It’s been a rather nice week, but one that I don’t really have much to say about, work, relaxing and little new stuff.

Books

Reading has been rather flat as well I finished off Ava Greasemonkey Alissa Lace, and it was a fun book, you kind of see that it’s probably one of her first books, because at times it was a bit clunky, and it kind of was sticking out that even small things that takes a really short time always takes a minute. But apart from those nitpicks I quite enjoyed my time with the book. And it had a satisfying ending, so all in all, a good experience.

I also started and almost finished Poets and Piracy By J.S. Morin The third one in the black ocean series, and so far I’ve been really quite enjoying this one, I have only about 30 pages or so left to go, and it’s been one of my favourites in the series so far, quite a lot of fun drama in between the characters, some fun moments, and things going slowly forward, quite a lot of fun.

The next one is going to be the next in the Sector fleet series, and I’m quite looking foreward to it, I’m sure it will fit my current mood well enough.

Games

The week started out with Under the island and it’s one I will for sure come back to, it’s just still colourful, light hearted fun, some light puzzling, and just a world that is there to have fun in. I will jump back into it, it’s just that this week the next one came in and took all of my playtime (almost) for the week.

Vampire Crawlers came out, the next game from the vampire survivors people (and some more now since they have grown on that success). After having supported vampire survivors for years and made some great DLC for it, I kind of thought they would just sink back on their laurels, and rake in the cash, but this one came out, and I’ve been really quite hooked on it. Being a DRPG like in visual, and card game in combat, a quite fast pace and easy to understand card combat, they have done some great job in creating cards from the abilities in the universe, and it’s really readable as you play, with a lot of polish. It’s not the deepest of card games, but it’s a lot of fun, neither is it very hard, but it’s just really fun to play, it feels great when you’re able to cobble together something that synergises well. Really enjoyable, and compelling to play too, I’ve cleared almost everything up to the second bridge now, and I’m having a lot of fun with it. Great little game.

I was feeling in a bit of a factory mood too in the beginning of the week and Shapez 2 released as 1.0 now, and this game is just a lot of fun, it’s all the good things about building factories, and just the good things, you don’t really have to care about resources, other than throughput and space, and it has comfort functions that just works, with things like copy and paste and so on you can set up new constructions really quite quickly, and you’re left to deal with the puzzles of logistics and how to create the myriad of different shapes that you’re told to make. It does kind of fall into the bucket that I have to be in a quite specific mood since the troubleshooting and working mood in it some times almost gets too close to what I do at work, as I try to understand what a cobbled together grown system actually does, and how to fix it, or make it work smoother, but it’s a lot of fun when you get into the groove of it.

I also had a run in shiren the wanderer where I managed to get on top of the first tower, that was fun, on to the next ones, I’m sure it gets way harder as I get deeper in, it’s quite fun though, trying to remember to look into my backpack every time I get in a dicey situation to find my way out of it.

Media

I’ve been adding wanderbots to my youtube subscriptions again, I used to watch their videos quite a bit before because they play a lot of games that I enjoy, and have quite a similar taste to me, their commenting is also really chill, which I as an older guy by now really enjoy, I can’t really deal with everything being turned up to 11 all the time. I unsubscribed a couple of years ago because their throughput was too high, and I felt kind of overwhelmed and lost, it seems like they have peered it down to one or two videos a day now, which is easier to sift through, and I’m enjoying their stuff quite a bit.

Other than that on the podcast side video game podtimism had off this week, and since they have such a defined place in my weekly routine I really missed having that one to listen to. But I am filling the hole with some old episodes of into the aether and hopefully they will come back strong next week.