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This sounds awesome. I always wanted to try Cave Story and never tried to pirate it for a few reasons .

Color me confused, hasn't Cave Story been freeware the whole time? There's a link on the author's own site right here, and good ol' Aeon Genesis did an english translation. No flag hoisting involved.

What do you think happens to non-main any characters who mention their wife and small child is like, every story ever?

FTFY, heh.

Seriously, though, that does occasionally get deconstructed. Sometimes nothing happens to the family. It almost always ends in fire, though, one way or another.

Shame Envy didn't assume Hughes' form for a while and really mindscrew with people. Lost potential, that. Oh wait spoiler kidding, kidding

Somewhat against my better judgment, I think I'd like to throw in for the DotA2 thing, too. Might be interesting to see how the latest mangling of m'beloved AoS-style is being done.

The trick is a music-based alarm clock loud enough to wake the neighbors and sufficiently difficult to turn off you have to be fully conscious to manage it. Put the alarm on the other side of the room and obstacles between you and it.

There's computer-based stuff that's pretty reliable. Mix that with noise music (or anything sufficiently jarring, really) set to 11 and th'ruddy gods couldn't keep you asleep.

... 'course, if you startle easy, it might also give you a heart attack, but hey. At least you woke up.

Anyway, that was my trick to waking up at 3-4 AM for several years. Works pretty well!

... try another vet, or emphasize to the one you're going to that you can't afford to pay that kind of money for a diet plan and any suggestions would be really helpful. Most vets I've gone to have sympathized with the 'I really want to help my pet, but I also must eat, myself' angle.

Seriously though, the answer here is to talk to someone that actually knows what they're talking about, i.e. a vet. Someone trained and/or experienced in treating animals will know better than, well, probably anyone else.

Also, vet's going to know whether the cat will hate the food or not. You're giving them money for a (hopefully good) reason.

As a general note, when an animal won't eat a particular type of food to your preference, the proper answer is to keep giving th'animal that food until they do. Cats, dogs, they're not actually that picky, they just get used to certain things (especially if they can manipulate you into giving it!). They get hungry enough, they'll eat what you give them. Animal won't starve itself when there's food available, though they may not eat to the degree the owner prefers. They know their body better than you do, most of the time.

Or spoil the animal and waste your money, either way

I have years of practice in combating new years resolutions. I've successfully managed to not make one in, I think, around a decade.

The primary trick is remembering that there's not really anything special about an arbitrarily designated time segment colloquially known as 'year'. If you look at it right, every day is the dawning of a new 365 day period. Insofar as that 365 day period has any import at all (The sun cares not for our silly rock's spinning! Probably. Fairly sure it's not sentient.). There's nothing impressive about the coming one that was chosen by some dead dude, so making resolutions because of it is rather silly.

Now, other resolutions, such as the resolution to eat when I get hungry, providing I can be arsed to cook at the moment and hunger has managed to overcome laziness/distraction, are harder to fight against. The new years specimen is pretty easy to defeat, though.

My resolution is to make no resolution but the resolution to make no resolution.

I think I'm going to manage this one.

Any suggestions from folks that play this on starting off? My last two characters both died to (I guess) odd status effects I couldn't seem to do anything about -- in the earlier case, his/her strength started dropping for no dicernable reason, leading me to eventually be unable to even lift a fairydagger to defend myself. In the last one, the character apparently got addicted to (vitale? Something like that) asprin on the first level of the dungeon, leading to me losing all my HP, PP, and asprin trying to stave off the HP/PP degen long enough to find something to cure it.

Craving particularly seems really bloody nasty to get hit with without any warning. Doesn't seem to be a 'rest until healed' option, so my melee folks have been leaning hard of the pills. Some way to check level of hunger would also be really ruddy nice.

SDL (graphics) mode seems to make it rather hard to see what the blazes is screwing with you, too. I never did figure out what was causing me to get steadily weaker, because I didn't figure out the 'contextual help' thing until I switched over to ASCII (and was actually able to tell I was under something debilitating).