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• 6:30-9:00 in the morning

• 2:00-4:30 in the afternoon

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• Scratch: LandonHarter

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• Libera IRC: DMs over MemoServ are preferred, but you may also talk to me in #MineralFish during my stated regular online times (please state your wasteof.money username when you join)

The scariest part of a Model Y Tesla isn't the self-driving functionally; it's when your dad turns onto the highway and punches the accelerator. The experience was so harrowing that I found myself reflectively bracing against the acceleration. I know that the human body can survive 12g of forward acceleration, but that doesn't provide margins for comfort…

FACT: this morning, I looked at this animal, and had trouble figuring out what it was. I initially thought it was a grasshopper, but I had a feeling it wasn’t. And if I got hit in the head, I don’t remember that, either…

Have you ever thought about where the Watcher is in the timeline? This is a timeline of unofficial Rain World campaigns alongside vanilla and Downpour events. Think about it, and take inspiration from how many slugcats have been scampering around Five Pebbles’s facility over the cycles. Perhaps there were even multiple slugcats in there at once!

RESEARCH // 11.3.E // LOG PARTIALLY ENCRYPTED

<76642>: "No copyright law in the universe can stop me!"
<64537>: "I believe you have my stapler."
<344626>: "Every Good Gamble Means Absolutely Nothing"
<745837>: "I'm an optimist, but I'm also a realist."
<33427>: "Oh, we've got to hurry. The baggage truck will be here any moment now!"
<526366>: "GET THIS TINNITUS OUT OF MY- oh, it's gone."
<9653-7848>: "I'm so sorry for your loss I know how it feels to-"
<56825537>: "You think you can defeat me with your dirty laundry, fool?!"
Spike: "<266686476>"
<2677>: "This will be the easiest round of layoffs ever."
<742369>: "...care to explain what's going on?"
<7426474-55262>: ". . . nonononononoNONONO! Oh, SIMPLETON! NINCOMPOOP!"
<22534>: "Rats, you got away. Guess I'll die!"
<23672>: "I prefer not to trade pleasantries with my captors."
<3687282>: "Update to log: I am now going to run."
<45927377>: "You wouldn't die of anything in the typical sense; you would just stop being biology and start being metaphysics."
<7329464-78336>: "WHY IS THERE A MUDWING IN MY SUMMER PALACE!?"
<629466>: "I'm only helping if you promise to stop texting me the market value of my baseball cards every time it changes."
<44468>: "'Tis evening. From the stars above, a soft, mysterious light brings thoughts of friendship, joy and love . . . NOW LET'S GET THAT FIGHT!"
<567829>: "carbon-based cargo in peril!"
<2668378268>: "It's just you and me in the dark, staring at a potato."

REMINDER: Daylight Savings Time ends tomorrow. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? For me, it tends to be an annoyance as it throws off my schedule and internal clock. (I value coherence to my schedule over anything else, even sleep.) Discuss your opinion in the comments below.

CURRENTLY DOING: absorbing a 44-page list of try-not-to-laugh content, curated by the TBGers

I had loose plans to do something for Halloween, but due to procrastination and Unsustainability-induced habits, I dropped them. So, uhh . . . imagine this creature, which looks vaguely like a green lizard on the outside, hunting you in Rain World:

To be honest, I had no idea that @owenathletic was an AI. I had a sense that they were a social experiment, but I didn't suspect anything further. I can't believe - well, actually I can; the evidence is in mint condition - that I vomited a large chunk of my journal at an AI . . .

https://wasteof.money/posts/6713f2ed11975704ddadb24e#comments-6715330611975704ddadb52c

PASTMEANING
PASTFEELING
PASTLANGUAGE
PASTTHEDESIREFORMEANING

I remember an incident in which, when I was much younger, I lost my headphones and looked for them . . . only to eventually realize that they were sitting on my ears the whole time.

Now introducing: fire!

FACT: almost all of the animals seen in A Dance of Fire and Ice are Chinese zodiac symbols. The pigs in Offbeats and Third Wave Flip-Flop, the bull/ox in Classic Pursuit, the mice in Heracles, the “goats” in Artificial Chariot and several other levels, the various rabbits in Rose Garden, and the tiger in Party of Spirits all apply. The only exception is the cats in Spin 2 Win.

ADoFaI’s parallelogram loops, which indicate a tightly swung “1-23-45” rhythm, are my weakness. I have also found myself losing traction on long square/hexagon/octagon loops. However, I have been practicing the former matter, and . . . I wouldn't say that I've improved substantially, but I have gained enough skill to sometimes get past the very fast parallelogram at the start of Party of Spirits.

Expect footage of my practicing to be broadcast on RW-570 soon.