Slowly my feet are getting better again, I’ve been eating some ibuprofen this week, and it seems to be helping, I’m also resting as much as I can, and not going on long walks on the weekend, I sorely miss it though. Really looking foreward to being able to do that again, but better wait until stuff is healed, so that I’m not stuck with this for longer.

Books

I’m still working on Green Mars it’s still slow going, the book is okay, but it feels like it’s missing some kind of spark or something for me, I’m also kind of getting tired of americans getting the basics of communism explained to them, again and again, but I guess that’s what’s needed to get them to not be deadly afraid of those scary thoughts of working together, and helping each other out. I’m about 150 pages in, and slowly making inroads, but it feels like this is going to take a while, I think I will need a longer break before I go on to the last one in the series.

Games

For games I’ve still been in kind of a weird place, still working on Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons but it’s starting to become hard with the fighting, and I’m not really sure if it’s worth it, the exploration is still really fun, but things are getting a bit too convoluted, I just realised I’m playing this through emulation, so I have save states, maybe I’ll add one in front of the boss to not have to do the runback again and again, so that I at least get out of this cave, I’m sure I’ll be happier then when I get to be exploring again.

I saw some people I usually watch on youtube playing some Core Keeper and I bought this one a while ago if the last save is to believed back in 2024 some time, I just never got into it. This time I spent some time rebinding all the controls, as a standard they have this clawgrip stick and shoulders kind of setup that just didn’t fit well with me, it also doesn’t help that my switch light is starting to gain some years, and not all of the stuff is the most responsive. So I rebound everything to use the d-pad and face buttons, and now it does feel a lot more fun to move around, and it feels like I can do things. I’m still quite confused about what I’m doing, I still kind of am feeling out the place, everything is so extremely dark around, so I run around torch-spamming everything. They have done some great work with the procedural generation here though, the landscapes down in the caves look and feel great and natural, so that is really nice, at least I have something that is good to look at as I stumble my way around not quite knowing. I also feel like it’s just a tad bit too zoomed out, but I guess that is for later when stuff get a bit more hectic. I’m having quite a lot of fun being lost, maybe I will figure stuff out and get on a bit more with it, but for now I’m happy puttering around with what I have.

Another thing I’ve been having fun with is Deep Rock Galactic Survivor I never played the main game, so this is the first one for me, not that I think story is that important for this game, it’s quite fun, it just kind of feels like the spikes for the next level once you have gotten the first one is quite steep. The loop of running around mining out stuff for getting better later, and choosing one of three upgrades. It’s also colourful and nice, which is something that always will keep getting me into something. Things will always be better when they are bright and cheerful.

Media

As normal I haven’t really done much media, some youtube watching of the same people I usually watch, and listening to podcasts, I’ve been punching through most of the backlogged stuff now, and downloaded the rest of the episodes of video game podtimism, so I have 9 of them to listen to before I’ve listen to everything that they have put out so far.

It’s been a long time but I also have kind of been getting some spark back into thinking about programming, and I got zig up and running on my PC, so it might be that I’ll be looking into that again, it seems like they have been changing the std-lib quite a lot since I was playing with it last, so I have to figure out how stuff works now, but I will take that slowly as I want to.