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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • I’ve gotta rep one of my all time favorite party games to this day (ported to PC) Worms Armageddon. They’ve had several sequels, but I believe that was the last one to use that particular physics engine, and every game since has just felt a bit… Hollow?

    Also +1 to Paper Mario - S-Tier RPG, best of the whole series IMHO, tho the GameCube sequel TTYD is deserving of a very close second. I wish so bad they’d make a return to badges and acquiring new buddies and buddy upgrades throughout the game. The oragami king battle mechanics did not do it for me, and with it being the core mechanic of the game just soured my whole experience despite the rest of the game being pretty solid.






  • I am a lazy launderer and my partner has loads of clothes of various fabrics.

    My trick that has never let me down:

    wash everything on cold

    When rotating to the dryer, indiscriminately pick out any tops that don’t feel like regular “t shirt” fabric, pick out all bottoms that aren’t obviously cotton, pick out all wool, pick out all dresses, button up shirts, skirts, or “full body” garments as regardless of what fabric they feel like they tend to be more sensitive to the heat.

    The rest can go in the dryer, but hang dry all the stuff you picked out.

    I might end up hang drying more than I need to, but it beats the hell out of checking the tag on every individual garment.




  • If your interest is in identifying what component of beer is triggering your reaction, it might be helpful to make friends with a homebrewer or your local small brewery. They can provide you with the individual ingredients (hops, yeast, wort) so you can test which of them gives you the bad reactions.

    Once you figure that out, you can experiment with seeing if there’s styles that don’t affect you as much. If it’s hops, there are styles that go much lighter on the hops, or might use a strain that doesn’t cause as much of a reaction for you. If it’s yeast, try some non-traditional yeasted beers - lagers use a completely different type of yeast than standard ales, as do Weiss beirs (like a heffeweissen) and sours (wild ales) - or just cut out the yeast entirely and do seltzers. If it’s wort (the steeped grain water where the sugar comes from that the yeast converts to alcohol) try some gluten free beers to see if it’s a gluten allergy causing you problems. If gluten free doesn’t make a difference, you’re likely better off avoiding beer (and whiskey, effectively unhopped and distilled beer).