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Continue reading →: Randall Dean ClarkI normally don’t replay video games for the same reason I don’t reread books or rewatch shows: there’s no magic left. I remember enough of what happens that I can always see around the corner, and that’s just not fun for me. But a while back, the DLCs of Fallout:…
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Continue reading →: How I Work Out at the GymIt’s New Year’s resolution time, so that means every gym will be packed until mid-February. For those of us who go regularly year round, it’s a bit of an annoyance, but at least among the people I know, we root for the newcomers, hoping some of them stick with it…
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Continue reading →: Black Mirror EpisodesGrouping Uplifting/Bleak Score This is my attempt to rate the episodes from most uplifting (1) to most bleak (10). This ranking takes the whole episode into account; darker moments can exist in lower-number episodes and vice versa. The intent is to have a rough indicator for those who prefer to…
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Continue reading →: Hard Knocks Season 24 (First Episode)Hard Knocks is one of my favorite shows of all time. There’s a longer post I may write someday, but the short version is: this show portrays more intriguing personal drama, everyday humor, and gut punches than a lot of fictional shows, and it’s real. My favorite parts of the…
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Continue reading →: How I Make Packaged RamenWith a microwave. I adopted this method from a friend back in college. I thought nothing of it for years until a friend recently watched me do it and looked at me like I was an alien when I finished. I’ve since talked to other friends, and all have said…
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Continue reading →: Thursday President BootsHow I Got Here (skip if you just want details about the item itself) I am a big fan of wardrobe specialization: having many pieces that are each good for one or two specific situations. For 10+ years, the slot of “more casual than dress shoes, more formal than hiking…
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Continue reading →: ControlContains minor spoilers Why I Started It Control was released in 2019, and from what I remember, there was a decent amount of fanfare because of it’s association with the Alan Wake universe. Those were still the relatively early days of Game Pass (launched in June of 2017), so Microsoft…