Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

I'm starting to appreciate the online greeting card services. You can customize a nice birthday card from the comfort of your chair, and have the exact right message or pun put inside the card.

And the funny thing is that it's not more expensive than going to a store, search for the right card which hopefully has the exact funny message you wanted, and then still have to put stamps on them and then post them.

Physical birthday cards in stores are pretty expensive as well, I think online is actually cheaper.

Sigh, this video is totally relatable for me...

The Silent Dinner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkE-FVkvsl4

Especially the 'I'll tell you later' happens far too often, and of course they've all forgotten about the conversations by then.

My solution as a kid was to bring books to the table. 'You cannot read during dinner', fuck you, I'll read whenever I damn well please. I'm not playing dumb and getting bored to tears just for your sake. If needed be I'd smuggle one on my lap.

I also always asked to leave the table as soon as I was done eating. When thinking back now, I wonder if this is why I always eat my dinners so fast. The faster I finished eating, the sooner I could do fun stuff.
#Deaf #SignLanguage

Watching some anime at the moment. Little Witch Academia is more hilarious than I expected, especially the episode with the dragons.

At first that one seems to be some standard fantasy tale of dragons versus witches, but it turned out to be totally different lol.

I actually like this, quite dry humor at the core there.
#Anime #Netflix #LittleWitchAcademia

Decided on a boardgame and a heatpack as Xmas present from my job (we could choose from a long list of generally useless items... I chose the least useless ones. :P)

Winter's still going on, it's still chilly outside, so the heatpack will be of use.

The boardgame is De Zoektocht naar El Dorado (The Quest for El Dorado), so hopefully that's fun enough to play!

Uh been playing MacGuffin's Curse for a few hours...

I continued off an old save I had and had to figure out again wtf I was supposed to do. I guess I'm doing well because the save completion percentage went from 52% to 76%. :P

Definitely time for a break, my brain feels broken now. It's like Sudoku, but a more extreme version of it (hey, you turn into a werewolf, if that ain't extreme, then I don't know what is!).
#Games #MacGuffinsCurse

In the game Talisman: Origins, when I defeat an enemy spirit, I have the option to capture it as spirit or to take it as a trophy.

Trophy is pretty straightforward, but what does capturing a spirit actually do? They become part of my followers, but what's the advantage of that?

I can't seem to find information about it. Their manual only mentions trophies, nothing about capturing spirits.
#Games #Talisman #TalismanOrigins #Question

I kinda wonder why Wordle is so popular now. We've got a game show on TV here for decades, it's called LINGO and that's the exact same. It was wildly popular in the 90's... and is apparently still being aired.

Basically everybody's going retro now. ;)
#Wordle #LINGO

Once again I've beaten emperor Stuck. This time I can add the Warrior to the list of classes that's defeated him.

Having 'All front cards become this type' and 'Destroy all cards of this type' combo is pretty nice. Especially when there are a lot of columns on the screen.

When facing the emperor himself, I mostly chose those Wildstones as the type, hence why I have a nice amount of Wildstone Cards accumulated here, usually it's about 4-5 of those after a session. I can buy nice upgrades with this! 😁
#Games #Solitairica

Ehh, I'm not sure but I think either the repair/sell labels or icons are swapped. I'll be pretty pissed if I accidentally sell a satellite when I wanted to repair them. :P
#Games #TheUnstoppableGorg

Whew, 100%ed the achievements of Crash Drive 3. That was quite a ride! Still a fun game but I think I probably should take a break now, lol.
#Games

Putting on clothes which were heated up on top of the radiator is so nice...

...unless they have metal bits on them. Ow ow ow ow ow!

Spent 4 hours troubleshooting dad's computer (well, not the full 4 hours, but I spent 4 hours over at my parents' place in total, including free dinner) to figure out why it wouldn't work with dad's brand new big monitor.

Turns out that I needed to set the monitor from Displayport 1.2 to Displayport 1.1. Of course, the OSD with those settings wasn't even accessible without a working computer attached to it... so glad I brought my laptop along so I could actually get to the monitor's settings.

Couldn't display the full 4K resolution either on his old rig, but so long the aspect ratio was right, 1440p is fine for him. He wanted stuff to be displayed big anyway (scaled up his display by 175% on top of this too).

While I had my laptop around, I also made a shitton of notes about dad's equipment so that I have some reference material at hand next time I need to troubleshoot his PC again. Might need it next time when we go replace his HDD for an SSD.

All in all, the evening ended satisfactory... it's a lot easier to fix stuff if you have a reliable computer next to you. I love my laptop.
#Hardware #Techie

You know, I wouldn't mind having one of those drawing tablets where you can draw straight on it with a stylus and with the press of a button everything's gone.

Great for temporary notes without having to waste all this paper here...

I finished watching Hilda, The Mountain King. I've already watched the Hilda series before, and the last episode ended with an enormous cliffhanger. The movie continues on where the series ended at.

My observations:
Movie is very nice, totally a great continuation.
Not everything is what it seems.
Don't mix Witch Magic and Troll Magic!
Stupid doves just won't die.
Ending is satisfying, I feel that this Hilda story is pretty much finished.

I can recommend watching this animation!
#Movies #Netflix #Hilda

So, my current Steam Winter Sale purchase consists only of DLCs. The actual games I purchased were all Fanatical bundle games. ;)
#Games

Just finished watching Inside Out. That movie's story is so much deeper than its animations would make you believe... I'm seriously impressed.
Usually I take breaks while watching a movie, but with this one I just wanted to continue watching. That's quite an achievement, woo!
#Movies #InsideOut

Happy new year from the Netherlands!

Now to wait until people are done shooting millions of euro into the sky so I can go sleep...

I'm really a sucker for Fanatical's Build-Your-Own-Bundles...

*Is a few games richer again*
https://www.fanatical.com/en/pick-and-mix/build-your-own-new-year-bundle

So far I've bought more games from Fanatical than from Steam this Winter Sale. :P
#Games #Bundle #Fanatical

Hope I'll get some more 5G pumped into my body next week friday. :P I demand 5G reception already!

(I probably should also buy a new phone, but that's irrelevant!)