August 2024: Life and links
Posting some things delayed.... Life updates, links, etc.
Well. So, that whole “my friend died” thing… kind of put me into more of a daze than I expected, especially as my cat’s health declined and she passed away recently as well. Oddly enough (if you’ve played through it this will make sense maybe), Dawntrail… kinda helped with digging out of the hole from that. Good expansion, it has some flaws (I played Astrologian), but the encounters are stunning. Love the characters and setting.
In fact, I played through a lot of things real quick during the Steam NextFest for a change. I’ve not been excited for so many different games in a while.
On the plus side, I guess I got back into reading. I started and caught up/finished reading One Piece, Naruto, My Hero Academia (and its side series Vigilantes), Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, and a few others. Getting a new e-reader helped, which has also lead to more novels in my reading as well (admittedly there’s still more of a backlog than I want here).
In brief:
- Naruto: wow it falls off hard
- My Hero Academia/Vigilantes: Truly, nothing has quite understood superhero comics the same in quite some time
- One Piece: it’s good. I read 1122 chapters and counting this year alone. It’s good.
- Frieren: I would die for this weird elf, which would probably give her weird feelings
- Dorohedoro: Chainsaw Man wishes it was this, desperately
- Sand Land: Toriyama was the best to do it when it came to weird little demons and vehicles, and this sure is peak that
I’ve also been getting a home server setup working, built on Yunohost and some nice surplus ThinkCentre machines. That’s been fun to work on, since it means I can automate more of the game servers the kids play on.
links, unsorted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5aI2AGvkb4
Hamilton and the Death of the Obama Era (Alexander Avila)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=295jB53x0ls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS6AU21Akbo
Some Longest Johns songs. Look, it’s not necessarily a high bar for what I’m sharing here.
https://www.polygon.com/24215274/magic-school-dinosaur-polo-club-canceled-interview
This is really neat as an insight into the gaming industry.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2142790/Fields_of_Mistria/
Psst. This is a game. It is a very, very good game. It’s probably the first farming game since Stardew Valley that’s … been good? At all? The character development is charming, the mechanics are clean, I’m having a lot of fun with it.
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks
Cleaned up and nicely formatted books from the public domain.