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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • A couple of years ago I started playing through the AC games in order. Like you, I had picked several up for free (starting with Unity when the Notre Dame burned), and completed the collection (except the most recent ones) with nice discounts.

    I liked Syndicate a lot, especially after Unity which I really disliked. The not-quite-steampunk setting appealed to me, and compared to Unity it controlled much better. I absolutely hated the PC controls in Unity.

    I also liked Evie, but honestly could’ve done without Jacob. The sibling idea sounds good on paper, but I don’t think it works. And Jacob is just the less interesting one. I also feel some of the twists in their relationship came out of nowhere.

    Gameplay wise the rope launcher was fun. I disliked how often you’d get into a fight just for walking down a street, and using the rope was a good way to escape or avoid that.

    Looking back at it, I think this is my second favourite AC. The story is much less compelling than several others, but the setting and characters make up for it.



  • Literal decades ago I bought Sennheiser headphones. They were great. They later orders of magnitude longer than anything I had before. They fit well, and were foldable, making them very compact when not used. And they were cheap too.

    When they finally broke down I naturally wanted Sennheiser again, but they referred me to their new brand Epos. I bought a headset this time, not just headphones. It was a lot more expensive, and I was terribly disappointed by the ergonomics. It’s also rather big, making it unwieldy when not in use. And they broke already, though I was able to fix it - they broke just out of warranty of course.

    Of course this is just one anecdote, but it really does feel like another great brand sold out and became crap.


  • Note that since I don’t use Firefox some of these may actually be available, but I don’t know about them.

    • Mouse gestures.
    • A status bar that stays on screen.
    • The ability to select part of a link’s text.
    • Tab stacking.
    • Tab tiling.
    • Opening a link in either a foreground or background tab. This is available as a toggle in the settings only.
    • Ad block.
    • Spatial navigation.
    • Customisable keyboard shortcuts for pretty much everything.

    These are the ones that matter to me, there are more that I don’t personally use.



  • Ever since the first release, I’ve tried Firefox a few times. Each time I was left with a feeling of needing dozens of extensions to get it up to par with the browser I was using at the time (mainly Opera and now Vivaldi). The extensions I found were never customisable enough, and would often break and/or be abandoned after a while.

    Don’t get me wrong: Chrome, IE, Edge, and Safari are worse - each time I used them I got the urge to throw my computer out the window after just a few minutes. But Firefox is just not customisable enough to my liking, and extension are IMO not the answer.