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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXV: Incontheevable!
Wednesday Action Log 6-12-24
This week I’ve continued to play Rimworld. I’ve gotten all of the research done and my book collection has reached 110 books with a reading bonus of 16%. Other highlights include: one of my colonists threw a tantrum and attacked a mortar causing it to explode, also detonating 60 high-explosive shells and 3 antigrain warheads with it, another colonist divorced Crawdad, then married his son making Crawdad her father-in-law ex-husband. I also decided I didn’t want to deal with raids anymore, so I made a wall of uranium slug turrets with a total of 117 turrets and no more problems with raids.
Stardew is also still going. Not a whole lot to mention, I’m mostly mining in Skull Caverns for radioactive ore.
Anyway, what is going on with you guys?
Home Repair Edition (when everything breaks)
You ever have one of those days that you wake up and find everything is broken? And the dogs tried to bite a porcupine? And the washing machine is in a different room now because it got off-balance during the spin cycle and nobody noticed? And, rightly or wrongly (probably wrongly) you feel like it’s up to you to fix everything because you haven’t had your coffee yet and your aren’t even thinking straight? It’s one of those days. Just like last week, I’m gonna say this will probably be a short one with lots of pictures.
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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXIV: Equestrian Diving Event
Wednesday Action Log 6-5-24
This week I’m still playing Stardew Valley. I’ve finally got up Foraging to level 10, which was much more difficult than I expected. I’m still playing Rimworld on the side. I’ve bought every book any time a merchant shows up. And I’m probably utilizing the load game feature a bit much, at least when combat goes poorly. Anyway, what are you guys up to?
Dark of the Moon on the Third of June (nonsense post)
A variety of bad weather and bad eating leaves me a bit content-poor at the moment. I am working on a longer post; I’m just pretty low energy at the moment. My week in hobbies and gaming consisted of working on two Metal Earth-brand model kits, getting to the final ten tiers of rewards in Galactic Season 6 in Star Wars: The Old Republic, figuring out what needs to be done with Mystilatre the Hunter in Warlords of Draenor before doing the end-game zone, and starting Selarishari, my Blood Elf Paladin, in The Burning Crusade.
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DM of the Rings Remastered LXXIII: Schrödinger’s Familiar
I sort of indulged myself with this one. If the joke made no sense, then you can read this. The joke still won’t make sense, but at least you’ll be distracted.
I’ve wanted to make this joke for ages. Long before DM of the Rings, I used to think this way when dice would bounce away and fall in some hidden corner.
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