unfortunately

Sorry, you think it’s “unfortunate” that sex pests are being called out now? This isn’t about someone being 100% good or evil at all, it’s so much simpler than that.

compared to someone like Harvey Weinstein

I don’t know anything about what Louis C K did, but the fact that you felt you needed to compare him to WEINSTEIN to downplay it doesn’t look good to me.

I’m most of the way through Cat Mail Co, it’s a nice time waster. I’m also trying to get into Medieval Dynasty. We’ve got a tiny group of 4 people so far, there’s a lumberjack who collects like 1 log a day, a dude who allegedly gets buckets of water from the well, and a hunter I’ve literally never seen do anything. It’s uh… fun.

I might start another run of Elden Ring. It’s been about a year and a half since I last played, so a nice slow-paced game with a new weapon type might be a bit of fun. I didn’t like the expansion at all, but for the most part the main game is pretty chill.

You’re forgetting the secret bonus rule, which says everything can only be at most mildly infuriating when compared to Israel

Can’t wait to get home and put on my shorty-dorts

Outside of the superficial stuff (they’re both mages in the modern world who have a problem with authority and a large part of the overarching story is about power struggles within the main political structures and all that) they’re pretty different. Dresden is a good guy with a ton of power so while he’s always up against threats a lot bigger than he is, he’s always able to fight back effectively and overcome it. In comparison, Verus doesn’t have that kind of magic and can’t compete, so by necessity he has to become much more opportunistic and ruthless, he’s a very morally-grey character, possibly slipping down over the line and becoming irredeemable.

I really enjoyed it and strongly recommend it. It’s even finished, so you don’t have to wait years as the story unfolds! 12 novels and 2 novellas and you’re done. One is set at the halfway point, but I read them both at the end and thought it was probably better that way than if I’d read it chronologically, up to you.

I just finished the latest InCryptid, for the first time there were two POV characters and they’re my two favourites, which was nice. It was pretty good. As usual the status quo got a bit shaken up by the end, but for once I’m not a big fan of it.

Being as vague as possible for spoiler reasons it feels like the author wanted to undo something she did years ago but couldn’t just write around the changes that had already happened. Most of the main novels add new characters to the lineup and the most interesting part to me is seeing how the family adapts. The latest “new” character will potentially change the dynamic in an interesting way, but the novels are so hyper-focused that you don’t really get to see much outside of the current immediate crisis. The short stories between books are fun, but there’s never enough slice of life for me.

As for my gym audiobooking (The Wise Man’s Fear), I am about halfway through my least favourite sections of the story. I have no idea how these spoiler tags are meant to work, so I’ll just say Kvothe has finished learning to love, and now he will learn to fight, you know where I am if you’ve read it. In my head Tempi is Silent Bob, I know it’s pretty much the opposite of his physical description but it’s all I can see.

instead of

Have you filtered out 99.9% of this site?

Just turn around now bro

I’m definitely not arguing that, just that every article I see presents them as this super serious contender and everything. Maybe I’m just in denial and I refuse to accept it because they’ve been the racist asshole joke party led by the same idiot for literally my entire life.

SBS is really fuckin pushing One Nation these days.

Since last week’s post I’ve finished Battle Ground (plus Christmas Eve, Little Things, The Law) & Twelve Months from the Dresden Files, and Risen from Alex Verus. That just leaves the last few novellas from both series to cap them off.

After that, it’ll be the latest Incryptid book I missed from earlier this year, then I dunno maybe back to finishing Mercy Thompson before taking a break from urban fantasy for a while.

I finished up the Lord of the Rings trilogy today, loved it. Now I’m about a third of the way through a reread of Battle Ground (Dresden Files) so that I can get to Twelve Months, probably starting on Thursday. I also listened to ~40% of the last Alex Verus book, I’ll be finishing that in the next two workdays too. This is the one good thing about working night shifts in security.

Man it’s probably been over a decade since I played this, for some reason I thought the original version was taken down when it was remade in 3D.

It never occurred to me that pdf would come to mean what it does. This is concerning.

Big W good, Woolworths bad. Alright.

This list just proves to me that I have no idea what’s going on in other people’s heads.

I recently downloaded an emulator and TP with someone else’s save just to go fishing in that lake again. Best part of the game. Your next dungeon is pretty interesting too, have fun.

Satisfactory just got an update too. There are a couple of big changes to vehicles that make me want to jump back in. I’ve been too busy playing FOUNDRY though, which is basically a voxel Satisfactory.

The other day I finished The Two Towers, it was great. Right after that I binged all of Skin Game (Dresden Files 15) in one day which has been my favourite in the series since the first time I read it.

Now I’m just cleaning up a couple of random things I’ve had on the backburner, then it’s Return of the King, Peace Talks and Battle Ground as soon as possible so that I can get to Twelve Months.

Other than that, I’ve picked up my The Wise Man’s Fear audiobook again now that I’m working out regularly again because it was my gym noise back in… wow late 2024. Time flies.

Apparently Michael G Manning’s latest book came out a couple of weeks ago too, but I haven’t had any luck finding it for some reason, no idea what’s happening there 🤷‍♂️

I just took 2 wonderful weeks off and played about 160 hours combined of Transport Fever 2 (city builder but without the city-building that only focuses on logistics), FOUNDRY (voxel Satisfactory), Teddy’s Haven (cosy fantasy shop sim) and Bobo Bay (basically Chao garden from Sonic Adventure 2 that someone finally made into a standalone game).

Less than two hours into my first shift back I was already utterly miserable, and now 90 minutes after that I’m just… burned out. I guess it’ll be back to Pokémon after this because I won’t have the mental bandwidth for much else. Just gotta win the lotto!