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Seeing that Pinboard is down which is unfortunate but not unexpected. I don’t want to migrate to AO3 bookmarks because the lack of mass-editing along with the rate-limiting makes it an unserious tool. Considering I am on migration four (Yahoo Notes, LJ memories, Delicious, Pinboard), I’m thinking of just spinning up a local db once I can get my data out.

(I was unaware the guy went off the deep end. That was tbh also not unexpected but if I were aware I would have migrated earlier!)

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For most of yesterday sashagee wasn't feeling well, so I had a lot of free time. Around 4 p.m. I thought it'd be nice to go for a walk, so I put on some flip-flops, walked out the door, and headed for the north side of the lakeshore trail. I started walking, kept walking, kept walking, and, well:


It's something I've always wanted to do, to walk along the lakeshore on a warm summer evening, but there was never previously a good time. This weekend, Laila is at the grandparents and sashagee, so I finally had the time. I initially only planned to walk to Belmont, about half that distance there. But around Belmont I thought, "Oh, I could walk to Fullerton, it's only a few more blocks" and then when I got to Fullerton I could see the skyscrapers of downtown in the light of the setting sun and I thought, "...you know, those don't seem that far away. I bet I could make it there without taking too much time." And so I walked the entire way.

After I had been gone an hour and a half sashagee texted me asking if I had met up with someone and I was like "Nope! Still walking!"

I took the bus home and got back around 8:30 p.m. (the Red Line had a lot of weirdness since it's not running underground on weekends currently). sashagee was really worried that my feet would hurt the next day, but they don't. After I got back, we went out to a bar with lisekatevans and afschifler and afschifler was astonished I did it in flip-flops, but as I answered, feet are made for walking.

Maybe I'll do it again later this summer. I should get new flip-flops, though--I've nearly worn holes through my current ones.

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Drives are done! Thursday was all wins, Friday was mostly wins, Saturday was mostly losses and me being 20 away from the threshold and several games on thinking I would be five under, but no, I threaded the needle perfectly. I did a couple extra to fill out the standard 100 comp points bar as I was 11/15, but seeing as I turn off the signatures in client I have no need for the last tier, and it's not a permanent cosmetic anyways, so save your sanity and all that...

I'll be getting Ashe's crimson weapon and also Vendetta's gold, I think... I really do enjoy the sword spinning. I've been trying her a bit in normal gameplay and she is so desperately dependant on her perks to be playable, she has no self sustain or invulnerability frames, and no holding up your sword to block damage doesn't really count. Stadium fixes a lot of these problems and more, but even there it takes you myriad rounds to build her, she's one of the slowest.

( Shion first impressions, and Reign of Talon thoughts so far )

So, basically... The final boss of the Baldesion Arsenal is Ozma, yeah? (Explanation in details tag)

One of its mechanics is 'Blackhole', which will kick you out of the Baldesion Arsenal entirely — with no way back in — if you are affected by it. There are six "Blackhole Buffers", which are circles on the ground which must all be stood on at the same time to activate the Blackhole Buffer effect for those standing on one. This effect protects you from Blackhole, thus letting you continue the fight.

The arena consists of a ring around Ozma, and 3 equally-spaced rectangular platforms pointing towards Ozma. The ring is not close/wide enough for melees to attack from it, but one side of each platform is close enough. There is a Buffer on each platform, and a Buffer on the ring between each platform.

Now, generally speaking (aka with a 'normal' number of participants), there are two main ways to assign who goes to which Buffer to increase the chance that at least 1 person assigned to each Buffer will be 1. alive, and 2. aware enough to go to their respective Buffer.

Method 1 is that all ranged jobs will go to the [left/right] of the platform while melees/tanks stay on the platform. This works best with balanced parties.

Method 2 is that each party in their entirety is assigned to a buffer. This works best with the max number of parties.

Today, we went with Method 1. This was all well and dandy, until the second-last Blackhole. I was the ONLY one on my assigned Buffer. Which meant I was the ONLY thing in the way of the ENTIRE RAID being kicked out of BA completely! I've done like, 13-18 BA runs at this point, and this is the closest we've ever been to full-raid Blackhole! Obviously not counting the runs where it was planned for only one person on the Buffer, since that's a high-trust run in the first place.

OH I ALMOST FORGOT BUT it was WORSE because being alone made me doubt myself and I ALMOST WALKED BACK TO THE GROUP LMFAOOOOO

So, yeah! My heart was racing like CRAZY, but it also made me feel really cool lmaooo

 I'm going to write biographies/character profiles for the next sixty minutes. At least if I'm not writing on my novel, I can write a character profile. I'll report back here in the next sixty minutes. Later.

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