Dispatches from @[email protected]:

19:02 # Started watching American Primeval on Netflix. I love a good grimdark western but man this is the grimdarkiest grimdark one I’ve seen in a while. The west was apparently indistinguishable from Monty Python’s Holy Grail-style rainy, muddy medieval Europe, except there’s no jokes.

21:59 # How do I find the like, I don’t know, serious books on Audible now? Browsing the front pages for a new book, especially in the sff category, is so depressing.

14:29 # I started an audiobook of Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold. Not really into this audiobook so far. I really liked the First Law series, but I read those. I remember almost nothing of the story, but I remember it mainly for having good, interesting characters. Not seeing that in Best Served Cold so far.

15:37 # Somehow I managed to drive to the store, buy stuff, and walk back out to the car with my belt unbuckled.

15:58 # I keep forgetting to write stuff here. Yesterday it snowed all day. Maybe 3 or 4 inches. No big deal, today it’s already melted off all road surfaces.

16:06 # I tried out the new game Avowed last night, by the same people who did Pillars of Eternity. It’s basically Pillars of Eternity except in a 3D action RPG form instead of 2D. It has a bit of a janky AA kind of feel to it, but I like it. Looks nice, deep lore, interesting RPG systems, decent dialog trees, and combat is frickin’ hard on hard difficulty. Sort of Oblivion-esque but you can also do a third person camera. Not bad so far.

16:36 # Yeesh I had a number of subscriptions going that I had completely forgotten about, including a FFXIV sub.

19:13 # Hey I finished the story in Dragon’s Dogma 2 tonight. None of it made any sense from beginning to end, so it was consistent throughout.

08:55 # Good news, everyone! I found eggs at the store yesterday.

12:41 # I logged in FFXIV for the first time since… I dunno, 2021? 2022? Well, not really. I just got to the title screen and list of characters then quit. I wish there was a way to see which FC I’m in (if any) before I actually log in with a character. The last thing I ever want to do with a video game is give anyone a chance to notice I’m online playing. Haven’t wanted to do that since the late 90s. It’s basically the same as walking into a crowded room. Gross. Icky.

10:42 # Is anyone else getting tired of every male video game voice actor’s breathy exhale at the end of every phrase?

12:24 # I fell into a rabbit hole watching Smosh reads reddit post videos. I’ve blocked this sort of content before (“my super original content is just reading other people’s content woo”) but it’s better than usual and hilarious and horrifying how many horrible people are out there in the world. I don’t have a high opinion of humanity to start with but sheesh it’s a frickin’ miracle there isn’t a new serial killer arrested every single day.