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“Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.” -Bucky Fuller
Hello Lally! I’m pleased to report that my peppers are mostly going strong, and wife was able to make the most delicious enchilada sauce with poblanos, cayennes, and anaheims mixed in. It was so rewarding to get to eat something made from scratch that was covered in sauce (also made from scratch!) from stuff I grew myself! Unfortunately, some have succumbed to what appears to be blossom end rot, but I’ve saved a lot of egg shells and am going to get to work on that. Even more unfortunate, my bell pepper plant seems to have shirked its mortal coil. I’m not sure if it was due to the heat or lack of watering, but I came out one day and it was gone. Pour one out for my bell pepper, that thing lived a few years and survived a move. Life is but a dream, we shall have more peppers <3
I’m not 100% what’s going on with my pumpkins, but the remaining two that haven’t succumbed to the heat are doing great. One has really taken off and is making friends with my asparagus fern I saved from Kroger last year. However, it seems that with both, the male flowers open up but I never see the female do her thing, so I haven’t been able to pollinate them. But, like I say every time I post these updates, I’m just along for the ride and am having fun on my balcony. But a teeny pumpkin would be neat!
Herbs are looking pretty good! My two potted mint plants are still kicking ass, though that’s not really anything to shake a stick at lol they grow like weeds. The oregano got a little heat damaged, but it’s not in direct sunlight for very long now that I’ve moved it. Rosemary’s looking good too, nothing much to say there. Can’t say the same about her baby though, that kid’s the end of the world (ba-dum-tiss). My basil is a bit meh, but it’s just a starter, and I’ve heard they’re not necessarily intended to last long, so I’m not too caught up in that.
I’m pleased that the kale and microgreens I sowed are doing well too. Most of the things I planted from seed didn’t last due to the heat, due to me being an amateur and doing it outside, but I’m able to add fresh kale and who-knows-what to salads and wraps, and that’s awesome. I also have one catnip that managed to make it, and one day it could be a huge catnip bush like its older sibling. That one’s just a starter plant, but it’s really taken off, and my cats love it. I decorate the kitchen with the flowers :)
Gonna vent some. Long week, it’s not Friday yet, stupid coworkers, stupid customers, managers who don’t care about standard operating procedure, ahhh.
A man was not meant to sit in front of a computer monitor for nine hours a day.
Update: thank goodness I have the ability to take a bath. I was whining earlier, but I am very privileged. This is my affirmation.
Oh snap, thanks for catching that! I edited the title.
As a cleverly written and somewhat complex personal story, Infinite shines. It’s got compelling characters that make you care, and then it puts those characters through the wringer in their search for contentment.
That’s a great point I hadn’t considered, and can’t believe I hadn’t. Rapture felt like its own character to the story in a way that Colombia never really did, but it’s undeniable how well-done the characterization between them was.
As McLuhan put it, “the medium is the message” and video games inherently work better through a synthesis of gameplay and story, without one dominating over the other. Games that lean too far in one direction or the other (Metal Gear Solid’s interminably long cut-scenes for instance) take you too far out of the gaming medium and too far into other, more detached mediums.
Absolutely banger take, I agree completely. Games have a difficult needle to thread, unlike a book or movie that can be strictly narrative-based, a video game has to somehow give the player enough agency while taking it away to allow the story to progress. And now I have DND on the mind again.
I’m reminded of a comment my older brother made about Final Fantasy X, all those years ago. He described it as basically playing a movie. Go figure, I liked the cutscenes!
