Yey, hurray for me, as I write this I’ve completed another revolution around the sun, it’s kind of funny how little I really care about this anymore, it seems like everyone makes a big deal about it. But that’s how it is I guess. It’s been a weird week, slowly getting into the groove again after having had so many weeks with holidays in them, now it feels like stuff are starting to get back to the normal. I’ve been having a cold the last week or so, something that have made me long more for the spring to come along, I hope it will last more than the week it did last year, it’s one of my favourite times a year, when stuff are starting to come alive again, and the temperatures are slowly getting up. Just looking foreward to my walks being a bit more comfortable, and be at a place where I can sit out reading for half an hour without getting a wet posterior. But yeah, lots of things to look forward to, in the mean time I’ll just trudge along.

Books

I finished off Prince of dreams this week, and I am pretty happy that I read it through, but I’m kind of getting tired of the writing of the author, and since I haven’t bought the last one in the series I don’t think I will go through the effort of getting it, at least not yet, I’m pretty happy with where it ended. It felt like each book kind of reset the character growth of the previous one. It’s been kind of a chore to read them even though I’ve still kind of enjoyed them, I’ll be kind of happy to replace this series with a new one, hopefully one that meshes better with me.

As the one that I’m currently reading is Hidden Fire by Rose Mackie, and this one has been a lot of fun so far, I think in this series it’s my favourite one since the first one, it has some more of that adventure feeling, and also it helps that the main characters are a bit older, and have more grown up kind of things holding them back from things, rather than the normal communication issues trope.

Games

I played quite a bit of Ender Lillies, Quietus of the Knight through the beginning of the week, and I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit, it just is lying a bit on the tougher end of what I am comfortable with on difficulty, so towards the end of the week I was feeling kind of burnt out with it, I’ve now gotten a better dash ability, which makes combat feel even a bit better, but I needed a bit of a break after that, I’ll probably come back to it though, it’s a pretty fun game.

Then towards the end of the week I had problems finding out what I wanted to play, I tried a lot of games, as I usually do in these resteless weeks to find one that sticks with me, after a while I didn’t really find anything on the switch that felt like I wanted to, so I went over to the miyoo mini plus for some retro stuff, some times that does the trick, and this time too that was the case.

After remembering that I had been downloading some pokémon hacks some weeks ago I landed on starting to play Pokémon Lazarus and I’m really enjoying it. It’s a pokemon emerald hack that is basically a new game in the GBA pokemon game engine. The graphics are kind of done in a way more reminicent of the GBC pokemon games, and as an old fogey I really enjoy the feel that it gives. The game takes place in a completely new worldmap, which is reminiscent of greece. I have the two first gym badges so far, and there are already quite a bit of quality of life upgrades in comparison to the games that used to be on the console. It’s really amazing how much they have done here, there are a ton of pokemon to catch ~400, and there are tools helping you to know where they are, what pokemon are in the area you’re in, and also to help you catch stragglers when they are not there. I’m really in love with this game so far, and it’s growing to probably be my overall favourite pokemon game. It’s really cool, and for now at least I think I will keep playing it for a while.

Media

I’ve been doing a lot of listening over the weekend, a lot of episodes through, and it’s been quite a good week, it seems like people are starting to overcome the january slump, and things are looking up again. There has been some cool videos from youtube people that I’ve been enjoying as well, and it’s nice to get something more fleeting in as well. I was watching some videos from people that I don’t follow, and I think I now am starting to understand more why people are saying that youtube is really shit, there were a lot of AI shitty videos on every topic, and unless you know which people to search for in specific it is really a bother trying to find stuff made by real people that actually care about the topics they are making videos about. I think I will keep to the people I know, so that I don’t have to trudge through the slop.