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<h1>november 2021: guild theme park trip </h1>
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december 1, 2021<br>
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<h3>friday, november 12 </h3>
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<li>Still making sure all the systems are integrated together...Death, XP, Levels, Level-Up Rewards, XP Bar, Themes for Skill Library and Skillbar</li>
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<li>If more than 50 million levels are gained at once, the game lags for a few seconds. Maybe level-up rewards could be divvied out more efficently, but apparently the <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-experience-level-in-an-rpg">highest level in any game</a> is 65,535 (Fallout 4 and Guardian's Crusade). I'm not going to worry about a Guinness-tier edge case now, if ever. </li>
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<h3>saturday, november 13 </h3>
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<li>The USPS tracking tab on my phone had my neoprene coming in on the 15th. I refreshed, and it changed to the 16th with "arriving on time." On time means nothing if you can just change the target date like that... </li>
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<li>Move to Skill Target, Debug, Theme for Inventory, Inspect Menu, Debug </li>
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<li>Identical (or worse, incompatibly different) code for getting the name from the translation server is scattered everywhere. Instead, I'm moved it to the entity object from which characters, skills, items, etc, are all derived. I wonder if I should phase out display_name altogether and always retrieve the name from the translation server. </li>
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<h3>sunday, november 14 </h3>
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<li>My package is still "arriving on time" despite being updated to the 17th by 9 P.M. </li>
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<li>Inspect Menu, Themes for Store
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<li>Now character inherits from tangible which inherits from entity, so I moved inspect menu code to tangible. I think it'll be easier to keep everything consistent if it's all done within a shared object. </li>
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<h3>monday, november 15 </h3>
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<li>package received! time to sew gogogogogogo </li>
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<h3>saturday, november 20 </h3>
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<li>Adding stores back in, accessible through inspect menu atm </li>
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<li>Items, merchandise use translation server instead of static names </li>
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<h3>sunday, november 21 - saturday, november 27 </h3>
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<li>Visited a few guildmates at Universal, Gatorland, and Daytona Beach. We also did karaoke in Orlando, putt-putt in Daytona, and played Jackbox with the guild at night over hotel wifi. I did really bad at all the scored activities, but I did crush in Jackbox hehe. I've never been to Universal or the beach before, and it was one of the most fun weeks of my life. It was also really cool meeting everyone. </li>
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<li>Finished my swimsuit, 4 mock turtlenecks, and repaired a pair of jeans in time for the trip, too, so I was able to look nice. Next I want to sew a new outfit for my vintage doll, some pajamas, and a jacket. </li>
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<li>Kitty hasn't stopped purring and acting like a kitten since he's gotten out of boarding. They might have put the fear into him. </li>
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<h3>sunday, november 28 - my birthday</h3>
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<li>Mostly spent my birthday sleeping and catching up on chores, but I was able to redeem my birthday coupon at Publix for free ice cream. I thought it would be a pint, but they gave me a whole half-gallon. They're seriously vying for best birthday program, but Sephora maybe wins 2021. My lips have never looked so big and hydrated before Sephora's Laneige lip mask freebie (and I'm in the middle of a harsh, dry winter). </li>
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<h3>rest of the month </h3>
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<li>My husband's hosting Christmas this year, but the new house still has lots of random boxes and cluttered surfaces. They'll be in town in two weeks, so cleaning is top priority. We barely have any furniture or decorations, so I hope it goes okay. They don't . </li>
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<li>My Christmas cactus is flowering. :) </li>
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<h1>december 2021: ??? </h1>
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january 1, 2021<br>
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<h3>friday, november 12 </h3>
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<li>Still making sure all the systems are integrated together...Death, XP, Levels, Level-Up Rewards, XP Bar, Themes for Skill Library and Skillbar</li>
