Rumelylady

Last Thursday I watched Snowpiercer with my mum. She had told me to watch it when it first came out but I didn't listen to her. I'm pretty fidgety when watching movies at home and need to do something with my hands, usually knitting. I picked my easy, brainless project so I could knit without having to look. This ended up being a movie where I a good 2/3 of the time I wasn't knitting because it drew me in so much. Probably not everyone's deal but I liked it. Also, Tilda Swinton is amazi-balls.

I've never heard of Nutella on celery either and it sound unappetizing. I was talking about peanut butter on celery lol

I think they still have that "free to level 20" thing, but not really any good if one ever wants to do some pvp. There's also that token thing where in-game you buy tokens that can be used for game time, but the markets are fucked up and it's stupidly expensive to the point where you mostly would just have to spend most of the month farming gold to pay for another month. I would love to give Legion a go, but I'm in the same boat where I don't really want to spend the money on it. Especially considering I know I'm not likely going to playing with anyone and I really don't want to make randos suffer through my re-learning how to heal.

I take it that's not something that's normal over there? It's a pretty average simple snack here. I haven't had it since I was a young, but it's tasty. It's even better when you put raisins on it. We call that Bumps on a Log. Holy crap, yes. Reese's spread is so good. I got one jar and after getting half way through decided I should never buy it again. Then Kirk gave me another.

Well that's annoying.

I think we can make characters on EU servers... maybe? I recall there being a tab to switch regions, but I'm not sure what happens beyond that. Assuming that's still a thing. Or ever was.

There's another way to have it?

This is aesthetically pleasing.

Did someone say WoW?

I'm the only dense person here for not actually including that. /facepalm

Well, this has languishing for while. This year I want to start actually reviewing the books I read. I mostly am doing it through Goodreads, but I might as well copy it over here as well. I'm pretty wordy, so sorry for that. Malice by John Gwynne, book #1 of The Faithful and The Fallen series Tl;dr: Good vs. Evil. Somewhat hollow characters while building overarching story. Enjoyed and currently reading book two. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In all likelihood, this book (and the rest of the series) would probably have sat on my bookshelves for a number of years before being picked up if not for my husband. For Christmas 2017 rather than give gifts or do anything formal we decided that we would give each other a book that we had previously read and thought the other would also enjoy. This is not what I had expected him to hand me at all. There were at least three other books I was prepared for and this series hadn't even crossed my mind. It's been a delightful surprise. As with most series now the main perspective switches between a series of characters (maybe it's always been this way? I guess with Tolkien it was...). It's your basic good versus evil type story included "The Chosen One" (times two!) and all that trope-y stuff, including a war between God and the Devil, but it didn't make the story any less enjoyable for me. The somewhat novel (HAR) of the story, at least for me, is that you get to read from both the view of the "good guy" as well as the "evil guy" and several others in between. The only other series that I've experienced that with is The Traitor Son Cycle. Sprinkled throughout seems to be themes and ideas drawn from Norse mythology as well as influences of vague Celtic culture and fighting styles of ancient Greece and Rome. It creates an interesting blend. So, our "Chosen One" for the side of good seems to be Corban. He starts off the book at the age of 14 and with that comes all the annoying-ness of people at that age. One could only hope that over the course of the book he matures and becomes a more enjoyable. While I didn't hate him, I would have liked to have given him a couple swats up the side of the head (this is why I shouldn't have children). The best redeeming quality of Corban in the early chapters is that of his family members and close friends. I look forward to learning more of his family friend, Gar. Over the course of the book two years pass and he matures and grows and becomes a man by the cultural standards. Less that awesome things happen to him and it results in some maturity. By the end of the book I couldn't help but like him. Mr. Gwynne has written Corban in such a way that he has this undercurrent of natural charisma that you can't help but be drawn towards. I found myself gradually looking more and more forward to his chapters. I couldn't help but cheer him on and feel sorrow for his hardships. Nathair is the "Chosen One" for the side of evil. We don't directly get to read his headspace, but those close to him. Just the same, I couldn't help but both hate him for his actions and feel pity for him at the same time. He has been tricked to believe he is acting in the name of good. To put it politely, though, he's an egghead. I look forward to his end. One of the main people we get to know Nathair through is Veradis, his First Spear. Honestly though, I loathed his chapters. He is an empty shell of a character that blindly follows Nathair and within what seems like minutes he's entirely devoted to him without question. I found him incredibly annoying and the only reason I didn't consider skipping some of those chapters was because I knew that I would miss some of the most important plot points. And speaking to that, it seemed odd to me some of the conversations he was privy to. He's one of Nathair's closest companions and head of this war clan, but he seemed be allowed to hang around for some really important conversations but not others. That's just me being nit-picky though. There were other things that made me a bit nit-picky as well, mostly due from just coming off The Traitor Son Cycle and completely adoring that universe. During battle scenes (and life in general) I found myself wondering why there weren't squires and the like in the makeup of the lines. I would have to remind myself that based on the description that the war style of this book we're looking at a more Greek/Roman style (i.e. shield wall techniques have just started being used). There were other little things that bothered me as well, but they also were more stylist choices that weren't my favourite rather than faults of the book itself. I hope that as the series continues on that there is more character development for the other, somewhat secondary characters that we meet. I think because it's the first in a series of four books the overarching story was being established rather than character development for anyone other than Corban and Nathair. I'm glad my husband gave me this book to read. It really seems like it's going to be an exciting series and I'm looking forward to plowing through it over the next couple months. The concept of the book and series doesn't seem to be anything too outside of the box, but it's interesting and has drawn me in. I'm already a quarter of the way through book two at this point and likely where it's going as well.

