mycatsays

I'm close to finishing my first exploration of Ginger Island. Trying to decide whether to pay the parrot for the last few Golden Walnuts, or look them up in the Wiki, or whether there's realistically any chance I'll ever find them on my own. (I am bad at deciphering in-game hints, so probably no. Have already looked up a few things I couldn't figure out; so what's a few more?)

Cats aren't pack animals, but they do socialise with humans, other cats, and other animals. They don't all have the same personality and some will tend to be more social than others.

In general, I would say that if a cat normally has human company most of the day (e.g. a human who doesn't work or works from home), human company can be enough (circumstances vary). But in general, if the human(s) are gone a lot of the time then it can be lonely for a single cat. In that case it's worth getting them a four-footed companion.

We had a cat who preferred having us to herself rather than sharing us with another cat. But we could see that she got lonely when we had to leave her by herself, so it seemed better that she had a companion cat even if she didn't want a friend.

At our current house, the yard is open and various neighbourhood cats will come into the space. Our boy accepts two of them. I don't know if they are "friends", but they come to visit and he's chill with them. Any other cat coming into the yard, he tries to fight off. Some fascinating cat politics going on.

Feed the hungry AI, I guess?

Thank you!

I have actually gotten shipping notifications from Amazon when I placed the order on eBay.

Several times I have purchased an item on email only to have it arrive from Amazon. The sellers were using both sites and there was no way to tell from the eBay listings. Big sad.

Thanks for the correction. I have only ever seen the point flagged by the smaller banks I've looked at, so I assumed it was a small bank thing. Maybe I've not looked in the right places on larger banks' websites.

The linked page says several times "for each account holder". But that doesn't mean a joint account gets double the guarantee, does it?

Look into fees and structure of accounts at whichever institutions you are considering, from the angle of what fits your situation. Also consider whether you prefer a bank with a physical branch (in which case, your short list is whichever banks are convenient to where you live) or whether online banking is sufficient (some banks are online only). Some banks also limit how much money they'll guarantee; so if your accounts might go over $249k you should make sure your chosen bank is good with that.

Over the years I have had accounts with: Westpac, ING Direct, Teacher's Mutual Bank (formerly a credit union), NAB, ME Bank, Up, and a couple of others I don't remember. None of them were especially bad, but they did different things for me at different points in my life.

When my parents (who are not citizens, have never worked in this country, and are here for a couple of months at a time) wanted a bank account to use while here, I set them up with NAB. That was the option with a physical branch nearby that wasn't going to hit them with monthly fees for the privilege of having an account, when the account was not in regular use. (NAB has since closed the branch near us, so idk how much longer they're going to have our business.)

Final thought: there is no contract with your bank unless you take out a loan or term deposit. Pick one to start, and if it's not a fit you can move your money elsewhere. Don't stress.

As others have said, ketchup and tomato sauce are the same thing. Most of the time, the version of a product you get here will be just fine (if not better... no high fructose corn syrup!).

But there will be products where the local version doesn't match what you're used to, and they might not be things you think about ahead of time. My American parents are forever disappointed by Australian ranch salad dressing, for example.

This store imports US brands: https://usafoods.com.au/ It's expensive because stuff is heavy to ship across the world. But it's nice to have the option for occasional specific things you miss.

My brother-in-law just got a new computer and was excited that he again has a device functional enough to play Stardew, so we just started a new farm. This is the third farm I've played with him and we've never yet made it to Winter year 1 (together) as differing schedules always eventually get in the way. Going back to the beginning is grindy, but also a nice change of pace.

I was having a similar problem with another game, and I had a similar desire to learn general troubleshooting rather than have someone give me a specific fix. That said, I don't know if I can help because for me it's basically butt my head against a wall until I poke something enough that it works - usually I don't know enough to understand why the thing works.

I was installing my games onto a secondary drive. The problem turned out to be that that drive had been formatted by Windows back when my computer was set up to dual-boot. Some games still ran fine in Linux, but this particular game nothing would happen when I clicked Play. On a whim I tried installing it on the primary drive with the OS, and it worked first time. So there was something about that game that didn't work with the drive formatting.

(I've since reformatted the second hard drive so that everything should now play nice with Linux, now that I no longer have Windows. Game is fine now.)

Thanks!

Speed and luck are definitely stats I often overlook. I'll try to make use of them.