(This is Foxy's Diary on Eulora, at the very ripe age of 20 days. There is a Day 19 and a Day 1 and everything in between.)

For about one month now, I've been walking all around Eulora, gathering anything useful that I could find. For about one month now, that often meant I gathered quite nothing really – I mean nothing other than my own pain, blood and death. I gathered indeed a rich experience of dieing in all places and in all ways, falling off cliffs and just giving up included. I suppose I also gathered some bruises and worn-out hands and knees, but I wouldn't count those with the useful anyway.

And then, one day, out of nowhere, things changed. I didn't do anything different really, for there wasn't anything different to do. But regardless and quite against the good old idea that only idiots keep doing the same thing while expecting different results, it's precisely those different results that happened!¹. All of a sudden, it started raining claims and finds, left, right and centre. While previously I could wear out whole stacks of tools for a measly few wooly mushrooms, now I would get those wooly devils bare-handed. And I got solid branches too and beetles and two-leaf clovers and even elusive purple snails! At times I even got them by the bucketload as it were, when finding ordinary (not small, not tiny, but ordinary!) claims bare-handed.

Coming from outside Eulora, you might think that there has to be a clear and quite obvious explanation to all this. The pools got bumped up, the rules got loosen down, my skill shot to the skies or something of the kind. But then again, I've died too many deaths on this island of Eulora to jump again, naively and unguarded into such trap of the most normal sort. And I'm quite glad I didn't, for here's how it goes:

diana_coman: I fully expect mircea_popescu will say that nothing has changed *at all* and there is absolutely no link whatsoever with anything (17:14)

chetty__ hahahaha (17:14)

danielpbarron bare handed is very +ev or whatever (22:33)

mircea_popescu or variance. or the phase of the moon. (22:33)

So now that things are settled and clear and all that sudden bounty is just a glitch² and really really totally absolutely nothing at all to do with any change of anything of any import, I think I'll just keep an eye on that blue inflated thing up there in the sky - that one that never ever deemed to change at all as far as I can say. One day, I'll get there and I'll ask the only meaningful question on this topic:

Yo moon, got phases nao?

And then I'll blow that moon up once and for all, phases or no phases. I'm just a romantic like that, just looking at the moon all day, you know.

1. Does that make Eulora the most idiot-suited land? I guess it depends - on the phases of the moon, most probably. ↩

2. The second one at that, for there was another one a few months ago when I foolishly did not make a note of the exact day to have a proof of it. ↩

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