I never played JC3, but I finished JC2 because the characters were funny (i.e. Bolo Santosi). How does JC3 compare to JC2 in that aspect?

Heh - Cloaca Cola

I was on a quest to do this but I lost interest after reaching Jeremiah. Ecclesiastes surprised me though - that one was interesting.

Which was your favorite, if I may ask?

Save me from the not _ thing I’ve become

Sweet and Sour Pork

Lemon Chicken Rice

etc.

Yep I’m not streaming - waste of mobile data

Side question - how do people get the opportunity to move so easily? I work in Tech and the market is brutal right now

This reminds me of the movie where Cheetah (voiced by Claudia Black) laced WW with a toxin that made WW see everyone as Cheetah, causing her to fight until she nearly died of exhaustion, if not for the timely intervention of Cyborg

What about Glass Bottles?

Singapore - Mother Tongue is a compulsory subject to take up until Uni. Being classified as Chinese racially, I had to take Mandarin during my formative years - but I’m still not good at it lol

Interesting - in Singapore the widespread expectation in 2025 (at least among the elderly) is to get a plastic bag / food containers (sometimes multiple) from the shop whenever one buys something. Albeit since 2020 these now cost 5 & 30 cents respectively

Hello, reporting from Singapore :)

Thank you :) And good to hear that you’re doing well - haven’t experienced that feeling in a long while.

I guess I’ll try and sleep early tonight to sleep off the pain, after doing a few rounds of stretches to relieve the tension.

Urgh, feeling down. I think I slept in the wrong position and now my lower right leg is throbbing and feels warm, and my sciatica feels weird. It’s giving me a headache.

Worse part is, I need to revise for a tech interview tomorrow and this weird pain is going to waste my day today. Sigh

There’s a thread on Reddit showcasing some hilarious Code Comments within the Generals Codebase: https://old.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/1izpkmh/funny_generals_source_code_comments/

Examples:

    // Assumption: Things with a KINDOF_STRUCTURE flag can never be built from 
    // a factory (ProductionUpdateInterface), because the building can't move
    // out of the factory. When we do our Starcraft port and have flying Terran
    // buildings, we'll have to change this ;-)
    // Remember: To ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and ME. 
    Player.cpp

    // HERE WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE FOR AN IDIOT TEST:
  // REJECT SIMULATION NODES THAT ARE OFF SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!
    // HERE WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE FOR AN IDIOT TEST:
  // REJECT SIMULATION NODES THAT ARE OFF SCREEN!!!!!!!!!!
  W3DTerrainVisual.cpp

  //
  // force the tree control to redraw, it seems to have problems updating
  // the plus signs, lame ass Microsoft
 //
  HeirarchyView.cpp

  ; String is returned by const for a reason.  Bad things will happen 
  ; if you modify it.  You have been warned.
  locale.cpp

  // We need to be able to grab w3d's from a localization dir, since Germany hates exploding people units.
  W3DFileSystem.cpp

  // I can't take it any more.  Let the record show that I think the UpgradeMux multiple inheritence is CRAP.
getAutoHealBehaviorModuleData()->m_upgradeMuxData.muxDataProcessUpgradeRemoval(getObject());
  AutoHealBahaviour.h

I Used To Type Like This Because I Treated Shift As a Spacebar Alongside Spacebar. Not sure why, just felt natural. Now I only capitalize certain named nouns

This is the premise for the Red Alert series in Command and Conquer - Stalin becomes the aggressor when Hitler was wiped

The good ol Palm Strike

I don’t watch streams, but I do watch a lot of Let’s Plays (i.e. Materwelonz, WoolieVersus). Sometimes to watch them play games that I normally wouldn’t, sometimes to listen to their insights at certain hype points in games I previously played, and usually due to loneliness (i.e. parasocial relationships).

Regarding the last point, it also tends to be the reason I gravitate towards games with strong story, or MMOs. Feeling like I belong to a community keeps the loneliness at bay. Outside of games, I like to be in crowded areas, though not necessarily interacting with anyone.

Updated my journal