Aaron's Status

6:46 am

Door stuff

We’ve been waiting for the second replacement door for the back of our house for a couple of weeks and it’s finally supposed to arrive today, but of course our contractor can’t come out to put it in until next Wednesday. This brings the whole project well past a month of mostly waiting and I’m anxious for it to be done.

3D printer

I have received my Original Prusa MK4S 3d printer kit and I’m looking forward to blocking off most of Saturday to assemble it. What I’m most excited about is seeing it bang out a Benchy in record time! This will be the fourth printer kit I’ve assembled so hopefully it goes smoothly and efficiently.

I offered to give my MK2S to my friend, either for him or his daughter or both of them, but he seemed hesitant to take in more “stuff,” and I totally get that. I’m not sure what to do with it otherwise, though. The stepper motors are certainly worth keeping but the rest of it is basically deprecated or too damaged at this point to be worth anything on their own.

Gaming

I’ve put Persona 5 Royal aside for a while after discovering that once again I did not satisfy the requirements to get the “third semester” and “true ending” of the game. I think you have to look it up and focus on those goals and nothing else, it’s truly challenging to do it organically.

I could still try to fuse the top personas of some of the arcana that I maxed out, but I probably won’t be able to max them all before I run out of time. That part of the game is also very hard, even on “new game plus” where I already have maxed social stats and can spend all of my free time bonding with confidants.

I think I decided that I just don’t love the game enough to put much more time into it, now that I’m well over 100 hours.

So I bought the 2014 re-release of “Thief,” a game that I really loved back when it originally came out in the early ’00s. The re-release is a new game with the same main character and gameplay mechanics but entirely new world and missions and story. This is almost the perfect game for the Steam Deck because it’s old enough that it plays nicely but new enough that it doesn’t look like shit.

It’s pretty hard, though! I’ve been walking around one block for a while trying to figure out how to get up to a certain window and it’s killing me!