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Found it!

I’m just starting to get into aquariums. Had one as a kid and now that I’ve got my own place I can do the naturalistic planted tank(s) of my dreams! Got the substrate and hardscape sorted yesterday, going back to the shop for plants today!

First tank is only 27L but a friend gave me a 65L one that is going to be epic!

For me learning I was aroace was hugely freeing, realising I could just opt out of the whole dating mess

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!

Much better than expect. This has been the first year where we’ve had someone outside of our immediate family join us (my brother’s girlfriend) and it’s been very pleasant.

Going to start working my way through the Christmas ales I’ve been saving now!

In fairness, games are still something I’m willing to pay for and books. I think probably because Kindle and Steam are better user experiences than pirating those.

I used to have a moral objection to piracy, I thought that if a piece of media is good enough that I enjoy it then the people that made it deserve to be paid for their work.

I’m increasingly of the opinion that even if I do pay for something there is no guarantee that the people that worked on it will get their fair share and paying for media is increasingly a worse user experience than piracy.

I turned down a few graphic settings but honestly thoughly playable. Looking forward to performance patches so I can turn some of the eye candy back on

I’m enjoying it. I’ve remembered that I’m terrible at building cities, but I’m having fun while coming to that realization again! Performance is mid 50fps with about 5000 people at 1080p with a 2080 super and a ryzen 3600x.

On day 8 out of 8 in a row at work. Got 3 days off starting tomorrow and Cities Skyline 2 to dig into.

Omg, they have an arm Linux version. That’s going right on my Chromebook tomorrow!

Thank you for keeping on top of this Chris. I’m having a heavy week at work and I’ve not kept up with what’s working and what isn’t so your updates have been invaluable.

When I’ve got some days off I’m probably going to spin up a viewtube or invidious instance on either my home server or VPS and have done with it!

Yes. Not taking into account anything except the output of the laser verses the output of the reaction.

Thank you for verbalising this, I’ve been feeling similarly. Like you I try to go back to the sources and read them often finding that the danger is being sensationalised by the media. Recently though I’ve seen a few papers where the findings have been much worse than is being reported and that worries me very much. I’m mostly able to only worry about things I have control over as others have suggested but the oncoming climate crisis is so encompassing and existential that I’m finding it hard to temper my worries.

I use this BBC food one. Nothing fancy but flavour developed nicely if you prove it for 2hrs+. Cold proving in the fridge overnight also does wonders to it

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/pizza-margherita-4-easy-steps

Edit: scrap that, it calls for bread flour not whole

Yes, I never finished BOTW because of the size, same for Skyrim and although I’m excited for Cities: Skylines 2 I’m also a bit intimidated by the scale of it and learning all the new tools again!

I did a bit of the mining and trading gameplay wipe before last. Haven’t gone back since but I likely will.

Surprised how far down I had to look for Postmodern Jukebox to show up!

I’ve got a campaign I’m running, started with Lost Mines is Phandelver which then rolled into Wild Beyond the Witchlight and will roll into Storm King’s Thunder. In that campaign our rogue/warlock’s patron is an archfey who is the reason they are now in Prismeer. We have a dwarf cleric who is very mistrusting of the fey which is a really interesting roleplay dynamic and a fighter/barbarian who is frequently the voice of reason. They have a pet mimic called Philip and Bill the pony who is currently a giant snail. As you can imagine it frequently devolves into the best kind of bullshit!

I’m playing a gnome monk called Fiddlesticks in Curse of Strahd who is running from the same archfey as above because he stole his staff of striking, we haven’t got very far with that story yet but dope monk shit is dope.

I’m in one homebrew campaign as a great old one warlock called Zensira, I’m minmaxing him and having a lot of fun being overpowered. I ended up with invisibility and misty step at first level thanks to feat abuse!

Finally in another homebrew campaign I’m playing a Luxodon Paladin/wild magic sorcerer called Probosedia, he’s not very smart so it’s nice to play a low intelligence character and be lead a little bit.