Chapter 2 | Page 2: Jaws
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Nate clearly has some insecurities about his little dinghy.
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treadingground_feed Shadow Facts
Nov. 5th, 2025 08:26 pmpennyarcade_feedBecause we're still in the first flush of ARC Raiders, no equilibrium has been truly reached and thus raw potential permeates every interaction. This is the terrifying, middle-space ambiguity. You've heard - from us and others - that solo runs very nearly constitute a separate product from the first. You can and will get put under and robbed by rats and scoundrels, but the ratio is much different. I would say it's the inversion, almost to the number, of the group play dynamics. They are gonna try to kill and eat you the vast majority of the time, but every now and then they are just trying to check a box on the meta progression - a human universal, something anyone can understand. I have a button that shoots a gun and I have a button that talks to strangers. They're both modes of communication.
Help Us Help Sick Kids!
Nov. 4th, 2025 05:54 pmpennyarcade_feedThis is just a quick post to remind folks that the annual Child's Play charity dinner and auction is coming up on December 5th and you can get your tickets right here. The big news this year is that Jerry and I are returning to the stage to host the evening and serve as your terrible auctioneers!
Life lived in dot points
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fred_mouse- I submitted my preliminary candidacy proposal today. I still have to present it, get reviewer's feedback, and resubmit, but it is one hoop closer to done.
- I received confirmation that my application to work with a larger project has been accepted. I have until Monday to tell them what my milestones, deliverables, and KPIs are, and while the first two are okay, the last one is supposed to have at least one from a list I can't find
- I caved and bought an ebook bundle from StoryBundle: this trilogies bundle - I bought it for the Natania Barron (which I acquired book one while travelling, and then lost when I was 1/3 in) and the Jane Yolen (I believe I know where book 1 is, but I didn't know it was a trilogy). I have no expectations for the rest, but it was cheaper than trying to buy either of the trilogies (definitely in hard copy, but possibly still cheaper than them in softcopy, with the cost of ebooks)
- I was running ahead on the quilting, I then did none in the weekend just gone, so I think I'm a block behind, but I've also done some of the assembling, so I've worked ahead as well. progress is progress
- the little chamber orchestra has a performance on Sunday, and Youngest (who has not been able to attend a rehearsal all semester due to uni scheduling conflicts) came along and can play at least some of it, which helps bolster the currently light on cello section (we have a new cello player. This was their fourth session with us; I'm not sure they had met any of the other cello players before last night).
- I have managed to lose the blanket that lives on the red couch. I have zero memory of it ever being anywhere else, so I'm a bit :( about it. But I used it as the reference object for a course I'm doing (I'm doing two tiny courses, on the future of data and the future of communication, each ~10 hours, while attempting to do a stack of other things. As is the way, I'm too slow moving for it to be only 10 hours, given that I spent nearly two this afternoon doing 1/6 of the work)
Will It Crush
Nov. 3rd, 2025 09:18 pmpennyarcade_feed"Always two there are" isn't an adage limited just to the traditional distribution of evil Jedi. There are also two reasons why a person might engage with Extraction as a genre. I indicated the first on Friday, but one more appropriate to Gabriel and others.
ARC Raiders!
Nov. 3rd, 2025 04:52 pmpennyarcade_feedI am obsessed with ARC Raiders. This is my first time playing an extraction shooter and I am fascinated by the social experiment angle of it. I have had some absolutely unforgettable encounters with other people in the game and I’d say the overwhelming majority of those experiences have been positive.
ARC Raided
Oct. 31st, 2025 09:59 pmpennyarcade_feedThe best possible advertisement for ARC Raiders is that Gabe likes it. Might actually be obsessed with it. Called me up to play! Played solo, late, and then woke up early. Sent me clips of his derring do late in the night, awoke to write the strip with his mind clouded by the peals and shrieks of the Earth's cybernetic inheritors. He has aspirations for his play experience that are situated perhaps a little above mine. But there is a point, somewhere between his best laid plans (men) and my best laid plans (mice) where it's essentially a co-op horror game and I almost always have the appetite for one round.
5691
Oct. 30th, 2025 09:40 pmquestionable_content_feed
personally I'd never ask someone about their pronouns like that, but Clinton is nosy
Chapter 2 | Page 1: Balance
Oct. 30th, 2025 04:00 amtreadingground_feed
Bro has figured out the cheat code
(Nate is not a licensed financial advisor or planner, and this is not intended to be financial advice.)
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The Least
Oct. 30th, 2025 12:25 ampennyarcade_feedOne presumes my final form is just me as I am now, a greasy and glistening sphere, within which plump veins can be seen writhing in their labors. There are disadvantages obviously but if we're both trying to get to the bottom of a hill, and we're putting money on it? Good luck, bro. Good fuckin' luck.
Laundry Day
Oct. 28th, 2025 10:05 pmquestionable_content_feed
Everything immediately coated in dog hair, as it should be