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Attempting the daily which ends in 15 minutes, what've I got:
Technophobe of course
Glitch sickness, oof
Shaky, okay
A concussion hammer!
The Ex-Sovereign trait with no sword and no enemies with swords

What am I up against on the first stage:
Armored enemies with no AP options
A Jammer who would matter more if I wasn't a technophobe
A Defender
A glitch-dasher hanging out near the Defender and in a jammer-field

I almost juked that last foe but they glitched next to me right before I turned the corner, and wrenched my face
So basically I got owned by a less-lethal Predator
I feel like that challenge was a bit much, but challenges should be challenging sometimes!

Heat Signature

It's nice to enjoy helping people, but if you help one person too much (perhaps because they're most demanding of you) then that's unfair to other people you could be helping.  No matter how good you are, you only have so much energy to spend.  Your time and effort are VALUABLE, that's why people are demanding it from you.

You deserve to stand up for yourself, but I know that can be very hard- start by standing up for the other people you could be helping.

Libash!

Iii can't say.  sorry.
What?  Silly drunk-me.
What happened is that *I* found something in our yard made of some alloy of copper.  I think it was a coin, but it wasn't a penny.  He identified it for me.
It was so long ago that I can't remember the details, only that he helped me feel special for finding it.  In retrospect it might have been from him?  There *were* relics in our yard, mostly old glassware from a failed bottling-plant for naturally-carbonated springwater.  and lots of discarded metal appliances.  But this object was in our driveway and it was different.

I hope this dragon prefers shiny metals to chromatic ones.  I pray my offering of alloys bends reality away from the evil dragon colors.

I was half-hoping that this would be a thread about a general lack of smell-sense.  I wish you a full recovery, of course!

My dad lost his entire sense of smell during (IIRC) a tonsils removal.  I grew up, for whatever reason, basically without the sense.  I've dealt with clogged nostrils and undiagnosed asthma a lot, and some people say that can prevent the sense from developing, but honestly I don't know what's up.

I can *maybe* smell strong-smelling things when people test me, and I take a deep wiff.  But I've NEVER had conclusive proof that I have any sense of smell, it's only been in situations where I was expected to smell.  Suggestion is powerful.

As senses go, it's certainly the one I'd choose to lose.  I still enjoy food, just... substantially differently than most people.  turns out pungent foods are tasty, and maybe a few of them even tantalize what little olfactory sense I have.

The only time I ever saw this mentioned, other than my dad, was a joke in Homestuck with one of the Dancestors.  But a few days ago a rando on Disqus linked the following explanation, and it hit me right in the "That's me!  That's how I live!" nerve:
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/smell.html
(This is the guy who made PuTTY, BTW, and other awesome tools which were indispensable for me when I was in IT security)

I'm glad you can smell again, Vector!  I mean that, and I also honestly don't miss it.
though I probably do have *some* of that sense, considering how I get around sweaty guys
But the idea of smelling a gas leak, or detecting rotten food, or the truly insane concept of following a scent by my nose?  Completely beyond me.  I've adapted my life to being blind in that way.

Edit: Bizarrely, I do also enjoy inhaling hot tea, and hot food.  Perhaps I even catch some real data...?  But I treat it as mostly psychosomatic.  Primarily it "smells" like water vapor, which is often welcome.
I have never been in a situation which proved that I had a sense of smell whatsoever, and the power of suggestion is, uh, powerful.

Offers Enemy post a bounty of rose gold and stirling silver alloys

Speaking of commies and capitalists, one of my nostalgia rants on Discord revealed two fellow commies who are ironically REALLY into Freelancer (2003).  Prior to my vacation the 3 of us were utterly dominating the Vidya containment channel for 2-3 days, with a couple older members joining in briefly.

I've loaded the game back up (from June) and have adjusted to our odd Triumvirate:

Mollies fighting for Dublin Independence with the Independent Miners Guild against Space-UK

Weeb fighting for gender equality against Space-Japan and especially their xenophobic Hogosha via the Golden Chrysanthemums, allied with the reformist Blood Dragons

Outcasts-Lane Hackers pushing Cardamine against Liberty (Space 'Merica)

You get one guess as to which is me
I love the diversity of popular uprising.
also don't tell my comrades that I was murdering mollies. The MC grew up in Space-UK, it was RP! I wasn't honorary Irish until 9/8.