ascension day
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yamamanamaThere is yet another Emily, along with Lucy, Madelyn, and someone who’s name I can’t remember. There is also Cassie but she's been there for at least a week.
We have another baby weasel and he’s at the age in which we’re giving him mice and he just rips them open and sucks out all the innards and leaves the fur and brain behind. But usually, we have to gut something, and by gut, I mean take out muscles, the heart, the lungs, the liver, but not the actual gut, as that’s more poop than meat, and the last time I checked, weasels are carnivorans and not carnivorous plants.
We had some baby shrews but they were all really small and none of them made it, and a few of the raccoons died. On the bright side, some squirrels and rabbits, the big snapping turtle, the painted turtles, box turtles, and spotted turtles are all leaving us/left us this week.
We were talking about releasing a seagull in a garbage dump or behind a McDonalds.
Gallop had a bit of hoof rot and Ellie, jealous of the attention she was getting, gave herself a bit of a Joker grin.
Emily said that fruit belongs to the floor now.
Taylor thought that BJs was a restaurant before she came here and knew people who went on cheap dates at Costco, which is apparently the largest chain that serves pizza.
In real life, Rick Snyder wants to make it so black people are subject to a “work 30 hours a week or you don’t get medicaid” rule but white people aren’t. In real life, war criminal Oliver North is the new presidente of the NRA. In real life, Hezbollah won an election in Lebanon. In real life, Israel and Syria got in their biggest pissing match since the seventies, which might just be a good thing because even a low-scale war would divert troops and numbers are not a luxury Syria has at this point. In real life, Iowa is trying to ban abortions after the 6th week of pregnancy.
My difficulty in finding guides for a 20 year old mod for Escape Velocity reminded Michael about asking advice on the Goron Races in Majora's Mask and getting "stay in first" and "don't fall behind." Also, one time he lent Twilight Princess to his friend and he got so pissed off at the fishing minigame near the beginning that he snapped the disc in half. My gripes with Twilight Princess are the 5 hour slog before the first dungeon and the escort mission.
I have no idea what Martin Turner intended the player to do during the "Rescue Blatavska" mission in The Frozen Heart. Maybe you activate the tractor beam as soon as the ship comes careening into the system. The only guide I could find for it suggests editing the plugin and lowering the Speedster's velocity. Brilliant, except I tried to disable it and it was invincible because I guess maybe you're supposed to knock it around with missiles in order to slow it down. I'm not sure if it was meant to be disabled upon entry or what, but what I did to bypass the mission entirely is to set it so you pick up the cargo upon receiving the mission.
I also fixed the late game mission. For some reason, it would show up at the beginning, and it wasn’t doable until you completed the previous mission because of the way EV handles things like planets getting sacked and/or liberated. It’s a really fun and really clever mission and I’m not going to explain how to do it for those people who might stumble here looking for information about The Frozen Heart.
Spending a couple of hours going through the Ambrosia forum for EV Override taught me a few things about The Frozen Heart. Femme Fatale comes full circle but it does leave an important plot thread hanging.
I'm not surprised that the Magellanic Confederacy is antitheist but I am surprised that the Rigellian Empire is. Most of our real life tyrannies have either reinterpreted existing religions to fit their worldview, like Nazi Germany and its satellites, or simply made up religions wholesale, a la North Korea.
Ambrosia's forums also come the closest to April 20, 1999 that I've seen. The earliest posts are around January 2000. If you're wondering why I brought that up, I had this thought a few years ago.
I think a combination of EV Nova and Martin Turner getting into politics killed it.
There's a mission string in which there's an election being suborned by a tech corporation. And this was made in 1998.
Michael was surprised when I said it was stolen paper ballots instead of hacked electronic ballots. I can think of two things that could happen. Either we’ll all use paper ballots because it’s harder to suborn an election or we’ll use electronic ballots because it’s easier to suborn an election. Back in 1998, electronic voting was a novelty at most.
burning question: do you think we'll use paper ballots in the future?
