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Labor power has apparently scared the shit out of us to such a degree that no amount of toilet paper will ever be enough to wipe it up.

As far as I know, I have 2 main allergies: pollen and metals (some metals, not sure which exactly).

Pollen

• It feels like my nose is a leaky faucet. It will run and run and I'll have sneezing fits for hours. If I blow my nose, it makes the inside feel super-dry and itchy, which just kicks off more running and sneezing. So it basically feels pointless to blow my nose at all, and I usually settle for sniffling instead. But if I do that too much, I start getting mini-sinus headaches.
• Flare-ups. Sometimes I'll see the plants that trigger it and I'll start sneezing within 10-20 minutes. Other times I'll go outside and it'll start out of nowhere. It'll last for hours.
• Meds do not seem to help at all. Maybe they shorten what would be a 6-hour episode into a 3-hour episode but who tf knows. I have yet to find anything that kicks in faster than a couple hours after use.

Metals

• I break out in a highly localized rash. It's red, bumpy, and itches like mosquito bites.
• Flare-ups after prolonged contact (several hours) with a metal. It'll last anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days.
• No meds. It's pretty easy to ignore when it flares up, and it's easy enough to avoid exposure.

Don't forget Eeto, the fabled fifth element.

Wait, all these baby hippo posts have been a single baby hippo? I thought people were just posting cute baby hippos.

Despite new evidence to the contrary, I will continue to hold this false belief 🦛

And in the precise moment I saw this, I realized both of my monitors were displaying Excel on full screen. Sigh.

Holy frijoles

Me and my gf way back in the day trapped a stray kitten once.

It was living under a car. We put little piles of dry food out for it for a few days, gradually moving the pile further and further away from his hiding place. Then one day we made a little trail of food leading to a carry box that we filled with food. Once we heard it chomping away inside, we crept up and slammed the door shut. It felt like a scene out of a cartoon lol

Little thing freaked out and clawed at the door and cried for a while. But once we took it into the house and out of the summer heat, it was very happy.

Note, I am neither an experienced pet owner nor a trapper. I just like telling this story hehe

Edit: ...what pronouns do you use for a kitten from decades ago whose sex you don't remember?

Once the "weird" label took off, I thought it would lose some of its power because it was being used so much.

But damn. There's no other way to put it. This is weird.

My sense is it's getting at "what's an overated candy flavor"

I've been enjoying it. I'd recommend a try, but not for the full sticker price. I'm pretty sure there's a free demo available.

A simple start-to-finish (any%) run is super duper easy, but some of the mechanics are pretty fun and the cinematic element makes me smile a lot. But you could prolly get a good feel for the latter just watching videos of playthroughs.

However... A 100% run can be VERY frustrating. The cute cinematics are mostly unskippable -- you can't even button-mash to speed up the dialog. Also, the stages don't really allow for backtracking. So if you miss something, you have to start all the way back at the beginning. I got stuck on one stage and put off playing for weeks cuz it was so annoying. "Welcome to the Spooky Party", grrr...

Once I got past that though, it got fun again (and inspired this post hehe). The post-game challenges have been pretty neat so far.

7/10 new, 8/10 used, 9/10 borrowed from a friend for a weekend

I'm gonna make some hedgehog stew today

WHO IS THIS PERSON