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Wrath of the Righteous goes well, but the Enigma is deeply annoying. Also I missed a few obvious things and had to go back and forth a few times which does not make it less annoying but is on me. I used the online guides for all the puzzles because I absolutely do not see how you're supposed to figure them out, and also my characters would figure them out, it's what Nenio does. I also checked online for when the Midnight Bolt works, and used it appropriately this time.

Once again being 20th level mythic 9 just kind of wipes the floor with everything even when you don't play it turn based, and the magic users are a bit cantrip based when not turn based. The fights take care of themselves right up to the boss fight. And that went better than expected.

After that I did the ice themed DLC, and that one does *not* take care of itself, even turn based. Very challenging. Great big enemy with some unique abilities that were no fun. Yet still, it only took two cycles of the great big enemy being in reach of attacks. Nifty. ... Daeran needed a lot of healing after the big attack but Daeran *has* a lot of healing, so that works out. The online guides somehow overlook how nice it is to do Mass Heal twice in one round for two to four hundred damage while fixing up all your friends.

And then we found the travelling salesman so Arue has Killing Pace. Win.

That leaves me with only two DLC, Midnight Isles and Dance, and then Threshold.

Might finish this week.



... might actually take a break when I finish and not go right back in as a new character on a higher difficulty, or keep doing achievements in the DLC, who knows...

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Oct. 26th, 2025 02:12 am
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Today on Wrath of the Righteous I did not get as far as I had hoped. Also I think one Leadership thing is bugged, since it reckoned I had to come back urgently to deal with it and then didn't do anything about it for a month. It's fine, it says I maxed out Leadership anyways, it should work okays.

Chilly Creek and the Sarkorian couple both worked fine, as did the Heart of Mystery eventually, but then I went to do Nenio's questline and realised I had not done one thing from back in Act 3 and I had to go do it over again, which was somehow embarrassing. Look at me, Knight Commander of the 5th crusade, redoing ny homework because I didn't press a button right. Eh, it's fine, they're doing the quest properly now. Also with all the buffs on we seem to be immune to... damage, basically. Getting hit, in general. Anything getting through without a critical fail on the saves. It's interesting but also boring to play. No stakes, just let it run on auto and they'll win in a few seconds. Daeran hasn't had to heal anyone for ages. Plus I leave Nenio to last because I've never seen an explanation for the stupid puzzles that actually makes sense so I just have to make them match the pictures and that isn't puzzle solving. I am not a fan of the stupid things at all at all. So I now appear to be grumpy. Ah well.

Clocks went back and I have updated my home clocks already.

Pretty okay day.

Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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Oct. 25th, 2025 12:13 pm
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I stayed up til 4am but I got so many quests done. Also General Shy defeated every army on the worldwound, which is always nice. He's levelled all the way up now so it's usually one or two firestorms. The other generals are behind but now we've got to hold all that territory so they'll have a chance to catch up.

I did the tactical fight, freed the mine, and did so many companion quests I don't remember which were what day. Read more... )
... I should also do some things that are not replaying the same video game again again again. Actually this is the fifth mythic path I've got this far on and I started a lot more than I've finished so more agains than that.

But it gets a lot of momentum by this close to the end so I'm probably juet going to eat and go play.

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Oct. 23rd, 2025 10:36 am
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I use Tuta.de for my email hosting and I've downloaded the Tuta app for my email client. It's set to not show images by default, just placeholders.

I get a lot of email from RPG sellers of various types. I get a RIDICULOUS amount of email from political organizations.

I do not always look at the Sender part of the message first, as the Tuta client uses a smaller font for the sender and other information than most senders specify for their default body text. Some of the senders use VERY LARGE text for an eye-grab at the top of their emails before going on to the regular lettering.

All of which is a roundabout way to say that for a few gloriously entertaining seconds I thought I had an email from the people at the Women's March that began with “WE ARE THE FURY OF THE STORM AND THE PITILESS WRATH OF ENDLESS WINTER.”

Yet again, the world I see out of the corner of my eye is way more entertaining than what's there when I look at it directly.

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Oct. 23rd, 2025 04:41 am
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I have reached the part of playing Wrath of the Righteous where I get really bad at taking breaks. Act 5 gives you all these urgent rescue missions to do at once and I know it's a game so they don't trigger the stuff happening until you show up but logically you are being asked to prioritise who to leave captive for longest and that is stressful. But I've been to the Falls, rescued Galfrey, restored the herald, and finished Gundrun, plus saw Ember finally convince like everyone everyone. Greybor's meeting went well. I just found the old mine. It's all going reasonably well 🤞

There are some buffs the Angel spells give you that are making attempts to hit us just maximum futile. Which is fun yet does not give me the feeling of having got good at the game.

Decided to romance Ulbrig to the end on this play through and it turns out some important personal stuff is hidden in the last romance meeting after you have to choose. Like it's a real payoff of his whole everything so far. But that is a bit weird because the romance in the romance is kind of minimal? Honestly these people need therapy more than they need a date. The story doesn't seem to know these are different things. But it is nice seeing Ulbrig work through his issues and find hope beyond grief.

... Lann had decided he was romancing me and no nope that is... not what he was doing. not in an evil way but no. am not dating.

Whatever was going on in Galfrey's mind based on meeting for entire numbers of minutes is just... odd.

