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DM of the Rings Remastered CXXXI: A Profound Lack of Swooning
Wednesday Action Log 09-10-25
This week I’ve has been more of the same.
Balatro continues to be a good time waster, nothing new about it.
I haven’t played any Rainbow Six Siege this week, and I only played a bit of Project Zomboid.
I have been doing something more interesting this week. Playing random Itch.io horror games. Some of the highlights I can remember are Carbon Steel, a game where you are collecting samples from unknown monsters in a cage, using weird equipment.
CleaningRedVille, a game were you collect trash at night.
and DREAD FLATS, a game were you are playing as a paranormal investigator looking for ghosts in a well known haunted apartment building.
What’s everyone else doing?
DM of the Rings Remastered CXXX: You May Now Celebrate
Fast Food Burgers (and other things) What I Have Tried Recently
You know how this works. I did this before. Relevant background information: I think the Double Whopper (WITHOUT cheese, because I don’t like Burger King’s cheese) is the best fast-food burger, followed by the Impossible Whopper and the regular Whopper. And I’ll generally give Burger King higher marks for burgers and related items than other locations. Not on principle; just because I genuinely like them better. Except the cheese, or anything that heavily uses their cheese. It’s disgusting, IMO. Also, I don’t like their chicken fries. That’s a breaded chicken nugget in the shape of a french fry, if you didn’t know. Either the breading is AWFUL, or they use different chicken. Most likely it’s a completely different product that’s heated up, but I don’t know that. I have *accidentally* received chicken fries when I got the wrong order (and left the establishment before I checked…(*always* check your bag, even if it holds up the line. I understand that can be really hard for some people. Heck, *I* have moved forward and got out of the way before checking sometimes.) I took ONE bite, spit it out, and threw the chicken fries away. They stank, too. They *always* stink to me.
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Wednesday Action Log 09-03-25
This week I’m Playing a bit of Project Zomboid.
It’s going well, learning how foraging works because after playing 80+ hours I for some reason never experimented with a bunch of the survival skills.
Also, I finally learned how to host a dedicated sever, after indenting to learn how for about ten years.
Rainbow Six Siege is still being played on the side, as well as Balatro. Both still going well.
What’s everyone else doing?
DM of the Rings Remastered CXXIX: While You Were Fighting
The Omni-lore of Warhammer
No, I’m not talking about any incarnation of Warhammer as an expert or even an informed noob. As much as I *may* know about Warhammer, there are people who have lived and breathed either all of Warhammer or some particular variant for long enough to pick anything I say apart. So I’m not even going to pretend special knowledge. In fact, other than knowing what Warhammer 40,000 was; I never had any interest until a few years ago. And as far as enjoying the core dynamic, tabletop war-gaming aspect, it’s not gone well. A few years back I got keenly interested, bought an Adepta Sororitas box set that was getting harder to find but was still reasonably available (I bought it off of eBay from Britain, something nearly impossible at the moment) and one of my kids got a Space Wolves box. And then a new version of Warhammer 40k was released that changed the rules, and according to some people made both box sets at least half-pointless.
We still have the boxes. I like building models and have never gotten in to miniatures-building, so that’s a possibility. Except every time I think I’ve got a grasp on how to paint miniatures I come across another video that does things exactly the opposite and claims it’s the best way to paint. And fundamentally, my inherent OCD conflicts with, as far as I can gather, a fundamental conceit of Warhammer 40K: it’s not meant to be taken seriously AT ALL.
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