Stuff.

I've basically disappeared because OWL is on again and I'm spending almost every spare second watching. and most of my posting about it happens on the subreddit so I usually don't have much to say here about it. Guangzhou is no longer tragically awful, which is great. Mixed rosters are still showing a ton of strength, also great. The overall exports environment continues to be trash and things get a little worse every day it seems which is not great. The meta this season has so far been relatively diverse but diversity of meta has never been a thing I care all that much about.

I've gotten a little bit of reading done before OWL interrupted everything. Finished the next Whyborne and Griffin book, Necropolis.

 

( Whyborne and Griffin stuff. )

 

Unfortunately that's where the availability of the books stops with Libby. I could buy the next few, and I may eventually just to support an author I'm very much enjoying, but just eyeballing things at the moment... I have like... over 10 feet of to-be-read books just in my field of vision, disregarding the bookshelves of TBR in the closet. So I'm trying to be good and not bring more books into the house even when I am currently working a job that is resulting in free books entering the house, so it's been a challenge lol. I actually am building up a couple of boxes to try to get rid of somehow, because it's starting to get out of hand.

That said if another Tarot Sequence book comes out I'm scooping it up immediately.

Otherwise, most of my time has been absorbed with OWL, so I haven't been reading or watching or playing that much at all otherwise. Thanks to some anonymous kindness I was gifted a copy of Hyper Light Drifter and I enjoyed that a lot. The first run through at least was very fun. It was a good mix of chill and challenging, but I'm pretty sure there is a better end out there for me to get if I more thoroughly complete the game, so in random moments of spare time I've been trying to. The problem is that discovering all the little secrets of the game is mostly a matter of being able to keep track of where you are on the map and what nooks you've managed to fully exploit, and I am terrible at getting turned around and going in circles and all that. But eventually I will probably at least get all the keys, the fragments, and maybe the weird tablet things, and then we'll see if that leads to a different sort of ending or not.

My brother and I have also finally gotten a good schedule going to play Divinity: Original Sin together. After trying to get a duo game going for what feels like over a year at this point we've finally fallen into a weekly appointment that we're both keeping. I'm having a lot of fun with it. We generally have the same approach to games, although I read the flavor text a little more than he does, so it works out that sometimes we will be in over our heads and willing to spend 3 hours trying to get through a single fight lol. I've been enjoying the writing in the game generally although things do get a little messy when someone else is running around talking to people and you're not there to pay attention, and all the side quests have been fun but feel very much like side quests. My necromancer Ifan is so Necromancery that he just whacks his way to full health. I want to use his blood ooze more because I think it's neat, but my bone spider queen is more well rounded and she's cuter.

At the moment we're cleaning up quests around town and then I guess will eventually be finding our way to Arx.