The weather is slowly getting a bit warmer, and it’s nice, my cold also left me enough now that I did have a nice 30 km walk this saturday, which was feeling rather great. My anxiousness was going a bit up and down through the week, but at least the weekend was blissfully nice. I have to do better with getting to sleep this week though, since I was far from sleeping enough last week, Maybe what will get me there is to not having books that I’m enjoying as much, because that was what kept me up this week.

Books

I finished off Cease Fire by Rose Mackie, and it was very OK, not great, but not really bad either, it just feels like the series was getting too long in the tooth, and she didn’t have that many ideas after the last one, at least not that are new enough, all the relationships and situations kind of feel very samey. I think that’s it for the series, at least it’s all that I have of it, but this time that’s maybe just as well.

Which I can’t quite say about Hunter Raze by Laurann Dohner, which I really had a lot of fun with. It just felt rather fresh, and the story was really fun, it capped of the series pretty nicely as well. I had read some stuff that this one was getting stale, but compared with the other series I’ve read this one is great. I think I can say I enjoyed every book in this one, and they kept me interested in reading and going on, all in all this was a great series, and I might reread it in a couple of years when I have some distance to them.

And for the last one I started Galaxy of Depths by Laurann Winther, I quite enjoyed the first one in the series, I just remember that it was a lot of stuff happening, so quite fun, but also kind of without any compulsion or real want to know what is going on, with these ones it’s more like “what’s going to happen next”, but they are fun to read through, and from how it started it feels like this one is going to be more of that. Not deep, but a fun little story where a lot of stuff happen.

Games

It’s been a weird week for me gaming this week, I’ve been on a Metroidvania kick lately, but it seems like that’s petering out, I just haven’t felt like playing much of those lately, and I went through some of the ones I have, but they just didn’t really spark joy.

I did play a couple of hours of Vampire Survivors it’s a fun game, and I haven’t really played that much of the last couple of DLCs I got for it, really looking foreward to seeing what their new game vampire crawlers will do, that one seems like me-bait, a kind of simplified drafting card game first person dungen crawler seems like just something I would get really into. I’ve been diving a bit into the adventure modes, because I was starting to feel a bit burned out on hunting the unlocks, and it did make it feel like less of a chore, I will probably do a bit more of it, as I was enjoying it quite a lot, and some times it’s just nice to have something that isn’t that thinky, and just feels nice to play.

I also think that I’m getting into a retro phase again, I’m kind of feeling like playing some a bit simpler games, so it might be a good time to jump into some gameboy and gameboy colour games again, I have just started Frog for whom the bell tolls yesterday, and it has been really fun for the 30 min or so that I’ve played it so far, but I can’t really say much about it yet, other than it did make me feel like I’ve hit something that I want to continue on playing at least for now.

Media

Quite fun with podcasts this week, I had a lot of time listening while walking on saturday, and I am working on my backlog of videogame podtimism I have around 27 episodes left before I’m caught up, and I’m starting to wonder what to do next, I think a gaming podcast will be a nice one to have, while they are generally quite nice to listen to, and not as enfuriating as things like knowledge fight can be at times, so I’ve been looking back at into the aether and it seems like I haven’t listened to the first couple of years of that podcast, so it will probably be the next one to dive into.

Youtube is continuing on slowly ticking up as well, even though there is so much generated crap on there now, so I mostly just keep on watching the few accounts that I know, which are graeat, but nothing new, because it’s just a 60% chance that you get some AI voice doing a soulless script that is just pain to listen to, I can’t even go through it for things that interest me. There seems to be more fun coming out of people I’m subscribed to though, feels like everyone is slowly working their way out of the january slump, feels kind of like a group thing.