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Jan 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Last 5 games I played...

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Control
Factory Town
Hades
Dishonored 2
Still working on the cat ears side quest/puzzle.

(No hints/spoilers.)
I've got all the cats from all places in the Foundation that involved conspicuous puzzle elements I noticed but could not figure out the point of at the time. Luckily, I enjoy tooling around game environments with superpowers, getting into random fights.

(No hints/spoilers.)
I will probably wind up getting Alan Wake before I finish my quest for the cat ears, as I suspect I'll have better luck finding the remaining nekos if I go away from it and then come bakc.

(No hints/spoilers.)

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One of my new interests on YouTube is watching "van life" videos, where people go on tours of the tiny houses they have crammed into old FedEx trucks and ambulances.

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Ever since I tweeted about how I keep getting served fitness-themed Oculus ads because they don't know how else to advertise to people who aren't poking into VR stuff that isn't games, all my Twitter ads are just, "Games? Oculus is so much more than games."
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Jan 25
Reminds me of insurers not having to reimburse tests if they're bought for "surveillance" purposes (i.e., if you go into a pharmacy to buy a test to see if you have covid, rather than going in *because* you have it).

These tests instruct you to take once if you have symptoms...
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Just hit me out of nowhere that "nonbinary" and "asexual" very probably mean the same thing to Tucker Carlson.
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