Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • @DaveOPMA
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    43 months ago

    Anyone get up to anything exciting on the weekend?

    On Saturday I took a couple of kids on a bike ride, including my 3yo who is now zooming around on a bike with pedals and no training wheels.

    We went to the new playground at Frank Kitts park yesterday, which was busy but not crowded.

    Also over the weekend, in case you missed it, we added the [email protected] community based on the results of the survey that were mostly supporting the proposal. Subscribe if you’re interested!

    I haven’t had a chance to do a post with all the results of the survey, but I have it on my list to do.

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      3 months ago

      I did a bunch of cleaning around the house, which normally would be a bit of a drag, but it’s made a big difference. Got the jif out to sort out scuff marks on skirting boards, that sort of thing.

      Also saw Dune 2 - loved it. Was a bit condensed at the end, but in a way that I actually appreciated. Battle scenes that last too long start to get a bit boring (looking at you Marvel Universe).

    • @d3Xt3r
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      33 months ago

      Woah, no training wheels at 3yrs is impressive!

      My weekend wasn’t exciting unfortunately, was getting over food poisoning so mostly stayed in my bed. Although I did manage to squeeze in a bit of AoE 2, checking out some of the Rise of Rome campaigns which was fun.

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        Woah, no training wheels at 3yrs is impressive!

        It’s crazy! The older kids both learnt at 5, but my 3yo is super tall and has been on a balance bike since about 18 months old, spent a bit of time with the old bike from one of the older kids with pedals removed to get used to the bike, then threw on the pedals and just like that, easy peasy. I think they just got exposed to it all at a young age, and happen to be tall which helps, definitely not typical!

        My weekend wasn’t exciting unfortunately, was getting over food poisoning so mostly stayed in my bed. Although I did manage to squeeze in a bit of AoE 2, checking out some of the Rise of Rome campaigns which was fun.

        Urgh hope you’re feeling better. When you said Rise of Rome I thought you meant Rise of Nations for a second. Used to play LAN games with my flatmates when I was younger. That was a great game, it would be interesting to see if it holds up today.

        • @d3Xt3r
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          23 months ago

          Omg, completely forgot Rise of Nations was a thing! That was another great game back in the day. Thanks for bringing it up, will have to go check it out.

          • @DaveOPMA
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            23 months ago

            It seems crazy that it didn’t get sequels. Even now, come on, can we get a Rise of Nations 2 please 🙂

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          Used to play LAN games with my flatmates when I was younger.

          Me too, even bought a barebones Shuttle to make it easier to go to LAN games at other people’s. Ah nostalgia.

          Nowadays the only people who want to play Age of Empires with me seem to live in Turkey and like to talk about how great Erdogan is.

          • @DaveOPMA
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            23 months ago

            I occasionally get to play a game online with friends, but the old crew are spread around the country and the world now and have young kids so it’s hard to organise a good time.

            • @liv
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              23 months ago

              Yeah it’s all I can do to even catch up with people irl once every few years, or even online, what with careers and kids and locations.

              Must get better at that.

              Also I’ve been thinking I need to get back into Skyrim, I used to really enjoy that and my irl stamina’s a bit better these days so the cost benefit ratio would be a bit better.

              Do you manage to game at all?

              • @DaveOPMA
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                23 months ago

                I don’t play many games these days. I’ll go weeks without playing any, but it’s more a priority thing. I get 1, maybe 2 hours in the evening to myself. I often try to use another half hour at lunch as well.

                With that time I can read, watch TV, play games, work on lemmy stuff, etc.

                In the past year or so I’ve played through Ryse: Son of Rome to the end, and also played some small amounts of Oxygen Not Included, Morrowind, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrouds, but I didn’t get too far in any of those ones. I tend to play everything on the easiest difficulty these days, so as to make more progress with my time.

                I’d say I play less than 1 hour a week. Even 10 years ago that number was a lot higher, a couple of hours most days, but different priorities now 🙂

                • @liv
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                  23 months ago

                  I loved Morrowind. Re tv when you’re pressed for time some of those series of really short episodes are great. Eg Rose Matafeo’s Star Struck.

                  • @DaveOPMA
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                    23 months ago

                    I played one of the Elder Scrolls games (can’t remember which, but I think not Morrowind) on a disk that I borrowed from a friend a couple of decades back. I didn’t understand what I was supposed to do, so didn’t play it much.

                    It wasn’t until Skyrim had the Game of the year edition with all the DLC for $15 that I finally played it. I loved it and spent 100+ hours playing it (I know, amateur numbers).

                    I only recently tried Morrowind, which was only a few dollars so I thought I’d give it a go. I enjoyed what I played, having had a better casual intro to the series via Skyrim so I knew how things worked, but the problem is I didn’t get a chance to play for a few weeks and now I have no idea what I was doing. No quest markers and now I can’t be bothered spending the time to work it out, so now it’s been months 😆

    • @Fizz
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      23 months ago

      I watched Anthony Joshua vs Francis Ngannou on Saturday then went to a local fighting event and watched 15 amateur fights. The next day I watched ufc 299. I watched so many fights I’m getting bored of watching people fight.

      • @DaveOPMA
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        13 months ago

        Haha I can imagine you could get burnt out from watching all those fights. Maybe you should participate in your own fights? (Consentual, in a designated area, please).

        • @Fizz
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          23 months ago

          One day I might but for now I want to avoid hard sparring and competing because I need my brain for work.

          • @DaveOPMA
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            23 months ago

            Yeah fair enough