Tom Chapman

Be Mine

Added 2024-02-14 04:25:11 +0000 UTC

SITREP I fractured at least one of my ribs cleaning a car bonnet. This incident, occurring late last week, has delayed my rise to greatness ever so slightly. Out of naivety and over confidence, I threw my body to try to reach, and on the third attempt I heard some interesting sounds, and then I briefly lost the ability to breathe.

Despite this debuff, I've been making some improvements around here. Not unlike many of Braytech's users, I've been engaging in some completionist activity including patching any missing points of interest on Maps.

A long overdue omission has been amended: The [Return to [your name]] button (available from the UI which appears when you select your profile name over your character's emblem at the top of most views) didn't pass along your current location to Profile Search–now that it does, switching between profiles has never been better because you can be looking at something specific and switch right back to it. Well, I felt it was long overdue. It mattered to me. Some may argue that the ability to hide triumphs at will was more overdue... Well, we have that now too.

I've also been working on collecting more data for Leaderboards (while trying to balance scrape job time) and I've been trying to clean up how Braytech is run in dev mode and how it's "compiled."

Anyway, that's the Braytech situation–back to me: breathing has improved 😂

I've been super stressed over money and paying the basics, but the rib job distracted me and it's actually helped me to feel better emotionally. Like, physically devastated but I'm measurably less stressed and happier. Wild.

To all who see it, I hope you enjoy the Valentine's easter egg. Love you.