megane-kun @ megane_kun @lemm.ee

Just an ordinary myopic internet enjoyer.

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In real life? Nope. I don't think I have the patience for that, sitting perfectly still for hours on end. I would probably enjoy the scenery and the vibe though.

Triple triad + Card mod ability = broken game

It might have had a factor in my not enjoying the Triple Triad mini game, as I sometimes get bogged down in just collecting cards to convert into spells and items. Also, the Queen of Cards is a huge pain. And the CC Club sidequest.

The fishing minigame from Breath of Fire 4. There's just something that's both simple and relaxing, as well as complex and engaging in that minigame. Even better, it's not a requirement to finish the game.

And then there's the fishing minigame on Stardew Valley.

I wonder if answering "I don't know, I haven't checked" would count as:

• "Why is this bastard even trying to apply for a job when they can't even count the number of toilets in their house?"
• "Probably trying to dodge the question, not good."
• "Homeless motherfucker? REJECTED!"

I used to change WASD keybindings to ESDF for a similar reason. And in most of my emulators, IJKL stand for triangle, square, x, and circle (or their other console equivalents) respectively.

The rest are more or less assigned depending on the console. Since I mostly play PS1 games, the rest of the bindings are follows:

• L1: A
• L2: Q
• R1: ;
• R2: P
• Start: G
• Select: H

That's a great idea! Probably stealing it for when I next play a wizard-like spellcaster.

There was one time I had to play double-duty as utility and party healer. I thought it was a good idea to keep track of everyone's health. In my head, it makes for deciding when to "switch to healing" far easier. So I had this sheet of paper keeping track of everyone's total HP and current HP. At some point, I'll switch to being the medic and physically pull out a card that says "Beacon of Hope" with a description of what it does (full HP dealt with healing spells and potions, among other things), and start doling out healing spells.

Aside from keeping track of everyone's HP (which, in hindsight, shouldn't be my job anyways), it was kinda simple. Even before my turn, I already have an idea what to do, usually trying to keep some idiot in the party alive. It's just a matter which idiot I would try to save first (and for most situations, I just go for the one with the least current HP).

I used to print out spell sheets and put them into some sort of a spell booklet for reasons like this. It also helps that I played a bard when I did that and so there wasn't a whole lot of spells that I needed to keep track of.

The last time I played a wizard, I just relied on a similar tactic (one-spell sheets compiled into some sort of a booklet), but instead of printing it out, they just stayed as files that I move to a directory on my phone called "prepared spells".

It's a matter of social convention. I grew up where there's a variety of foods that are typically thought of as "breakfast food". There are those that would fit in nicely with a typical American breakfast (some bread, coffee, and perhaps some egg; chocolate rice porridge; congee), those that would be proper meals (some rice, either fried or plain white, some protein or two, and an egg), and those that are kinda in-between (noodle dishes, some can be thick and hearty).

I think it's just something that can quickly be served up while I'm half-asleep and low on energy. A simple garlic fried rice with last night's left overs or some fried sausages and an egg or two would be more than enough to kickstart my day, but it can be too much of a hassle to prepare on some days. Hence, I can understand why some people would fall into a habit of eating a "dessert breakfast" — high on sugars and easy to prepare.

I always thought "PM" stands for "Personal Message", which is more or less an okay description. You send a message to someone "personally", not in-person, but close enough, I suppose.

Okay, so that's like two-thirds of the earth's surface (centered at the antipodal point), and it's a random person. It's almost certain that I don't know this person (aside from the info just given to me), and that the easiest way I can help save them in 24 hours is to warn them online.

First off, how can I be sure that those premonitions are real? They're of a random person that may or may not have an obiturary available to me after they've died. Worse, these obituaries might get published days after the death. Making sure that I'm not going crazy (or being driven crazy by those) would be pretty hard.

Listing the deaths (never in a computer, at least at this early stage) with all the details available to me would be a good start. The following details would be the most helpful:

• real name of the person
• the time of premonition
• date of the printed obituary (or the date of the newspaper where the obituary is printed on)

If there's enough data to convince me that it is indeed real, and be able to tease out the rules of this power, I can start saving people.

First off, I'll filter those forseen deaths. for those judged "bad", I'll keep the info to myself. I am assuming that part of this judgement is my morals, so I do have a hand in the deaths I fail to prevent, whether or not they're judged "good" or "bad". At any rate, this would likely be instantaneous, and would happen as I record the premonition and its details.

Second, I'll create a website, a very secure one for obvious reasons, with effort done to isolate myself (any information that can lead to me) from this website. In this website, there'd be a page listing all the premonitions I decided would be published. Marked as "impending" (or something equally ominous) would be the premonitions I witnessed within the past 24 hours. Another page would list all of those ones (and where people could be alerted). Heck, maybe I can establish an RSS feed for this.

