Depression, as you may know, is a weighted blanket with evil intentions. It’s the nap on the couch that you swear will only take half an hour, and then when you wake up the sun has already set.
Over this summer it felt like I was up to my neck in depression. I was desperate for anything to do, but burdened with no motivation to try new things. That was when the stars finally aligned: my friend Forest posted on Mastodon suggesting that they would like some friends to parallel play on RetroAchievements with them.
This felt like a moment I was made for. When I’m depressed, there’s nothing that gets me through it better than maxing out a video game, and this time I could actually show people I had done it! Not just that, but I could finally use this opportunity to finish Sonic Adventure, a game I’ve been struggling to 100% ever since I first got it.
Unfortunately, this undertaking meant that I played Big the Cat’s levels.
This just in: my friend found a thing in their freezer that they say is, and I quote, “pretty good.”
Green Giant’s “Restaurant-Style Popcorn Cauliflower” appears to have come into existence with no fanfare at some point in late 2023. My friend bought them on clearance in April 2024, and in the time that they spent not eating them, the product was just as quietly discontinued.
How does it taste? The verdict: “Like fish sticks.” It’s up to you if that’s convincing praise or not, because my friend takes some of the scariest food photography I’ve ever seen, but I used to eat cauliflower bites back when I was vegan and I kind of miss it, so I’m sold on these now.
But the real reason I’m writing this article is because this stupid product does not exist anywhere online except for a single TikTok. I’m not going to sleep at night knowing that culinary history is moving onto a login-gated Library of Alexandria that’s already on fire. I have to do something about this. This one goes out to all the middling discontinued products of the world.
You’re gonna have to forgive me for how long it’s been since our last blog post. And that the first post I’m making in weeks is a tab clean. I’m sorry!!!
In between playing on Oldbat with my girlfriend and grappling with difficult personal emotions, I had set aside some time to play around in singleplayer. This may have been the first warning sign that the grip that Minecraft had on my brain was more than even the person who had gotten me into the game could handle.
Here is my loving recreation of Acropolis, one of Furcadia’s default maps.
Four months ago, I asked the question burning a hole in my head: what is happening to Panera Bread? Well, folks, the truth is finally out – it’s everything we could have imagined and then some.
With New Haven thoroughly explored, it’s about time we start actually getting into the meat of Furcadia: the hubs where users could upload their own player-made maps.
Acropolis, sadly, is not a great example of one of those. But it was my personal favorite, and it was ostensibly supposed to be Furcadia’s “main” socializing area, so I’m covering it now.
Also featuring: a lot of really weird worldbuilding!
