Dealing with issues does very suck. I got myself some mondo anxiety, I got the persistence of the nasty ankle, I got a firkin Bad Air Day going on...
I'm exhausted without even having started.
And I'm more inclined to call it a day early. It's been a terrible night and I'm looking down the barrel of a terrible day.
Fingers crossed things get better as time progresses.
Onwards to the offerings.
A toy shop proprietor sells plushie Cthulhu toys and cartoonish picture books, spreading joy to the children of his fair city in mockery of a century dead antiquarian.
Only, the toys begin whispering in the night, the picture books reveal quite starkly arcane hidden messages under moonlight, and one mother complains of a plushie leaking blood, the proprietor realizing too late what he's really been spreading... -- Anon Guest
The toys looked pretty cute. One of the selling points on the packaging
Read more »I had to sit out parkrun because my ankle is still playing up. I may not be on my feet next week but I can hope. Thanks to that, I got the idea of gaining a camp stool to hold my bad foot up in relative comfort.
It's working gangbusters, by the way.
That, and some tabletop gaming took up a lot of my day. I don't mind. My social battery got a top-up and I am grateful.
Other business included getting
Read more »They had a gift for seeing through disguises. The gentle dragon guised as a gnome traveling with that wizard. At night, they gently said. "I see you, and your soul is so beautiful." -- Anon Guest
[AN: Dragons shapeshift, but I'm going with a similar idea]
Technically speaking, Arwen was blind. Hir parents had been greatly upset by the lack and prayed to Lenus, the god of healing, for hir to have some vision given to hir. Gods grant prayers in peculiar
Read more »I have five chapters to read for posterity, a couple of videos to edit - one for PeerTube, one for YouTube, and now that I've figured out how to keep my foot elevated... I also have Cursor to fight with.
I'll hold out for as long as I can, as my arrangement does things to my hip. Win some, lose some. I might have to sit out parkrun because ankle. Fun times.
...I'm going to catch it from my Physio because of
Read more »King Kormwind, tenth of that name, is invited to a quiet picnic by the local orphanage. True the food is meager, and the fare is plain, but the companionship is honest, the laughter is genuine, and the children are having fun in the beautiful, open, summer-warmed field. -- Anon Guest
There's nothing like the news of a royal visit to make the authorities do a lightning round of shaping things up. His Majesty, King Kormwind Arachis Felbourne Whitekeep, tenth of the name,
Read more »My search for instructional videos on my ankle brace was a wash. Fortunately, the interwebs had a clear picture of the thing being worn. Powers know the firkin packet didn't have anything like a clear picture.
(grumbling about the way things are and who sells confounding gear minus a single sheet of paper)
I was so impressed by the ease of improving Beta 1.01 that I got into trying to make the tutorial. Big mistake.
I spent all of my remaining
Read more »They were in the temple of helping hands, having stayed up all night, yet again, cleaning, putting together the next day's bread, and other such chores. A kindly magic user used a very gentle spell to force them to go to sleep. Then, to protect their health, placed a geas upon them, so they did not work themselves into illness again. -- Anon Guest
Selflessness is a flaw, and few people see it as such. People who indulge in selflessness are seen
Read more »The good news is that all I have to do for the videos is edit the subtitles. It's a lighter load this time.
I tried to get Cursor to do things yesterday and all I got was the Cursor answer to the Spinny Wheel of Doom. Looks like I wasn't logged in to the website that makes it go. Grr. I'm still counting it as working on Pseuducku.
And I have a thing to write for the rant today. I don't know
Read more »A student is close to flunking out of a magic school. Desperate, the student turns to the accursed woods where the fairies dwell, hoping to strike a bargain. It's said that there are consequences to dealing with fae magic, but, it can't be worse than flunking out, right? -- Anon Guest
Rin would never make it as a Wizard. Even if he went after forbidden tomes and allowed a powerful spell to reside in his head, he couldn't even be a Wizzard[
Read more »I have things to share with the nice people funding a fraction of my lifestyle. I have video content to catch up on making.
I have a game to refine, including making sure that the popups stay within the game board space, minimising whitespace, and making certain the highlights are present. Then I push that as Beta 1.01 before wrestling with the tutorial nonsense.
I have an ankle brace that came without instructions, so I'm working out the best way to
Read more »They are a writer, and they thought their talent would simply consign them to a few pages, writing the histories of others, while their own was eventually forgotten. Their talent, however, was more than noticed. After all their writings gave lessons, and those lessons were saving many lives. -- Anon Guest
History is a complicated beast. It's difficult to believe that the first wonders of the world were not only rising from the ground, but had been standing for centuries at the
Read more »I didn't get to doing art assets yesterday, so I'll be doing those today. As well as the usual output of offerings for the temple of notes.
I'll be running the prototype efforts past the fam first and update when that's both hunky and dory. There's two ideas to do it - one: lighter backing behind the bird, and two, a 'halo' around their outline. And do the problem ducks first, then do something with the numbers as well.
With very good
Read more »They say he who works hard will be wealthy. In the Alliance, your effort is actually rewarded. You're a hard worker, you deserve this apartment, and all that you have. Please do not deny yourself simply because of what you were so cruelly told in your past. -- Anon Guest
Where I grew up, you had to earn air, and pay back the debt you accrued when you were too young to work. You had to earn enough air to sleep, the
Read more »So. After the Archive finishes going through the stories, I am offski on a mission. Part 1 - getting my meds restocked. Part 2 - looking for a thing that Costco is aiming towards not stocking any more. If Costco still has it, I'm getting extra. If not... then screw them. I'm looking for alternate supplies on the interwebs.
Costco's giving me fewer and fewer reasons to keep coming back there.
Remember, businesses, enshittification is your enemy.
Further plans for Pseuducku include
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