A week of up and downs, Not the gratest, also not the worst, so that’s how it is I guess, not quite sure what to say about this one, well still a couple of weeks to go before work hopefully settles a bit again, but we’ll have to see about that.

Books

I Started reading “Deception Well” By Linda Nagata this week, and I almost got through it as well, around 40 pages to go before I’m done with it. This is a really weird book, it’s kind of enjoyable, but still kind of uncomfortably weird in a lot of places. Much of it takes place in a very far future, where nanomachines and bio engineering has gotten a long way, so people are always a bit weird, Probably stemming from this, it’s also kind of hard to know what is possible, so you’re always kind of on the edge not knowing what is possible and what is not, which kind of leads to an uncanny uncomfortable world which I’m not quite sure about if I like or not. It’s kind of a weird book to me, but all in all I think I liked more than disliked the book.

Games

This week I have been mostly Playing Final Fantasy VII, the rerelease of the old PS1 RPG, and it’s the newest Final Fantasy that I have been tried playing. So far it’s a really enjoyable game with a lot of cool set pieces where you have interesting fights and mini-games and so on. The story is quite enjoyable as well.

Sure the graphics has not aged that well, since it’s from that awkward first 3D games thing, but that’s quite quickly forgotten and I just enjoy the game instead. There is something charming about it, and it has just strengthened my view that what is needed for a game is not fancy graphics, it’s the sum of all the parts, and if anything the graphics are one of the less important to me, as long as it’s kind of colourful, I like things that are colourful.

I’ve also been just playing the beginning of the Persona 3 Portable rerelease for switch as well and this is just how I remember it, this is probably what I will jump to when I’m through with FF7, I remember playing this on the PSP, but I’m not quite sure how far I did get, if it’s similar as with FF7 it’s probably a lot shorter than what I thought :p

I’ve been having a lot of fun with RPGs lately, it’s something that I haven’t really done that much before, I think I’ve finished only a few RPGs completely, Dragon Quest XI being one of them, and most of the others being pokémon games. So let’s see what happens, I hope at least that I will be able to get through FF7 some time in the next weeks, hopefully it doesn’t have some kind of huge difficulty spike that will kill my will to continue.

Podcasts and Media

I don’t really remember that much of this week, which is probably an indication there wasn’t that much interesting new stuff happening. Olexa, Orbital Potato, and Retromation is going on with Farming simulator, and it’s still really fun watching and listening to their hijinx through struggling with the game.

One of my favourite podcast memories of this week was probably “That’s absurd please elaborate” where they were having a shark episode that was interesting even though I’m not that interested in sharks, but it was a fun episode, and learning how sharks have like all the superpowers was kind of fun.

On an old videogame podtimism episode they were talking about Nostalgia, and that made me think, it was a fun one, and I think I ended up with thinking that nostalgia is something good.

Also there was one episode about the Amiga from stay forever which I did enjoy, but I’m not quite sure if I do enjoy their new strategy of splitting up their normal 6 hour long technic episodes in 3 that gets released over weeks rather than all in one go, we’ll have to see how it turns out though, might be that it will be something I will enjoy in the end.