So, as I predicted this week was a weird one that has gotten me kind of out of my normal patterns, and as a result has made me not feel too great, but I’m through most of the stuff now, it’s only the application for the National ID tomorrow, and then I should be set for most of the things that are leaving me unround, there is still a christmas celebration, but one with less people, and I have to get the gifts that I bought for the people home sent, but at least they aren’t that huge tasks, and I don’t stress out as much about them.

It’s been much this week for me to deal with, not really for a normal person, but I had to deal with going to the inside mall a couple of times, and then the big christmas celebrations, and I’ve gotten more than my share of having to deal with people masses, both times when I was at the mall I had to just lie down and sleep for a bit afterwards, I don’t know, but that really does stress me out for some reason.

Books

Because of sleeping a lot, and being out drinking a couple of times this week, I’ve not gotten through as many books as last week, but I did pretty well all things considered.

I finished off Shoot the messenger by Pippa DaCosta, and it was a fun one, very much story foreward for this one, and an interesting mix between scifi and fantasy, with loads of twists and turns, a lot of fun.

The next one I read was Heart Fire by Rosie Mackie, and it was also a quite story focused one that I enjoyed I also quite enjoyed the new planet colony story, it was fun, and pretty well done, just some of the sex scenes felt a bit awkward, but we’ll see if that is getting better later in the series.

I also started and finished Love Code by Ann Aguirre, and this was a really heart warming one, while the story stuff were pushed a bit in the background, it was a really sweet little romantic story that went through it, and I kind of don’t care that stuff just conviniently works out for some threads of the story. Now it seems like this one series are kind of the author being fascinated with different animal’s anatomy and stuff, which leads to some things feeling a bit off, but I think that was on purpose, all in all I did really enjoy this one though.

And for the last one for the week, I did start Mission: Guardian Angel by Laurann Dohner, which is starting out kind of like a military space opera, and then going into more of a romance book, like the first one in the series, I hope this one doesn’t feel as rushed in the end, because it was my biggest point against the first one in the series, which I otherwise really enjoyed.

Games

For most of the week I have kept on playing siralim: ultimate but the current archetype that I was working on has so slow battles that it’s kind of a drag, I have a team built on creatures dying and being resurrected, and while it’s really quite strong, the battles are really slow, and drag on for too long.

I did get some gift-cards for having been in the company for 10 years now, almost 11 by now, so I was buying a couple of physical games, which I don’t have many of.

I remember @thedoctor talking warmly about Sea of Stars and have been thinking about getting it for weeks now, but I never really got around to getting it, but this felt like the perfect moment, I had some funds that I had to use up burning, and it was accessible. And so far I really quite like it, I put in about 5 hours over the weekend, and it is quite fun, I’m not quite sure about the writing, but the pixel art is stunning, the music is great, and the battle system feels like a mix between the mario and luigi series of mario rpgs, and the voulnerability system from octopath traveller, with some of the combo-techs from chrono trigger. The chrono trigger inspiration in special is quite strong here, as it feels like they wanted to make kind of a spiritual successor to that game, I’m having a lot of fun with it so far.

I also got Bravely Default II but haven’t played it much yet, as I’ve been focusing on sea of stars first, I have played a bit of the two bravely games on the 3ds and quite enjoyed them, and final fantasy V is one of my favourites, and at least from the opening part of the game this one feels like a final fantasy game that went more through keeping on the turn based train than yearning for being an action game, as most of the newer final fantasy games seem to do.

I had some rests of the money that I had to use at the indoor mall, so the last little bit I just converted into some android giftcards and I got a couple of phone games

Halls of Torment which is basically vampire survivors with a diablo I / II skin on it, and it’s pretty fun so far, while not being something stellar, it’s still entertaining, and just like vampire survivors, it’s good brainless fun to just go through a run or two.

I also got Dawncaster since I’ve been kind of jonesing for a card game, and for some reason it feels like the phone is just a good place for card games, I just haven’t put much time into it yet, so I don’t really have much to say about it.

For some other small ones I got Tiny terraces which seems to be kind of an idle growing stuff game and Zookeeper DX which is a simple match 3 game.

Media

For media there isn’t much new on my side, I’m still enjoying my podcasts when I’m out on walks, slowly working my way through some backlogs and so on. Olexa one of my favourite youtube games person is doing a fun christmas celebration thing where he’s donating money to the extra life charity, and playing some of the games that we enjoyed the most through the year, which is always really fun.

And that’s about it for this week I think.