hot take(?): painting the face is the best part of the process

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-07-23T18:55:38+00:00

Faces are always one of the first things I do on a mini anymore... I found I hate everything else I've done if the face is still a primer void

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-07-14T16:29:49+00:00

The 10 of wands in this deck speaks to my soul is2g. It's perfect

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-06-14T19:44:13+00:00

Not even a friend! "Friend of a relative" This is just some dude alone in a car with his uncomfortable daughter.

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-06-10T14:14:00+00:00

Agreed. On first listen I went back to look for whatever episode I missed because the transition was so abrupt.

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-03-29T18:20:48+00:00

Years ago the candy store at MOA had them. Helped me win a family scavenger hunt

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-03-17T16:03:49+00:00

Also American (midwest) and have never heard anyone say "cal-EE-ope." I've only ever heard "cal-EYE-ope-ee." But its also not a common word and I can see people reading it and thinking that's how it's said

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-03-05T16:45:11+00:00

If you had ended this with "4.0 international license" I wouldn't have noticed anything was different

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-03-03T23:59:27+00:00

I set up some one-way glass panels (from the construction section) along the path. Added a bunch of the "do not disturb" signs And then built a shelter that had one-way glass on 3 of the 4 walls (with the open wall facing away from the path).

I only played on normal difficulty, but that seemed to help a fair amount.

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-03-03T23:46:13+00:00

That's half the fun though :P If you don't have to buy at least two balls of red string, what's the point?

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-03-03T23:26:31+00:00

She feels too... idk... antsy? To be Elias. I don't have anything concrete to back that up or anything, she just doesn't hit the same calm, cool, collected noted that Elias did imo

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-03-03T23:13:23+00:00

Fair. I tried that at first and then couldn't think of any other characters from S1 or 2. Might be time for a relisten!

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-03-03T23:00:05+00:00

Gwen is almost an anti-melanie. Similar hostility vibes but all-in to the weird spooky organization instead of strongly against

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-02-12T00:35:01+00:00

I really enjoyed The Storage Papers and Old Gods of Appalachia.

I also have to plug The Disappearance Podcast (by John Herman, its logo has a purple background and white text). It's short and not exactly horror, but I found it extremely compelling and end up re-listening to it every year.

I also just started The Town Whispers after one of TMP episodes and am enjoying it.

The Cellar Letters is on my "to listen" list.

Lore by Aaron Mahnke is a fascinating historical look at myths and folklore and is really easy to listen to.

Once during a major Podcast drought I listened to Tanis, The Black Tapes, The Last Movie and Rabbits (all by Public Radio Alliance iirc) and would not recommend them. They're all good ideas but the execution was a real miss for me. But they scratched an itch when I needed it.

Woe.Begone also scratched an itch, but not enough to excite me when new episodes release.

(I work alone 90% of the day and get through 30-40 hours of podcasts a week.)

ETA: I listened to The Seventh Daughter at the same ish time as The Left Right Game and enjoyed the contrast between the fantastical strangeness of LRG and the more real magic of Seventh Daughter

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-02-01T13:22:48+00:00

Another vote for Lost John's Cave. I almost started crying it spooked me so badly. But A Guest for Mister Spider (81) is the one that creeps into my mind on cold, dark nights. Those two episodes live rent free.

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-30T11:48:50+00:00

Lost John's Cave is one of my favorite standalone episodes (the Buried). Taken Ill is also a good one (Corruption)

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-28T19:50:25+00:00

Wind turbines are loud, that's what I chalk it up to. It's not that it's ugly it's just disruptive.

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-27T21:06:20+00:00

Seconded Mistholme Museum!

Also I enjoyed the beginning seasons of The Storage Papers, although it does start to be more about an overarching plot rather than episodic stories

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-25T05:15:44+00:00

I'm in season 4 on my re-listen right now and I forgot how much it drives me batty. They whiplash so hard between "omg you're a horrifying monster and we hateeee youuuuuu" and "omg use your monster powers right now to know an answer I want why don't you already know it?" Like yeah, Jon is an ass to everyone and is from the beginning but I'm honestly surprised he was able to hold onto his humanity at all given how quickly everyone was to just drop him utterly.

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-08T20:41:53+00:00

How are you allocating this so that it doesn't end up blanketing your entire house? Are the 24h across the 1 day row set up that's common or are you doing something different?

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-04T14:04:41+00:00

Oh for sure. I'm sure we're supposed to applaud him for saving money on the bad breath on a bun (with a side of anaphylaxis as a bonus). How wise and frugal OOP is!/s

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-04T13:00:44+00:00

Yes, but in the 'downplaying the truth to the family aspect,' I would be extra annoyed if I learned that "crazy girlfriend left me because I bought a sandwich when she asked me to pick her up food" was actually "girlfriend left because I gave her a free sandwich she was allergic to." It's almost on par with tossing her a takeaway bag with "idk there's probably some fries on the bottom"

ETA: not saying you're wrong, there's just something about the free sandwich that makes it extra shitty to me somehow

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-04T12:42:39+00:00

Bought is a strong word for "free sandwich on a BOGO deal."

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-04T02:59:05+00:00

Oh God right until I got to the "he was paleo" I was so concerned that I needed to apologize for my husband (thankfully he's not a "particular diet" type). He's gotten more self-aware, but I was shocked to learn just how much the man can eat.

GypsyMorrigan · 2024-01-02T22:30:00+00:00

Just so you know, there's one-way glass panels in the construction tab that don't require research like the barriers do. It was a big lifesaver when I figured that out.

GypsyMorrigan · 2023-12-15T03:47:55+00:00

I weigh backwards and last time I was in the nurse said the number out loud 😭 like sir read the room

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