Raining Chaos

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  • Tiny’s Bar

    It’s been a while since I’ve visited a new restaurant on the block, and since my mid-year plans had changed quite suddenly, I decided I’d have the budget to be able to check out a new powerhouse created by some big name people.

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  • Reine’s Xmas 2017 cooking

    Because I realised IĀ still haven’t posted this. So here is the cooking I did during Christmas in 2017. Played a lot with my live marron, whose names were Tiffany and Jake, and Jake was the feistier one.

    Mainly just a photodump now since it’s too late to actually write about it lol (more…)

  • I did it again

    Some epic HP remaining right there.

    Apparently I made a few high scores this time too!

    I was just trying to get the last Osprey achievement of 4 blue events by sector 5….

    Now to turn off my gaming computer for who knows how long again šŸ™‚

    BACK TO REAL LIFE

  • FTL Victory!

    Decided to play some stuff over the Easter break, turns out FTL is just as frustrating as ever! But it has some fancy new things that it didn’t have several years back.

    All the ships are still incredibly difficult to play with, but behold, my second victory! lol

    I also didn’t realise I never finished New Game Plus on Bastion. So I did that too. Yeah.

  • Coffee-free record: 29 days

    Dear diary,

    I did a no-coffee challenge with my barista for March and managed 29 days without coffee!

    I drank coffee on Good Friday because it was a cheat day and I had a planned visit there anyway; I knew this a month in advance.

    I don’t think I want to do the challenge ever again, but reducing coffee consumption has saved me money! So I might just reduce my cafe visits.

    COOOFFFFEEEEEEEEEEE

  • Saint Peter

    At last, my first dinner visit to Saint Peter. I really really loved the brunch that I had, so I was eager to have some of the other seafood delights only available on the night menu.

    Unfortunately, I totally forgot to take a picture of the menu, which means much of the detail – especially the fish type and where it comes from – has been lost to time. Oh well, I still have pretty pictures and descriptions of the food!

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  • Photos and stuff

    So far in 2018…

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  • PTZS – Hold On

    It’s way worse than it looks. I don’t think I’ll ever successfully colour it, but I’ll try.

  • Making the bootstrap paradox mine

    I have a dislike of the bootstrap paradox. I find it’s the one that I can visualise quite well, but as a result, I don’t like what I see.

    I first saw a version of this in whichever Harry Potter movie it was and immediately didn’t like it because it didn’t make sense, because I saw a closed loop that had a discrete ending. And circles don’t have endings. I left it at that, back then.

    I’ve probably encountered more through other shows and stories, but I only became conscious of the loop during the 11th Doctor, I think it was during the opening of the Pandorica when he encounters his dying self. Again, I didn’t like it, but I accepted it because he is a time traveller and can handle these things appropriately.

    It wasn’t until the 12th Doctor explicitly talks about the bootstrap paradox that I realised I need to write down my interpretation of how to manoeuvre this scenario to understand why I don’t like it. Luckily, it’s coincided with me thinking about which of my characters can cross their own timestreams and get away with it (well, there’s always a consequence, but not as dire as shows make it out to be). (more…)