Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

A habit I’ve gotten into the past three years: whenever a major development happens, I buy the local papers and put them in my fire safe.

Mostly so, when my niece and nephew ask us what these times were like in 10-20 years, I can pull the stack back out of the safe.

I applaud their creativity in being evil (read: I don’t), but I think I’ll stick to Distance and learning how to go fast in games that don’t directly convert my time into profit.

+: Mario Kart Tour is an actually good racing game that I could keep playing for awhile. They converted it to mobile format surprisingly well, and it’s responsive and fun to play.

-: But it capitalizes on my skill at the game to push other players to spend gobs of real money, and I’m _really_ uncomfortable with that?

For folks asking about bats here: we do have a healthy bat population nearby, but I’m not 100% sure the gnawing on our apples in the tree are from them (young raccoons are also possible, as are squirrels that can’t reach the entire apple).

So, unconfirmed, but if anyone would like to look at the nibble patterns, I’d find that interesting!

Our hummingbird feeder is now feeding the entire forest, at about 4-6oz per day (!!). We’ve brought them reinforcements (two new feeders) to last them through the coming winter.

We managed to salvage about a dozen apples from the tree this year. The rest were eaten by our woodland birds, bats, and squirrels, and we are entirely okay with this.

I’m personally foregoing celebration until 45 and Bojo are collectively out of power, but today’s unanimous (unanimous!) developments on both sides of the pond are encouraging.

I managed a respectable time for 7 crystal fast ganon with... random enemy damage. They were not kidding with the warning:

> Random
> The damage dealt by enemies are entirely random. A value is chosen for each Mail Upgrade so they therefore do not work to reduce damage. No mapping exists between different enemy types. All enemies could deal massive damage.

... nearly everything swung for 8-12 hearts. Looooots of awkward combat. @..@

It then put both gloves, flute, hammer, flippers, and boots (read: just about every item that unlocks easier access to the overworld) all deep into this required path, then stacked *six* of the game’s main dungeons into death mountain.

Go Mode was a Swamp Palace small key.

I... don’t know if I have the fortitude to try one of these again, but it certainly was fun to puzzle out.

This seed generated a required walk that went:

1. Exit Sanctuary from pyramid left door.
2. Enter dark peg fairy cave (South of PoD), which is now spiral cave.
3. Exit spiral cave connector from MM closet.
4. Enter dark Agina cave, which is now paradox cave.
5. Exit either from bomb shop or top of bumper cave.

Or for those that have no idea what I’m on about: the randomizer made me walk the entire length of the game’s overworld. Twice. On every save reload.

So I tried another crosskeys seed, this time with random swords and with a note-taking device handy.

The previous time, it gave me early boots, early flute, early gold gloves, and easy connectors to dark world. Nooooot this time.

Hell seeds in crosskeys are apparently *amazing*.

Also, I’m never running a crossworld/entrance rando seed again without having a tracker up or taking notes. It was fun, but chest checks seems to be the limits of what I can do in memory.

Spent some time with the daily challenge seed yesterday, since I’ve been pairing that with exercise bike time. It had swordless enabled, but all of the stuff you need for swordless rando (tiles to use the medallions in Ice Palace, book + hammer for tablets, pre-opened sword doors) wasn’t enabled for some reason?

It was fun proving I couldn’t solve it, then taking it as far as I could in logic. But either something radically changed, or hope it’s fixed soon.