I took a day off this week, it was my first one this year :p it was nice though, I kept away from people and had a nice walk in the woods, that day was just as the rain gave way for the sveltering heat, so at least I had one day with quite comfortable weather. I did manage to hurt my big toe a bit, so on the weekend I wasn’t able to move around too much, but the weather was so warm anyway that it probably wouldn’t be something adviceable anyway. So much sweating when walking outside, so I was feeling like a budget twilight vampire with my sparkly sheen of sweat :p I’m really looking forward to Autumn now, when the days aren’t as warm as this, at least since the spring was basically non-existant this year.

Books

Still reading Exhodus, and I still enjoy it, it’s been kind of slow going the last days, I do go on, it’s just taking a while, I don’t really mind, as it is a fun book, I just don’t have much to say about it here, it’s starting to build up a bit though, so probably there will be a bit more action rather than vibes in this week’s reading.

Games

I’ve been playing quite a lot of Persona 3 Portable over the weekend and through the week as well, and I’ve gotten to December now, so things are starting to be quite interesting, and the story is starting to draw more to an end. One thing that I really appreciate with this one is that it’s so well written, I’m just thinking how painful the S-Links (The smaller stories) could have been if they weren’t done as well as they are. Basically everything except the dungeon crawler half of the game would be so painful if it wasn’t.

Tartarus is starting to be a bit long in the tooth, but I’m now at level 214 or so, so there aren’t that many left, and the whole point about it is being long, ardeous and kind of a slog to get through, I don’t mind it that much though, as those sessions are nice for just putting on a podcast and blast through battles.

I have met some bosses that were a bit annoying, but since I did start the game on easy it hasn’t really been that bad, but I do feel like they would be frustrating on higher difficulties, on easy I haven’t really been struggling, it seems like it does limit the bullshit enemies enough to not really be too bad. When I will play the game again the next time, probably next year or something, I will need a bit of a break in between I think, but I do want to do the female protagonist as well, probably I will at least try on normal difficulty and see if I can do it then, and then bump it down if it gets too frustrating.

UFO 50 did release on the switch this week, but I’m not in a mood where I deal well with frustration, so I think I will wait with buying it until I’m in a place where I can deal with it better, I was close to just getting it, but there is really no reason to for me now, as I still have quite a few games that I want to play before I get that far.

Media

Media wise this has been a weird week for me, with my one extra day off I did manage the unthinkable though, I reduced my podcast queue down to empty, I don’t think I’ve done that in years. It’s probably a combination of the summer being down time for many and me having some more time to listen, so I did put in some stuff from the back log. There was no Into the Aether this week which made me kind of sad, probably it’s in the preparation of their PSP special though, so hopefully it will be worth it, maybe I will start putting in some of their episodes from the back-log as well.

Since the heretic-hexen rerelease came this week I did watch Gronkh playing the games a bit, and that was fun, I do enjoy his videos a lot, but many of them are of Horror games or long series which I don’t really enjoy that much. That little though was fun, and some retro gameplay as well was nice to watch. I’m at a point in using German that I don’t really think I can count it as practice any more, the funny thing is although I learned German after English it feels more homey to me, probably because I never spent long in any english speaking country.