I still have a cold that is hanging on, after a long time, it’s annoying, I’m kind of weak and coughing quite a bit, but well, some time this one too has to lose its grip of me some time. This has been kind of a weird detatched week where I’ve been going back and forth between everything which has been kind of a good thing after weeks of hyperfocus, but lets see, it was a good but unfocused week.

Books

I finished up There is no antimemetics division, and it was a quite fun book, it went quite off the rails in a good way towards the end, I enjoyed the SCP descriptions a lot with their weird things that I wouldn’t have thought off, and the implications that they would have, was less a fan of more of the horror parts of the story, it’s not my kind of thing, but it was a fun story told broken up which fits with how the minds of the people working in the antimemetics division are.

I have been reading a lot of long and kind of heavy books, so I thought I’d read something light and fluffy, and remembered having kind of enjoyed the first murderbot book, so on wednesday I started artificial condition by Martha Wells, I got started, slowly getting into the book, enjoying the beginning a lot.. and then it was over, still on wednesday, it was a good book, but I only just got to get into the world and enjoying it when it was over. Way too short, at least considering how much I paid for it back in the day.

And then I had to look for something else, it’s a couple of books ago that I started the empire Radch books, so I picked up Ancillary Sword and this was a fun world to step back into, and so far at least I’ve been really enjoying it, this feels more space opera in style than the first one, and there seems to be quite a lot of fun drama, and good times with fun characters, which I enjoy.

Games

After weeks of having a clear thing to hyperfocus on, silksong I finally really burned out on it, I kind of knew it would be happening when my focus was strong for so long, it’s kind of annoying that it happened before I finished at least the base story, but I just woke one day and just thinking about it made me annoyed, so I need to wait a bit before I dip into that world again, really wonderful game though and having managed to grip me that hard for so long, in all my time off thinking about it, or playing the game, it just got too much for me.

What I’ve been puttering about the most after that has been playing deckbuilding roguelikes, mostly cobalt core I’ve been having a great time with it, probably because it’s the one that for me hit the vibes and the graphics really well, it’s extremely clear with which cards does what, and I really like the different characters, the quips and everything, it just makes it a lot more fun to play. I have won the normal mode a couple of times, and am now working on getting in a win on hard to get the one unlock, and then I’ll see which one I will focus on, I’ll probably be jumping back and forth, depending on wanting a challenge or just wanting to be able to do something.

I’ve had Meteorfall: journeys downloaded on my phone for a while, and it’s a really fun game that I played some hours of over the weekend, it’s just a fun little game, with the smallest hands you can have, it’s just one card, and you decide if you want to play it, or discard it to get some extra stamina, it manages to get a lot out of the quite simple mechanics, and while I don’t love the graphic style you can’t say that it isn’t recogniseable. I remember trying the next game in the series, krumit’s tale, and that not landing at all for me, but this was a fun little thing to play with.

I’ve also been playing around a bit with some picross games, the jupiter’s picross series and the story of seasons / rune factory picross games Just spent some time solving some riddles, and having fun with them and relax, it’s just a good time, and something that doesn’t take too much will power to get into.

I had a couple of runs in good old Rogue legacy and it’s still a quite fun timewaster of a game, it’s just nice having some playing with it and getting a bit stronger, just jumping around and fighting some enemies.

And I had a run in griftlands and this is a fun but complex game, I’m absolutely garbage at it, but there are so many fun things in there, and I enjoy the story, and there are a lot of things to try out, it’s one that I probably should spend some more time figuring out, as it’s fun to play around with. There is just a lot of things there, with 2 different decks that you use for different things, and a story, and trinket, some meta-progression and so on, but I at least enjoyed the start again.

I did a half run of slay the spire and it’s still a game that I see is great, and still don’t quite manage to enjoy, and one of a “gray demo” of monster train 2 The monster train games do look like they are worth getting into, they seem pretty fun, and seems to be a bit more friendly when it comes to giving the player some broken stuff, which is fun for people like me who aren’t that great at the games, but still enjoy them.

Media

At least here is one place where I’ve been more stable this week, not jumping that much back and forth, I’ve been feeling kind of more of an urge to listen to more videogame podtimism so it’s been what I’ve been mostly listening throught the week, I’m almost half way through my backlog of episodes, so we’ll see what I will be focusing on after I’m through with those, at least I have some extra listening for a couple of more months.

The eggplant podcast’s year of UFO50 is done now, and it has been mostly a fun run of discussions on the game, funnily enough it has been kind of keeping me from playing it for some weird reason that I don’t quite understand, so maybe with a couple of weeks off from it I will be getting it on my switch, it’s really an impressive collection of games, and there were a lot of fun discussions had through this series.

I’ve been watching some stuff on youtube, mainly my normal youtube channels, having Gronkh playing some water park simulator or revenge of the savage planet in the background is nice, and then I found an old series of olexa playing forward escape the fold which is pretty fun.