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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • 7 years ago, I bought a flagship phone in hopes of keeping it for a decade.

    Last year, I had to buy a new phone because the cell towers stopped broadcasting on frequencies my phone supported. It became a neat WiFi-only brick, and useless for my purposes, in 60% of my target lifetime.

    In short, the entire industry is configured for a sub-decade obsolescence cadence.







  • I don’t know if it’s property so much as just being around and having to live around so many different people. Like, if I take the bus, I’ll probably pass a hundred different folks to and from work, and only two are going to annoy me.

    But, it’s a lot easier to be insular if I live in a small town with 300 people, and can easily assume all my problems are someone else’s fault. I’ll see three new people a week when the tourists stop at the gas station.


  • The cities are liberal, but there’s a lot of rural communities that have never had to deal with people before.

    The northeast is known for being kind but not nice. Four New Yorkers will carry your luggage down the subway stairs and never look at you once. The south is known for being nice, but not kind. That’s where the poisoned sweet tea comes from. The west is known for neither, if you have car trouble, the best you can hope for in Portland is being ignored. The Midwest is known for being both nice and kind, where neighbors will shovel you out and wish you a nice day before going on to the next car.









  • I wish they would’ve taken Razbuten’s advice when making ToTK: give the players something back when they break weapons, to make breaking weapons advantageous and occasionally strategic. If each broken weapon gave the player, say, Moon Shards based on the weapon or shield’s power, which could later be used to extend the duration of the master sword or extra plus damage, then I’d break the crap out of all my weapons all the time.