It was a good week, work was going foreward with some things that were quite fun, a bit of programming to get things along, some tasks that were helping coworkers more than solving niggles, it feels better when I can do things that I see actually helping people more.

I’m slowly getting a bit off of the silksong hype, which is nice, I’ve been hyperfocusing on reading about it on my off time over the week, and now at least I feel like I can take a bit time off and focus on other things and still play in the evening.

I’ve been having a bit of a cold too, so my long walks were really kind of a challenge, on saturday I got home, went to relax on the bed and woke up in the morning the next day again :p

Books

I finished off The deed of Paksenarrion this week, and all in all it has been an awesome series, apart from one chaper in the last book that I really found not necessary, and really hurt the whole feeling of the rest of the books, if that one is getting skipped I will say that this series would be high up on my list of favourites. I kept on reading that chapter rather than skipping it, thinking there might be something important there that I shouldn’t miss out on, but no, it’s just torture porn and glee about punishing a female character for being strong and standing up for things.

I’ve just started there is no antimemetic division, I tried getting into the SCP stuff a while back, it’s some quite fun ideas that gets played with, but the thing that usually made me not hang on that long where having to sit in front of the PC reading them, or my phone, this seems to be some of the story sequences gathered together as a book, and so far I’m really enjoying it. It’s pretty fun and thought provoking, about how to fight something that it’s really hard to be aware of, or even being aware of it can be detrimental to be able to get it away.

Games

Well, no surprise, this week has been another one where most of my time has gone to silksong, It’s still really enjoyable, and I’m still exploring stuff, even so many hours in, there is more. What I really find amazing here is how much trust they seem to have in the curiosity and ability of the person playing, some things that are quite needed are hidden quite well away, and even complete areas of the map are hidden behind a false wall. I think I must be close to having at least found most of the areas from Act 2 now, though I still don’t have the maps for two of them. I was exploring the generally hated bile water, and I don’t dislike it that much, the only thing is the lack of benches, which makes it kind of annoying, having to run back for 5 minutes through the same stuff again and again because I suck at the arena fights is not that much fun. After that I’ve been exploring the Sands and the Slab which I found really fun. The slab kind of feels like a commentary of metroidvanias itself, with literal gates that you unlock with literal keys, which was kind of a fun thing. And I found a pretty challenging but fun boss fight down in there which I’m currently working on, got the boss to stagger twice, but that’s as far as I am on that one.

I’ve been watching out for a sale on Persona 5 and It finally came this week, so I got that, and I’ve played the first couple of hours in some time off to cool down from silk song, and it seems pretty neat, but the first two hours of a persona game is usually not enough to really get on with it, it seems fun so far, but the interace is a bit much. It’s just everything everywhere at once, and feels a bit more cluttered than 3 and 4 which I’ve been playing. We’ll have to see though, I haven’t really been getting off the tutorial track yet, so maybe it’s something that I can get used to with some time, it does look flashy, but maybe a bit much.

Another one that I got on the sale was undertale I have played quite far in once on pc, but I remember being terribly dissappointed with how the game was pretty much forcing and tricking me into doing things I didn’t want to, but couldn’t figure out how to get away from, and then blame me for it afterwards, but we’ll se how I get along with it this time.

Media

This week I’ve been downloading more videos than I’ve been watching, so I have some over, olexa had some nice looks, and I’m watching him struggle with silksong has also been cathartic, as he’s usually better at games than what I am, now for sure I’m looking at this with hindsight, because I’m far farther than he is, but I’m looking foreward to seeing how he gets along with it, and it’s always funny seeing others react to some of the jokes and things that I found funny.

I’m still working on my videogame podtimism binge, and slowly getting up on 100 episodes, it’s nice seeing how they are slowly working their way into how they are currently doing things. I also enjoyed their new episodes as they come out as well, it’s kind of a whiplash suddenly hearing them talk about more current things again.

I’ve moved wavelengths into my auto-download podcasts, it’s been a joy to listen to, while I miss Stephen from into the aether on these episodes, since this is basically additional stuff, it’s fun to get some more listening with Brendon who I really enjoy, he was basically what got me listening to the aether after having listened to the no script at all podcast and that ending as the show ended, and I got into the aether after missing Brendon, and with time it got to become one of my favourite podcasts.

Through cooperation with Brendon from wavelengths I also found the Minnmax podcast, and I think I will listen to some more of their stuff, and see if I like it, their episodes are kind of long, so I think this is one that will be a bit more dependent on what they are discussing, because I have enough stuff talking about new games that I won’t play because of their AAA-ness and stuff, but I’ve been enjoying what I’ve listenend to so far at least, so maybe I’ll pick it up more later.