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Post by Southpaw Hare on Aug 7, 2022 2:14:23 GMT 1
Southpaw got engaged last month. I'm no longer his girlfriend... It's true. Luna and I are now engaged!! <3 <3 <3
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Post by Plum on Aug 7, 2022 21:03:06 GMT 1
That's awesome news, congrats to both of you! I hope you have a long and happy life together xxx
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Post by lemmingrad on Feb 25, 2023 15:35:37 GMT 1
So, still alive, and still managed to dodge Covid as far as I know despite everyone else I am near contact with aside from my parents has caught covid at some point or another.
My dad is going into surgery next month. The past year, a growth on his prostate was blocking his ability to urinate, and hopefully this finally fixes it. He also has the start of minor cancerous cysts on his pancreas which he will now have to get tested for every 3 months.
Also stopping by here, because I was looking for BT's story on his translation story on localizing Leaping Lizard. Sadly it seems the archived forum is now empty of data, and Wayback Machine can only delve so deep.
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Post by Plum on Mar 5, 2023 18:39:20 GMT 1
My dad is going into surgery next month. The past year, a growth on his prostate was blocking his ability to urinate, and hopefully this finally fixes it. He also has the start of minor cancerous cysts on his pancreas which he will now have to get tested for every 3 months. Fingers crossed that everything goes well! Also, I'm glad to hear that you're doing well too - I check in on this forum every couple of months or so and subscribe to the no-news-is-good-news philosophy. I imagine that you're all out there just living your best lives Everything is fine here in Plumland, enjoying the spring colours and waiting for the weather to warm up a little. Playing Bloodbowl 3 and Overwatch 2 a bunch, along with Frosthaven on tabletop. Life is good <3
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Post by Jude on May 1, 2023 3:42:57 GMT 1
I think about coming to post here a lot and I'm just bad at actually doing it. I hope the surgery and recovery all went well lemmingrad.
Overall things are going pretty well here. Just trying to find a routine that helps me get stuff done. I don't know if I mentioned it in any of my previous posts, I got an official ADHD diagnosis about a year ago. Reading a lot about the symptoms it's something that's super obvious in hindsight. It's just really hard for me to sit down and get stuff done sometimes no matter how much I want to. I have been making good progress on many of my projects though, I just need to focus on one and finish it. I'll definitely post some previews here soon.
Our cat is doing alright but she probably has less than a year left. She's 15 now. We adopted her when she was about 2. She's had a good life and we will spoil her a lot this year. She's got a tumor that would require fairly major surgery that we aren't sure she'd survive and don't want to have to put her through. So we're just monitoring her quality of life right now, which is still good.
Our Gloomhaven group has been playing on weekly Steam for a long time now. We've done almost all the base game missions we can without starting a new party. We're mostly doing Jaws of the Lion missions now and I'm surprised at how cutthroat some of them are. I guess I thought they would be a little easier. Some interesting mechanics and boss fights so far though. I haven't seen any of Frosthaven yet besides just looking at the previews of the starter characters. How would you describe it compared to Gloomhaven? Kind of the same but more?
I need to start moving around and getting more regular exercise, maybe tomorrow.
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Post by Plum on May 8, 2023 21:38:03 GMT 1
Yeah, Frosthaven is like Gloomhaven dialled up to 11. Instead of a couple of tracks representing the town, you now have a huge map full of individually upgradeable buildings (eg you can't simply buy potions, you have to discover them by mixing components at the alchemist) plus event-driven attacks on the town itself so you need to upgrade its defences etc. Most of the base characters would also be considered advanced characters in regular GH. All of them have a unique gimmick, from the relatively simple (one guy has lots of tricks for keeping modifier cards in play longer, one guy spends health to summon disposable meatshields) to wild (one has two options on every top/bottom and can only use the better 'fast' version after building up speed, while another literally has two separate hands and alternates between them).
So basically it's perfect for a group that has mastered Gloomhaven and knows the game inside out, but I wouldn't recommend it to a new group at all
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Post by Luna on May 23, 2023 3:45:33 GMT 1
Well... now I'm no longer Southpaw's fiance, we broke up. But at least we didn't do this with 11 months left on the new apartment lease, so... silver lining!
And good that you all are talking about Gloom/Frosthaven, because he's been having fun with the guys playing Gloomhaven, and they're looking forward to Frosthaven (especially Southpaw, because blue... everything is blue).
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Post by Plum on Jun 1, 2023 23:31:03 GMT 1
Aw I'm sorry to hear that things didn't work out. I hope it was an amicable break-up and nobody got hurt <3
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Post by Southpaw Hare on Jun 2, 2023 5:08:33 GMT 1
Aw I'm sorry to hear that things didn't work out. I hope it was an amicable break-up and nobody got hurt <3 I've really been away from here for a long while. I'm sorry I don't keep people updated here. I've been so busy lately that I just haven't had the time to make this a regular stop on my list.
Things between Luna and I are pretty amicable. We're both hurting a bit, seeing as we've been together for nearly 4 years. However, I think we both think that this is the right decision for both of us. We're still living together for a few months based on the lease date, and we're not tearing each others heads off in the meanwhile thus far.
