This has been a weird week, work was doing great, but I did a huge error when I bought shoes, I decided to wear them for my longer walk on saturday, and walking 25 km in completely new shoes was not a great idea, I managed to overextend my ancle once as well, and have been limping around most of the week with a sore ancle. I had to do some shopping on Friday, and really fucked upthings more, so most of my weekend I spent in bed in a sleep wake in-between state, at least the ancle got better, but now since I was limping so much my other foots big toe got some weird pressure and is now inflamed. So now I’m still limping, just on the other foot :p Hopefully this week it will heal though, and I will be fully functional again.

Books

I finished up Provenence by Ann Leckie, and I really enjoyed this book, it was even better than the Ancillary books, and it had fun great characters, drama, and just enough interesting stuff happening together with the drama to be really enjoyable. It was a lot of fun, and a nice little pallette cleanser in between the mars books.

Speaking of the mars books, I started with Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robertson, and I will probably need a bit to get through this one, as I did with the first one, a couple of days last week I was just falling asleep early and didn’t get much progress, so far at least it’s been focusing on good characters, and I hope that will continue this book, at least both the protagonists that I liked the least died in the last book, so I don’t have to bother with them anymore, but we’ll see, the first 50 pages or so that I’ve read so far has been fun at least.

Games

Since I was bedridden on saturday I was playing some games then, over the week though I’ve been mostly working on Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons, It’s a really fun adventure game, when I understand it it’s really fun, but there has been times that I’ve had to look up things either because I haven’t been observant enough, or things like I didn’t understand that the bewinged bear can fly longer if you mash the A-Button, I also had to look up a couple of mid-bosses, because I didn’t see things like the real one having a shadow, or didn’t understand that I had to throw bombs at the other ones to hurt it. Apart from these small things it’s been really fun and adventorous, it’s kind of funny how this feels more exploratory than many open world games now, where it just feels like you’re going from question mark to question mark on a minimap.

I was kind of feeling like an optimistic game, and played quite a bit of Planet Crafters on saturday, it was kind of nice, it’s kind of a slow incremental first person game, where you’re slowly making progress towards terraforming a planet, it is kind of fun, and there is always something you can work towards, had quite a lot of fun with it.

I also played a bit of the early access of Fields of Mistria which is a really fun farming game, it has a bit more progression stuff than what star dew valley is, is more pastelle coloured and cute, and has some really great character interactions and characters in general, this is one that I’m looking really foreward to coming out in 1.0 so that I can buy and play it

I also have been working a bit on Slay the spire but as always I kind of get dissuaded by how horrible I am at the game, I uusually get to the end of the second layer, and then die in the 3rd, I’m obviously doing something wrong, but I’m too dense to figure out what it is, and I will probably play something I enjoy more instead. Maybe starting another run of Stardew Valley I’ve lost the understanding of where I was last year when I played it, and it’s probably better to just wipe it and start a new one.

Media

I’ve been cleaning out a lot of backlog that I’ve had in my podcast queue, and also done some more triaging to keep it down to a manageable level, there seem to be still a lot of good ones coming out, so I’m not the one to complain.

I watched a 10 year anniversary of Stardew Valley video by the creator Concerned Ape that I really enjoyed, it’s fun to see how the game changed through the years :)

Hoping for another good week, and quick healing for my feet, because it’s annoying barely being able to walk when I’m kind of relying on that for getting places and doing stuff.