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Ah. Yeah, folks have been saying herd immunity actually happening is increasingly unlikely for a... few weeks now, I think? It's either been a bit or dealing with the plague plus a pair of increasingly demented grandparents has finally warped my sense of time sufficiently it just feels like a few weeks. One of those two!

Definitely sucks, though, yup.

At least this one didn't cause a massive wildfire or end up involving deaths. Makes it an improvement over some of the ones that have happened

... anyway, can confirm ballistic ear protection is good sleep investment. Been using gun range hearing protection to sleep with (or just when I want it to be a bit quieter) for years now, after a period of trying and failing to find something with a better price to function ratio (dedicated sleeping aids like that tend to be both expensive and pretty shit at actually blocking sound).

Also, you totally can sleep on your side proper with them on; the trick is to take a spare blanket and basically make a pillow with a hole in the middle to fit the thing, so it doesn't squish the side of your head while still having support for your noggin. Takes some fiddling to get right, but it's not particularly difficult. Extra blankets makes nice multiform shoggoth pillows in general, really.

Other helpful trick I've found with them, particularly once they start to wear out, is to also use a comfy (thin) blanket wrapped around your head (like a hood, basically) that you put the thing over, instead of directly on your ears. Extra cushioning without meaningfully impacting noise reduction that can double as a blindfold if you want to block out light, too, it's nice.

Turns out helm of the mad king (increase attack damage and speed when attacked) + war mage's greatstaff (gain a shield = to attack damage when you attack) + bouncing buckler (deal damage per 100 shield gained) on a druid is ridiculously powerful.

E: Had the third item wrong... also, it happened again, on the very next run. RIP corruption 18 :V

Or cave flyers, I think? The caving one with physics based movement is sorta' its own thing somewhat distinct from the lander things. Quick shortlist I found would be here.

But yeah, there's actually a somewhat surprising amount of those things. There was a point making them (if not necessarily playing them, ha) was relatively popular, and you still get little coding-practice type games show up using the design occasionally.

I must agree with some before : SimEarth.
Not ever a game has tried to do "this" after.

There's actually been simearth type attempts since, for what it's worth, at least one even fairly recently -- again, memory is failing me as to title, but Nookrium did a vid on it not that long ago. Pretty sure I vaguely remember one or two flash games doing roughly the same thing, too.

Folks really seem to underestimate just how much stuff flies out of game devs over time, heh. 'Cause, like, there's a lot, at the end of the day.

Someone's been putting up signs saying "Get rich, invest dogecoin" around the area.

Pretty much. You got lucky, take the win and go on making happy mask noises when in public.