About 95 hours. I'm really good at milking games lol.

I played most of the DLC all weekend and it's great. The machines in this area have a different type of corruption which gives them a level of difficulty. There are more of these corrupted machine than there are regular old machines, so it's not an area to venture into lightly. There's also a totally new machine that a bit of bastard imo. There's been a couple times where I've been in a position where, for some reason, the machines aren't able to approach any further for melee attacks. I took down three Bellowbacks pretty easily by just standing behind a knee-high rock slightly down the road from them. It may have just been that I was just outside of their area, but not far enough away for them to wander back, but something similar happened with a Stalker as well. There's also a few new weapons and outfits to get here as well. The ones you can buy require an additional type of currency exclusive to the Banuk that you have to hunt down as one of the collectible types. Fortunately it's something that you buy the map markers for. I've bought two outfits so far, but only have used one a few times; the Banuk snowsuit. Switching between outfits from the base game is fast and there's basically no load time, but with the snow suit I've found that there's a few second delay in loading. Not a big deal, but noticeable. The landscape, as expected, is damn beautiful. It's made me want to visit Yellowstone now, though the amount of visitors there is having an adverse effect on the environment, if I recall correctly. I think my parents are going there in the next couple months, so I'm a bit envious of them. Also mountains. I love mountains and we should probably just move out west. Probably once I finish the DLC I'll probably start a New Game+. Anyways, I'm leaving work, so that's all you get.

Seems a lot like Banished only more cute. Seems pretty neat.

Neither Chad nor I are overly interested in Christmas. We don't even own any decorations other than I two foot tall tree we don't pull out because there's no room in our house. Also our kitten is an asshole and would probably do something stupid to it. The our gift giving is usually just reserved for the nieces and nephews and maybe something for eachother. This year I'm insisting that the two of us start the tradition of Jolabokaflod. It's an Icelandic thing. They're holiday season kicks off when everyone there gets the book catalog of all the new publications coming out. On Christmas Eve people give one another books and they spend the evening reading (apparently in bed and eating chocolate according to one website). Irregardless of what Chad may think, one can never have too many books.

My best guess is that will probably come if they make the sequel they left things open to at the end. I just finished it on Sunday after a hugely long break, so I'm pumped for a bit more to play besides getting the last of the datapoints and starting New Game+.

I did and I love it! Agreed, a lot of the guys would like it as well.

WHAT WHAT WHAT?!?!?!?! I always have sudoku and some sort of pictocross game on my phone. Also have been playing Homescapes because reasons. Now I must find the Stranger Things game.

If I remember correctly there's an option to upgrade it so you don't get ads, but otherwise it's free. I think I ended up giving them some money at some point because I had Google Play credit and I like it.

I have an iPhone now and use Overcast. When I was still with Android I used Podcast Addict. I liked the set up of Podcast Addict better, especially for downloading older episodes, but Overcast is the closest I've been able to find on iOS. It's a bit more clunky for downloading old stuff and you actually can't turn off the automatically downloading new episodes You can choose whether you want to download with data or wifi, but can't make it so you have to manually select which episodes to download.

I listen to a bunch of different podcasts. The gaming type ones I listen to aren't really video game related, more D&D playing because I like stories. They are: The Adventure Zone Acquisitions Incorporated (just started this one) Dragon Talk (just subscribed, no idea whether I like it yet) Critical Role (I watch it more on youtube. Subbed just for if I feel like listening to the old episodes while driving) For anyone interested, everything I'm subscribed to: Acquisitions Incorporated The Adventure Zone Critical Role The Dollop Dragon Talk F This Knit In The Dark Lore Mark Bell's Powercast My Brother, My Brother And Me My Dad Wrote a Porno My Favorite Murder Mysteries Abound The NoSleep Podcast S-Town Sawbones Serial Someone Knows Something SModcast Talk Is Jericho I have a lot of interests...

Fuck. No.

I tried cottage cheese with sliced olives last night after it was suggested to me. It was alright, but was missing something. Might need some sriracha mixed in to balance it out a bit. But I'm going to to try the CC with stewed tomatoes next. I've been having weird cravings for savoury things instead of sweets, for a change.

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