it’s perhaps too ordinary for my tastes and feels too restrictive in its mission structure.













  • I’m gonna go ahead and say there’s a twist. After a few mildly scary haunted houses you enter one, look around, everything seems normal, so you go to walk back to the factory, but wait, wasn’t the front door right there?

    You start start looking around, disoriented, and notice the factory outside is dark, and it has trees inside?

    Soon enough you start backtracking through rooms you were just in and notice things have changed, but at least the door is back and it’s open, so you leave, condemn the house and move onto the next one.

    Next house rolls up, but its the same house. You try to click the condemn button but it’s not working.

    You look around the factory floor for someone to report this to, but the door which leads back to the rest of the facility has gone, and the house just sits there.

    You try clicking on the approve button just to see what happens, and the house rolls away, and the next house, the same house, is back, door open, waiting for you.


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    7 days ago

    Maintain eye contact.

    Shit makes me so uncomfortable. Look at me all you want, that’s fine. I’m going to look at that plant.

    If you want to look at that plant, I’ll look at you, but you can’t have both.

    Unless we both look at the plant. That’s fine too.


  • You’re not alone in not living up to your principles, virtually nobody can.

    I once tried to vet all the products I was buying to make sure I wasn’t contributing to slave labour, or deforestation, or animal exploitation, and it was exhausting.

    It was good to identify brands which were absolute villains, and I still avoid them like the plague, but the amount of willpower it takes to travel to multiple stores and pick only the lesser of evils is something I’m not capable of right now.

    I make gradual improvements, which is sustainable.

    I am dead-set on repairing what I can, and hate spending money on new things.



  • My mother does wildlife rescues, birds are mostly, then goes home and cooks a roast chicken.

    She knows it’s hypocritical. Cognitive dissonance is weird.

    Also, it’s not so alienating. I attend dinners with my family, and I’ll eat roast vegies, and bring a side-dish for myself. Over time a few of my friends became vegan (I didn’t convince them to) and it’s exciting to share recipes.

    If nothing else, reduce your meat intake over time.

    As with most changes people make, the more drastic, the more unlikely it is to stick.

    When I became vegan I was a slut for KFC burgers, and I “failed” a few times, but I just kept reminding myself it’s not good for anyone, and mustered up the will power to drive past, and eat at home instead.