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* Guild Wars chose today of all days to release a new dungeon. Not Guild Wars 2, the very established MMO that's already been around for so long that a lot of MMO-hungry people refuse to try it for fear of being too behind, GW1 which is solidly in the retro-MMO category at this point.
Took me a minute to release that and other patch notes were not a joke!
GW/GW2 has always gone hard on April Fool's, sometimes releasing actual, real major chunks of content to be silly. A non-silly major update to the original game is pretty meta and silly of them.
* JFC y'all, I bought new eyebrow pencils today and the Benefit's full size eyebrow pencils are the same size and shape as their old travel size ones. I am not kidding. I hadn't bought new ones in a while because I'd bought a pretty nice kit a while back and has been using the travel sized one I'd gotten as a freebie with purchase for a few months.... just finally bought new pencils and they are the size and shape of what I used to get as a freebie with purchase.
Also, no built in brush anymore so I am glad I still have my empty one to use for that.
* Also yesterday I walked from north Vancouver, WA back to Portland because the Lyft prices were nuts for no reason. Weather was fine. Bridge wasn't up. No accidents. So I just walked a few miles. I did take the bus a bit within Portland to cut down on how far I needed to walk, maybe saving 2 miles off of a 6.1 mile trip. Busing the whole way would have taken hours, not sure if there was a problem or if it's always like that. OR and WA transportation authorities no longer coordinate buses and it drives me nuts when people act like taking public transpo between the two cities is no big deal. It is a big deal these days, because the two fucking counties north of us literally fight being accessible to Portlanders. We'd have light rail to them if not for the 'crime train' fear mongering.
It's possible it was Lyft just being cheeky and knowing I was far from home that they decided to slap an extra $60 onto the expected fare because they thought I'd swallow it rather than just walk to Hayden Island. Joke's on them, because I am someone physically capable of doing that and had the schedule flexibility that not everyone does. I wasn't vulnerable enough to have to tank the cost. But hey we have the economic #freedom from the evils of market regulation and privacy at least.
Took me a minute to release that and other patch notes were not a joke!
GW/GW2 has always gone hard on April Fool's, sometimes releasing actual, real major chunks of content to be silly. A non-silly major update to the original game is pretty meta and silly of them.
* JFC y'all, I bought new eyebrow pencils today and the Benefit's full size eyebrow pencils are the same size and shape as their old travel size ones. I am not kidding. I hadn't bought new ones in a while because I'd bought a pretty nice kit a while back and has been using the travel sized one I'd gotten as a freebie with purchase for a few months.... just finally bought new pencils and they are the size and shape of what I used to get as a freebie with purchase.
Also, no built in brush anymore so I am glad I still have my empty one to use for that.
* Also yesterday I walked from north Vancouver, WA back to Portland because the Lyft prices were nuts for no reason. Weather was fine. Bridge wasn't up. No accidents. So I just walked a few miles. I did take the bus a bit within Portland to cut down on how far I needed to walk, maybe saving 2 miles off of a 6.1 mile trip. Busing the whole way would have taken hours, not sure if there was a problem or if it's always like that. OR and WA transportation authorities no longer coordinate buses and it drives me nuts when people act like taking public transpo between the two cities is no big deal. It is a big deal these days, because the two fucking counties north of us literally fight being accessible to Portlanders. We'd have light rail to them if not for the 'crime train' fear mongering.
It's possible it was Lyft just being cheeky and knowing I was far from home that they decided to slap an extra $60 onto the expected fare because they thought I'd swallow it rather than just walk to Hayden Island. Joke's on them, because I am someone physically capable of doing that and had the schedule flexibility that not everyone does. I wasn't vulnerable enough to have to tank the cost. But hey we have the economic #freedom from the evils of market regulation and privacy at least.
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Date: 2026-04-02 06:01 am (UTC)From:I'm glad you were able to, but also sorry that you had to walk. At least it was a doable walk and not impossible due to weather! It's ridiculous that public transport is just not a viable option.
The variable pricing on Lyft and Uber so often suuuuucks. So scummy.