Microblogging Journal through 4/14/2025
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Dispatches from @ultrviolet@gts.endgameviable.com:
Hey I remembered to run the thing and make the post. Anyway, once a month is plenty.
Tuesday 03/04
- 20:52 # Still listening to Smosh reading reddit posts in videos. At this point I have no choice but to believe that all these AITA-and-adjacent type posts have to be the place where writers practice their craft now. Surely creative writing teachers are telling all their students to go out and write AITA posts. Surely at least 75% of these things have to be fiction.
Monday 03/10
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09:38 # I was liking Monster Hunter Wilds until I got to the Hirabami quest last night where you’re supposed to shoot dung pods at them to separate them but the game didn’t tell me HOW to do any of that and then once I figured out that mechanic, it didn’t give me any dung pod resources to make more of them so I spent AN HOUR trying to kill one of those stupid things and then the quest timed out before I could. What a crock of b.s. that was.
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22:17 # So tonight I’ve been farming dung in Monster Hunter Wilds. How is that a thing in any game? Anyway, the good news is that MHWilds actually has a fairly convenient UI for finding things on a map and auto-riding to them to pick them up. (Map, filter icons, find the item, R3 button.) Still tedious, but at least I don’t have to go to a wiki and stumble around blindly in the game.
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22:20 # Next time I tackle these stupid Hirabami I’ll be armed with a pack full of a frick-ton of dung ammo, instead of having to scramble for the ONE dung resource in the quest area normally. I’m still so mad that the game made me waste a full hour of my time trying to figure out what I was supposed to do, then didn’t give me the resources I needed to even do it, then timed out the stupid quest in the end. So annoying.
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22:49 # InoReader (an RSS feed reader) now has a button to summarize blog posts in one sentence. It does it whether the post is in the RSS feed or not. Modern times.
Friday 03/14
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10:32 # I finally started Kingdom Come: Deliverance II last night (still have no idea what that title refers to in the game), which I’ve had installed for over a month I think. The game starts soooo slow, and scenes take forever to develop, and I really wasn’t in the mood to try to figure out the bizarre swordfighting mechanics again, so I don’t know if I’m going to get very far in this game.
Saturday 03/15
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11:32 # Arg I played another 45 minutes of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, hoping to find it still didn’t click with me, but I found myself getting invested in the story, and now I’m angry that I’ll have to play a third time. That’s kind of how the first game went, too. It sort of grows on you like a fungus, until you have no choice but to keep playing despite all the mechanical weirdness and the complete abandonment of all gaming conventions. Still no sign that there’s any changes from the first game. It’s exactly the same so far. Like why did it take so long to make it when they didn’t change anything? It’s basically DLC for the first game from what I’ve seen so far.
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19:34 # Wheel of Time S3E01… I expected the quality to drop off and the pacing of the show to accelerate so they could get through all the books in a shorter time, but neither seems to be the case so far.
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20:44 # Wheel of Time S3E02… I’ll just say what we’re all thinking: Why’s that Aiel man wearing spears?
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21:50 # Wheel of Time S3E03… one thing I really like about this show is the music. It’s very atypical for fantasy genre music, which is appropriate because Wheel of Time is somewhat atypical high fantasy. I had feared this season would drop in quality but so far, so good. Which of course means it’ll be cancelled and we’ll never get to see the Last Battle.
Sunday 03/16
- 15:19 # This is weird to say after enjoying Monster Hunter Wilds on the PS5, but I’m actually enjoying the struggle of playing Monster Hunter World on the PC with mouse and keyboard too. (Need to rest my thumb from too much controller use.) Previously I gave MHW a solid “meh,” but on this, the third attempt at playing it, I like it better than ever before.
Thursday 03/20
- 20:16 # Wheel of Time S3E04… Good ep. Finally the actor playing Rand got a chance to act. I remember big secrets being revealed in Rhuidean but I don’t remember them playing a meaningful role at any point for the rest of the book series. I imagine people who liked the books also like the series, but I have trouble imagining anyone who didn’t read the books likes the series, so I keep expecting it to get cancelled after every episode.
Thursday 03/27
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22:01 # Wheel of Time S3E05.. meh. There’s always a middle episode in every series, both television and book.
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22:03 # Been playing Monster Hunter World for a while now, getting kind of annoyed with Diablos. It feels like I’m absolutely murdering the dude but I keep getting killed by random bad luck. There’s so many circumstances where you can find yourself stunned or shaken or something and then the monster chooses that exact moment to charge you and it’s game over. Feels bad man.
Sunday 03/30
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15:33 # I know it’s not popular to like using AI, but I really love asking ChatGPT “deep research” questions about everyday issues like why the battery light on my car keeps coming on even after I changed the battery, or which podcast episodes contained references to other podcast episodes, and things like that.
Thursday 04/03
- 21:25 # Wheel of Time S3E06.. first 50 minutes was another pretty meh episode then it suddenly got good at the end. I hate that they’re making Rand relatable and even sympathetic, something I never once got from the books. The entire series I despised that dude and couldn’t wait for his chapters to end. Again I want to call out that the music is really good in this series, imo.
Saturday 04/05
- 18:51 # Trying Cursor for all my AI-assisted code generation needs. I assume every other programmer has embraced this new AI world and now can’t live without AI- assistance, like we previously adapted and can’t live without Intellisense.
Sunday 04/06
- 12:41 # I’m using the OpenAI API to transcribe the 90+ videos I recorded playing Dark Souls 2 for the first time back in 2015, and then I want to see if I can get it to generate a 5000 word summary of the entire experience.
Sunday 04/13
- 22:18 # So I randomly played through Resident Evil Village because I wanted to watch a Let’s Play of Resident Evil Village, but then it turned out the Let’s Play wasn’t that good. It’s one of those Let’s Plays where the dude has played the game 20 times so he’s just speedrunning on auto-pilot the whole time, and the other people watching him play aren’t even paying attention or talking about the game because it’s obviously boring to watch somebody speedrun a game on auto-pilot. Not a winning Let’s Play formula.
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