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What game did you hate even after sinking a lot of time into it?

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I kind of enjoyed BotW, but once the awe factor of the landscape wore off it was just a load of mostly unrewarding traveling to too many shrines that were too small. Combine the 120 shrines into like 20 that were 6 times longer each and they would have been cool mini-dungeons that I would have happily done, but as it was I was so bored. The main dungeons were good and I still put 80 or so hours in, but unlike everything pre-Skyward Sword I'll never revisit the game.

Then Tears of the Kingdom was like hey here it all is again but there's three times as much and this time there's no WiiU version to emulate so the performance will be so much worse. Nah.

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? June 16

I finished up the Lord of the Rings trilogy today, loved it. Now I'm about a third of the way through a reread of Battle Ground (Dresden Files) so that I can get to Twelve Months, probably starting on Thursday. I also listened to ~40% of the last Alex Verus book, I'll be finishing that in the next two workdays too. This is the one good thing about working night shifts in security.

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What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? May 26

The other day I finished The Two Towers, it was great. Right after that I binged all of Skin Game (Dresden Files 15) in one day which has been my favourite in the series since the first time I read it.

Now I'm just cleaning up a couple of random things I've had on the backburner, then it's Return of the King, Peace Talks and Battle Ground as soon as possible so that I can get to Twelve Months.

Other than that, I've picked up my The Wise Man's Fear audiobook again now that I'm working out regularly again because it was my gym noise back in... wow late 2024. Time flies.

Apparently Michael G Manning's latest book came out a couple of weeks ago too, but I haven't had any luck finding it for some reason, no idea what's happening there 🤷‍♂️

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I'm not good at sincere-posting. This means happy Pride rule

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I didn't make it through all of S1 of Invincible (though I've read the comic a couple of times and really wanted to like it), but at one point during a conversation William had two mouths because they pasted the open mouth over the closed one and didn't have it in the right position.

I also noticed in S1 of Gen V during a fight scene you could literally see the seam around characters' faces where they'd been stuck on the stunt actors, so after that I just assume anything from Amazon made recently is going to be sloppy. That was probably the least of Gen V's problems though.