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Cake day: December 6th, 2023

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  • Lately I’ve been really annoyed by Microsoft products. For a certain work-related thing we were using Microsoft word to collaborate and it randomly would stop letting some of us edit, throwing warnings like “Allow access to your Microsoft 365 account” even though I was already signed in, and clicking on allow access would just bring the warning back upon refreshing.

    Which would happen every 20 minutes because it gives me a pop-up to sign in, with three buttons on the pop-up. Two are cancel buttons, and the actual sign in button is invisible. I was already signed in, of course. I couldn’t continue working until a refresh.

    Moving pictures is the biggest pain for some reason (and it isn’t even better in LibreOffice Writer). It’s been like this for years.

    And then they have the gaul to start throwing AI everywhere when they can’t even make their basic systems usable. I’m starting to root for Microsoft’s failure these days, because they haven’t done anything useful or innovative since the pandemic.

    Disgruntled, I suggested that we switch to Google Docs (yes, I know it’s Google, but we all already have Google accounts and we needed this done in a few hours), and everyone instantly agreed because I had just said their frustrations out loud.






  • During my long motorcycle road trip to the twisties, I saw this huge white structure looming distantly in front of me. I wondered what the heck it was, first thought it was some kind of coal processing thing and then thought it was a wind turbine under construction. But as I got closer, I saw that it was a freakishly large dish. During my next stop, I confirmed it was this telescope. Should’ve taken a picture of it.



  • Oh boy. I got into Pokémon when I was 8 and I still love the format. It has a great progression system (at least in my mind) and can be used in easy and super challenging ways, like Nuzlockes. I have way too much nostalgia for the series and I like the music way too much.

    My short opinions of the each game:

    R/B/Y: Unbalanced, seriously exploitable glitchy games. At least there’s no cutscenes.

    G/S/C: Terrible level curve, ruins the games.

    R/S/E: The first games to really nail the format.

    FR/LG: What R/B/Y should’ve been.

    D/P: Great potential but please play on emulator because they’re so slow. Play platinum instead and don’t bother with the remakes.

    HG/SS: Best for a grand Pokémon Game, but still retains some of the bad progression from G/S/C. Still a great game overall

    B/W: I have way too much nostalgia for these games but they’re some of the best.

    B2W2: Less nostalgia but objectively better than even B/W in multiple ways.

    XY: Mediocre

    OR/AS: Good remake on a great base.

    S/M/US/UM: If you like playing Pokemon instead of watching cutscenes, don’t play these games. Seriously, don’t.

    LGPE: Gimmicky games. FR/LG is better unless you really enjoy the Let’s Go gimmicks.

    SwSh: Mediocre I believe

    BDSP: See D/P

    PLA: I still need to get around to playing it, gah the backlog is too long

    S/V: Actually really great games if you hate how linear other Pokemon games are like I do, and you can look past the performance issues

    If you have any questions or comments please reply lol.