Charlotte Finn @SkunkyLass@awoo.space

Me: "Ugh. How am I gonna search for nomenclature in this data set and condense dozens of different terms down into a few broad categories without killing myself with nested IFERROR statements?"

Soaring John Williams music: plays

WHOOSH

Me: "GASP! It's Power Query! Here in my hour of need!"

I have shown the Wally Wood 22 Panels That Always Work to two people who both initially thought it was an actual story, so that speaks to how well the panels work at making talky scenes flow well.

My hair is ALMOST long enough to reliably tie back into a ponytail but there's a couple stray locks that are SO ANNOYING ugh.

It turns out that the secret ingredient to enjoying gaming online was simple party games from the You Don't Know Jack people and a few friends who also write in the semi-pro space!

DJT not being on Twitter any more by itself doesn't make me happier but I know it will make that shitgibbon miserable and that is pretty important too

(SFW YCH, to be clear. Okay, SFW-ish in this case.)

Well, put in for my first YCH since I got the ref sheet.

The journey continues!

Everyone is talking about chess so I went back and reread Scott McCloud's infinite canvas comic about chess. http://scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/chess.html

I hate having to strap it around my wrist and sleep with it on, but I have to admit that wearing a wrist brace at night has helped my RSI a great deal.

It really is so well put together, and one way in which it's put together well just occurred to me.

In so many games, we have to make story allowances for returning to earlier saves, or extra lives, or so on. We have to accept that failure is part of the game, but not part of the narrative; that the five times I died to that ambush didn't really happen in the narrative, even though the emotions I experienced during that streak of mounting frustration are ones I remember.

But in Hades, from the moment you start to the moment you stop is one unbroken continuity that builds on itself. Character will comment on who you died to and how. Everything you go through feels like it happened. All the times you die count in the narrative. So do all the times you don't.

Really is a watershed moment in gaming, I feel.

To kick off the New Year, friends are showing me the Star Wars Holiday Special for the first time, and I am seriously reconsidering who I allow into my life

I am on a family phone call that has lasted longer than five minutes, send help please

No one pushes buttons; everything needs to be punched

I've never played a Gears of War game and my impression of the world is that, having ran out of oil, they fuel everything with machismo

Gears Tactics is an extremely fun tactical squad game as long as you are able to keep a straight face every time the voice actor from Bulletstorm shouts about how "we got ourselves an e-hole!"

(fighting a purple worm with class levels and racial templates)

♫♪ 'Cause I'm a half-fiend, half-fey, bardic purple people eater ♪♫

#introductions

Hello awoo.space! After a few years on the big-big Mastodon instance I thought I'd move someplace a little quieter and with more of a local vibe.

I'm a skunk lady! I'm trans! I like women quite a lot. This accurately describes me.

Hope to meet you all in the coming days and weeks, and hope you enjoy having me around!