• NaevaTheRat [she/her]@vegantheoryclub.orgM
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    24 days ago

    Wife is visiting her parents. I’m doing Christmas with my family. Just a meal basically.

    Last year I spent Christmas alone cleaning the house which was perfection this year I’m obligated to pretend to be a human.

    Hopefully I’ll find time for some gardening

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    24 days ago

    We don’t celebrate holidays so there isn’t really anything out of the ordinary going on. We’re having dinner with my inlaws this week like normal, they just happen to have a plastic tree in their house for some reason lol.

    Some kind of respiratory virus has been kicking our butts lately but I think things are improving. The tests for RSV/COVID/pneumonia all came back negative so the treatment is drinking lots of fluids, smoking lots of weed (weirdly this causes zero discomfort), and playing the new Pokemon game.

    This week’s agenda is to get the last obstacles taken care of to get things growing again at home. I let most of my plants finish out in preparation for surgery and now it’s time to kick things back into high gear. There’s a fair bit of equipment to finish cleaning and move before finally starting some seeds again. Fingers crossed for a productive week!

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        24 days ago

        Addictive as hell if pack opening and TCGs are up your alley. Addictive as hell if pokemon is something you’ve enjoyed in the past. Consider yourself warned lol.

        They give you a couple weeks of their premium pass thing to start so the progress hasn’t felt limiting at all. I’ve kept strictly to the single player battling so far so I don’t have an opinion outside of that yet. So far the battles feel tuned pretty well. You can stumble your way to victory early on if you need time to learn but there are plenty of challenges too. Each battle has 4 win criteria that are optional challenges and I enjoy completing all of them. I have very little criticism after a couple days of playing.

        But, it’s also a mobile game in 2024. There are a number of micro transaction opportunities in the shop and they definitely want you to spend money to get things faster. Nothing overly intrusive or annoying so far and everything gameplay related can be obtained from cash-free traditional means. There appear to be some protections in place to limit how much impact whales can have on the game as well.

        Spending limits

        There isn’t a way to directly trade cash for cards but there are ways to exchange resources that you buy with cash for items that reduce the cool down time on pack opening. TLDR it’s very difficult and expensive to try and brute force your way to a single card let alone a whole deck. Considering the format I don’t think it’s a bad compromise.

        I like it enough that I spun up a community for it on WG.

        !pokemonTCGP@walledgarden.xyz

  • I’m bought a bunch of switch games for my nephews and nieces who live pretty far away for Hanukkah which is the same day as Christmas this year. As is tradition I’m going to eat Chinese food and maybe go to a movie if something besides fucking Sonic is playing, otherwise I’ll watch Die Hard at home

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    23 days ago

    Visiting sister later this week for two whole days! We’re doing like a potluck with our partners and I’m going to make daal on day one and then baked beans.

    I’m excited to show my sister my cooking.

  • WhereDidMySpinachGo@vegantheoryclub.org
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    24 days ago

    The extended family is visiting on Christmas day. We don’t really celebrate but the rest of the family does. I’ll need to put the tree up before they get here lol. I will have a chance to redeem myself by making sushi and not screwing it up again. Ps if anyone wants the recipe, we use this thai hippie recipe. Delicious!

    Outside of that I’m working double shifts after Christmas for a few weeks so I’m just dreaming of not being a cog in this capitalist hellhole.