I joined the Book of the Month subscription service. My first book is Isako. I’ve been looking forward to it arriving
I don’t know if this was brought up but the campaign is ending soon, they made a Dungeon Crawler Carl Deck Builder, I have the original, Unstoppable, and it’s one of my favorite games. Takes deck building to a whole new level. Would highly recommend
Im sick and thought id have time to rest and read, but 1) i work from home and still need to get things done and 2) when i did break, i couldnt concentrate and fell asleep. But last night i did get about 40 pages.
Crazy fast! Nice. I honestly can't focus on reading for that long. If I finish this in a week, I'll be extremely happy. I really want to discuss and share thoughts and I feel bad when I'm weeks behind. Case in point, I've missed the boat on Wind and Truth and Strength of the Few by not reading those at the 'time' that most of ya'll were. Though I'll still post anyway! I know we all have different schedules and different books we're on.
Thankfully, this week at work has been full of what I call "mindless" tasks, so I can read. If I have to lock in, I switch to music. It's why I can get through so much. I don't have to pay attention to a lot of my daily tasks, as funny as that is to say.
Relatable. Boardgames take a backseat whenever I'm deep into writing. You gotta rotate hobbies, people. Except birdwatching. The birds wait for no one.
Just finished Shadows Upon Time and it was fantastic. I would not have believed you if you’d told me I would be that into the series by the end. It took awhile to really grab me, before this Kingdoms of Death was the closest I was to really loving the series, but it was worth it.
Nice, the end has seemed somewhat polarizing, but I enjoyed it and I felt what was left open / unexplained wasn't a cop out, but genuine strands for either further stories in the world or it can be left to feel like the kind of ending where you get closure, but you're always left knowing that the world and certain characters are living on and things are happening, even if we never get to read about them. I was hooked from book 3 on and my final series ranking is probably 3 / 6 / 7 / 2 / 4 / 5 / 1. DCC 8 update - 20%! Long trip this weekend with 2 flights and a few trains so hoping to be way more than that come next Tuesday.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZcfIObVuOYQ?si=8Ude18idqiIAqScJ if we get anything else from Sun Eater outside of the planned short stories, it'll probably be a long time haha.
Pretty hard line from the GPS in chapter 41 of parade of horribles. This all comes from your inability to commit. Your fear that decisions are the same as shackles.
Jumping between so many books/audibooks rn lol re-reading Network Effect (and will do the same with System Collapse) before starting Platform Decay Listening to Ignore All Previous Instructions, The Devil and Mrs. Gooch, and then Fever Beach.
Man I had a real hard time with the first DCC book but reading through this thread it makes me question if I am just wrong. Maybe I wasn’t in the right mindset when I read it or something.
Just not a big games person with these types of things because I can't find people to play with me. I bought the Mistborn game and no one ever plays with me.
Hell ya. I can tell you know I'm pretty sure Selene is with Hadrian at the end which is why he's so insistent that she died. And I agree that Kingdoms of Death is the best.
It only gets better. I love how anti-capitalist is is and it makes me happy that there's people out there writing about these things. I would love to have the motivation to do a video essay on all the ways DCC is a leftist piece of literature.
DCC is “meeting the moment” far better than pretty much any work of art in any medium, all while also being just absolutely bizarre, hilarious, horrific, and downright weird. One of the most interesting uses of creativity and nonsense ever. Character work is truly dumbfoundingly deep, which is something considering how shallow the first book can feel. Its popularity is definitely bolstered by a truly groundbreaking audiobook experience thanks in large part to Jeff Hays, but man. It scratches that huge desire of “man, why isn’t anybody DOING anything” and also “man, this is bleak as hell”…while also making you laugh so damn hard over the dumbest shit.
let me introduce you to the wonderful world of SOLO gaming oh, look at that. Mistborn has a solo mode included out of the box! It's hard AF but very thematic