My net has been down at home, I haven’t bothered trying to fix it, and nobody else has cared enough either, well, it will fix itself soon enough, I don’t really care that much, and it’s nice having some time where I know I will be completely off line, so basically I’m taking a half sabattical from the internet. It does feel kind of freeing in a way. All in all life has been pretty good.

Books

Finished off Sheepfarmer’s Daughter by Elizabeth Moon this week, and if anything, it was better than the last time I read it. It’s just something about the comeraderie and the way she writes characters that I really enjoyed, I remember pieces from when I read the book and I think the whole series about 20 years ago, but it’s really nice experiencing it again, and for some reasons I think that first book was the one that I really remember much from it’s getting really spotty with the others, I don’t know if it is because that one is a lot better than the others, or if it is just because I fell off of reading the whole series the next time.

Started up reading Divided Allegiance again by the same author right afterwards, and after a short introduction this promises to be quite a different book, I’ve been enjoying it so far, it’s been more fantasy and a bit less grounded than the last time, but it might be that I will enjoy this as well, it’s going to be interesting at least.

I’m really enjoying this Fantasy mood I’ve been in for a bit now, I used to love those books back in the day, but for some reason just stuck in a stubborn phase of reading almost exclusively sci-fi, it’s nice mixing it up a bit more.

Games

This week has been about one series and one series mostly, Hollow knight , Everyone was so hyped for Hollow knight: Silk Song and I was starting to replay the first one for some days to get used to it and to take part in the hype. And I actually managed to, I liked the game a lot more this time than the last time, and when thursday came up for the release I was really exited about it.

Silk Song managed to bring all the big game stores to it’s knees by release, while it had so much exitement behind it, and I was getting a bit nervous since as I said my internet was down at home, so when I struggled 40 min before even getting to buy it since the stores were down I was really happy that it did go through well before I got finished with work, I was almost getting ready to camp along a bit longer.

And I am very happy that I did get Silksong it’s been a wonderful game for me so far, it’s beautiful to look at and listen to, and the movement just feels great, it’s pretty hard, and I’m struggling with some boss fights, but I’m having fun. I never was a person that really liked boss fights, but this one really is bringing it out, I think they are pretty well signposted when they will do things, so it feels like when I messed up it’s just beyond my reach, that makes it so that I will actually keep on working on them, I see the progress, and it doesn’t feel like I’m just guessing and having the constant feeling of me just doing something wrong. It’s been hard but fair so far, and it’s a bit of a struggle getting money, I’ve starting to bundle together the rosary beads I’ve gotten, after having lost way too many on expeditions into the unknown, and the fee to get them saved up really has been worth it. So far this has been a wonderful game, and I’m excited to keep on exploring, and bang my head against the next boss.

I did have a little time being frustrated with my progress where I was playing a bit of Mario Golf: Advanced tour on the GBA, or really emulated on my miyoo mini, and it has been fun, I got through most of the training, and played the first golf round I think, and it’s really fun, and charming, the golfing feels good, and a tiny bit less complex than golf story but not a lot, and since the stick of my switch lite is kind of borked it’s nice not having to fight that as well, I do have a new stick lying around, so I should get around to fix it some time, but I don’t need it for the games that I am the most excited by right now, so probably something I will do later when I feel like it again.

Media

This week I haven’t been having some long marathon of old episodes like last week, but video game podtimism returned after two months which was really nice, it’s fun listening to Chase and David go through the games they have played, and getting a newer episode, I’m also still doing the backlog, and am around the 70’s now, they are just a bit more mellow in the newer episodes, and I have kind of missed that.

Because of some crazy stuff going on over at infowars this week it’s also been a lot of knowledge fight and it was kind of nice gloating over some infighting at the bad guy HQ. And there was 2 3 hour episodes, which took quite a big place in my listening time.

I’m kind of looking foreward to seeing how some of the people I’m listening to are going to react to silksong, it’s one of the few times when I feel like I’m on to the new thing, and it’s weird, usually I’m years behind on stuff, I like that it released to everyone at the same time, it makes it easier to keep up in the start.