u/Fresh_Confusion_4805

I feel very silly.

I get weekly mealkit delivery, just to make life a bit easier and make myself more accountable to cooking fresh food regularly.

Anyway, the delivery service I use has a way to report missing items or mistakes (which has been known to happen, but it’s generally very reliable and I haven’t had anything so critical as to make a meal uncookable happen). Today, my weekly box arrived. One of the meals appeared to have multiple items missing, and as I was reporting this, the system said that no I should talk to a real person if there’s this many problems. Sure, okay, open support chat, send the initial query, and as I’m waiting for a response, I’m fidgeting with the meal in question...and all three of the “missing” ingredients fall to the table. They were somehow stuck to the bottom of the disposable baking tin.

Whoops. I’ve been using this service for months now and that has literally never happened. Ahh well, I sent an apology to the support agent who had just said hello and logged out of the chat.

I can’t be the only person who has made this kind of mistake, but still. I can’t help but feel silly. It’s not like the support wait time was anything awful and it’s not like I took much time out of the queue, but still.

Whoops.

…>!three headed monstrosity!< at some point. These statues are all over Awakening...

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(spoilers for endgame below, if anyone playing for the first time is poking about, be warned)

I’m replaying the game and I just ran into Riordan. It’s the first meeting in this playthrough, but I’ve been through this rodeo before.

Upon first meeting, the Warden can ask him some questions. Among other things, you can ask if he can induct other Wardens. At the time, he says:

“Would that I could, for Ferelden sorely needs them. But for the Joining to work, the recruit needs not only fresh darkspawn blood, but a drop of blood preserved from an archdemon. Ferelden’s supply should have been in the vault, but it was gone…”

I’m aware of lore outside this game which suggests that Archdemon blood may not be strictly required in all cases, but it doesn’t seem like Riordan knows this offhand.

So here’s the question: How can he offer to Join Loghain during the Landsmeet?

Silly question here:

I was farting around in camp, as one does, and I started thinking about the tent situation. Morrigan has her own and Shale doesn’t sleep, but for the other seven (plus Barkspawn + Shmooples), there are four tents between them all.

This means that either the camp is in a half-packed state when we visit it in-game, or that at least some of the characters have tentmates.

…so who might be bunking together?

For context:

1. I have a rescue dog and do not actually know her birthday
2. a vet made something up at some point
3. the only day that means anything to me re/her is the day I signed her adoption papers
4. my current vet sends cute doggy birthday emails

…so I got this cute doggo birthday email on this random day. Which is fun and cute and all but it doesn’t match the only day that means anything re/my dog for me. I’m considering taking her adoption papers to the vet office and asking them if they can change the day some random person made up at some point to the only day that it makes sense for me to get a celebratory email about my dog.

It feels kind of silly. But I sort of very much still want to do this.

This might be a dumb question, but I’ve been replaying the game and I noticed something.

My prior understanding was that Eamon calls the Landsmeet after the Warden has completed all the main quest arcs and told him they were ready. However, I’ve been farting around in Denerim and noticed that certain NPCs in the city, such as Gorim, can mention the Landsmeet prior to Arl Eamon waking up at all.

Is this just an oversight? Or did someone else try to call the Landsmeet first? Am I missing something obvious?

I’ve unlocked the specialization before, but I always speak with Isabela on replays anyway. Often, I just play her game normally until one of the party rogues offers to help, but this time I tried to catch her cheating in the act by catching her hand.

It’s a Dex check, and the wiki says that it requires a minimum score of 20-22. My Amell’s Dex is a base of 16 plus a bonus of 2, so 18. I fully expected to fail (I was interested in seeing what would happen when I failed).

I succeeded. I went along with it, but now I’m curious: what actually determines success or failure here? Did I just get lucky somehow (glitch or non-guaranteed percentage chance to succeed)?

(this is a bit of a vent, but replies are welcome)

My rescue had her annual checkup recently. (For context, the only concrete datapoint I have which puts a minimum on her age is that she was pregnant when rescued and gave birth to nine in spring 2017.) Originally, all they had to say was “she looks good for her age“ and some encouragement to be more proactive about dental health.

Then they ran the blood test. Her kidney values were off, and they requested a urine sample. I mentioned her previous history of having had a UTI. I’m not exactly sure what their original theory was, but they said that they could check for a UTI at the same time.

