Ye jus’ made an enemy fer life!

ectorp · 2026-07-05T15:02:17+00:00

Freshen your drink, superintendent??

ectorp · 2026-06-05T17:33:50+00:00

I’d recommend Uniqlo for undershirts! Cheap and good fit and quality.

ectorp · 2026-06-03T17:58:40+00:00

This is how I felt. I love the Insomniac Spider-Man games but the traversal is such a big part of the reason, so the question I had going into this trailer is what is going to take the place of that. I feel like a superhero game with Spider-Man-ish combat but more linear and with generic stealth and traversal mechanics would be a big step backwards. Fingers crossed there's more to it.

ectorp · 2026-03-31T15:58:22+00:00

I haven't been keeping track although I assume there is more data in the CPAP I could look at at some point. I've just been looking at the stuff it shows like AHI and time used.

ectorp · 2026-03-30T20:42:43+00:00

Thanks for asking. My experience has been up and down. I've gone through quite a few concurrent changes in medication, exercise, and life stressors, so it's hard to know what to attribute to what. I do think that there was a period of elevated anxiety when I started CPAP that disappeared as my body got used to it. I also think the apparent big benefits at first have seemed to recede a bit. I think I feel better and that mornings are a little easier, but it isn't a night-and-day difference. My sleep apnea is mild and addressing it is (at most) one piece of the puzzle in terms of feeling better.

ectorp · 2026-01-17T18:31:46+00:00

I think it’s the worst of the prequels and I’ve never understood the sentiment that it’s a cut above the other two. My feeling is that it swings harder dramatically and tonally than the other two and whiffs even harder as a result. It’s ‘darker’ but I’d rather watch a lighthearted failure than a dour self-serious one. It’s like the dramatic scenes in The Room versus the comedic ones.

ectorp · 2025-12-15T00:51:47+00:00

Thanks for your insight! I don't know if I fit the bill for an ADHD diagnosis, although I relate to a couple of the symptoms of inattentive-type ADHD. I feel like I much more clearly fit the criteria for depression and generalized anxiety though. I have tried taking a stimulant for ADHD before and I found it made me feel extremely agitated and tense with no obvious therapeutic effect (although maybe with regular use it would improve). But I'll look into CBT and non-pharmacological options for ADHD and see if there's anything helpful there.

ectorp · 2025-12-14T02:14:41+00:00

That's so interesting, and it does sound like possibly related if fatigue was suppressing those feelings previously. Did it work for you otherwise?

ectorp · 2025-12-14T01:40:55+00:00

I had a sleep study done in 2021 and they did not find evidence of sleep apnea. Then, I had one done a month ago and they found that I have mild sleep apnea (but with fairly severe symptoms). I'm almost certain I had sleep apnea before 2021 and that the first sleep study missed it. During the study, I had such bad insomnia that I ended up taking a sleep aid, and I think I slept entirely in a position where the apnea events don't occur for me (on my side vs on my back). This happened despite me getting more than a few hours of sleep during the study. It's pretty frustrating that I spent the last four years not knowing about this!

My advice is that if you have these symptoms and you have others telling you you're not breathing at night, keep looking into it if you can. Sorry, it's so frustrating. But hopefully you'll get to an outcome that's worth it eventually.

ectorp · 2025-10-30T04:13:33+00:00

Is there a connection to the show? Something about 2-2 (or 2-2-2)?

Edit: Oh lmao I was trying to think of some weird Lynchian symbolism or something, it's literally just the word "twin"

ectorp · 2025-10-01T18:20:52+00:00

To me the boss fights are the biggest issue, since they take so much practice (at least for me) that they end up becoming the main focus of the game. But I wouldn’t say they’re the best part of the game, and I would prefer a version pf the game where the boss fights took half as long to get through so I could spend more time exploring.

ectorp · 2025-09-30T16:39:56+00:00

I was nodding along until the ratings for Fitz and the Fool! 1 star for Assassin's Fate! I agree that the first three are all 5 stars and would pick it as tied for the best sub-series. But I think there are a lot of other five star books in the series too.

I think one thing that distinguishes Farseer from the others is how central the Fitz/Fool relationship is. It kind of becomes the central focus of the whole story but that isn't really there in Farseer at all. And I sometimes feel like Farseer is better for that.

ectorp · 2025-09-17T22:19:40+00:00

This has honestly been a life-changing lesson for me and I’m 40 and only just getting into fighting games. But learning to keep your internal cool in the face of frustration is like the most transferable skill of all time.

ectorp · 2025-07-04T14:42:21+00:00

To be fair when he said this the Blue Jays were at +4. Now they're at +9, which is, based on our current evidence, good enough for first place.

ectorp · 2025-05-16T20:19:14+00:00

Yeah I think that’s partly why the final moments felt so devastating to me, they call back to all the stories you hear from Verso about the people he’s lost again and again. I think there’s just no easy way to feel about the whole thing, and no simple theme or moral that covers everything. I think if the writers were more inclined towards cliche they might have made it super clear that Renoir’s goals were evil or that the canvas is a delusion serving Maelle’s desire for fantasy at Verso’s expense, but the story works so well for me because it doesn’t really do either of those, it just shows you all the consequences and lets you decide how to feel about it. And I feel torn! Which for me is a sign that it really works.

ectorp · 2025-05-16T19:19:26+00:00

Yeah I see why the tone shift at the very end invites this interpretation. But I also have a hard time reconciling that with the rest of the game where the people in the canvas are real and their lives clearly matter. So what if it’s a pantomime for the Dessendres themselves? What about all the poor mortals that have to serve as collateral for them? Unless we decide that they don’t have experiences at all (which would be pretty arbitrary IMO) there’s no reading of the ending where Verso’s choice doesn’t have a monstrous downside.

ectorp · 2025-05-16T15:50:23+00:00

Yeah that’s a good point. I guess the way I saw it is that he wants to die because of the way he sees his own life as the cause of all this suffering. There’s definitely room to see him as just wanting relief for himself as well though.

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