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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • On a similar vein, quit using fabric softeners and dryer sheets.

    Fabric softeners use a mild acid to burn off loosening fibers which speeds up the wear of your clothes.

    Dryer sheets work by transferring wax from the sheet to your clothing. This smooths those fibers down and waxes them in place. Wax is incredibly good at holding odors, that’s why we use it for candles and why dryer sheets leave a lasting smell. Unfortunately, it’s not picky so any smell can get trapped in that wax and linger for ages.

    As it turns out, most modern textiles are made out of finely processed material, you’re going to be hard pressed to find any clothes that actually need that kind of treatment. It’s wholly pointless on synthetic fabrics.

    The worst offenders will begin to pill after a while, you simply shave the pills off with a razor or a depiller tool, which is fully affordable with the money you save on not buying dryer sheets.






  • Morrowind, and to a greater part the elder scrolls is the primary inspiration for my meta canon. Every character in every game I play is actually controlled by an eldritch entity that can see all possible iterations of a reality. When I die, I get shunted back into the aether and re enter the timeline at an earlier point. That’s why, to the NPCs, I know every trap, map, and position of enemies. It’s not even the first time I’ve eaten an iteration of this timeline. Ultimately, at the conclusion of the game, after collecting all the relics, which are Meta-canoned as items that survive the death of a timeline, I slay every living entity in the plane. The combined metaphysical ripple caused by an enormous a historical event followed by the death of all sapient life fules the entities escape from this timeline and travel to a new potential destination.

    To this day, the only game I can’t go back to play with this is far cry 5, which is the first game that managed to best my entity.



  • Having been playing it off and on since release, you can honestly get away with just playing the base game in OpenMW and using Console command to fortify your weapon skills. With those at 100, you don’t wiff 9/10 swings but combat is still mechanically unpredictable enough to feel like you’re not over powered. Back on original Xbox you could even do it by constantly reequipping a bound weapon. If you’re a hoarder like me you don’t even need a house mod to display all your stuff, you can get one for free by picking the tower sign and breaking into a quest house. Even comes with a dead guy to use as a crate.


  • There is an ingame map, but it works like a scratch off. Everything is obfuscated until you either talk about the location with someone or go there. The terrain changes from default brown to textured as you move through it. If you follow the roads you’ll basically draw them onto the map but there’s a lot of missions where they’re like, “follow the road to fort placething, then take the 4th left, look for a hill and you’ll find the door in the other direction.”

    Frankly I always found it easier to look at a map, guess where the location is, and levitate or hoptoad in a straight line to that area.




  • That’s good to hear, work has me dealing with tons of people who do not have that handled lol.

    In that case I’d suggest 3 things. Firstly, try different writing utensils. Nothing improved my handwriting so quickly like switching to 0.7mm roller ball pens. They provide a thick wet line that hides my naturally scratchy movement and allow for a smoother motion that I need to write cleanly.

    Sencond, penmanship exercises. My son and I did them together to help his writing and it did a lot for me even if it was intended for second graders.

    Third, learn a new writing style. We don’t really think about it, but the method taught in schools is an industrialized process that won’t quite fit every single student. The start points, tilt, angle of pen, character spacing, all of that can apply differently based on hand size, wrist angle, pen grip, etc. Instead, take characters you have a particular problem with and try writing them different ways until you find one that you like then just practice that to overwrite your indoctrination. I personally do my “a” with the top hook, my “E” has a “)” shape to its back, “jgq” all have invented hooks, “mnr” lose the solid bar, and any capital with a bar other than E gets the curves as triangles first with a down stroke added for the bar, so “D” looks like “|>” if the shapes were more proportional and overlapped.