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Reborn and some gaming
Sep. 5th, 2024 08:42 pmRead Reborn by Seth Haddon over this weekend. It was alright. Big plus was it was adult fantasy. I think I liked Reforged better though. The story in this one was ok enough. It felt a little directionless in many parts, which seems to be a big pitfall for stories that involve exile or fugitives, but despite a lot of rushing back and forth I liked all the characters and there was still a decent sense of scale. Distances felt distant enough, communication across countries felt appropriately difficult. And I like the worldbuilding in this series. There are cultural clashes and interesting religious practices etc. Reborn does the same thing Reforged does where it dumps so much fantasy jargon at me in the first few chapters I don’t know if anything will ever make sense, but things settle down quickly enough and it’s all perfectly followable in the end.
In the time that I haven't been reading I've just been grinding LEZ, which was predicted. I used to play a ton of stepmania when I was younger, and had some tracks that I adored. They were all lost in one of my many computer moves in the following years, which is a shame because I can't remember what any of the tracks were called. But I'm very out of practice with this sort of thing, and haven't played any music in general many years, so my sense of timing really needs to be retrained. On top of that unlike stepmania LEZ doesn't give any visuals for off beat notes, so it's not as easy to eye the spacing in some points. The sort of music that people seem to like to use as tracks nowadays is also highly syncopated, so it's been a challenge, but playing just raw hit the button at the right time rhythm games does something good for my emotional state for some reason. I just like to grind them.
Playing LEZ did make me nostalgic for stepmania, so I went poking around to see if it was still available. It seems like it technically is. The last update was in 2023. But the forums are completely dead. The last community post was like 4 years ago. So likely most of the great tracks that I used to play are lost to the decay of the internet. That's a real shame.
One of my mutuals on HSR sent me a message for the first time since I started playing, and it was to gush about my Aventurine lol. He is a pretty boy, and also very stronk at E1S1. When his rerun comes around I may just try to get another Eidolon for him, because he's by far my strongest unit. I also got Gepard and Welt back to back just with raw standard tickets, which means I have all of the standard banner's men now! I still don't have Bronya or Himeko, and I don't know if I want to use my 300th free pick for them. On the one hand, that would probably be the meta play to get Bronya. On the other hand, men.
In the time that I haven't been reading I've just been grinding LEZ, which was predicted. I used to play a ton of stepmania when I was younger, and had some tracks that I adored. They were all lost in one of my many computer moves in the following years, which is a shame because I can't remember what any of the tracks were called. But I'm very out of practice with this sort of thing, and haven't played any music in general many years, so my sense of timing really needs to be retrained. On top of that unlike stepmania LEZ doesn't give any visuals for off beat notes, so it's not as easy to eye the spacing in some points. The sort of music that people seem to like to use as tracks nowadays is also highly syncopated, so it's been a challenge, but playing just raw hit the button at the right time rhythm games does something good for my emotional state for some reason. I just like to grind them.
Playing LEZ did make me nostalgic for stepmania, so I went poking around to see if it was still available. It seems like it technically is. The last update was in 2023. But the forums are completely dead. The last community post was like 4 years ago. So likely most of the great tracks that I used to play are lost to the decay of the internet. That's a real shame.
One of my mutuals on HSR sent me a message for the first time since I started playing, and it was to gush about my Aventurine lol. He is a pretty boy, and also very stronk at E1S1. When his rerun comes around I may just try to get another Eidolon for him, because he's by far my strongest unit. I also got Gepard and Welt back to back just with raw standard tickets, which means I have all of the standard banner's men now! I still don't have Bronya or Himeko, and I don't know if I want to use my 300th free pick for them. On the one hand, that would probably be the meta play to get Bronya. On the other hand, men.
