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Ohhh, I didn't realise there were colour schemes! That's really helpful, I'll give it another go. Hopefully this'll fix the problem. Thanks!!

I really liked the idea of Obra Dinn, and I enjoyed the puzzly bits, but I had to stop playing because the graphics were giving me really bad eyestrain. Did any of you get this and find a way to fix it? Or did you just HTFU? Or is it just me having extra-weak and tragic peepers? I'd really like to play through it :(

takes long drag on cigarette, adjusts polo neck

How many different colours did you use, Will? Nobody's going to be impressed if you've done them all with just the one crayon again.

ending felt a little abrupt

Agree, think I hated the protag so much by the end I was just glad to fuck him off for good, haha. Hope that thing just went ahead and did him in!

Nice work! I hit 57 in the end after thinking I wasn't going to make it to 52 - I'm studying english literature which has ironically left me with 0 time for reading books, who knew? I always switch to comics in December which inflates my numbers, so that got me over the line :D (this year I read the whole series of Transmetropolitan, whose 90s edgelordery has not aged as well as I'd hoped).

Rated 10 books 5 stars on goodreads(!), including Alan Garner's Treacle Walker and Lauren Groff's Matrix. My 1 stars went to Camus' Myth of Sisyphus ("live, laugh, love" for hipsters) and Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (more 90s edgelordery that has not aged well, but with the addition of a genuinely bizarre religious cult plot that we're supposed to sympathise with?? Could not get along with at all).

Hoping to keep things ticking over this year while I get through term, keeping plenty of comics handy for emergencies...

but it seemed so well thought through?!

playing Shadowrun Returns at the moment

💪 it's so good!

I've gone right off everything. I want to pick Disco Elysium back up, but I've got no time for all the reading because I'm already reading all the books ever written for my english lit course, so I want to pick up small games that don't take much brainpower... but I don't like any of the ones I have and I don't care about any of the ones I don't have. Have mostly been resentfully grinding my way through Rogue Legacy but without much enjoyment. Eurgh.

I like Civ5

Dwarf Fortress! Stellaris (too complicated for my tastes, like all Paradox Interactive games, but it is similar to Civ).

used to like No Man's Sky

Subnautica, maybe. Hardspace Shipbreaker.

Yeah, don't see why not. If you get a pack of tights and cut the crotch off so you've just got the two legs, you can stretch a toe/foot/leg over the bottom of a pot and pull it up the sides. Then you can tie it off at the stem and just leave the plant to dry out a bit. Obviously might not be feasible with your biggest plants if they're too big to fit into standard hosiery!

I use a gravel topping too (the aquatic stuff for fishtanks), but found that if I only sealed off the top, then the little fuckers would burrow in and out through the bottom drainage holes instead, especially as the moisture levels dropped and they all packed into the last viable band of soil. I had to block off top and bottom to fully get rid of them.

What worked for me:

• 1x voile-style net curtain (I used this from Ikea)
  
• 1x framework (I used an old laundry basket like this one that i happened to have lying around broken)
  
• 1x UV insect trap (like this one from Amazon)
  
• eleventybillion yellow sticky traps (per salad-cunt's suggestion)
  
  

Methodology:

• Put net curtain over framework
  
• Put plant inside framework+net curtain bodge
  
• Put sticky yellow traps around plant, in the soil
  
• Put UV trap inside net curtain body, next to the plant, to attract wily gnats that escape your yellow sticky traps
  
• Do not water plants, even if you're worried about them drying out. Dry soil means adults can't lay new eggs
  
• Leave this setup in place 24/7 until every one of those little motherfuckers has died
  
  

Took me about 3 weeks to get rid of them all, IIRC. I only had one infested plant, and it was a drought-tolerant one, so YMMV on feasibility.

Yes, that was the argument the North Americans made. Pulling up all these ropey medieval recipes and going see! SEE! and refusing to listen to "just because it's old doesn't mean it's right".

They don't eat them in the US, apparently, but I managed to advocate for them hard enough that there is now a small pocket of North Americans (including some spectators from Canada) who are now adamantly pro-mincer.

Took a bit of effort to talk them down from putting lamb mince in them, but I thinkhope they've finally accepted that a mince pie and a meat pie are two different things, and that they should focus on the correct one.

The value of your contribution to the season is incalcuable, chapeau.

So far this year I've enjoyed the Gail's ones with the crunchy top the best, but I confess I've found the pastry to be so crunchy it detracts from the structural integrity of the pie. Will need to try another box to see if this was a one-off fluke.

Worst was the icing-topped M&S ones, but I already knew they were going to be foul and only have myself to blame for buying them anyway, thus propping up the shameful icing-topped mincer market. I deserved every second of the nausea they gave me.

... Is that a dog in the bottom left, or some kind of paranormal festive spectre?

I used to work in that factory! It was My First Job, a million years ago :3

🌽🌽🌽

Ahh, sorry to hear it - hope FIL feels better soon!

It's so good when you start playing your first songs, even if they're shit songs. The first ones I learned included Sting's Fields of Gold and some horrible nonsense by Billy fucking Joel. There's no better motivation to improve than the thought that you when you get better, you can move onto playing something that isn't terrible XD

Get a practice pad for the rudiments, Trunkie! Neighbours love 'em, probably. Almost certainly more than a set of acoustic drums anyway, heh.

What's everyone using for listening to edrums, btw? I've got a set of Vic Firth SIH2 cans, but they're so uncomfortable I top out at about 1-2 hours wear time, even with a DIY memory foam cushion under the headband. My birthday's coming up, so I can treat myself to something else less anatomy-torturing.

Nice!! I'm still using GarageBand for that, keep telling myself I'm going to get something better but not really got round to it yet. I've found one kit in GarageBand that sounds ok and I've just stuck with that ever since setting it up.

I can't believe how bad the Alesis module sounds are - I've never seen anyone say anything complimentary about them. Any time anyone mentions them it's to say how shit they are. You'd think Alesis would be embarrassed to ship them.

@littleK and @Trunkie how are your lessons going, if you're doing them? Soon I'll have to replace a set of drumsticks for the first time and it's giving me the same tiny hipster thrill as when I had to replace a rear tyre for the first time because I skidded through it :')

wish i got to inherit loads of biscuits :(

Riddley Walker is one of my all-time favourites <3

I'm not reading anything particularly exciting atm. I just finished Guidebook for an Armchair Pilgrimage, wot i had high hopes for but ultimately didn't enjoy as much as i thought i would. Just a bit too dreamy for me.

I did join the End of the World Reading Club recently which is a bit expensive but the glee of having what is basically a small monthly advent calendar for grownups is huge. Last month's book was the (excellent) Under The Blue, which is great if you're anxious about climate change, pandemics, and artificial intelligence all at once 👍

this is v good

In this economy, yes

Runs like it's playing Qwop

Right, he's so wholesome! I dated a metal drummer when I was 16-17 and my mum went nuts, all blah blah stop coming home late blah blah you can do better rah rah get back here right now young lady you're grounded. If I'd been dating JARED she'd have been petting and cooing and prematurely picking out wedding dresses.