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I've finally conquered Interloper!

My spawn put me halfway up Timberwolf Mountain, so I quickly mountain goated down to the Mountaineer's Hut, snapping both ankles in the process.

Undeterred, I proceeded to find matches and a heavy hammer inside the hut, and used them to smash all the furniture possible, lighting a fire and boiling some water in my tin can. With the furniture and nearby sticks, I created a fire lasting the night, then harvested all the nearby cattail stalks before resting, staying warm enough to survive my first day.

At dawn, I ran from Timberwolf Mountain down to Pleasant Valley, making my way via Skeeter's Ridge and Draft Dodger's Cabin until I reached the barn at the Pleasant Valley Outbuildings. I spent the night inside the car in the barn, staying warm enough inside to recover up to half health, but ran low on food and had to smash open a few tins I'd collected along the way to avoid starvation.

The next morning was a run across to Pleasant Valley Farmstead, grabbing a couple of skinny rabbits along the way and being hounded by wolves. Making it inside, I was delighted to discover a magnifying lens in the basement and a can opener in the kitchen, which I immediately used to crack open the rest of my canned food, then burnt my second match to light up the stove in the kitchen, cooking six cans of water at a time until I'd stockpiled a solid stash of purified water.

Between the rabbits and canned food, I was finally back up to full calories! My health wasn't too bad, but I'd need one more day to recover. I spent my day repairing my clothes, looting the house for anything of value, but with my food running out by the next morning, it was time to move onwards.

Another day dawned, and this time it was a sprint from the farmhouse up to Signal Hill, passing several saplings but with no way to harvest them. A few quick stops along the route to gather more cattails netted me some vital calories, and reaching the summit as a blizzard broke, I was amazed to discover a trove of loot! Some solid hiking boots quickly replaced my worn out sneakers, two tins of peaches, a tin of coffee and a tin of tomato soup bumped up my calorie buffer, and joy of joys, a ski jacket quickly warmed my frozen body.

Nevertheless, it was time to move on the next morning, and after swinging past the Hilltop Cave and lucking into a box of salty crackers, I made it to the Winding River, harvesting cattails to stay fed and catching a few more skinny rabbits. With some lucky clear weather, I was able to start a fire with my magnifying lens, defrosting two ravaged deer and feasting on venison.

From the river, a quick trip through Carter Hydro Dam and I was in Mystery Lake, where I planned to spend a few days recovering my health after constantly freezing during my journeys. I high-tailed it from the dam to the Camp Office, using it to warm up between trips out harvesting cattails along the lake. Taking a day to rest and boil water, I finally recovered back to full health and had a decent stockpile of resources.

Now the time had finally come to focus on working towards the future instead of just surviving one day at a time. I needed tools, and I'd managed to grab a dozen pieces of scrap metal through my journey, which, together with the coal I'd saved from the cave I'd explored, would give me enough resources to craft a knife and hatchet.

With my travel rations of all the cattails I'd been able to grab, I made my way to one of my most hated regions, the Forlorn Muskeg. I sprinted as much as possible, being blessed with amazingly clear weather during my trip to the Old Spence Family Homestead and its forge. Here I was lucky enough to find a hacksaw, and stoking the forge, I crafted myself a knife, hatchet and half a dozen arrows before my fuel ran out.

With my new tools, I proudly returned to Mystery Lake, hunting down saplings throughout the region and crafting myself a bow. With this, my survival was all but guaranteed, as I now had a reliable means of hunting big game.

So far, this run has now lasted 90 days in game, and I have hunted thirty-three rabbits, eighteen wolves, three bears, a moose, and at least a dozen deer, though I typically bait a wolf into killing it for me and then stealing their kill. I'm hunting my final bear for a second coat, then I plan to explore the remaining regions, creating resource stockpiles in each one. I'm hoping I'll get lucky and find a few pairs of wool socks, and some ear-wraps, since they're the last uncraftable items I'm missing.

Dry July is over! Time to swing past the bottlo and grab a few.

Is Tinder really that popular?

Since I've been out of the singles game a long time, I don't really have any experience with this sort of stuff. I'm curious whether it's really creating what the newspapers claim is the casual hook-up culture of modern singles.

I'd assume it's just full of horny guys wasting their time in a void without a single interested woman, much like most other online dating thingabobs.

As an aside, while I can't provide help specifically since I'm in kangaroo land, I also handle recruiting professional employees as part of my role.

I've consistently found better success taking graduates and training them over two or three years compared to hiring somebody with the skills to hit the ground running. Previous experience often leads to baggage from their previous jobs, issues with their desire to do it the way they're used to doing things, and generally being out of sync with the rest of the workforce. Graduates, on the other hand, are highly motivated to succeed at their first role, still flexible in shaping their real world habits, and not blinded by their preconceptions.

The downsides of course are obvious, from investment of time and resources into creating the right employee, the requirement for acting as a mentor to their role, and the usual silliness that fresh-faced young folk end up inevitably getting involved in during their off-duty hours. Still, if I'm sizing up an employee for a permanent role that can't be filled by promoting someone else, I'll usually take the long term view and make the employee I want instead of rolling the dice and hoping I get what I need.

Of course, if it's only a temporary role, I'd definitely go with someone experienced. If you only need them for a few months, either invest in advertising online or use a professional networking site to discover local talent. Perhaps even head-hunt your competitors if it won't create too much friction.

I think I should try getting drunk and then having a sauna. Apparently it's great stuff, just ask the Finns.

Well, that feels better. Dead wood is gone. Now I've just gotta unfuck the roster and life should be much easier.

I've never seen the point of strip clubs, personally.

I mean, are they just some kind of relic from the days before high speed internet made seeing lady parts available from the comfort of your own home? I've been to a fair few clubs in the past, sometimes with girlfriends, sometimes with guys, bucks parties and so on, but never really saw the attraction. Since it's all 'look but don't touch' it never really did anything for me. I suppose if you're saving up stuff for the ol' spank bank maybe, but again, why do you think the net was born?

Step 1: Only have 1 z-level of magma per casting, multiple z-levels of magma will be a headache and involve large amounts of manual labor.
Step 2: Construct retracting bridges above magma casting level in the same shape as your magma pool. Link to lever.
Step 3: Fill water on retracting bridges.
Step 4: Pull the lever.

Dropping the water onto your magma will cast the entire level, letting you carve it to your desire, then repeat by following the same process.

You can use the method above to cast downwards, but this will mean you're going to have to hollow out all the squares you've cast into obsidian to allow the water to fall through, losing the benefit of non-constructed obsidian walls.