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<li>If more than 50 million levels are gained at once, the game lags for a few seconds. Maybe level-up rewards could be divvied out more efficently, but apparently the <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-experience-level-in-an-rpg">highest level in any game</a> is 65,535 (Fallout 4 and Guardian's Crusade). I'm not going to worry about a Guinness-tier edge case now, if ever. </li>
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<h1>anti-haul: 10 palettes I almost bought </h1>
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Today I'm pretending to be a beauty blogger with this prompt lifted from a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIeOQ1ARpYw">Angelica Nyqvist</a> video. Anti-hauls are a reaction to the popularity of haul content on social media. Instead of sharing your haul and all the reasons you bought things, you look critically at new products and discuss why you won't buy them. It encourages conscious consumerism and eliminates FOMO, or that's what Kimberly Clark intended when popularizing the concept. Most anti-hauls on Youtube are just trashing ridiculous or undesirable products these days. <br>
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I realized my Urban Decay eyeshadow singles had PTFE (Teflon) in it and got skeeved, despite the lack of evidence to suggest it is dangerous to wear around the delicate mucous membrane of the eyes. Some of them were 5 years old anyway, so it was a good opportunity to refresh my makeup collection. Eyeshadow palettes are so much more exciting and colorful than they used to be, (not to mention, I'm better off now than I was as a teenager), so at least 10 beauties made my list. Only 3 made the cut, though: the ABH Norvina in the purple velvet packaging, NARS Extreme Effects, and ColourPop Lil Ray of Sunshine. Let's share the runners-up! <br>
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(By the way, only Urban Decay's old subway token eyeshadows have PTFE. The old and new Moondust and the new singles in the clear square containers are PTFE-free. ) <br>
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<h2>Pat McGrath Iconic Illumination </h2>
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Pat McGrath is a monumental makeup artist, and I've followed her runway work long before she had a brand of her own. I can't help but follow her palettes, even if they are ridiculously expensive and overly focused on warm pinks and golds. This is the one quad that really makes me double-take, though. A light shade, a warm red or reddish brown, a gold, and a dark brown are my essential shades, and this all shimmer version is beyond classy. It's appealing to have them together in a fancy quad in a formula by one of my favorite makeup artists. Even if the palette wasn't $65 for 4 shadows, I already own enough versions of this look to intentionally buy any more, though. Buying it or not, I do appreciate her stamping approval on my favorite color combination by releasing them as a quad. <br>
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<h2>NARS Climax </h2>
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A true fall palette, and it sings to me as someone looking to buy some mauve and olive eyeshadows. The neutrals here resemble the Iconic Illumination quad. Alongside the mauve and olive, they draw my eye even more, but I already own a neutral-leaning version in Norvina and a warm coppery version in Extreme Effects. Pretty or not, it's a major strike against a $49 palette for it to be half-full of colors I already own. <br>
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I've been investigating olives and find those with rich brown or mustard undertones instead of gray or true olive undertones to be the most beautiful on my skin. I haven't seen Climax in real life, but Youtube swatches seem to set Up in Smoke in the camp of olives that sheer out to gray. <br>
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I also learned that Nars is no longer cruelty-free, and they seem to have made this decision solely to chase after the lucrative Chinese market. The oversexualized product names are silly, even if they're supposed to be feminist or whatever, but they never garner more than an eyeroll from me so long as the makeup's quality. Compromising your company's values for profit, on the other hand, is truly offensive. They make some of my favorite makeup, too. :( <br>
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<h2>Natasha Denona Mini Retro </h2>
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I think a lot of people feel that if $129 for a big palette is too much, $25 for a mini is an accessible way to own something from her. All of her minis are gorgeous and wearable, but none of them are quite right for me. Glam is too warm-toned, and Star really only grips me with its grungry red-green duochrome. I could convince myself that Retro is just right for me, though, with it's pink-green dichotomy and undupable Industrial. Really, though, I like mauves over pinks, and these pinks are too tan-leaning for my tastes. Even though Industrial is an undeniably gorgeous green-gray, I've already found that I favor wearing green-browns. I suspect I'd prefer admiring this one over wearing it. <br>
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<br>The price is attractive but still a major issue for me. $5 per eyeshadow is what I pay for hand-picked indie shades, so why should I pay that rate for a standardized product? <br>
