Burger Conspiracy

By Paige Francis Posted Monday Oct 14, 2024

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I lost a day at some point in the last few days. It’s now Sunday, and I woke up thinking it was Saturday. I thought yesterday was Friday, and that today would be Saturday, and I planned out my day according to that belief. When I realized it was actually Sunday, I was suddenly a day behind on everything. So I had to spend the next several hours just mentally dealing with my schedule (such as it is) being wrecked and figuring out how to rebuild everything. Hopefully, I can operate correctly the next few days. But partially for that reason, today’s post will be another short one (by my standards…someone pointed out they didn’t really consider last week’s post “short.” And sure; it’s a subjective term. But first, a burger news follow-up.

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DM of the Rings XCII: Ding!

By Peter T Parker Posted Sunday Oct 13, 2024

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– Shamus, Wednesday Apr 25, 2007

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Wednesday Action Log 10-9-24

By Issac Young Posted Wednesday Oct 9, 2024

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This week has been exclusively Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel.

It’s like Borderlands 2, but in space! Which was pretty fun for a while, but now I’m sick of of space and I want to go back to Pandora, where there’s an atmosphere, the ground has vegetation, and Spiderants & Skags want to eat my legs.

The game is notably shorter, but the level cap is almost the same as BL2, which makes leveling up kind of tedious. The pre-sequel has 1 major DLC whereas BL2 has 5 major, and 5 small DLCs. On the upside, the one major DLC the game has is good.

I knew nothing about Claptastic Voyage, and I was pleasantly surprised. The theming of being inside of Claptrap’s brain is fun, the jokes are solid, and the level design does a lot of fun things that just wouldn’t make sense in any other context. The only bad thing I have to say is that the boss at the end has about as much health as a raid boss but without the loot of a raid boss.

So anyway, what’s everyone else up to?

 


 
 

Drive-thru Burger Trends

By Paige Francis Posted Monday Oct 7, 2024

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Short post this week, because I’m sick. Most of the house is sick, actually. This is a rural, farming area, and this time of year the temperature is fluctuating between the 60’s and the 90’s, there is a constant cloud of fine dust in the air, and drifting mildly-carcinogenic chemicals. Because people in this area would rather pay the price in health for the lowest expenses and highest profit-margins, it’s probably not going to change until the constantly decreasing water supply, underlying Dust Bowl 2 conditions, and steadily increasing earthquakes render the region unproductive, if not absolutely unlivable. I was going to write about movies that have a bad reputation that I think are actually quite good. I’m not talking about “so bad it’s good” like The Room or Battlefield Earth, or generally enjoyable for what they are B-movies or micro-budget Corman successes. I mean movies that zigged when they were supposed to zag, and so were dismissed. Movies that failed to meet expectations and were forgotten. I got the list up to two, and had developed arguments for both (in my head), then as I searched for a third movie to do, I forgot what the first movie was. Somehow, it just completely escaped my mind. The second film was M. Night Shayamalan’s The Village which was set up by expectations from Shayamalan’s previous movies to the extent that people, I think, failed to view it from different perspectives. It actually has some pretty deep narratives and implications (and a really cute love story) if you just adjust your perspective a bit. BUT I CAN’T REMEMBER WHAT THE FIRST MOVIE WAS, and now I’m short-circuited.

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DM of the Rings XC: Don’t Dream it’s Over

By Peter T Parker Posted Thursday Oct 3, 2024

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-Shamus Apr 20, 2007

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Wednesday Action Log 10-2-24

By Issac Young Posted Wednesday Oct 2, 2024

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This week I’ve finally finished Borderlands 2. I replayed all of the DLCs, got to Ultimate vault hunter mode, and than got to overpower level 10. It was fun, but I don’t think I’m ever going to do that again.

It takes such a long time to get to level 80 that the last few levels feel like they take the same amount of time to get as 1 to 30.

And the overpower levels aren’t any better, the gauntlet you have to go through is fine on its own. But having to do it so many times is tedious at best. Especially with the increasing damage reduction with each level going up to ? 65%.

On the upside, there’s not really any point to getting overpower level so I don’t have to do it again.

And now, I move onto Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. I don’t remember if I’ve played the DLC for this one, and it’s been around five years since I last played it so it’ll be nice to go back and see what I’m forgetting, good or bad. (Hopefully good.)

So what’s everyone else doing this week?