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Social Digest 2025.06.22-2025.06.28

This week I was a bit fixated on playing Waypoints and Voyages, though the week was really a story of desk and sidewalk.
Map 5 of Voyages, with many dives accomplished, sailors added to the crew, and travel around the edges of the map. 36 points and 3 stars were achieved.

This week I was a bit fixated on playing Waypoints and Voyages, though the week was really a story of desk and sidewalk.

A world map was painted on the courtyard at Hope Blooms.

A colourful, stylized world map with the words Hope Blooms below it.
A closeup of a stylized map showing Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and the USA.
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I left some books at the nearest little library and livened it up a bit. I’m hoping someone falls in love with Astro Boy from the omnibus.

The interior of a little library with mostly books for adults. A bottle of water can be seen on the left and an Astro Boy omnibus is facing the viewer on the right.
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A campaign to stop road widening (what kind of asshole widens a road in a city?) has decorated trees along Robie Street.

A fabric owl has been attached to a tree above a flier objecting to the widening and transformation of a city street.
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The latest episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men is a lot of things.

It’s a good jumping on point to understand the podcast, its hosts, and X-Men broadly.
It’s a live podcast with crowd questions and engagement.
It’s partly a recap of the history of the comics and the podcast.
It also has a portion with a disruptive person who flees when Jay doesn’t rise to the bait about identity politics.

Jay’s open letter to the disruptor.

This podcast has been my favorite for years and it’s hosts are decidedly among the good ones.

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Today I played through map 3 in Voyages. The addition of filling out journals to track encounters with creatures was fun.

Map 3 of Voyages, with mostly only the southern part of the map explored. 3 stars were warned and 38 gold.
A Most Epic Voyage page, with the third voyage recorded and training room upgrade acquired.
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I played map 4 of Voyages today. The beacon mechanic made this map a lot of fun to explore.

Map 4 of Voyages. Many beacons have been lit. 44 points and 4 stars were earned.
A Most Epic Voyage page, with the fourth voyage recorded and the Legendary Flag and Staff of Divination upgrades acquired.
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Today I played the fifth map of Voyages and finished the A Most Epic Voyage. The nemesis introduced by the AMEV definitely made the game much harder, but I was able to finish the map with enough stars. I didn’t get to use the mechanics introduced in this map a lot, but the drifting and diving choices felt meaningful.

There’s just one more map for me to try for the first time but I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend the game.

Map 5 of Voyages, with many dives accomplished, sailors added to the crew, and travel around the edges of the map. 36 points and 3 stars were achieved.
A Most Epic Voyage sheet completely filled out, with a total of 245 points and 17 stars obtained.
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I finished the last map of Voyages today. I’m still very happy with the game and enjoyed the simplicity of the new mechanics on this map.

Map 6 of Voyages, with islands discovered, fish caught, and ruins visited. 59 points and 4 stars obtained.
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I was back to playing Waypoints today. Map 2, Burning Rock Canyon, was just as fun as the first.

Waypoints map 2, Burning Rock Canyon. The canyon was crossed multiple times.
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I was using a new pair of macro and wide angle lenses for my phone and took this shot of the office orchid, which still has all its blooms.

A closeup shot of an orchid.
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We visited the library today so Celestine could join the Summer Reading Club (she has a goal of 100). While we were there she took part in a beading event in the creative studio.

A manga volume, a reading club book, and a postcard sit on a couch.
A plastic plate holds an assortment of beads and charms.
A bracelet is stretched out on a table. The letter C is in its middle.
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I finally got a Xenoblade Chronicles X shirt. It’s a subtle design that will be familiar to those who have piloted skells.

A person wearing sunglasses wears a t-shirt with a simplified skell from Xenoblade Chronicles X.
A black and white t-shirt design of a skell from Xenoblade Chronicles X.
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A music festival is happening over at Citadel Hill. As we walked home with rain starting to fall on us a couple minutes ago we could hear Amanda Marshall singing “Let It Rain” from across the kilometre of city between us.

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