Babs [she/her]

Another weekend playing Blue Prince.

It’s really fun not knowing how deep this game goes. Every time I solve a mystery I end up with two more, and my handwritten journal is turning into some mad scrawling necronomicon shit. I spend time away thinking about these puzzles. I bring my journal to work so I can overanalyze the in-game books I’ve copied down, illustrations and all. I think some of these puzzles I’ve created solutions for, might not actually exist.

Game is hard (the fuck you mean I gotta use math?), but also hits that rare itch I’ve had since beating Outer Wilds, where I figure out a puzzle or two and it ends up completely recontextualizing the game and making me want to go back and look everything over again.

That fucking boiler room - lab connection! The hardest part of this game is when you think you figured out a puzzle but just need things to line up just right so you can test your theory.

As for tips, start a physical journal if you haven’t yet. Take tons of notes. Draw pictures. Copy whole books if you need to. The lore matters so learn it. Don’t be afraid of time limits in reaching the end, just keep making progress and taking good notes to review later.

Magnifying glass is one of the coolest items.

This has definitely been my experience yeah.

I started playing Blue Prince. It’s a puzzle game where you have inherited your uncle’s 45-room mansion, but only if you can find the 46th room in it. And every day, the layout changes.

At the start it’s kinda like a map building roguelike where you pick which room is behind each door from a few choices, and try to gather resources and explore further, but that’s barely scratching the surface.

This puzzle goes so deep. I have a journal full of clues, in-game books that I have copied in hopes that there are more clues, pages with in-depth descriptions of every room, family trees, weird interactions that I haven’t fully figured out yet… There’s all sorts of lore about this fictional world that I have been writing down just in case. I don’t even know how deep this mystery goes, but I hope to be well-armed when I finally do.

It’s the first game that’s scratched the same itch that Outer Wilds does, where you occasionally discover something that forces you to reevaluate everything you saw before, but it’s much harder. Also the in-game notekeeping is incredibly limited so you really need to keep your own journal to play.

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The graphics are old but the gameplay is still solid and the story is fantastic.

I’ve been obsessively playing Kerbal Space Program. I can now consistently get into orbit, usually make it to Mun, and I’ve touched down on Minmus a couple times. The weird tilted orbit keeps throwing me off though and I’m unsure about maneuvers that aren’t just going prograde or retrograde at auspicious times.

I also made my first LKO science satellite and I’m working on getting radar dishes onto Mun and Minmus, though I’m not yet sure why. Most of my contracts are complicated and scary now so I just take the tourist ones to fund my experiments.

I spent most of my weekend playing Kerbal Space Program. I’m still very bad at it, but I can now consistently get into orbit, and sometimes land on Mun. Next step is to try and land a science team on Mun and have enough gas to get them back home.

I also got Blue Prince at a friend’s recommendation, but haven’t had a chance to play it yet.

Last set I’ll have any interest in until we return to Lorwyn. Spiderman and Avatar ain’t doing it for me, but humanoid Kavu?

I didn’t expect the space set to be so cool. Gonna try and hit up the prerelease tonight if my lgs still has space.

I also really love this art treatment they did for some of the legends.

Trans athlete ban just hit USA Fencing. Leadership didn’t want it, membership didn’t want it, but the executive order threatened their NGB status.

Shit sucks. The chairman gave a good shot at defending us at the doge show trial, but idk what could be done here. If they didn’t comply, we might end up with a governing body that actually hates trans people, rather than one that tried but failed to include us.

I got Kerbal Space Program. I still really suck at maneuvers and Mun is yet out of reach, but I’ve figured out how to get a dude into orbit (and sometimes even get him back home!)

My elderly aunt reached out to me out of the blue and offered to pay for my srs if I want it but can’t afford.

Like I hadn’t even been thinking about it, partially cause it’s scary but mostly cause I just assumed I would never be able to.

But now that it’s a possibility, I guess I should do some research. Not much has changed in the last 20 years right?

Yes but not in a good way.

if americans are burgers are american trans people impossible burgers?

So I hear the passport situation is pretty fucked rn but anyone have experience getting a realid? Do I gotta change my birth certificate first, or will name change court order be fine? Idk how federal it is but I live in a blue state.

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Inshallah, children!

Hey for anyone looking for the sources, I checked these podcasts. They are anonymous, first-name-only sources, of course.

The power creep has been fun and ascensions are so fast now. I can pretty consistently do back-to-back 2days if I take the time.

I once watched a youtube review of this game from someone who seemed to grasp a lot of the game’s personal and emotional themes, but when he got to a point when a character asked him if he was a communist, was like “how should I know??? Maybe communism means something completely different in this fantasy world.”

Walked right up to the door and jumped out the window.