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A few games I play are sunsetting. It’s oddly sad.

I play three games on my phone consistently.

In terms of time, the top two are Shproty and Antiyoy. I’ve been playing Antiyoy since 2017, and have ported it along between phones ever since. It’s a hex-map, turn-based stategy game. Shproty just came out, and it’s a puzzler. You fit shapes into bigger shapes and obey certain rules.

The other one is Exponential Idle. It’s a pure math incremental game, but it seems to be done. If I had more time, I’d make a custom theory, but alas.

I also play, ‘Suppose I win the lottery and could buy a house. Where would I move in Denver?’ But that’s not nearly as rewarding.

Do we all know Dracula is a don’t-have-sex book?

The stranger, tall, dark, and handsome, but also foreign and exotic, comes to London to visit. He sneaks into the maidens’ bedrooms at night, there’s a lot of neck kissing, and he takes their fluids. They die. First they give it, vampirism, to other people including an infant, but they die.

John Harker, who visited Dracula in his run-down castle, was delayed by Dracula’s three wives in their bedroom. He wasn’t doing that in Victorian London. The castle is full of towers, but broken and tumbled.

I was talking to someone about Dracula, and I mentioned it’s a sex-book. The sex is subtext, but it’s super obvious once you realize it’s there. The other guy looked at me strangely. It’s a don’t-have-sex book, but that’s like slasher movies. A bunch of sexy teens have sex on a beach, and they die. In Drazula, a bunch of sexy people have sex in London, and they die.

Ninety percent of you are reading this and thinking, yeah, of course. But for the someone who never really thought about it, that’s what it’s about. Also, vampires.

I stopped to talk to a guy at my building’s smoke pit. He mentioned he lost his job, and while that was a problem, there was no other choice than moving on.

Keep going, get a new job, apply for unemployment if necessary, but go forward. This is hard and discouraging, but the truth of that doesn’t negate the truth of needing to get going again.

I don’t really have anything in common with this guy, but he’s a nice person. I don’t know his name, and we’ve talked a few dozen times. It’s interesting to hear the same issues, worries, and plans coming from someone in a different situation. The great commonality of mankind isn’t unknown and yet surprises me.

Just an odd conversation. Maybe a bit of humility, and a bit of a kick in the rear. Keep going.

There may be something in there about the importance of everyone you meet.

My neighbor is watching TV really loudly, having a stroke, having a rage fest, or plotting cybercrime on the other side of our shared, very-thin wall.

On a motorcycle, ground effect lighting would be a legit safety feature. It would make the bike more visible. It would also be a lot less annoying than straight pipes.

Prothadeus is not a coordinating conjunction.

In practical terms, an investment is a financial decision you make with an aim of making money. A speculation is a financial decision someone else makes to make money.

It’s sort of like special interest groups. If you’re in one, they’re activists. If someone else is, they’re in a dark-money special interest group.

I wonder what transferring PhD programs is like. Is it even possible? It has to be.

That existed.