Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Am finally starting to adjust to daylight saving. It’s been a rough few weeks; am not quite there yet either.
Bought a phone for my daughter, but having trouble finding a protective case for it: https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MPHVDF511047/One-NZ-Smart-Green-Smartphone-16GB---Black---Netwo The One NZ site doesn’t have any covers for their network locked devices. Also had a look at Aliexpress, none of them seem to fit this phone. It’s an annoying name to search for as it doesn’t seem to have a type number.
Any ideas?
Uhh, this garbage ewaste is still wasting people’s money. This piece of crap will not be able to run modern apps. There need to be more accessible used options at this price that will not be thrown in the garbage in a few months when she needs a functional phone.
Sorry for the rant, I’m mad at Vodafone and PB tech for ripping you off and wasting your time, not you.
I tried to find a reference to OEM that built it because there might be other identical phones with different names, but I couldn’t find any reference outside of NZ or AU. If you can’t find anything either, you could try to find a similar shaped phone using the gsmarena phone finder. https://gsmarena.com/search.php
And yeah, Aliexpress and Temu are the best place for things like phone cases if you aren’t in a hurry.
Ali express. Just gotta triple check you’re ordering the right model case. And be prepared to wait for it.
Hi everyone, happy thursday! After 3 days’ rest I’m doing well. Currently lying down but hoping to tackle at least one thing that needs doing.
More vomit from the 3 year old last night after we thought we were in the clear.
Also anyone got tips for beating the board game Forbidden Desert on higher difficulty levels? We barely scrape in on normal difficulty.
Forbidden Desert, is that another collaborative tile-based game like Forbidden Island? Love that game.
→checks it out
→yep, looks like it. Very nice. Sorry, no tips. We usually get thrashed at higher difficulty too.
Yep, Forbidden Island, Forbidden Desert, and Pandemic are all by the same person and all somewhat similar.
We do ok at Forbidden Island, we can generally win even the higher difficulty levels so long as we don’t get a particularly bad island layout. Spoiler in case you don’t want tips that might ruin it for you:
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We identify at the start the tiles that are key (basically one of each treasure tile, the tile you need to go to in order to win, and a route between them), and only focus our energy on those, ignoring all the others and letting them be lost. Normally this is a pretty small number of tiles you need to save. You can use spare turns (while you’re collecting cards) to protect backup routes and treasure tiles so long as you can stay close to your core tiles. Plus try not to go through the deck more than twice, so when you’re losing cards due to the hand limit be careful not to throw out too many of one type or at least have a plan.
Forbidden Desert makes thing harder because you can’t tell where the treasure is at the start. You have to uncover each tile, and often you have to get almost all of them. Plus the longer you leave it, the more sand piles up on them that you have to dig out before you can uncover them. There is a sand storm that moves the tiles around and adds sand. The game also adds in a water meter, where each player has water and if they run out you lose.
I like Forbidden Desert better than Forbidden Island, but I feel like we outgrew Forbidden Island. I really liked it when we got it. With Forbidden Island, the novice level isn’t too hard, the normal level we manage to win a lot of the time but it’s normally pretty close. But the next level up from normal just seems unachievable, we haven’t even tried because we struggle with normal.
Is it hard dealing with 3 year olds vomiting? I mean are they scared? what do you tell them?
Doesn’t seem to be. Last night I got “It’s coming out Dad”, and that was enough warning to get a container nearby and catch most of it.
I also get “I have some medicine Dad? My mouth hurts” which I think is about a sore throat.
I don’t get the feeling they are scared, just generally feeling miserable. Lot’s of hugs though. Just randomly coming up looking for a hug, which doesn’t generally happen too much (there isn’t normally a lot of sitting still).
