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Cake day: October 27th, 2025






  • Haven’t had to remember it for awhile. But the freakiest shit I ever got was a stuffed wolf that howled and a flowery note with hearts that said “You’ll be mine” left in my mailbox.

    At first I thought it was from my girlfriend at the time. I found out it wasn’t her, and she was disturbed by it. To this day I still don’t know who left it for me. I had some suspicions, but that was like 20+ and I’ll never find out now.

    Anyhow came rolling back into my memory banks and gave me a chill.





  • Besides being expansive “space themed” MMOs. The two games are wildly different.

    Elite Dangerous is more “fly your ship in first-person”

    Eve online is more “click click tactics”

    TMI:

    I played Elite more than EVE. So I’m biased in I liked Elite better. But it was just too big it felt empty. I think what finally killed Elite Dangerous for me was trying to make the trip Sol to Sagittarius A (galactic center). Was a challenge, but on the way back my game crashed right as I entered a neutron star system and I got pulled into the cone.

    I was so pissed, I just haven’t touched it since. Still pisses me off recalling it. Spending weeks of my life jumping from system to system, gathering so much data to only to get screwed by something like that.






  • Blockbuster was meh. I missed my local movie rental joint that was next to a Chinese take-out.

    Used to be a ritual every other Friday for the spouse and I to order food than walk around the video store well we waited. We used to walk past the weird obscure tapes and come up with fake silly stories about what they were about and look at the goofy covers. Most times we’d rent something unexpectedly good, typically not from the new releases. I never really watch TV sitcoms, so I consumed most of my media this way. The magic was that multi-million dollar media companies didn’t pick what was available on their stream. The selection at the video store was more eclectic and not some sterile selection of just money makers. So I got to see some really good, not so popular, films.

    Also they still had VHS when Blockbuster converted DVD and fairly sure they bought all the old VHS tapes from that conversion. DVDs were still fairly new, so I only had a VCR. Yes, I rewound the tapes.