Hollow Knight, ᴀᴋᴀ Bug Souls
I _love_ the atmosphere of this game!
. . . but I'm seriously about to have to start grinding for cash just to clean out the shop because I don't see any other way to make progress right now. Every direction I want to go takes a mobility upgrade (as in double-jump or air dash or something) or other obvious you-need-another-item-dummy sort of thing. I mean, I love that in Metroidvanias, it's why I'm playing this, but I'm aaaalmost stuck. I'm sure I'll figure it out.
It occurs to me that my primary Mastodon account is on a primarily furry server, yet I give very few indications of actually being a furry. Most notably, my usericon is my personal logo (designed when I was a teenager and it shows) instead of a furry portrait. There are many reasons for this.
1) I have several different personal representations I cycle through haphazardly, so a single portrait would feel limiting.
2) ... actually, crap, I guess there's only one reason.
You're like 80% sure you weren't a toy when you went to sleep. But the evidence is strong. The months-old advertising flyers. The massive TV and web campaign running *everywhere* all the time. Your slightly worn neoprene tentacles. Your telepsychic link with tens of millions of your model-mates, all struggling with the same doubt. That exotic impulse, that feels like it's from under your care tag, to stop asking questions and let the campaign succeed.
Mental health (+)
You know, as long as I can keep my frustration levels from sending me into a hell-world tailspin, I'm actually in remarkably good emotional shape.
The catch, of course, is that my frustration tolerance still seems awfully low lately. If it looks like I'm bailing on difficult things way earlier than seems warranted, that's why – it's far better than letting frustration become anger 'cause then I have to work waaaaay too hard to moderate myself.
Relatedly, if anyone has ever managed to purchase a tall plus-size (let's say 24ish) women's styled coat from any website that wasn't Lands' End, I beg you to share your secrets. All I've found thus far is a bunch of SEO-fuelled lies.
tbt when the xscreensaver Pacman module generated Existential Nightmare Pacman https://mastodon.social/media/DQKAq_6hsWrXh6FjAqU
Twice Baked
I did it.
Prototype 0.0.1 completed.
I hit the Fruity Pebbles, about a bowl-and-a-half... and then I prepared an almond cinnamon flourless jaconde with butterscotch chips.
I completed a full task in the kitchen while high. #baking
"Really good baked goods for when you're good and really baked." -- @ElectricKeet
Attention deficit.
Occasionally, I look up and notice that other people have done things. Look at those cool things you did!
How do you do that?
How do you... you know, do things? I mean, I get ideas all the time, but then I try to do things and then suddenly I'm doing other things, or usually no things. But I see the things other people do, and I just wanna know....
How do you do things?
Current mood/VGM:
Space Harrier (Arcade) - Main Theme
Shit What Adept Says
"The benefits of a graduate degree; I can meow." #nocontexttheater {9}
"They just added some dog-flavored paint."
—@adeptomega
I 💖 @orrery
I 🕹️ retrogaming
I 🔊 chiptunes
I 🦄 ponies
I ☁️ cannabis
I � Unicode
and yes to 🤖 but #nobot
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