But Ulbrig is just nice, if he's your type at all at all, so I like how that went so far.



In real world news I went for my nice walk for this week and shall be getting a hair cut next week. Winning. One hour of support to go outside a week is not much but every little helps.

Gardens are nice when you see them once a week. Like stop motion for seasonal flowers.

And I gave away an annoying book to a charity shop so hopefully it can find its reader.


Pretty okay.

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Oct. 22nd, 2025 03:23 pm
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Turns out you can reopen a closed Etsy shop almost any time you want as long as you make sure to back it up with an active credit card and renew all your listings. I've closed the shop, contacted the colo place to cancel my subscription, and informed the City of Boston that I am no longer in business and will not be renewing my permit this year.

Anyone interested in jewelry from me, ask me about holiday or birthday gifts instead.

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Oct. 21st, 2025 03:18 pm
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Considering shutting down my Etsy store. Haven't actually made jewelry in months (mostly I've been sewing instead), haven't made a sale in months, and since the Etsy store isn't in my legal name I have to have a DBA certificate, which means I have to have a business address, and since I rent an apartment I can't actually operate the business out of the apartment due to insurance issues (I checked with the landlord). Neither Boston nor the town I live in will let a business register with a PO box as their primary address so I have to pay monthly fees at a colocation space and that's expensive. It makes no sense to keep the Etsy store existing if I'm not actually making enough jewelry to need to sell any of it off.

If anyone has an alternative to colo that means I don't have to pay more per month than I actually ever sold (I made a profit for a while some time back but the colo space upped their prices and now there's nowhere in Boston that charges a reasonable price for just having their address rather than actually using their space), let me know.

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Oct. 20th, 2025 10:43 pm
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Today was a successful Cleaner Day and an okay day of Wrath of the Righteous.
The Core difficulty continues to be frustratingly lumpy.
I only needed two goes at Iz because the first go had everyone in the wrong formation and the one with the midnight bolt died immediately. I haven't had as much practice at the Iz boss fight because of the time when I one shot him with Daeran doing Dismissal. Like that was a very cool win but it taught me nothing.
I didn't actually set out to do Iz that time, I went for the Falls and then realised it was sitting right there and it seemed churlish to not go pick up the Queen when it was that simple.
I did the Angel myth path challenge next and the actual required part was fine, easy even, but there was one of those stupid big purple rocks and that took three tries and a ridiculous strategy. (It is impossible to beat subsonic hum, but a Heal spell with fix everyone stunned by the hum. So keep Daeran out of range, let Ember into range to Hellfire it, summon everything you can handily achieve, elemental swarm worked great, let the summons take the actual damage and hedge the rock in, then Heal Ember and let her kaboom it. Works if and only if the initiative order goes just right. Stupid rocks are the only thing that's actually challenging on this part of this difficulty. But we're about to hit level 20 so soon if the game gets more difficult we don't get any better to face it. Shall see.)
Now I didn't mean to do the Prison but it landed right in front of me so okay, guess I'm going to try it with this random half dozen.
Gave up for the night because I am sure I saved it but it did not act saved when I quick loaded. Time to get some sleep and hope it behaves itself when it wakes up.

Core was so difficult to start with I gave up repeatedly, but at this end there just isn't much that can land a hit on a 19th level adventurer, and whatever does, Daeran can fix it.
Now if I can just figure out how to get Woljif to hit on less than a 20 it'll be golden...

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

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Oct. 16th, 2025 07:14 am
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I need to get more sleep but I noticed I haven't posted this week
*waves hello*

I am into Act 5 of Wrath of the Righteous and kind of vaguely irritated with the difficulty. The stupid humming rocks would stun all of us and then turn us to stone and win but the big confrontation boss fight things are simples.
... also I just realised I don't remember there being a loot drop in Colyphyr and the internet says it would be a really cool one I would be using right now so where did my Core loot go? Did it just not acknowledge the coolness of me? Annoyed now. I definitely killed the Darkness on a high enough level. Guess I'll have to do it again at the end of this play through because no fixing it now. Or, it did make a rift and I just didn't notice it, that very annoying thing could happen too.

I didn't do optimally at Act 4. I forgot to finish a quest that doesn't show in the journal, the secret conspirators one. And I didn't see how to progress the Angel quest after running around everywhere so I did it the clumsy non sneaky way. And there's some optional things I didn't kill but outside of a very specific achievement I'm not on that's just an XP issue and we're going to max our levels real soon now anyways.

But Core difficulty is seeming achieveable now we're all high enough level.

Also if I was willing to bring Ember everywhere killing things would be so much simpler. Boom boom boom. *sigh*

So anyways, that's all I've been doing, playing and replaying fights on Wrath of the Righteous.

Oh, and rereading fic. I started reading Giles/Ethan long fic from the longest end in the archive. It is still good, but the feelings made by Ethan getting disappeared by guys in not uniforms working for the US are just... well, time to read every fixit ever written, obviously, but. I'm having a set of feelings where every fic that ends up with Ethan joining the new Watchers is just winding me up. Think a few more things needed Change than that.

Rereading fanfic is just giving me tired feels though because obviously the canon still isn't going to change and it does not seem optimal.
I mean can you imagine it being this much later in an event dense timeline like BtVS? So so many changes by now. Or so much fail.


Anyways. I need to be asleep. Sleep is for humans.

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