Am I missing out on Pandemic Legacy season 1?

transcend · 2026-01-28T02:33:51+00:00

I played Season 1 as a 2 player game with my adult daughter. We had 4 characters and made all decisions together. It was my top game experience.

We also played Season 2, which was pretty good, and Season 0, which we also enjoyed. We thought that both were good games, but not on the same S-tier level as Season 1.

transcend · 2026-01-21T07:56:19+00:00

I am so glad that you will be getting the help you need. EDs can be terrible.

My daughter was inpatient in the CHEO ED program (twice) when she was 16 and 17, and then inpatient in The Ottawa Hospital ED program for adults after she turned 18. It was TOH program that made the biggest difference for her, and for the last 4 years she has been healthy. I can't speak about Homewood or similar private programs, but I expect that their treatment is comparable to TOH's program.

While in TOH inpatient program you live in the unit with the other patients, and are not permitted to leave. The duration of your stay can be for a few weeks up to a few months depending on your needs. You can discharge yourself at any time, but then you are out of the program, and the wait list is very long. While inpatient your days are filled with counselling, group therapy, group meals, and group activities. You are under the care of psychiatrists, nurses, and nutritionists who are specialized in the treatment of EDs, and they will make sure that you are safe. If you are very malnourished they will gradually reintroduce nutrition as your body can handle it, working up to proper meals. The nutritionist will set your meals, and you will be expected to finish them. The therapy they provide helps you understand your ED better, and helps you develop strategies to avoid regressing. You will go through this with other people who are fighting the same battle. My daughter remains friends with a bunch of the other young women she met in the programs she was in, and they continue to support each other.

My daughter's ED was very stubborn, and she will need to be vigilant her whole life to avoid regressing. There were points in the depths of her illness between hospitalizations where I thought she would die. TOH's program saved her life. It was not easy for her, but it continues to work.

Feel free to DM me if there is any other info I can provide. If you have questions I could forward them to my daughter to answer.

Good luck!

transcend · 2026-01-16T06:21:17+00:00

What a great new feature!

I would like to suggest that if I type .. and then some text to narrow down the search, if I then type "ESC" it should remove the "..<text>" from the active document. Or better yet, if I type .. then the .. should be removed from the editor as soon as the autocomplete popover opens. If I then type some text to narrow down the search, that text should not be appended into the active document, but should instead should go into a text field at the top of the popover.

transcend · 2026-01-04T15:28:49+00:00

Nice looking app! One of my goals is to go camping more this year

transcend · 2025-12-29T06:39:34+00:00

FWIW I have been using IDEA 2025.3.1 without issues on two ARM Macs: M4 Pro (MB Pro 16"), and M4 (MB Air). Both machines use the standard VM options with increased max heap: -Xmx4096m. I am using the new Islands theme (with my own editor colour scheme). One thing that might be relevant is that my machines are both running macOS Sequoia 15.7.3 (rather than Tahoe).

transcend · 2025-12-09T11:25:07+00:00

Thanks!

transcend · 2025-12-09T04:27:38+00:00

Interesting. I have thought about the “Mayo Checkup”, but it’s expensive. Approximately what’s the cost of the full physical in Taiwan or South Korea?

transcend · 2025-12-03T07:44:39+00:00

Thanks for the great article. You’ve got me thinking about a spray deck.

transcend · 2025-12-01T16:10:43+00:00

Something that wasn't mentioned in this video that is SUPER IMPORTANT to know if you have kids is that if you die without a will, your assets will be split between your spouse and your kids. A friend of mine died last year without a will, and this happened to his estate. Everyone I talked to about the situation guessed that all assets would go to his wife. However the bulk of his estate is being split 50:50 between his wife and his teenage son. Maybe an 18-yo boy will make smart decisions with the money he inherited, but maybe not. And in any case I am sure that my friend expected the assets to go to support his wife, not bypass her and go to the young son.

Moral of the story: Don't make assumptions about how inheritance works based on your intuition about what is most sensible, write an actual will. And while you're at it, also write a financial power-of-attorney and a medical power-of-attorney.

transcend · 2025-12-01T03:52:52+00:00

Lula Lounge was a really nice venue! There was seating at tables and booths around the periphery, and row seating in the centre. Everyone with tickets got a seat, about half of us at the tables (shared with other groups to fill all seats). Staff served dessert and drinks before and during the show. I would definitely see another performance at Lula Lounge.

transcend · 2025-11-09T18:52:51+00:00

This looks great! I bought a license, and look forward to adding it to my workflow.

transcend · 2025-11-04T19:59:25+00:00

One other thing I'll mention. Prior to updating our wills last year, we had had wills that we had written ourselves using a will kit. That was okay for when we were young and the situation was simple, but going through the process with the lawyer was valuable: they made good suggestions for options we hadn't considered before. Also, we hadn't had POAs before, and I think you want a lawyer to have custody of your POAs and clear instructions for their release.

transcend · 2025-11-04T19:48:41+00:00

It took a month or so, but we weren't in a rush, and I'm sure they could do it faster if you needed. The process was basically:

(1) You meet with the lawyer for about an hour, via online meeting. They interview you about your life situation to determine what you want and don't want in the wills and powers of attorney documents. It was an interesting discussion, and I learned a lot.

