katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

Ahhh i kinda want to get to know my partner's housemates but I'm too shy to go out and interact without my partner with me.

Turns out, getting to sleep under a weighted blanket is wonderful 💖💖💖

Being the only person in an otherwise completely empty subway car is a surprisingly weird feeling.

Dear internet: is there anything that helps caffeine withdrawal headaches other than more caffeine? Getting on a red-eye flight tonight :/

So apparently I get caffeine withdrawal headaches after only like, 30 hours now.
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Damage control triage is a pretty entertaining part of FTL, especially in the Flagship fight.

"Okay so I have two hull breaches, three fires, my crew is half dead, there's an incoming boarding party, and the life support room is broken and depressurized... but if I can keep my weapons working, and get one or two good volleys off... things will be fine. It's *fine*."

This is basically everything I've ever wanted.

:D :D I just figured out that comiXology is a thing, and I can get there via a referral link from my local comic shop.

So now I can read digital editions of comics AND support my local shop AND get DRM-free download copies.

And a lot of the fun of the game is building working loadouts/playstyles around weapons that maybe aren't perfectly *optimal*, but are the best you've had access to in a run.

What I love about the way FTL is balanced is that some weapons are more generally useful than others -- and some are kinda bad most of the time -- but almost every single weapon has a loadout that it's an ideal fit for and is exactly what you want.

I don't actually like Captain's Edition as much as the stock FTL game.

FTL is really beautifully balanced. CE adds a lot of stuff that dilutes a lot of the core mechanics and economies, and while the new content is interesting, the balance and tradeoffs in the limited stock toolkits are ultimately what makes FTL compelling.