Another week done, and another little summary, I was pretty happy with my podcasting post last week, give it a try if you’re looking for something to listen too. Apart from that I’ve had a pretty nice week, getting some stuff done. I was out donating blood on friday, it’s always a bit nerve wrecking since I hate needles and stuff like that, but as long as I look away I survive the needle thing, and then it’s just wait a bit and done. It’s a nice thing to do, and the easiest way to be a hero.

Books

I finished off Ancillary Justice this week in front of the blood donation office, and it was a fun read, it has just enough action, and quite a bit of time to get used to the characters, with just about the right amount of action scenes. It kind of felt like a better version of murderbot to me, I never could get into that series after having read the first one, since it felt so weird, the robot so whiney, and the characters all basically non-entities. Ancillary justice had some good characters, some fancy scenes, and fun descriptions of one mind being in a lot of bodies at the same time. I really enjoyed it, and that I read through it this fast always is a sign that I really enjoyed a book.

I hemmed and hawed a lot about what to read next, and ended up with not wanting to go right on to the next in the series. I ended up with choosing a fantasy book that I last read as a teenager, I don’t really read much fantasy, so maybe it’s something I can get a bit more into again :) I chose The sheepfarmer’s daughter a part of the deed of Paksernarrion series, I remember really enjoying it the last time, and I have enjoyed a lot of Elizabeth Moon’s books, so I’m pretty sure I will enjoy this one as well.

Games

This has been the time that I really decided to give Persona 4 a break, I played little over the week, since I just don’t really manage to get into it. It always kind of feels like a chore to get started, and I don’t really know why, I loved the third one in the series, and this one is filled with things that I really enjoy, so I’m kind of frustrated that I don’t like it more than I do, it might just be the mood that I’m in lately, but in the end I ended up putting it aside and play some other games, and I hope to get back to it some time, we’ll have to see when I feel more like it again.

I was listening to the best of gba games episode of into the aether this week (more on that later) and with how they were talking up advanced tour quite a lot I remembered that I had Golf Story installed since a long time, and I played quite a bit of it, it’s a competent golf game, and a wacky cheerful story, the writing is not really great, but I guess it serves it purpose, it did make me laugh out loud a couple of times with silly stuff, like quest chains of giving one person a thing to get a thing to give to another that seemed pretty delibetairly placed. I’m now on the beach, and some of the challenges are starting to get more tedious than fun, but I’ll see, I might continue on a bit more.

Another one that I gave some time again with all the hype for silksong was Hollow Knight I already had a save game with 30 hours played, but I didn’t want to jump into the deep end again, so I restarted it from the start again, I do like the environments a bit more than the last time I played, and get more a sense of exploration which I have been enjoying quite a lot, The first bosses went down pretty fast, and I’m now back into the city again. I remember this one having a boss fight with a long way with really annoying enemies on the way, so I’m kind of dreading doing that gauntlet again, but so far I’ve actually quite enjoyed myself with this game, maybe it’s finally my time to enjoy Hollow Knight.

I also started Mario Golf - Advance Tour but since I only played for an hour or so I can’t really say much of it, a lot of the time was just getting through the introduction, and doing some challenges on the training thing, I’ve been struggling a bit with one of them, but kind of want to get through it, so that I have some basic skills before starting, so far it seems pretty charming, and a bit more easily readable than golf story, I’m pretty sure I will try this one out a bit more.

Media

Last week I was listening to the backlog of Videogame Podtimism and they mentioned that one of them was listening to the Into the Aether gba episode, which I remembered really enjoying, so I ended up relistening to the gba episode and the nintedo DS episode, which alone was 8 hours of podcasting this weeks, which means I didn’t manage to get as empty as I have been the last weeks. It was a really good time though.

Also I’ve kind of the feeling that the video game podtimism guys really started getting going around episode 50, and it’s been even more fun listening to them, I’ve been actually listening more to them than to other stuff that is coming out new, it’s just kind of nice to have something like that that I can really enjoy for when I’m feeling a bit down.

I’m looking foreward to them starting to release weekly episodes again though, I’ve kind of really missed them being a part of my sundays, it’s just fun.

For youtube stuff I haven’t been watching much new stuff this week, there was some exciting ones the week before, but this one has been a bit more lackluster, just not much stuff I’ve found that interesting, and yesterday my internet was down, so I didn’t get to watch the new episode of geowizard going through London without roads, but I have it downloaded now, so that I can watch it in the evening today, so that’s at least something :)