We have another baby weasel and he’s at the age in which we’re giving him mice and he just rips them open and sucks out all the innards and leaves the fur and brain behind. But usually, we have to gut something, and by gut, I mean take out muscles, the heart, the lungs, the liver, but not the actual gut, as that’s more poop than meat, and the last time I checked, weasels are carnivorans and not carnivorous plants.
We had some baby shrews but they were all really small and none of them made it, and a few of the raccoons died. On the bright side, some squirrels and rabbits, the big snapping turtle, the painted turtles, box turtles, and spotted turtles are all leaving us/left us this week.
We were talking about releasing a seagull in a garbage dump or behind a McDonalds.
Gallop had a bit of hoof rot and Ellie, jealous of the attention she was getting, gave herself a bit of a Joker grin.
Emily said that fruit belongs to the floor now.
Taylor thought that BJs was a restaurant before she came here and knew people who went on cheap dates at Costco, which is apparently the largest chain that serves pizza.
In real life, Rick Snyder wants to make it so black people are subject to a “work 30 hours a week or you don’t get medicaid” rule but white people aren’t. In real life, war criminal Oliver North is the new presidente of the NRA. In real life, Hezbollah won an election in Lebanon. In real life, Israel and Syria got in their biggest pissing match since the seventies, which might just be a good thing because even a low-scale war would divert troops and numbers are not a luxury Syria has at this point. In real life, Iowa is trying to ban abortions after the 6th week of pregnancy.
My difficulty in finding guides for a 20 year old mod for Escape Velocity reminded Michael about asking advice on the Goron Races in Majora's Mask and getting "stay in first" and "don't fall behind." Also, one time he lent Twilight Princess to his friend and he got so pissed off at the fishing minigame near the beginning that he snapped the disc in half. My gripes with Twilight Princess are the 5 hour slog before the first dungeon and the escort mission.
I have no idea what Martin Turner intended the player to do during the "Rescue Blatavska" mission in The Frozen Heart. Maybe you activate the tractor beam as soon as the ship comes careening into the system. The only guide I could find for it suggests editing the plugin and lowering the Speedster's velocity. Brilliant, except I tried to disable it and it was invincible because I guess maybe you're supposed to knock it around with missiles in order to slow it down. I'm not sure if it was meant to be disabled upon entry or what, but what I did to bypass the mission entirely is to set it so you pick up the cargo upon receiving the mission.
I also fixed the late game mission. For some reason, it would show up at the beginning, and it wasn’t doable until you completed the previous mission because of the way EV handles things like planets getting sacked and/or liberated. It’s a really fun and really clever mission and I’m not going to explain how to do it for those people who might stumble here looking for information about The Frozen Heart.
Spending a couple of hours going through the Ambrosia forum for EV Override taught me a few things about The Frozen Heart. Femme Fatale comes full circle but it does leave an important plot thread hanging.
I'm not surprised that the Magellanic Confederacy is antitheist but I am surprised that the Rigellian Empire is. Most of our real life tyrannies have either reinterpreted existing religions to fit their worldview, like Nazi Germany and its satellites, or simply made up religions wholesale, a la North Korea.
Ambrosia's forums also come the closest to April 20, 1999 that I've seen. The earliest posts are around January 2000. If you're wondering why I brought that up, I had this thought a few years ago.
I think a combination of EV Nova and Martin Turner getting into politics killed it.
There's a mission string in which there's an election being suborned by a tech corporation. And this was made in 1998.
Michael was surprised when I said it was stolen paper ballots instead of hacked electronic ballots. I can think of two things that could happen. Either we’ll all use paper ballots because it’s harder to suborn an election or we’ll use electronic ballots because it’s easier to suborn an election. Back in 1998, electronic voting was a novelty at most.
burning question: do you think we'll use paper ballots in the future?
