the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

i think it is probably very unlikely we'll have any significantly bad consequences for it, even if they say no, we're just really worried for no reason
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it is snowing far too much for us to be comfortable driving to work and i am really hoping we don't get into any trouble for requesting to use some time off to come in late
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existing is hard

we're going to sleep
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i don't want to sleep because then it will be tomorrow and we have to go to work
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what even is wordle anyway
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apparently omron makes medical equipment stuff

apparently this is also their largest consumer-facing business, so me commenting on this probably seems weird to people who don't know that they make some of the best relays on the market
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physics give us good lead free solders
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Intrusive thought:

"Mannelids™: they're worms, For Men™"
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also, the game probably doesn't need to be nearly as hard as it is
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random thought: who makes the bottles and cans that sodas and beers and stuff are sold in? i'm sure that especially the smaller companies don't make their own
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arc rise fantasia, so far, seems like a pretty decent but not outstanding jrpg

- the story, while interesting, seems to have been *heavily* inspired by trails in the sky
-- this mostly applies to the very early game, now it's starting to become its own thing. the main character's middle name is still Bright though which is really on the nose
- the politics of it are so far kind of all over the place?
- the combat system feels generic at first but has some depth to it, if not as much as it seems they were going for
- the music is by Yasunori Mitsuda, so there's definitely some high points there
- there seem to be a lot of romantic undertones in the plot that probably didn't need to be there
- the voice acting is kind of bad? we've heard worse but this isn't the best
- one character's victory pose has some intensely uncomfortable eye contact

why don't they do detents in analog sticks anymore? only nintendo ever did them to begin with but it was nice
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Chili:

hmm.

you're pretty good, thanks for existing
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it's pretty distracting when, within a single conversation, the same place name is pronounced in like three different ways
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tip to anyone making video games that have voice acting:

make sure your voice actors agree on the pronunciation of names, unless you have some reason for the *characters* to disagree on that
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today's mood has just gone downhill and i don't know why
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today is one of the twelve days of the year when europe and north america agree on how to write the date
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/863590/Starcom_Nexus/

huh. this looks like a spiritual successor to star control 2

reviews are good, might be worth a try sometime
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