The year is finally drawing to a close, it feels like 2020 has been undending still. It was a decent week last week, with a couple of stressors, but there should really not be any more plans or stuff to do now the rest of the year, finally just going to do nothing but getting some rest hopefully. At least my plans for the rest of the year is doing my work stuff, and hopefully get in a couple of longer walks, listening to podcasts.

Books

Got through a couple of books this week, I finished a series by finishing Renegade Love by Ann Aguirre, it was a decent book, and it had glimpses of something really good, but I ended up not enjoying it as much as the two others in the series, the plot felt a bit more contrived than the others in the series. It was a nice ending, but getting there and everything just felt a bit too convenient even for me who don’t really bother about those things too much. All in all it was a fun, but a bit weird series.

After that one I went on to the third one in the Veslor series, The Breeding Experience by Laurann Dohner, and this is one where the name and cover really makes me happy that I’m reading on a e-reader, it’s a bit too on the nose in some ways, even though the book itself is really quite enjoyable, I’m almost through this one, probably will finish it today, and the next one on the list is another of the messenger books, it’s nice to have a cadence to go by, for the love series by Ann Aguirre I will slot in another one, and then I don’t have to think too much for the next month or so I think, while I finish all of my ongoing series.

Games

Games have been kind of weird this week, I wanted to play some different games, but none really fit my mood, played a run or two of Vampire survivors and it was decent fun, but not really what I wanted, did some platforming with Rabi Ribi, but it also wasn’t the one, and then even tried to go on with Sea of Stars but the story kind of put me off, and it felt all a bit too samey. I squeezed in a run of Dead Cells but while fun, it didn’t really spark joy this time.

I ended up trying Hades again, and it seems for some reason that it decided to be the one that I would really enjoy at this time, I activated god mode this time since I was getting frustrated with my last time of not really getting any farther, and it makes quite a bit of a difference in the game, with the help from it, I now actually can bring things foreward, and I spent most of the week getting runs in, actually starting to enjoy it, at least the two first biomes, they are fun, with Elysium it’s just a bit bullshit, all my least liked enemies are there ganging up on you, you have to kill all the stuff twice, and it’s just more bullshit than fun, and then it’s ended with the Theseus and Asterius boss fight which is my least favourite one as well, maybe as I get more used to dealing with it it will get better, but so far it’s just a place that I force myself through to get to have fun with the other parts.

I did manage to beat Hades three times over the weekend, first one at 60% godhood, and after 27 runs, the shield, the bow, and the sword are the ones I cleared with so far. After that first win against Hades stuff started going a bit faster with gathering things like Titan blood, and it shot some new juice into my runs, now I’m running through, trying to gather up enough stuff to make the story go foreward, and it feels a bit like the edge has been taken off now in having to perform in a way, since I did get through it once, the kind of funny thing is that it feels like it’s so much easier to get ambrosia, the higher quality of the god drinks than the nectar, which I can go through a whole run of without seeing at all, so I guess I will just focus on doing runs and getting used to the third stage to hopefully be able to have fun there as well. All in all I’m having a lot of fun with it, and it’s what I want to play at the moment, so I will stay with it.

Media

Stuff are slowly getting into the dead zone of the christmas week, I have quite bit of stuff queued up still, so I don’t think that will be an issue this year, but we will have to see, there are some days of off time in the week as well, so it might be that I have to supplement a bit with some backlog stuff.

With videos there has been basically two things that I’ve been watching, I’ve been really enjoying olexa’s olexamas charity stuff, and he has managed to collect 19 000 dollars for extra life, which is really great to see, and the stuff he has been posting over christmas has been really fun, so that has been great. Apart from that I have been watching SB’s Hades II run through, and enjoying it quite a bit, it’s just nice having some calm videos with them explaining their thought process, and going through at a way faster clip than I would have managed to, from what it seems the second one is probably too much for me.