So now I can beat Hades (the character) pretty consistently if I'm not doing any challenges from the Pact of Punishment, which means I'm advancing the story but not much advancing my character build (as that now requires beating him on a higher Heat/Difficulty level).
It's interesting how many different choices this game gives you. Because I can keep powering through the vanilla run until I have finished out the story, but my character's power level will remain basically at a plateau from run to run unless/until I challenge myself...
...either by upping the difficulty or learning how to escape using a weapon that's not my best/main weapon, which means mastering completely different gameplay.
So in essence, it's a game that redefines what winning, losing, and mastery means.

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21 Oct
So everybody confused about why the Toobin thing is not just a "whoopsie" or "a thing that could happen to anybody" - look at CNN's response, which is "Well, he's too important to our company to fire or discipline, so whaddayagonado, y'know?"

This is why it can't be "innocent".
I've never had a job where I wouldn't have been fired for masturbating on the clock, much less in view of coworkers. I know it's hard to quantify things like cable news stardom but at the point a network won't fire you? You're a star.
You remember Donald Trump saying "When you're famous, they let you do it," right? We all understand he wasn't talking about consent there, right? He was saying: if you're powerful, you get away with it.

That's predatory behavior.
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20 Oct
So, Torchlight 3... I have mixed feelings about it and a lot of them I think can be chalked up to its early development cycle being focused on MMO functionality.
One thing I really liked about Torchlight 2 was that they expanded the functionality of pets, from basically being a walking bag of holding you can temporarily dismiss to sell excess goods to also being able to take a shopping list back to town from any location.
The pet system is one of the highlights of the Torchlight series compared to other Diablikes, and I felt like leaning into it was a good move.

3 seems to have gotten rid of the shopping list functionality.
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20 Oct
Wait... Torchlight 3 is out? Like, for real? Wow, I had no idea it was this close.
Apparently it came out last week. Hee, which means it was out and available for sale when I bought Hades because I was looking for a new action RPG to play.
Ooh, one of the character classes is a robot.
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I've said this before, but in Trump's GOP, it's not the final command. It's his opening move. Remember the inauguration? Remember Spicer the next day angrily issuing "corrections"?

Demand people agree with your lies upfront and you know who you own and who you don't.
Donald Trump & company know that it's easy enough to get someone to go along with a pointless, petty lie because why are they going to burn bridges and capital fighting you over something that doesn't matter. You'll think, "I'm keeping my powder dry for when it matters."
But then it matters and you've been going along to get along for so long that it's habit. More than habit. Deeper than habit. You're invested. You're up to your neck and you're complicit, and if you blow it up now then all your sacrifices were for nothing.
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19 Oct
My dad has been going through volumes of old photos and such as he gets ready to downsize his living situation post my mother's death, and he sent me a box of photos. Here's one of my senior pics.

Note the 90s flannel repurposed as a respectable collared shirt for a formal pic! Image of a teenager with round wire-rimmed glasses and a bla
I've spoken before of my mother's love of sunset photography, which she acquired as a hobby later in her life. I don't have to guess who took this photo! Image of a woman in a hat silouetted between two palm trees
One of her laments after my siblings and I started graduating high school was that so many of our vacation photos were of places and things with no people in them, so they could have been anyone's photo. After that, while plenty of her sunset photos were just of the sunset...
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So I finally beat Hades (the character) in Hades (the video game) and escaped from Hades (the mythological realm).

It's interesting how this game manages to redefine both the concept of losing and winning so that neither is actually the end of play.
It took me 39 escape attempts. I did it with the shield and my strategy for fighting Hades's phase 2 was to hide behind the pillar and hit him with indirect shots with my shield, doing chill status and decay damage-over-time, then throwing a blade rift at him when he got close.
I almost had to fight him without any damage-over-time but then I picked up the Demeter boon that adds decay to chill in the Temple of Styx, as my last purchase of the run.
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