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I’m sorry I missed last week. Genuinely. Toward the end of the week before last, I got what I thought at the time was a sinus infection. Last weekend I was utterly miserable and in constant pain. Normally the common sinus meds or even pain relievers don’t work on my sinuses, or not well anyway. But; I did finally take some ibuprofen. It surprisingly (only in my case) helped, and the situation has slowly improved since. I’m still trying to manage pain, and while there is possibly an infection going on, I never developed any *other* symptoms of an infection. There is clearly some kind of inflammation and/or blockage and on-line searches point at sinusitis. Which I already suspected was a problem. I would really like to do outpatient surgery to clear out my sinuses.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Happy Life Day 2025!”

Hey everybody! For this week’s article I’ll be glazing you all. Christmas is my favorite holiday so I won’t be posting next week. I’ll be spending the majority of the week spending time with friends and family. So if you can stomach some earnest love and appreciation for you guys, as well as a bit of me opening up about my personal life and what may color my posts on here, read on. Regardless, have a great holiday season whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, Festivus, or any other winter celebration. You deserve to enjoy this otherwise miserable season however you see fit and I hope you have a great time.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanza, and Thank You All!”

Ethan Rodgers

This week I’ve finally started playing something new.

Baldur’s Gate 3. It’s taken awhile for me to finally get around to playing it, but I’ve been in a rut, and my sibling wanted to play it with me, so here we are. It’s defiantly a bit outside of my normal games (Almost exclusively roguelikes), but it proving to just be a very good game. My sibling has played it a few times before, so they’re trying to play somewhat properly, and I’m running around looking in every single vase, crate, and burlap sack, that I can find, in hopes of finding a tiny amount of gold.

I didn’t get any farther in Slay the Spire. Still on the same ascension as last week.

What’s everyone else doing this week?

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

DISCLAIMER: I will not be spoiling anything for anyone in this post. This is a post whining about spoilers and I try not to be THAT big of a hypocrite. So feel free to read without worry.

Recently the first part of the final season of “Stranger Things” came out and I was excited to watch it, but I’ve been sick for a month now. I wanted to enjoy the watch and trying to enjoy a show while I’m mostly deaf from a bad double ear infection and sniffling the whole time kind of takes away from a viewing experience. So I waited. I waited and I waited and I waited until I made a mistake that I make pretty much every day. I got on TikTok. Only this time there were greater consequences than brainrot.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Spoilers and Unrealistic Expectations”

Ethan Rodgers

Another uneventful week.

Still playing Slay the Spire here and there. I’ve only beaten ascension level 13 over the whole week, and I don’t know how long it’ll take to beat the next one.

I’m starting to think that I should invest in a new game. The only game I bought this whole year was Balatro.

What’s everyone else doing?

Issac Young Youngest child of Shamus Young. He/Him

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers was released for Halloween of 1988. The movie’s selling point is in the name. 1982’s Halloween 3: Season of the Witch did not continue the story from the first two films. Neither does it have anything to do with the rest of the Halloween franchise beyond the production and some thematic elements. I have already talked about John Carpenter’s desire to make the Halloween films a yearly anthology series, with each movie sharing only the Halloween holiday as connecting tissue. Carpenter had not wanted to continue the story from the first movie; in fact he made “The Shape” more human and less of a conceptual avatar in Halloween II just so he could kill that character off. At least, that’s my reading of what has been related. John Carpenter and his partner, Debra Hill only agreed to return for Halloween III on the condition that the story had nothing to do with the first two movies, a stipulation executive producers Moustapha Akkad and Irwin Yablans accepted. Even then, Carpenter and Hill only worked as producers; arranging talent and resources.

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Horror Slasher Evolution: Halloween Returns”

Paige Francis He/him