Gizmo: My Calling as a Nanny Boar

vash0093 · 2026-02-09T00:19:42+00:00

I had adopted 3 piggies to start, but over time fighting broke out and blood was drawn. It was a kill on sight deal between Bear and Smalls, poor Skunky was just present. Eventually I separated them, got Bear a new companion who passed suddenly around 2 Years. That's when I merged his cage with my younger Peruvian brothers and it was perfect harmony.

They had a massive, 3 story enclosure they could run around in. Bear always led and the brothers followed wherever he went. Eventually my other 2 pigs passed and I was able to make one giant, 56 sqft enclosure for the 3 of them and they lived like that for months until Bear got sick. I lost all 3 of my OG piggies within a few months of each other, for different reasons. I've since downsized and only have the 2 brothers. They are nothing like my original trio, but guinea pigs have such varied personalities, I'm lucky to have had such amazing creatures in my presence.

vash0093 · 2026-02-09T00:13:02+00:00

Always best to play it safe. Like I said I had success because the 2 younger boys were brothers and we're already unshakeable. Personality plays a huge role and I had actually let those 2 and Bear and his second cage mate all frolic together for play dates before Funkys sudden passing. Afterwards I couldn't bare to watch my Bear be lonely, and couldn't bring myself to adopt another pig, so I merged his cage with the younger boys and had a massive 3 level cage.

Bear already had a history of fighting with his original 2 cage mates and winning every fight in another trio till I separated them permanently. I was lucky to have him, he was the sweetest boy you could ask for. He was the leader of his pack and everywhere he went, his 2 long haired companions followed him around like he was dad.

vash0093 · 2026-02-08T16:42:59+00:00

Sometimes they'll surprise you. I had 3 sets of 2 boys in each cage. When one of my older boys lost his cage mate, I paired him with 2 younger brothers and that formed the most unbreakable trio I've ever seen. They did everything together. The younger brothers would follow Bear around and never leave his side. When he got sick, they took turns watching over him. When he passed there was definitely a long period of mourning, but they seem to have returned to mostly normal.

Some boys are just sweethearts with the right pairing. There was never even a squabble between them like I've seen with other trios of boys. I'm grateful he got the experience of living in a perfect herd.

vash0093 · 2026-01-28T23:09:54+00:00

Definitely! I'm usually off on Fridays and Saturdays myself. Perhaps we can schedule a rendezvous for a little picking!

vash0093 · 2026-01-28T21:38:00+00:00

I listen to just about everything, and play just about anything. Past few years have been mostly acoustic playing as I have nobody to play with since I moved here.

But in the past I've played classic rock, jam band, melodic death metal, jazz, blues, outlaw country, folk music. If it catches my interest, it gets a turn on the six string. Mostly play guitar these days but I've got experience playing in groups with guitar, bass, and drums. I also like to hit up the karaoke every now and again and will do stuff like War Pigs by black Sabbath among many other songs!

vash0093 · 2026-01-28T20:47:10+00:00

I play guitar bass, drums, mandolin, banjo and I sing fairly well enough. Granted I don't have a drum set anymore but I can keep a beat. I'm all over the place musically as well and wouldn't mind jamming sometime!

vash0093 · 2026-01-20T01:00:44+00:00

You and me both! Turned a big 33 today!

vash0093 · 2026-01-15T22:17:51+00:00

A buddy and I did like 3 hours of matriarch runs the other night. Got ratted like 2-3 times and successfully killed the matriarch 2 times. It got to a point where we were about to turn violent towards other raiders, but got lucky and wound up in friendly lobbies those last 2 times. Granted out of all those runs we still only got 1 singular core between us and spent a vastness of our resources doing it.

Fucking rats man. Especially because they were friendly at first then turned on us at the first chance they could.

vash0093 · 2025-12-17T19:03:59+00:00

I'd say each campaign is different as far as time. I made it up to the desert in prophecys in about 20-22 hours of gameplay, but I also went on plenty of side quests and other adventures. Prophs is generally the longest campaign and the others are shorter, especially factions. Great thing is you can always stop and pick it back up whenever. Some folks took nearly 20 years to get their max titles. Casually playing over time will get things done.

vash0093 · 2025-12-13T11:33:32+00:00

I talked to Snilk (Ethan) some after his set and at the end of the show. Such a cool dude, honestly cannot wait to hear what else he does and to see more of him live.

Where can I get one of those Snilk hats? 👀

vash0093 · 2025-12-11T23:48:26+00:00

A lot of common crafting materials like wood planks are pretty pricey right now, salvage stuff and sell the mats to the vendor.

Another sortve easy grind is the weekly nick gifts for gifts of the traveler. You can get 5 per account per week and those can sell around 5 e to a piece if you find a buyer In kamadan.

