Food and games

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I cooked! Literally. (It took a surprising amount of effort not to address a non-existent "chat" here xD) There's a completely arbitrary (and very silly) distinction in my brain about what counts as "proper" cooking, and most of what I prepare for myself doesn't or barely counts. But today I made a pasta-tomato-ham casserole, which undoubtedly is proper cooking, and it was very good.
I really wanted to properly cook something because I'm currently house-sitting and the house has a very well stocked kitchen - I'm envious of their spice selection - but it turns out that not having my own tools, like working scales, and knowing where everything is is a disadvantage and it about evens out. (Most of these spices I don't even know what to do with tbh.)

I've also played quite a bit of Beat Saber already. Got a some expert level completions, but only managed normal for other songs. It's nice to play outside, too.

I've barely seen the skunk I'm house-sitting for, he's still in his winter phase apparently and eats little and mostly sleeps all day, and the one time he saw me he ran away. Nothing to worry about, according to his owners; he's getting old for a skunk, too. Beforehand I was mildly apprehensive about him demanding lots of attention, now I'm more worried that I wouldn't even notice if something was wrong.

Last weekend I played Islets, an indie metroidvania by the same solo dev who made Crypt Custodian. I only meant to try it out on Saturday and ended up playing for six hours, and then I finished the next day with 95% completion. It was a lot of fun! Importantly, movement feels good, and the exploration is fun. I played on easy because there were some bullet hell bosses and I don't like those, but on easy it was fine.

Comments

[ambyr]

...wait, skunk?? I feel I have missed important info!

[schneefink]

Yep, my friends have a skunk xD Don't ask my why a skunk, she told me once but I forgot, I think she just thought they were cute. They used to have two but one was sadly killed by a fox. The surviving one is not very smart and not often in a cuddly mood but indeed still very cute.
The odor isn't a problem at all, except once when he had diarrhea, apparently the stink was really bad for a few days then.

[ambyr]

But now I have even more questions! Was the fox also a pet?

[schneefink]

No, it was a wild fox that got into the garden :(
(I'm not sure if foxes as pets are even legal here.)

[vriddy]

I thought you had a brutal nickname for the pet but no, it's actually a skunk XD Haha. Yay on cooking, sounds tasty! :D

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I've gotten so used to them by now that sometimes I forget how uncommon they are as pets ^^

I should cook more often /me every time after cooking something, success rate not great

[definitely_not_an_alb]

I also came to go "skunk???" lol. But that sounds cute!

I remember Beat Sabre being a lot of fun when I got to try a VR headset at a friends' a few times, and really the only thing that ever tempted me towards that technology. It feels to me like there haven't really been any good movement games between this and the Wii, and I do miss that.

[schneefink]

Yeah, getting to move is definitely a plus! At one point while playing today I tried to make deliberately exaggerated gestures to use my shoulders too, but mostly it wasn't necessary.