This has been a really warm week, and my body does not agree with it, so I’ve spent maybe more time than normal just vegetating or sleeping, since I don’t sleep well in this warmth at all, but well, that’s how summer is, at least they have been promising some rain over this week, so I still am in hopes that it will be a bit more liveable, but we will have to wait and see.

Books

I really loved “Ribbon Dance” and for now this is the end of the Liaden Universe for me, I’ve read through all the books that I have from them, and all in all it has been a really fun Journey, good characters, and good stories that mostly have made me very happy.

I was procrastrinating a lot on choosing my next book, since it was kind of a daunting task, but I ended up with starting up C.J. Cherryh’s “Cyteen” I’ve read a lot of her other books from the Alliance-Union universe, and quite enjoyed them, and even though this is a pretty daunting book, with almost 1000 pages, I hope that it will be a fun, or at least interesting journey.

I’ve just about started it, and it’s straight on to the politics, in something that almost reminds me a bit of the Foreigner series of hers, which I also have read quite a few of.

Games

With games I was still searching a lot, and I gave up on Axiom Verge again, at the same time as the last time, maybe I just don’t like this game, I don’t know I will keep it in the back of my mind, and maybe play it again some, but it just doesn’t really spark that Joy that I feel I need from a game.

I also downloaded super mariomon and put it onto my miyoo mini, and started playing a bit, and it’s really a fun version of pokémon, and for some reason I kind of feel more for my little guys with them being different characters from mario, and this seems like a really solid and well done rom-hack, I will probably play this some more than the couple of hours that I have done so far, but it gave a really good first impression at least. And it’s nice to have a newish game to play on my miyoo, I think I have given it less playtime than it deserves in the last months.

One of the games that I have been on sales hunting for “Mary Skelter 2” went on sale last week, 13€ for basically 2 games is a very good price, so I jumped on that one, and started playing it, and it’s really fun so far. It’s a drpg, a first person dungeon crawler and it has systems upon systems, which is something that feels good since that means you always feel like you’re making some progress at least in one of the things that you’re trying to do. It also helps that although the subject of the game is quite dark and horror adjacent, you don’t really have the dark dreary environments, rather very trippy clown vomit kind of colourschemes, which makes going around grinding feel a lot better, since you’re not looking at the same gray places all the time, it really makes a big difference for me.

Apart from that I have been doing some looking around for something else as well, but haven’t really found anything I really want at the moment, so probably I’ll just wait for something else that I feel like coming up on a sale again.

Podcasts

It has been a weird week for podcasts this week, I think it has been a bit of a lull in people producing stuff, probably because many have been going on summer vacation and things like it, which ended up in me getting to some backlog stuff, so I have been listening to quite a bit of older video game podcasts, which has been pretty fun actually, it’s nice getting some older thoughts on games, and since you never really get to play all games from older years, maybe something interesting is coming up as well.

“Eggplant presents a year of UFO50” is also going towards an end, and it is going to be weird to not have the weekly episodes about different fun games there. But it has been a quite fun year of different new- oldish games.