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So! I spend a lot of time lying down/sleeping in bed, and it gets depressing just wearing the few pants I can find in shops which comfortably fit my short, fat, pear-shaped body, since they generally scream HELLO I AM WOMEN'S PAJAMAS.

On the other hand, I am not very good at sewing! Even asides from my limited energy, straight lines and I tend to never be close friends.

BUT I HAVE MADE PANTS REGARDLESS. They're not the most flattering pants I've ever owned, but they're very comfortable, not super ugly, and in a fabric which only says "I am pajamas" in a small voice. In case other people might find it useful, I'll try and write up what I remember of my process.
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Hades is a great game with a story that's intertwined with the gameplay in a way that means you'll get more of a feel for it by playing than watching someone else on youtube. There's a LOT of combat, even with cheats, if that sounds boring or will require too much strain on your hands etc I'm sure there's good videos that capture the basic gist. But personally, as someone who enjoys combat but is bad at it, I enjoyed playing it with cheats.

So! This guide is aimed at people who, like me, have the narrative as first priority but are ok with combat if it's easy enough. I'm not going to assume you're using cheats, and will avoid spoilers as much as possible. I start with some very basic advice and a description of the game, with no spoilers at all.

If my advice seems wrong, it possibly is, double check with another source! And if you've played the game and KNOW I'm wrong please let me know >.>
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So! Here's the complete guide to the game as written by the developer. It has all the relevant information but I found it very overwhelming. This guide is simpler, but has very specific goals: romance one of the main love interests and see all of his content, and also see all the content for two side characters. It works for the free or paid version, but has mainly been used for the paid one.

There's also several more minor love interests in the paid version, and a friendship ending, which I have a reasonably efficient method for at the end.

There's no major plot spoilers, but some unavoidable "things that can happen" spoilers.
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Helix Waltz is a mobile game where the main mechanic is constructing outfits to wear to balls.

I've found a bunch of useful guides, but I needed a more simple and methodical approach. This has gotten me to level 51, at the start of Chapter 5, I don't know if it's much help past that point. Also, just because it's more intuitive for me doesn't mean it will be for you, there's other guides out there that might suit better.

Anyway! Here's how I make outfits.
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So I really like Stardew Valley but I hate the fishing, and the various guides I've seen aren't aimed at people who want to avoid it. So here's what I've figured out! To be updated if I figure out anything new.

Non spoilery summary:
1) Fish are useful and necessary for a bunch of non-fishing-related things most players will want to achieve, so while you can mostly ignore it you probably don't want to entirely.
2) There are vendors who sell fish and fish related products
3) Certain fish can be gotten through other non-fishing methods
4) Fishing gets much easier as your fishing level rises, and there are ways to gain fishing exp without having to actually fish.

More spoilery information under the cut, but this game doesn't really have a plot to spoil, it's just things like what rewards completing certain achievements give etc. I found out a lot of this via the official wiki, which is pretty good.
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First, two sensible links: A set of posts about a chronic pain class, a lot of this matched stuff I've learned from chronic illness myself, though some didn't.

A nice perspective tutorial from astridv.

And now unabashed fannishess.

If there were Barryaran political RPF fanvids, they would look like this: Russian vids to a Vorkosigan fan rock opera.

All the Ladystuck works are out, and many of them are fantastic. Again, no real points for guessing which ones are mine, though one is slightly harder than usual. Here's the Ladystuck works I've bookmarked. There are MULTIPLE femslash fancomics, and THREE Rose/Terezi fics. This makes me happy.

And just as my dance card was looking empty…dragonagewomen, a female-character centric challenge for my other main fandom. Plus newgameplus is probably going to be running a computer game fandom remix challenge including art, which should be super fun.

I started watching the anime Gintama and it is VERY SILLY. It's about a Japan colonised by aliens in the Edo era, and seems to basically be samurai + pop culture references + scifi + random shenanigans. Also the main character Gin looks like a white haired version of Shin from the anime of Gokusen, it's disconcerting.

I also started watching Capital Scandal, A Korean live action comedy/romance tv show set in Japanese occupied 1930s Korea. It seems to be a mix of fun 30s shenanigans with fighting-against-the-evil-occupier war drama, I'm quite enjoying it so far but it's an interesting contrast to Gintama!