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Post by Plum on Jun 2, 2023 20:53:48 GMT 1
That's a minor silver lining at least. It sounds like a horrible cliche, but so long as you're both civil then you'll come out of it a little older, a little wiser, and better equipped for the next relationship
(I also had another paragraph here about relationships but then realised holy shit I am terrible at relationships)
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Post by Southpaw Hare on Jun 3, 2023 6:15:15 GMT 1
That's a minor silver lining at least. It sounds like a horrible cliche, but so long as you're both civil then you'll come out of it a little older, a little wiser, and better equipped for the next relationship (I also had another paragraph here about relationships but then realised holy shit I am terrible at relationships) No judgements. I'd love to hear what you have to say, if you want to give it a go.
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Post by Plum on Jun 11, 2023 1:21:35 GMT 1
Ok, I need to preface this with it's just my dumb opinion and I'm awful at relationships. I genuinely think my brain might be missing a cog, and I'm a nerd so I think in game terms. I figure it's like Halo - Affection is HP, and Tolerance is your recharging overshield. Your partner can have perks, foibles or habits that annoy you, and they burn down your tolerance, but don't reach your affection. And with a little time and space tolerance will recharge, so as long as you keep a decent balance of Relationship-Time and You-Time things are manageable. Some couples are Just Meant To Be and never wear down each other's tolerance at all, but for most normal couples it's all about managing your shield.
And then you move in together and holy shit the balance is kicked all out of whack. You're in each other's space 24/7 and suddenly you don't have quite as much opportunity to recharge your shield. Your partner hasn't changed and you still tolerate their faults exactly the same, but it's harder to build it back up again. Maybe the new balance means you take a tiny ding to your affection and suddenly realise they have weird toes or some random thing. And affection is sooo much harder to replace when it's gone. The next time your tolerance drops and affection takes another tiny hit you realise you don't enjoy dealing with their family. Like, you'll put up with it, tolerate it, but it's kinda annoying you know.
And then you get to one of two places: you find a new balance that prevents further degradation (and just accept that you're never going to get on with their family/toes); or you don't and your affection continues dropping by drips and drabs, and you realise that actually this person just isn't right for you.
I've come to that conclusion after having three long term (5+ years) relationships fail when we moved in together. Mostly it took at least a year for the relationship to cool, but for one my tolerance bubble was super flimsy - the shield shattered and I took critical damage almost immediately. I've been with my current boyfriend for nearly ten years now and pay very careful attention to the state of my metaphorical overshield and its recharge rate. It helps that I'm in my forties so there's less pressure for a couple to move in together. We're also careful to make sure we both have our own things going on (I have karate, he's an avid cinema buff) to give plenty of time for that tolerance to recover. Buuuuut he's literally just been offered a research position at Edinburgh Uni (we're currently on the other side of the country), so we'll have to see what impact a long distance relationship has.
I think most people kinda know all that intuitively anyway but you'd be amazed at how many people seems to think that major life changing decisions won't fuck with the numbers. Crack out a spreadsheet and figure out if seeing each other 23% more often will push your shield depletion rate past the redline.
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Post by Luna on Jun 12, 2023 23:18:24 GMT 1
I can't really speak for what our relationship was. He and I are going to see things differently. I read a quote one time that said something about, "it's not you versus them, it's both of you against the problem at hand," and I think at some point we just stopped trying to face our issues together and just became adversarial.
But I'm getting sick of moving around from place to place, especially to chase love. So I'm planning to move somewhere I want to be and I'm going to tell love to find me there.
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Post by Jude on Aug 1, 2023 6:37:34 GMT 1
Leaving for gencon with a friend tomorrow. It's both of our first times but we're staying with friends of his who live close and go every year. Should be a good time. I'll post a report when I get back.
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Post by lemmingrad on Nov 29, 2023 20:09:10 GMT 1
Whelp, eventually my luck finally ran out, and I got Covid for the first time.
At least I think my five boosters are helping me make a speedy recovery.
Felt the decline happening last Thursday, my throat getting sore on Friday, my physical and mental coordination going to crap Saturday (rapid test resulted in negative but I went home because I could not type correctly both in spelling and even on the correct line) and my throat spiking in pain on Sunday (bought a cough syrup medicine brand called Buckley's that makes it their pride that it tastes awful but works. I never say it tastes awful, but it stings like hell before it relieves, and well, it cleared out the phlegm out of my throat enough to take other pills.)
Monday, my nose was runny enough to get a good sample and I got my first ever Covid positive. So yay...
Anyway, now it's just an annoying cough and irritated throat but not hacking out lungs bad.
Outside of that, I did take a week vacation to take a trip to London, UK, a bit of Wales and Liverpool.
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Post by Plum on Dec 27, 2023 1:36:34 GMT 1
Merry Christmas everyone and I'm really sorry to hear that Lem, I really hope you feel better soon. When I had it, it was more like a 24 flu - unpleasant but over very quickly. I hope that's the case for you too and you can enjoy some of the holidays at least
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