There are candy wrappers littering the coffee table, empty beer cans lined up along the tv stand. I laugh, a deep, loud laugh from my belly as my best friend presents the most absurd situations he’s encountered this week to me as if we are in show and tell.

I took a quiz that told me I’m a Samantha, he’s a Miranda; neither of us has watched much of the show. I cackle as we watch snapchats from my husband and he offers up another peanut butter cup.

I take it and we line up a true crime documentary. We change into pajamas, down another couple beers.

Slumber parties are very different now that I’m an adult; for one, it can (and will) last for a week. There’s no one to tell you to quiet down and go to bed when it’s late and you get slap-happy. You have to provide your own snacks.

Which we did, with alacrity. We have homemade bread to eat with some of the best chili I’ve had in ages, Korean stews, twizzlers, chips, frozen

Time was a single noder not noding for a while wouldn't make a ripple, but with so few of us here now...

I used to think Nate's Word Galaxy Generator was an amusing toy. I realise now it was a reassurance: things are working as expected. The nodegel is safe and will return shortly.

We could do with some reassurance. I'm never sure from one day to the next if the site will be here.

I have been not writing but lurking.

Games are a tool to help us understand reality more deeply.

Some games have a mechanic called the Time Loop. Examples include Outer Wilds and Minit. The game resets after a fixed amount of realtime, and the player finds themself back at the beginning, with everything in the gameworld back to how it was. The only difference is that they now have more experience of what can happen in the game. The game progresses through exploration and experimentation, with the player's