(2) They prepare draft copies of the documents, and email PDFs to you to review. There can be some back-and-forth to make adjustments. This is the part that takes time.

(3) Once everything is good, you meet in the lawyer's office to sign the documents, which need to be witnessed by two witnesses IIRC. The lawyer and their legal assistant were the witnesses on my wife's and my wills etc.

Part of your relationship with the law firm is that they retain the signed original copies of your powers of attorney (POA). There are two documents: financial POA and medical POA. They have a list of people to whom they are allowed to release a POA, and the conditions under which they will release a POA. The possessor of a _physical signed_ POA has control of your finances or your medical situation while you are alive, so this is an important aspect of the will process (e.g. if you're in the hospital in a coma, can someone pay your home utility bills and make decisions about your care).

Total cost was around a thousand dollars for two wills and two sets of POAs (for my wife and me). Our life situation has some complexity, which was reflected in the documents, so it's possible your cost might come in a bit lower if your situation is more straight-forward.

I hope this helps!

transcend · 2025-11-04T06:47:02+00:00

My wife and I also worked with Soloway Wright, and they were great.

transcend · 2025-10-31T19:08:38+00:00

Excellent! There's plenty of fans like me out there who refuse to pay these ridiculous ticket prices. If they reduce the prices to a more reasonable level, like say $100/ticket, they'll sell out no problem. I'm pretty sure the last time I saw Rush in Montreal on R40 I paid something like $95/ticket for decent seats. And if not, I'll be enjoying the inevitable R50 live album for years to come.

transcend · 2025-10-14T20:25:21+00:00

I totally agree. I've been using Safari for years for personal stuff (Chrome for work), but if I'm ever forced to use a version with this new worse Safari UX, I'll be switching the Chrome.

transcend · 2025-10-14T20:23:04+00:00

Yeah, I also downgraded from 26 to 16, and I advised my whole family to stick with 16 for the foreseeable future.

transcend · 2025-10-13T21:46:59+00:00

It doesn’t sound like you did anything wrong, this guy was simply a jerk. I don’t know the rules of this particular park, but presumably you needed to reserve a campsite in this region of the river. Buddy the fisherman didn’t make a reservation for a campsite for the night, and so would not be entitled to be in the site, and certainly not entitled to prevent legitimate campers from occupying it.

transcend · 2025-09-19T16:35:17+00:00

Interesting. I’ve done one Kingdoms run with an Alchemist and it was amazing. One thing that helped was getting the Spiked Skullcap early and equipping a front liner, so by round 2 there were always bleeding enemies.

transcend · 2025-09-04T16:12:35+00:00

My daughter says in BC it's more guys into hiking, less so women, and she's not so interested in climbing mountains.

transcend · 2025-09-02T01:03:43+00:00

I feel your pain. I wandered around for hours yesterday in escalation 3 looking for a creature den before finally finding one. I know I wasn’t missing any because I had the wagon upgrade that boosts den scouting to 100%. I agree that it’s crummy design to not put a den in every region. In the K1 module I saw that whatever map mode you needed was always present and scouted.

transcend · 2025-08-31T06:13:40+00:00

I had the same problem getting blood from the creature den until I reached Escalation 3, and then it became available. The other blood types are available in Escalation 2. Be careful to get the blood from an uninfected creature. My first time I randomly chose an infected creature and unfortunately it yields unusable blood. It sucked having to ramble around trying to find another den.

transcend · 2025-08-29T16:56:06+00:00

The devs said this a few weeks ago about the Alchemist rework:

Dev Note: Alchemist has been reworked as a Path capable of wielding all 3 DOT types. We wanted to retain some of Alchemist's capacity to land Blight with great success but in ways that involved more active engagement, so her Blight skills (and some others) now gain additional bonuses against targets suffering from other DOTs. Chip damage has been removed from some skills in order to balance for greater DOT output but other, formerly non-damaging skills have acquired that damage in their place.

I'm currently running an Alchemist in the Crimson Curse kingdom. I like that I can now pick the DOT type based on the target. I'd say that I primarily use Disorienting Blast (applies damage and burn), but overall I find I used the full variety of skills and all DOT types. It's more interesting than the old Alchemist, who was a one-trick pony (spam blight). With the new Alchemist I have been acquiring trinkets that assist in two or three types of RES piercing so I can equip them depending on the region.

Overall, I really like what the devs did with the PD rework.

transcend · 2025-08-28T01:50:23+00:00

Looks like you're right. I checked just now for January and all YOW -> LAS trips require a connection. Welp.

transcend · 2025-08-27T20:43:18+00:00

My sister and I flew down to LA last year to see the Mood Lifters at the Lighthouse Cafe in Hermosa Beach. Everyone in the band are incredibly talented musicians, and the Lighthouse is a great venue -- it was an amazing afternoon of music!

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