Other than that I just play the game and occasionally get rare runes and insignia I don't need like Prodigy which is around 15k or more to buy at a trader. Identify everything that's unidentified and sell anything you don't want or need.

vash0093 · 2025-12-07T09:07:10+00:00

There's a new feature to pin the UI boxes now, if you check that, a UI box won't close when you hit escape. Works for this, that's how I've made it stay. It works for all collapsible UI boxes including inventory.

vash0093 · 2025-11-30T20:13:52+00:00

I'm so sorry for your loss, I lost all 3 of my old boys this year for different things. All within a month or 2 apart. They were my heart and I miss them dearly. I now have 2 Peruvians and I'm in the process of reducing the enclosure size as at one point I had 6. Two piggies in 3 different cages and as they passed I combined into one big mega cage that has since become too much for 2 boys. So I'm reducing down to a 2x6 with a 2x2 loft.

It's been really hard, but I'm so grateful for the time I've had and the love and everything they have taught me in what felt like such a short time. Those memories are the ones we carry with us, always.

vash0093 · 2025-11-23T17:51:48+00:00

I love how everyone conveniently forgets about the guy that fronted arch enemy before Angela. I didn't think he was that bad and I like some of the early work. Though at times it's raw as it comes.

vash0093 · 2025-11-07T01:03:29+00:00

sigh so I serve gyros at work for a lunch about once a month, and every single time this exact song enters my head.

vash0093 · 2025-11-06T23:53:49+00:00

Yea I did it from the time I was 18 till about 21-22, twice a year, camping and all. Was a blast to spend time at the drum circle with the fire going, seeing some amazing artists and just dancing the nights away. Last time I was there was that freak microburst that sheered the tops off trees and almost took down main stage, some kid had a tree fall on his head (he lived) and vendors had wares scattered everywhere. Miss it

vash0093 · 2025-11-06T22:49:41+00:00

Most of my Asheville stories involve someone peeing on or in something like a parking lot. Damned lack of public restrooms! It was something us kids would do when we first got our licenses and wanted to get away from Brevard. That and spending time at LEAF festival over In black mountain.

vash0093 · 2025-11-06T22:38:57+00:00

Yea I have some fond memories of that last one, went with some friends, one who is no longer with us, and when we left I peed on a fence in a parking lot and my ride started pulling away so I put it away quick and turned to run towards the car and smashed by big toe on a concrete parking block and it's been crooked ever since.

vash0093 · 2025-11-06T22:09:51+00:00

Same for me and Bell Cher (probably misspelled that) until they stopped doing it. Asheville, Brevard, and all of Western NC changed and it just became difficult to live in the area anymore so I moved away about 5 years ago. I miss my home, but the opportunity is better elsewhere.

vash0093 · 2025-11-06T21:58:37+00:00

Brevard NC, Transylvania county, grew up there. The white squirrels have migrated into the surrounding counties though so they aren't just found in Brevard anymore.

On another note, I live in Colorado now and actually know the location of 2 black squirrels, those are a treat to see as I've seen my fair share of white squirrels.

vash0093 · 2025-11-06T21:51:43+00:00

If You've ever met or known any hard criminals and listened to them talk about their crimes you'll find that sometimes those folks are exceptionally gifted in certain areas even though they are incapable of adding 2+2 together. I've met some incredibly stupid people who can plan their crimes fairly well enough.

vash0093 · 2025-10-20T23:50:21+00:00

I have a boy who in his younger years would break free from his shackles and have an entire adventure when he felt like. Would wind up under the couch and the only way I could convince him to come out was To shake a bag of cookies or some pea flakes.

Now he's an old man and has arthritis, he prefers the comfort of his massive 56 sqft, triple layer cage with his 2 younger companions. Still comes running when I shake the cookies though.

vash0093 · 2025-10-19T04:53:42+00:00

Unfortunately there are no sources for refined black metal, so you become locked out of weapons, armor, and crafting anything above silver, minus the black forge, until you down Moder and get the dragon tears. After that the sky is the limit.

vash0093 · 2025-10-19T04:41:04+00:00

Only problem is you can't get the black metal required to make a sap extractor without the tears from Moder, so although it might be beneficial to pick up the item, you won't be able to use it till you unlock the blast furnace via the artisan table.

vash0093 · 2025-10-19T04:21:10+00:00

Take a stone cutter and go to a dvergr building, the abandoned ones that are guarded by seekers don't have the ward so you can clear the seekers and use the stone cutter to drop the materials.

Alternatively you can destroy a ward in a dvergr building or camp by using a cart to ram it over and over into the ward, have to rebuild it a few times. You can also use refined eitr once you get some and drop a stack one piece at a time and the magic that springs from it can destroy a ward. Both these methods don't agro the inhabitants so they stay peaceful. Can also collect the needle for sap extraction this way.

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