new keyboard came. It feels pretty slick so far. It might be a little louder? It's brown switches, same as before, but maybe it's a different kind? It's a little more compact, I'm feeling. Not super sure that I'm into that, but I'll probably get used to it. The backlight is really nice, though I should see if I can turn it down a bit. Clicky Clacky Clack. Yeah, pretty happy with this keyboard. I have found the light control keys. Just function plus f1 and 2.

Anyway, take care all of y'all.

If any of you cats need to yell at someone or just talk to someone to get your head straight, please DM me if you need.

I picked a heck of a couple days to start reading Brothers Karamazov and not be so online.

remember to eat

put it here and then we can make laser eyes going to the NATO flag

They're really easy to make.

I'm interested in taking a turn at the helm

I thought britbong was for Australians, because of like, billabongs? I guess I've been wrong this whole time.

Say it differently from whomever you're talking to.

I'd like to know the answer to that myself. Probably in the neighborhood of 20-30 hours? It's a pretty easy game to play in little chunks though. Like half an hour and you've made solid progress. I was pretty thorough early on and less so later on. I think if one were to just do the main quest line you could probably knock it out pretty quick, but the main quest leads you pretty directly into doing the other major quests.

Finished Dread Delusion. Good game. I have some thoughts about its resolution(s) as they relate to the rest of the game's thematic content, but I would be hard pressed to say it was unsatisfying. It seems like there's a pretty robust set of outcomes based on all of the choices you made along the way. I felt surprisingly strongly about the characters by the end of it; when I was early in the game I wasn't all that invested in them or even the setting, though there were bright spots throughout.

There are a variety of criticisms I could make of the game, but one I'll give now is that the first couple few hours of it felt a little bit like pedaling a bicycle on its lowest gear - it's not challenging, but it feels like you aren't getting anywhere. By the end of the game, there are a lot more challenging puzzles and enemies (though I think the combat in this game is mostly uninspired); I think they could have hit the ramp on that a little earlier, and maybe tightened up the very beginning a bit - although there were certainly things that piqued my curiosity enough to keep going until I was really hooked in. Regardless, the rest of the game had some really interesting writing and worldbuilding that really let me stew on things, even if not all areas of the game were pulled off with quite the same level of mastery.