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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I didn’t really “get” Prince at first either. His biggest radio hits didn’t quite click for me. But then I watched a full concert video and loved it. He was just radiating energy the entire show in a way that wasn’t quite captured by the studio recordings IMO. And I think it’s one thing to read that he was an incredible multi-instrumentalist versus actually watching him absolutely shred on several different instruments at different times throughout the show.


  • The one and only time I “cheated” at Elden Ring was to spawn in some DLC weapons (hand-to-hand arts and perfume bottles) for a brand new character. Not because they were overpowered but because I hadn’t used them on any of my previous characters and they looked fun so I wanted to use them for a full playthrough. And they were quite fun. Better than I expected too, but certainly not top tier weapons.

    Of course I could have just asked a friend to drop them for me instead but it was easier to just “cheat” them in :)







  • I don’t think that’s necessarily a problem. Switching to a new weapon mostly just replaces the mechanism of upgrading your weapon.

    Instead of “in this area you should have a +M to +N weapon, which should deal +X to +Y damage”, you just cut out the middle man and have “in this area, the weapon drops should deal +X to +Y damage” (where X and Y obviously depend on the weapon type).

    Not that it should be flat damage based, but if you can decide what the right stats for a +7 axe should be and in which areas a +7 weapon is expected, then you just drop slight variations on the +7 axe without putting “+7” in the name.

    It’s been a while since I’ve played Borderlands or Nioh but from what I remember they played differently. In Borderlands, if a great shotgun dropped I might swap out an assault rifle I had that was starting to underperform. Because I didn’t have a strong affinity to a particular weapon class. In Nioh 2, I focused on kusarigama and tonfa so if a great spear dropped I wouldn’t bother equipping it because I hadn’t unlocked any skills on the spear skill tree and it wouldn’t scale with the stats I was leveling.





  • As “its” is used to indicate possession by “it”, “its” is an exception to apostrophe-s construction as used to indicate possessive forms.

    Most, if not all, pronouns work that way though.

    “The man’s arm” becomes “his arm” not “him’s arm”. “The woman’s arm” becomes “her arm” not “her’s arm”. Similarly, “the robot’s arm” becomes “its arm” not “it’s arm”.

    I don’t really care if people use “it’s” instead of “its” , but I don’t think it’s a unique exception. The only thing that’s unique is that it is pronounced the same way as if you tacked an apostrophe and an s on the end. If we used the word “hims” instead of “his”, I’m sure people would start putting an apostrophe in there too.