I dropped off the sample, and it turns out I was correct. An active UTI was confirmed and it “explained“ the abnormal values in the original blood test.

So now my dog has an established history of repeat UTIs. The vet filed a prescription. I picked it up when it was ready the next day and am giving it as prescribed. The meds run out tomorrow. I’m supposed to send another urine sample afterwards, specifically because this is now an established repeat issue. I guess they’re concerned that the infection might be drug resistant.

I’m not sure what to do about this after tomorrow, assuming the second urine test comes back clear. Not sure if there’s anything I can do, really. Just keep my eyes peeled in case symptoms return, I guess. I tried looking online for anything I could do preventatively, but there’s a bunch of medical quack nonsense that just floods the search engine whenever I try to look.

Just another adventure in owning an older mama, I suppose.

I’m just starting another run through the series (I can’t help myself), and I got to thinking: when is that buy in moment of “okay, the story is really kicking off”?

I realized that it’s not character creation for me. It’s not even the end of the prologue, necessarily.

Since I’m sitting on my moment in Origins, I’ll start off with that: Origins really “kicks off” for me with “Well, well, what have we here…”

For whichever game(s) of the series you enjoy or go back to…what’s that moment, for you?

(This is probably moreso for people who know her whole arc, but all opinions welcome!)

There have been many, many debates on the ending. >!Does Solas deserve the diplomatic ending? What’s best for the world? Does the world deserve it? !<

But I had a thought today: Does Morrigan >!deserve the diplomatic ending? Is giving that power to her a good thing in the long run? What effects could merging the fragments of Mythal have? Do we trust Morrigan, or Mythal, with that power?!<

Just some random musings on a hot day.

(Somewhat of a vent.)

My apartment lease technically expires in about three and a half weeks. I was not given a renewal offer or anything indicating that they’re kicking me out.

When I went to the leasing office to ask the manager about it the other day because the timing was starting to feel weird, she basically said that the company is switching how they manage renewals and is in somewhat of a transition period right now. She also said that if my offer isn’t sent before my lease expires, that I would be continued at my current rate (basically going month to month on same terms I think?) until they send out my offer. She also also said that I am an ”ideal resident” and they’re definitely not trying to kick me out.

But. Aaaahhhhh! This is all starting to stress me out a bit. I just want to know that I’m safe here for another year. I generally have a good relationship with the manager and the staff I’ve interacted with-it’s not like I have any reason to doubt her word. But… <brain keeps running in circles>

…but I just (re)discovered that Isabela’s DAI multiplayer appearance was technically added as part of a (free) multiplayer dlc. And not just any dlc…the “Dragonslayer” dlc (added Isabela, two other agents, and new maps and dragonfight mechanics).

…no wonder she is who Harding goes to in order to ask for a dragonslayer!

If this was intended, that’s a deep cut for sure.

Over the last while, I’ve realized that…I don’t really use trash cans as much as the average person. Not right now, anyway.

I get a weekly delivery box. And what has become a habit is that when the box arrives, I bring it in, unpack it, leave it open…and then that becomes my trash can for most kinds of trash. Then when the next box arrives, I take the old box, close the lid, carry it out to the dumpster, and toss it in. Go back in, open the new box…and the cycle continues.

I only really use proper trash cans in my restroom and on my balcony, for more fragrant categories…

…so, today, I went and grabbed all the trash cans I’m not using (I had one per room), and tossed them in a storage closet. If I don’t need them for long enough, then the trash cans might become trash, themselves (I don’t like to keep extra clutter around that I’m not using).

Weird? Yeah. But it works for me.

I can’t be the only one, though. What’s the weird habit you’ve gone all in on?

Not…literally. She is long since passed. But my mother’s mother, the only grandparent who lived close enough so we saw her more than once or twice a year, had this homemade chip dip that she made whenever she came to see anyone. Potluck, holiday meal, birthday, whatever it was, there she was, some homemade dip and a bag of chips in hand.

No one could ever recreate the magic, precisely…but it had dill. I know that much. Anytime I do anything with dill now, anytime I smell that….

Maybe it’s a bit weird. But that is her, in some ways, to me.

This morning has been quiet. Peaceful. Eventually, I realized: unusually so.

I live in a second floor apartment. My balcony faces the loading backlot of a shopping center. Trucks coming and going all the time…except, not today.

Maybe I should’ve known, but apparently the shops don’t get deliveries on Sundays.

The quiet is nice.