im gonna keep saying pahlia

WHAT

mediterranean breakfast

even going for a password manager might be going above a lot of young people's paygrade nowadays. a lot of 18 year olds don't know how folders work. i've seen people very uncomfortable using things like ctrl+z to undo. i feel like the baseline has to be around there

why does my brain do this

i've been meaning to get a haircut recently and i planned on getting one today

it's currently 11:52AM

i think "ah. i have my radio show at 8, so i have to prepare the songs, so i don't think i'll be able to get my haircut today"

it doesn't take longer than an hour to do either of these things

it turns out that there's a reason why each system existed the way it did, and constantly changing them for player's efficiency's sake actually does make the game worse

it's not just the players optimizing the fun out of a game, the developers are doing it too

that's not the case any more. sailing is basically not necessary now that diving exists (unless you're selling, which is not far usually)

island traversal (and getting loot back to your ship) is piss easy now with the harpoon guns and rowboats

and hardcore combat is literally on-demand

in the early seasons there was a beautiful rock paper scissors dynamic between sailing, wandering around islands, and combat. one led to the other so naturally and so smoothly that you could combine them into one whole experience

however i don't think this is *entirely* the fault of rare themselves, i think any company would eventually find that there's actually a delicate balance when it comes to this game's content which has been thrown irrecoverably out of whack

happy birthday puring!!

the contrast between the sweetness and the strength is the secret sauce. very important.

if your character is a woman who is:

- strong (physically or just personality)
- sweet
- has some kind of elemental ability

i *will* swoon