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Libre Office it's called nowadays, iirc (and there's the ninja). And True, it works with just about anything. It'll load .doc, save .doc, whatever. Seems to have some trouble saving .docx, but meh, you generally still want to be using .doc anyway due to backwards compatibility and crap. Part of the problem with trying to break compatibility via updating, as you're suggesting M$ would (do) do is that that screws over older software their own users use and cause all sorts of problems, so they generally don't (can't, really) do anything extreme enough to genuinely cause problems.

Basically, give it a try, work with it a bit if you can spare the time. I've had pretty good luck with it so far, and dropping the arseload cash burden that comes with keeping up with office for something free (and likely more compatible with non-office formats, to boot.) is, well. Kinda' speaks for itself.

E: And frankly, the more people convert to a FOSS source for fundamental software like text editing suites and suchlike, the better it's going to be for everyone. So, like. Spread the word et al. Awareness is generally all that's really stopping stuff like the near-monopoly M$ Office has from being broken.

Cousin's kid is a cousin X+1 removed, iirc. Something along those lines. Niece/nephew is sibling spawn.

Bug in an older roguelike I'm fond of (Incursion, yo'.) that I hadn't noticed before. My brown pudding illusion decided to split... into real brown puddings.

Mardnab the 2nd level gnome illusionist now has three CR 9 allies (put in comparison, one of these things could probably murder second level characters indefinitely.)... on the first level of the dungeon. _{i mean damn yeah chicka's got some crazy illusioncraft skills for level two dungeon fodder but I don't think it was convincing enough to trick reality into thinking the split critters are real maaan}

This is some fate/stay night shit, just without reality noticing what happened and malignant flesh eating ooze instead of swords. Helluva' hat trick. I am the, uh. Cell wall of my skin dissolving pseudopod? _{Yeah, that doesn't sound quite as catchy.}

Ah. Yeah, by and large, the same thing that applies to birds are the same the thing that applies to, well... most animals. It's generally not the animal's fault that it's got a bad attitude, and proper treatment and raising generally can prevent such things (there's exceptions, but they're, well, exceptions). The feathers missing in particular was probably a sign of either poor care, very old age, or both, and most likely the first (with no insult intended toward the grandmother, per se, but like with all animals there's a certain degree of study and effort involved to take care of them and when you let either of those slide it can cause problems.) or the last.

It's just... if you've got the space for it, and the resources, and the will, study up on things, maybe consult a nearby vet or somethin'. Don't let previous bad experience dissuade you, a parrot can be a pretty solid pet, just like any of the other more intelligent animals, if it's treated right.

So, threw out three. To cheat (sometimes you just want infinite resources, y'know?), to adjust personal gameplay annoyances (grinding can go bugger itself, after a point. _{also fire emblem's item degradation can crawl up a horse and die}), and other. The other would sorta' fall under the code aspect, but... not quite. There's a number of games that I've played that I'll fire up a memory editor (used ArtMoney for the longest time, can't be arsed to bugger with multiple, some commercial, versions anymore, have switched to CE recently-ish) for a combination of testing (if I'm doing something odd, or messing with mods, or whathaveyou) and high-end mechanics exploration.

The latter in particular I've done with roguelikes (Particularly dungeon crawl, but others as well) quite often, as being able to explore the nuances of a particular situation that would normally kill you (and figure out how to avoid that results) rapidly instead of the over the course of several (dozen/hundred) deaths saves an absolutely ungodly amount of time. And, frankly, memory editing is often considerably more fluid and functional than whatever built in cheat or debug commands any particular game may have.

Eh, it's more just to collect than actually playing the games, although I'd obviously like to play them too. Contra doesn't feel right with a keyboard.

Gamepads for the computer are a thing

Pretty sure there's NES-style pads and whatever. E: And by pretty sure I mean three second google. They've got stuff like that all over the place, and if emulators don't support them you've got programs that convert gamepad input to keyboard input for your programs and junk.

Found this guide to making your instant ramen taste better. Since I had some lying around, I tried one of the combo's, and it made it taste significantly more awesome.

If anyone is wondering at all (which I doubt), I did pork flavored ramen+crushed red pepper+soy sauce+mushrooms.

I accidentally put a little too much red pepper in, but I put some milk in after tasting it, and the spiciness went down to a level where it wasn't annoyingly spicy.

All in all, it was totally delicious. Much better then when I had it regularly.

Total lack of combining it with mac and cheese or mashed potatoes _{or both}

Ramen thickened with potatoes with added cheese and some meatsies and pepper and whatever-else-is-on-hand is pretty good. Not really soup at that point, but good anyway. Somewhat less messy.