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Maybe someday there will be a Natasha Denona palette for me, but I don't have to settle for the Mini Retro. <br>
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<h2>Ace Beaute Tropical Vibes </h2>
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I've never liked Ace Beaute's color stories, so I wasn't following them until Youtube flashed me a thumbnail with Amy Loves Beauty holding the olive palette of my dreams. It's an indulgent assortment of all the swampy greens I could want and more. <br>
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Tropical Vibes is much more than an olive palette with its variety of warm and cool tones and pops of color and shimmer, but let's be real. I want it for the greens. I don't even want a tealy blue, and I don't need another orange, red, or dark brown. $40 and 15 pans is excessive just to satisfy an olive craving. I think I'll survive holding out for a few olive singles. <br>
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<h2>Kaja Bento in Glowing Guava </h2>
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Kaja has the cutest packaging, and their bento boxes are their cutest offering. Really, I want a bento for the concept. They seem so easy to travel with, keep in your purse, and do effortless touchups throughout the day with. I imagine not even needing a brush with these. The most appealing is the mauve, but the brown and yellow ones are all darling. <br>
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The main appeal of these things is all in my head. I haven't relied solely on fingers since my messy middle school Maybelline eyeshadow duo. If I want to travel, my tiny magnetic palette is more than adequate. Also, it may not be immediately obvious, but the mauve's shades are so close to the plums in Extreme Effects that I'd practically be owning the same colors twice. <br>
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<h2>ColourPop It's a Mood </h2>
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I never give a second look at these giant Morphe or ColourPop palettes, but give ColourPop 500 chances and they'll hit you with something. Oblivion is olive I want, with its medium depth and warm undertones. They paired it with all my favorite autumnal jewel tones and purples, which is a color family my brown eyes certainly wouldn't mind wearing more often. Then they launched it at a severe discount. I was in trouble until I really looked at the thing.<br>
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Crystallizing my taste in eyeshadow is a serious flaw, surprisingly enough. Out of 3 palettes and a few singles, I own almost perfect dupes for 12 of the 35 shades. Some of them swatch better than my dupes, but I prefer the higher quality ingredients in mine. To sour the deal, 3 more shades are plastic glitters and 1 more is a pressed pigment that isn't eye-safe. Maybe it would have saved me money if this had been my first palette, but I don't mind finding a dupe for Oblivion, considering looking into getting some purples someday, and reaffirming my affinity for the colors I already own. <br>
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What can I say? I really want all these palettes with an interesting take on green. Of course one of ColourPop's most unique palettes by far has to be a Disney cashgrab advertising a Netflix Disney cashgrab. Even though I'd love some more light-colored shimmers, let's be real. I only want this $16 9-pan palette for Little Frog and Float Your Crib. They aren't my favorite versions of olive, either, and they're trapped in packaging I actively dislike. I really shouldn't have almost bought this palette as many times as I have. I'd definitely wear it, but surely I'd like something else more. <br>
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<h2>Huda Beauty Jaguar </h2>
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This is nearly a perfect fall color story, and it reviewed quite well. I've been looking for taupes and mauves, so I really considered buying this one. <br>
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It's really too bad this is one of Huda's Chinese-produced 9-pans. Theoretically, a brand can maintain high standards for labor rights, environmental protection, and product quality within a Chinese factory, but if they truly valued in those things, would they really swap out their usual Italian factories for Chinese ones? I have some doubts. Especially since these Chinese 9-pans typically don't review as well as the Italian palettes. <br>
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Still, though, no other fall palette is quite as stunning in their product photography and social media swatches. It took swatching in real life to shatter my infatuation with it. My preference for shiny eyeshadow is either a smooth, metallic satin or a frost. The online swatches didn't reveal how much visible glitter was in these shadows. They were even slightly patchy for me under Sephora's lighting. All in all, I've lost my interest in buying. <br>
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Still a beauty, though! Prettiest palette Huda's ever released. <br>
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<h2>Natasha Denona Triochrome </h2>