I guess, it'd be like techno Death Note, but I have zero control over the details.

Of course, that'd not be a very effective way of getting the information out. Relatives and friends of those people listed might even suspect the page has something to do with the deaths. I'd expect law enforcement to be on to me, tracing me via the hosting services, the ISP, etc. that I use to publish the website. And in the event they do get to me, and if I'm afforded any trial, people might not even believe what I tell them (even if I tell the entire truth).

If I do nothing, none of that will come to pass, but I'd be racked by guilt over the "good" deaths I am not able to prevent. On the other hand, even just getting that information out, even if no one ever benefits from it, is already putting myself and those around me at danger.

Personally? I don't have the skills to create that website, let alone do it in such a way that it isolates me well enough to at least not get me arrested within a week of the site operating.

My closet has five drawers and an open space that has three layers next to it. The items in the drawers are arranged according to function.

• Drawer 1 (topmost): accessories This contains my handkerchiefs, face towels, bandannas, but also some headwear and gloves.
• Drawer 2: socks and underwear Pretty self-explanatory, I guess? I put this high up so that I don't have to bend down, exposing my bare ass into the air when I need to get a change of underwear.
• Drawer 3: shorts Along with the next drawer, this is where I store my "housewear" which is just shorts and simple shirts (or undershirts)
• Drawer 4: undershirts Yep, undershirts and other simple shirts. This can also contain some old "outside shirts" repurposed to become housewear.
• Drawer 5 (bottom-most): cold weather clothes This contains my jackets, pajamas and other "cold weather clothes". I live in a very warm place, so these see very rare use, hence, their position at the bottom drawer.

For the other space, it's "outside wear" shirts organized by color for the top two layers. The top layer has shirts with simple, round-neck collars, and the middle layer has the shirts with less-than-simple collars. The bottom layer has my jeans, pants, and other "outside wear" clothes that are not shirts.

Those among them lacking in morals would make bank (or influence, whatever is afforded to them) justifying that government's actions according to US constitutional law.

Five on Lemmy, one each on Mastodon and Pixelfed (techincally two each, since I moved instances). So that's seven in total. More if other Fediverse services capture my fancy.

Yep, I tried it. It actually is good with the bun. It's like a poor man's ice cream sandwich.

Young coconut ice cream. It's one of those flavors we can easily get from those ice cream carts that stop by the neighborhood usually in the middle of the afternoon. There's also mango and avocado completing the usual three flavors the cart would have, and I would always buy all three flavors available (unless I really hate the flavor).

Some of the adults would opt to have the ice cream served in a bread bun (usually just repurposed hamburger buns, without the sesame seeds), but I always opted for the sugar cones.

A horrible accident involving a pair of eyeglasses.

That daughter is the current vice president (who ran together on the same ticket as the current president: another dictator's offspring). Seems like the daughter would be gunning for the presidency the next election (since presidents in the Philippines are only allowed one term) and is now have been waging a word war against the current president and their camp.

Anyways, the fear is that this arrest will be used for pity points amongst Duterte's base. Filipinos in general love dramatics and the underdog. They will milk this arrest for all its worth, painting the elder Duterte as being oppressed, at the behest of "foreign interests" and agitating the base.

I bet the views of the Alps are majestic from there!

And yeah! I imagine the trip would be so much fun (though a bit exhausting). It'd be combining two of the things that fascinate me: mountains and trains.

I sometimes fantasize going from the northern tip of Scotland all the way to Singapore on a train. Not non-stop, of course, but maybe going from one city to another, spending some time on a city until I get my fill, and then hop on the train to the next one. All the way until I run out of land. Maybe from there (Singapore), I can do island-hopping across Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Then road trip in Australia. But that's really stretching it, not just in terms of logistics and planning. At the pace I do things, do I really want to spend like five years crawling through Europe, Asia, and Australia? Even if money's no object, I don't think I can do that.

Sorry for the ramble. Given the scope of the question, yeah, a cross-Europe mountain train trip is perhaps my limit (that'd be like, two weeks? maybe a month if I take my time to really enjoy each place I visit?)

Switzerland. Having grown up in the coastal plains, I just have this fascination with mountains. I don't t have the physical condition to climb one, but just seeing them up close already makes me feel things. Being on top of one, even more so.

Maybe I can do even better and do a train journey from France, and then Switzerland, then across Austria, all the way to Hungary and Romania, making sure that I cross as many mountains as I possibly can.

I've never thought the poop knife will come back to relevance in this manner. Never!