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there's like four of them and they're being yelled at I guess by two of the big grunt guys with the hivehand weapons? and if you drop into the area or get seen, the vorts just run away immediately and the grunts attack you. Even after the grunts are dead the four vorts just hide from you and cower, poor things. so obv. I didn't kill them or harm them at all.
I think that if you did, the vort village might be hostile to you? Maybe? idk. but they let me through!
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oh my god i just
okay this is really, really good, damn, Crowbar Collective did an AMAZING job with the Xen part of this game, no wonder it took so long, it's like they took the general concept of Xen ,and then just... said... "fuck it let's make our OWN Xen, just... toss out all the OG Half Life xen shit."
It's amazing. You actually find a village of Vortigaunts and you don't have to kill any of them. I mean you meet some earlier that if you don't kill just run away
“At last! The lost Temple of the Dragon Sword! Wealth beyond imagining is ours!”
“Sir, there’s apparently been a transcription error.”
“A transcription error?”
“This is the Temple of the Dragon’s Word, sir.”
“Word, you say.”
“Yes sir. There’s a plaque.”
“I see. And it says?”
“It says ‘Kindness and friendship are the greatest of all life’s treasures’, sir. It is signed ‘Nydjwallyier’, I believe a dragon’s name.”
“I see. I am somewhat let down by this.”
“We did make friends along the way, sir.”
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playing through Xen on the new Black Mesa beta finally. and...WWWOWW it is SO different!! for a start, it's absolutely beautiful to look at, properly alien looking environments, wonderfully detailed, a real feeling of wandering an alien ecology and landscape, an ACTUAL RESEARCH FACILITY MADE WITH TEMPORARY PORTABLE BUILDINGS LIKE THERE WOULD BE FOR A RESEARCH EXPEDITION, interesting new enemies and environmental hazards...
and actually FUN to traverse!!
my brain this morning: hey, hey, wanna hear a song?
me, slowly waking up: mngh, wha?...
my brain: *starts humming the tune to Opsblaaskrokodil by Ome Henk without the words*
me: *frowning, recognising it, but not able to place it, trying to remember it, slowly dredging through memories*
my brain: :)
me: *uncovering the last memories from a huge dusty pile in their mind* Oh! Oh I think I know what this is! It's fro-OH GOD NO PUT IT BACK AAAA
my brain: :) too late :) *animutation flood!*
Fediverse, TERFs, birdsite, block rec
Graham Linehan has set up his own fedi server, because people are making TERF hate speech so unwelcome on twitter. It's https://glindr.org/
Remember this if you see "glindr" popping up, and block accordingly
private health insurance stuff
#PrivateHealthLIFEhacks actually we can think of a few notes, about prescriptions
get your prescription refills before it's super necessary if you can, so that you don't run low, and so that you have a buffer if you need to argue price with the pharmacist.
also: discuss prices with your pharmacist. ask if that's with insurance, for example. there are some things, like GoodRx here https://www.goodrx.com/ that provide free coupons that drop the price of uninsured medication by a lot, and sometimes, that price drop can literally be more than insurance saves you if you're able to be on private insurance. it's very good to keep an eye on if those or something similar will pop up local to you.
uk pol inspired private health insurance stuff over on twitter
over on twitter, Imani Barbarin started posting #PrivateHealthLIFEhacks, which is a hashtag for the disabled community in the US (mostly) to spread info about getting by with private health insurance
https://twitter.com/Imani_Barbarin/status/1205285552884465665
we'd defs recommend posting stuff here (we'd post things ourselves if we knew anything) and do check out the tag over on twitter
however, Skatebird looks fun as shit so I'm still probs gonna check it out, especially on Switch.
the Skatebird demo was really hard to control and I'm not sure if that's just me not having gotten to grips with this steam controller yet or what. also steam why is your layout weird for the buttons why this is very weird of you
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.