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Now this is a really special palette. It completely lacks the basic row of warm neutrals and browbone shimmers, and instead has a highly readable, very wearable layout of shades in sulfuric greens, diverse purples, and off-beat orange "neutrals." Natasha Denona is my favorite makeup artist, and her looks using this palette are the rare few I'd replicate for myself. In fact, I already try with the orange-brown and purple in Norvina, but they're far from a dupe. <br>
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The palette received some criticism for its lackluster multichromes and high percentage of mattes. I don't understand the matte hate at all, and I think that although my Terra Moons multichrome probably has way more shifts and interesting colors, I'd actually wear her more subtle ones more often. Effectively, tamer shifts would read as intensely dimensional shimmers on the eyes, so it's like using a lot of different shimmers in one. Unless, of course, reviewers are lying and her multichromes rock. They look perfectly shifty on her makeup artistry videos to me. <br>
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So why not buy it? Natasha Denona's big palettes are SO expensive. $129 for 15 pans! Apparently her formula is fabulous, and this one has 3 expensive multichromes, but the price is astronomical for makeup. $129/15 is $8.60 per shadow. More realistically, you could price the three multichromes like Terra Moons's $17 extreme multichromes then divvy out $6.50 for the 12 remaining mattes. That's double Looxi, more expensive than Sydney Grace, Devinah, and ColourPop, and slightly less than JD Glow and Give Me Glow. According to youtubers, indie multichromes blow these out of the water, so the dupe may even be a step up. The main reason to buy a palette in my opinion is to get savings by buying the shadows in bulk in standardized packaging. I can't believe you could fully dupe this palette with hand-picks and potentially save money, depending on how many free shipping weekends you hit. Who knows? If you hit up a cheaper brand during a sale, you might even have enough money left over to buy the coolest magnetic palette on Etsy to hold it all in and easily crush the basic purple Triochrome case. <br>
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Sorry, Natasha Denona. I don't need your palette to be inspired by your color combinations and eyelooks. Even at a $60 sale price. (Speaking of FOMO, this limited edition palette is only just now going on sale?)<br>
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<h2>ColourPop Flutter By </h2>
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The most sensical, truly cool-toned mauve palette, with a dupe of one of the most covetable Pat McGrath shades: Wild Wing vs. Velouria. The range of light to dark, variety of finishes, and dedication to showing all the variations of mauve is very smart and usable. Cool tones are rare in the makeup world but are very flattering with my colors. Plus, the butterfly cover is special to me, since butterflies are my spirit animal, according to a random online quiz. It's also so affordable to be considered my #1 most difficult palette to anti-haul, giving you 12 pans with decent quality for $18 and frequent sales. <br>
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So why have I never confirmed my order? There's only one reason: Overpacked. ColourPop just had to ruin a beautiful palette with a plastic glitter pan that isn't eye-safe. Maybe it's not a big deal, since I won't wear it nor will I ever be able to 100% cut plastic waste out of my life, but I'd rather wait for a non PET mauve. <br>
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<h2>conclusion </h2>
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Makeup isn't <em>that</em> expensive, but I'd rather not buy second-rate clutter and save my money for investments, needs, or at least nice things in other categories. I no longer work in an office that requires a full face of makeup, so it's an absolutely frivolous purchase for me anyway. <br>
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Understanding what draws me to new releases can clue me into the handful of singles that I'd enjoy just as much as the big honkin' palettes. It also prevents me from buying 15 of the same plums, coppers, and golds, which I would absolutely do if allowed to act on impulse. At the end of the day, my Norvina palette is all I need for soft spring and summer looks, and Extreme Effects has all the best coppers and plums for moody fall looks. My ColourPop 9-pan has the best yellow and orange money can buy, save the Natasha Denona Sunrise palette at 6x the price. A few colorful jewel-toned eyeliner shadows fills in the rest of my needs. <br>
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I picked up a few mauve and olive singles during Black Friday, but the palettes listed above thankfully prove that my taste is narrow enough to otherwise be accomodated by what I already have. Good thing, too, since these things tally up to $330 at sale price minus shipping. Instead, I suspect I'll be just as happy with $20 of singles plus shipping, alongside my old eyeshadows. <br>
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It's hard when face masks cover up much of what makes us look unique, the pandemic forces us away from people, and makeup is suddenly forced into an all-or-nothing situation with eyeshadow. Try to make the most of what you have already and be creative. <br>
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