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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Drop Duchy - Roguelike Tetris/card/city builder. 13 hours in and it’s solid./L Description from the Steam page does a good job of explaining an unconventional roguelike.

    Drop Duchy - Build your duchy piece by piece in this refreshing hybrid rogue-lite game. Use block-dropping mechanics to collect resources, recruit troops to fight against belligerent armies, and let every block shape your realm, leading your path to victory!

    Webbed - This deceptively simple metroidvania is based around using spiderwebs as the main mechanic for puzzle solving. You have two web modes: swinging or pulling yourself to a surface or creating persistent webs. The webs stay when you leave the current screen/room so when you spend time making yourself a ramp to get somewhere you don’t need to redo it again when you return to an area.

    I also thought it was a cool touch that they made it accurate to nature in that the male spider is a riot of color and the female is grey/browns. I think they’re based on peacock spiders and the protagonist is the female.






  • 2.65 gallon: moon jellyfish

    3 gallon: shrimps and snails

    20 gallon: tetras, corys, upside down catfish, siamese algae eater (eventually going to other tank), yoyo loach (also bound for other tank if it outgrows the 20), plecos, just had a mystery snail clutch hatch successfully, shrimp

    75 gallon: dojo loaches, angelfish, plecos, a panda cory, pictus catfish, synodontis that thinks he’s an upside down catfish, peacock eel, mystery/narite/rabbit snails…loaches ate all the shrimp in Phishadelphia (where it’s always sunny).

    21 gallon salt water: clownfish, firefish, diamond goby, lawnmower blenny, lettuce sea slugs, rockflower and bta nems, peppermint shrimp, turbo/snails galore, tiger conch, assorted corals. These are all bound for the 120 reef tank we’re designing.










  • I also pro-rate the value of my games like this. For instance, Helldivers 2: paid $39.99 (€35,76), played 537 hours. That’s $0.001 (€0,0012) or 1/10th of a cent per hour of play. Even if I add $2000 (€1.788,61) for the PC I play on that still only comes to $3.79 (€4.24) an hour.

    Hard to beat that price per hour of entertainment.

    My Steam spend over the lifetime of my account comes to $25 (€27,97) a month which is a decent monthly entertainment cost. Of course that doesn’t account for additional spending on other entertainment but putting the total spent amount in perspective is definitely good to do, so thanks for pointing that out for those who need it.

    Edit: added € costs