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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • Elden Ring.

    I didn’t love the learning/difficulty curve of Soulsborne games until this one, but it got its hooks in me hard.

    I usually spammed most boss fights and played everything a certain way, but here I had to learn the boss’s moves and dodge, parry and use power ups to bring them down.

    Worth it. While frustrating, it made me return to other genres and play them again but differently. Hitman, sniper elite, roguelites/likes, anything that rewards patience, really. These now had a whole new facet I didn’t see before, or I did and I was applying it to these games.

    I’ve since tried other soulsborne games, and while I now appreciate the difficulty and find them a lot more fun, the exploration and world of Elden Ring was the difference maker for me. It was being able to forge my own path and choose my challenges.






  • Because retailers took advantage of inflation to push profits even higher, especially one specific retailer who has a vertical monopoly in the grocery sector, of which they’ve been caught and convicted of using to fix the prices of bread in the past.

    They’re still high because food is a staple, a necessity. Competition can’t spin up in several months. And competition certainly can’t compete with this existing farm to grocer system.

    These prices are never coming down. They’d keep going higher if people weren’t so angry they were stealing instead.

    The best protest is to not shop there.

    I know. Sounds stupid.

    Farmers stands. Farm to table markets. Farmer’s markets.

    Call farms and see if you can place orders. They need larger orders? Start ordering with friends, neighbours, family.

    This stuff is grown in our backyard, and we are paying for some guy to buy it to sell to some other guy for a huge mark up so we can pay even more for no reason.