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[changingplumbob]

Played a bunch of Let's Go Pikachu this morning to try and get around this long path that I'd been putting off. For the past week or so I'd just played briefly each day to collect the daily drops, but finally made myself do it. The problem was that I like too many of the Pokemon I have so they're all a slightly lower level than the characters I battle because I've been attempting to raise so many of them. Long story short I did have to look at guides to make sure I had appropriate Pokemon in my party before crossing paths with all the many many characters on the route...

[changingplumbob]

CW: Mice

So @jonquilyst and I were chatting in comments about the problems at my supermarket, and while it wasn't in my store there was one in the chain a few years ago that had serious rodent problems...

This picture was spread in the news and like yes, ew yuck health crisis! But also, with the reflection in the mirror it looks like two mice are sitting there politely. Chilling and chatting to each other about the outfits of shoppers that pass by. I couldn't help but laugh. Photo source

[changingplumbob]

We don't have a car so we rely on online order and delivery for the bulk of our grocery shopping. With each item you can tick whether you want to allow substitutions or not. In theory this would allow you to say, yes just make sure to deliver some bread but if you can't get this specific spread for it then leave it off the order. I say in theory because someone at the store who packs orders doesn't actually look at that... and makes odd substitutions for items we've said please don't substitute. Now I can get why in theory they would choose to pack a bag of fresh spinach as a substitute for a bag of frozen lumps of pre cut spinach- alas the bag had been filled a week ago according to the date on the packet and looking at it the spinach was clearly wilting and approaching slimy so my IBS says I ought not risk eating it. I mean I'm not sure what it was even still doing on the shelf in that condition... We got a refund but I am spinach- less until I can get to the store.

[changingplumbob]

The weather site says we're apparently not freezing but I've been cold all day 😔 probably not helped by the fridge being weird and getting cold enough to start freezing things in it... It's very old and we adjusted the internal temp to the warmest setting so hopefully that helps, I never think of fridges breaking in a way that makes stuff too cold.

So I haven't timed how long it takes me to open my game since the update but I'm feeling like it takes longer to get to the main menu, but then less time to launch the save. Unsure if this will continue when I try get into saves which aren't in the top slot...

[thereisno-other-side]

I’m too tired today 🫠

[xovozumi]

i think treating things for men and men's experiences as the meaningless default and things for women and women's experiences as something sacred that must be protected and kept away from anyone that isn't a woman isn't the progressive feminism you think it is. like gender is so meaningless in the grand scheme of things and no one can fully understand anyone's gender but their own so why do some of you people give a fuck. there is like no things or experiences that are inherently exclusive to men or women so why do some people fight so hard to gatekeep their thing and police other's experiences when all that person is trying to do is understand and express themselves in good faith. sexuality and gender discourse is so stupid all of you are stupid and piss me off

[changingplumbob]

I mustered all my energy to back up and then update the game today. I was surprised how few mods needed updating, and I only ran into issues with the refreshed main menu so I switched to another version. Did I actually playtest? No because I didn't have energy 😂

Do we have to turn off auto saves in every save we're already playing in though? I'm never going to remember that 😔

"napped" this afternoon, by which I mean I was so tired I just had to lie down even though I didn't fall asleep. I think it helped though as I got a bit more energy afterwards.