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In Which Civilization has a SimCity moment, a bad omen

Hello there, my good friend, kind reader of this post! Happy Friday! Hopefully another beautiful day, maybe we should indeed give it the benefit of the doubt! How are you, my friend? How have you been? I have not write much these days, alas... It is that thing of having some stuff in my head but not being able to take them out to my satisfaction. I mean, we could as well be seeing the collapse of the Civilization franchise, for example. I think I wrote it before here, that I am not optimistic about this title, that their heart (if at all) is in the wrong place for this entry... I could smell the miasma, but now it is clear: reality is even worse than the predictions and projections of before. The Steam consensus, this morning, got as low as 33%, an absolute catastrophic number for the franchise, it is a snapshot of the bad User Interface, the lack of customisation on the game, its mechanics ossifying the main building, or ot is what is implied on even the milder of reviews. I did not h...

In Which we say Hello to August: 5th attempt to write the post is the charm!

Good morning, my friend, reader of this post. Ah, welcome to another entry on the divagation store. It has been extremely hard to write this post. Always something gets in the way, which is never ideal. Let it be sadness and lamentation, let it be lack of subjects to write about… it never really is worthy of publication. Today, I am to do another try. We should see how it goes. How are you, this Friday? How was the first week of August for you? As with me, it went reasonably okay, though with many moments of sorrow. I missed the dearest of friends very much so, more than what I already miss him… anyway. My birthday is to come next week, that is rather nice, is it not? I hope the one of this year may be better than the one of 2022, that was not that memorable. For the day or week, I just hope I can maybe receive some money, so I can pay off whatever I have to pay. I did go to the paperclip store the other day. We have a reasonably good one next to here. I, in fact, may have to return there to get more paperclip things I couldn’t the past time I went there. Either way, that costs money, and money I shall hope to pay, once I get the birthday gift. I hope, on the realm of friendship, to chat with the dearest of friends, maybe for an hour… if possible, more than that. It would bring me much joy, if it could happen. Maybe I will chat with another dear friend as well, if possible. I did not think of much to do for the celebration, because I’ve been too sunk under my woes. But if I can, I want pizza. Departing a bit from the birthday realm, and going into the realm of videogames, I played some Anno 1404 just now! I was meddling with returning to it for some days, and now I finally hit the play button. Such a remarkable game, I love how the passive trade works in it. I can just print money by selling carpets and also leather jerkins. Very satisfying. I wonder sometimes which one is best: 1800 or 1404? It is not that obvious to say one is better than the other. I personally love those two, for different reasons. I wish 1800 had a better passive trade, as Anno 1404 had. Like, you could just set your market to sell the carpets you’d produce, and the trading ship would come and buy it. Passive trade is not nearly as much of a feature in the 1800 entry. A shame, to say the least.


One of my first drawings of August is a portrait of emperor Commodus, the unbalanced. May many more follow this one, 
as drawing always brings me joy.
Classes have returned, the subjects look good, and I should take a better look at them, though I already miss a class. On my defense: that class was at 8PM, and it was just so the students could meet their new administrative team, such as tutors and coordinators… I wish I didn’t have lost it, but it is what it is.
This is a good way to begin August, I say, apart from the many woes caused by med withdrawal, and sorrow for longing for conversation with some dear friends. I do apologize for taking so long to write this entry. It could’ve come way earlier, but I could not have put one together. I pray that this month may have many posts, good to read and to write, but if the rest of it is anything like its first days… maybe I will have to settle for less posts. Thank you, dear reader, for being here. I wish you the best. May your coffee never run cold, and it may have the right amount of sugar in it. When will I be back? Hopefully at some point next week, before my birthday. Until then, cheers, and see you real soon.

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