Another weird duldrumweek was the one ordered for this one it seems, the weather has been rather gray and depressing, and most other things has as well. Not that it has been all bad, I managed some nice achievements at work, and getting things going always feels nice, the place around here is also slowly warming up, so I’m starting to look foreward to not having to have a jacket on all the time, and really looking foreward to my reading outside time again, it’s nice when my fingers and butt doesn’t get frost damage from reading for a bit too long.

Books

I finished up A galaxy of Debts and it was a decent book, but a bit too scatterbrained to really be great, there were times that was fun, and I can’t really put my finger on what made this not that good, but it was a decent book that could be a lot better, I think this was from a newer author, I might be jumping in later and see how their writing evolves, the scenes by themselves were quite good, I think it was more the plotting and stuff that just didn’t feel great in this one.

I’m starting to get to the end of my bookhaul in the end of November, so I’m a bit more reduced in what I have to read without dipping into my older library, it’s also stuff I’m a bit more unsure about how I will feel about, so it might be that my reading slows down a bit before I find something else that I’m really into.

I started Wanderlust by Ann Aguirre, the second book in the grimspace series, and I needed a bit of time to get into it again, but it has started to give a bit more speed now, I’m about a third through, so I hope it will keep up being enjoyable for the whole ride. If I judge from the first book I’m pretty hopeful it will.

Games

I did play a bit more of Frog for whom the Bell Tolls and it has kept on being pretty fun, there just has been a couple of tasks now that I didn’t manage to solve without looking at a walkthrough which makes me kind of sad, but I think I will try a bit more and see I’m getting pretty close to the end, so it would be kind of sad to give up on it, I just haven’t really had the will to go in and do it, we’ll see.

What for some reason fit my mood rather well this week was Vampire Survivors, I’ve been playing through some of the Adventures, it seems like most of the DLCs also has ones now, they are fun kind of bitesized versions of the full game which is kind of nice, as the beginning of the game was what I enjoyed the most, it’s also a nice way to use stuff that I wouldn’t really choose too often otherwise. I’ve been a bit tired of grinding unlocks in the game with the DLCs there are just so many of them, and I’ve been kind of stuck in a rut with it, but this was quite fun, and I’ve been having fun surviving vampires again.

I’ve been kind of in a mood of incremental games and factory games too lately, and I started trying out Little Rocket Lab which is a cozy factory game, which is really nice, I’ve always wanted to get into factorio, but I really don’t like the biters, I don’t really want to have to focus on doing an RTS while building a factory. And the kind of dour grimy feel of everything in factorio just makes it feel less fun to me. Little Rocket Lab at least so far really feels like it’s doing things right, it’s nice and colourful, the characters are fun, and so far at least it’s been a lot of fun building up small factories to help the people around me. I’ve been enjoying this one a lot, and the character portraits here are really cute, there is something about the art in this game that I really enjoy.

Media

I’ve been listening a lot to Videogame Podtimism this week, it’s nice comfort listening that always is quite enjoyable, for some reason it just felt like the right thing for me this week, I’ve been listening to some other stuff as well, but it has been what I’ve been enjoying the most listening to this week.

Mewgenics the new game by the Binding of Isaac creator was released this week, and I’ve been watching some series of it, it’s a game that I enjoy more watching and listening to someone playing through than I think I will enjoy myself as I’m not good at tactics games at all. It’s also nice to be able to look away from the screen often as it has this uncomfortable art-style that made me not play isaac as well, I’m not into the gross out art at all, it’s really off-putting to me. This way I can still enjoy the game in a way, there are a lot of fun stuff in there that I wouldn’t really enjoy if I would be playing the game for myself.