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Mumbling:
Haha, fair points, and well said! One big family indeed :)

ImpracticalDino:
I'm thinking about the bake sale that I have to help manage tomorrow at my college club. Hopefully we raise a lot of money for our club, we even posted a pretty big poster with a pretty pink colored border on the bulletin board in the cafeteria last week! It's bound to attract many paying customers! :P

The Chronicler:
I thought playing the game Civilization: Beyond Earth would be less time-consuming than Civilization V had been for me (most rounds of that game typically to me a separate pair of sessions over two days to complete). Boy, did I seriously underestimate that! I started my first game of Civilization: Beyond Earth back on Monday, and even with playing sessions every day since, it is only today at the end of the week that I finally completed it.

How did that happen? I suspect there are two reasons that are most likely. First, I don't seem to get as early of a start to gaming each day as I had ten years ago, so less time spent each day means it takes more days to complete such a game. Second, game features such as research and virtues are not organized in a linear tree like in the standard Civilization games, but rather in a web system that offers a much wider variety of options, which for me means that I spend quite a bit of time simply trying to decide which one I want to select next.

Also, whereas a game of Civilization tends to go by quickly at the start and then slow down as you have lots of additional things to keep track of later on, I've found that a game of Civilization: Beyond Earth can be just as slow at the start (if not even more so) due to having so many options early on, where some poor choices could leave you completely trapped with very limited progress.

Good thing I chose to install just the base game for now, as I still have quite a lot to get through before I can eventually try the Rising Tide expansion pack. At least one thing I like more about Beyond Earth than with the standard Civilization game is fewer playable leaders (among other things), so I still remain optimistic I could accomplish my goal of unlocking as many achievements as possible before the end of this year.

(Yet, this leaves me concerned about having enough time to accomplish other things I've been hoping to make progress on, such as my fanfiction series.)

ImpracticalDino:
Mo-o-o-o is just thinking about all of the fun upcoming events that the fishy will get to do-o-o with his irl Mu-u-ud Brothers this week and next week. :DD :smile

Firstly, my graduation from community college will commence this Thursday, though at a different campus than the one Mo-o-o goes to for some reason. Secondly, my professors are very nice and will throw us some sort of celebration on Monday in the afternoon for our accomplishments, perseverance, and achievements throughout the past 2 years. Plus, think of it as a sort of graduation/farewell celebration before the actual graduation. Thirdly, our whole class will attend some sort of award ceremony on that day as well. Forgot kinda what award its for exactly, though.

The other exciting part of this comes after graduation though. Mo-o-o and some of his Mu-u-ud Brothers plan to go out to a hibachi restaurant on Friday this week. Then the week after, on Monday, us and a bigger group of our classmates are probably gonna plan to head out to a Korean BBQ hotpot restaurant. I'm very happy and grateful for the friendships/bonds that I've made during my time at community college, and even as we graduate, move our separate ways and aim towards different paths, we will continue to stay in touch and hang out with each other from time to time.
That is something Mo-o-o is most happy about the most, that our cliche formed during college will remain. :spikeblush

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