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Idleness
There’s this YouTube channel I watch, the Urban Rescue Ranch. Between the onslaught of unhinged Texan farmer turned memer are moments of stopping to admire the animals he cares for. You may see capybaras, wallabies, or a kangaroo lying around in the distance, or you may check in on a hay-filled prairie dog habitat. Either…
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Infernape Platinum Solo Run: Where’s the Fire?
So, uh, I may have taken things a bit TOO much faster. Don’t get me wrong, it felt great to finish in two settings instead of, like, five for Torterra, but I was overconfident in my endgame strategy and suffered some embarrassing losses along the way. Infernape’s a fairly uncommon design in that it’s good…
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Torterra Platinum Solo Run: Earthquake with a Sidelined Salad
I’ve been inspired to take on itemless Pokemon solo runs. The puzzles of optimizing completion time and avoiding losses have put Pokemon games in a new light that I want to bring to Platinum. Most of the creators out there focus on the first three generations, as they’re shorter and less mechanically dense. However, Platinum’s…
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Stress and Social Dilemmas
Today was a first: I left work early on the basis of mental health. The shift was a medley of things that get to me. There were busy locations, inaccessible objectives, cramped hallway navigation, degenerate amounts of ordered product, and aggravating customers. By the middle afternoon, I had finished what I was told to do,…
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Waluigi Died for This: The Folly of Balance Patching Mario Kart
Five and a half years after release, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got its first update with changes aimed to balance characters and karts. That fact alone is… weird. Never before has Nintendo seemed particularly interested in Mario Kart metagames, and halfway through 8D’s DLC expansions, when it had been doing just fine for years, is…
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Work Mornings
I’m not quite a morning person. I can get up with an alarm and don’t need coffee (don’t plan to touch the stuff), but I can only remember exactly one day where I woke up feeling properly rested. Dragging myself out of bed is worth it, though. While the tedium of a shift is fast…
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Now Say Something Beautiful and True
I’m here because I’m fed up. I have let fear dominate my life; I have coasted through school, daydreamed without end, and ended up in a miserable job all because of fear. Fear of failure. Fear of humiliation. Fear of confronting the ego. I will do everything in my power to make this blog the…