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I've played it several times, but never really got into it. It's not party-based and you seem to spend a lot of time with your character walking from place to place. The character building process seems unbalanced, but the game has a lot of unique detail. For me, a comparable game play-style-wise would be Divine Divinity, although I enjoyed DD much more.

I made a new batch of mead, started it a couple of weeks ago. Today I bottled it and I of course tried a glass. My target is strong beer/weak wine strength around 9 or 10%ABV. I don't have a hydrometer, but going off how I felt after drinking a glass, I think I hit my target. It's sweeter than my ideal sweetness level but only slightly so, I'm within shouting range of my ideal sweetness level. It has a bit harsh finish right now, as expected, but given enough time to mellow, I think this batch will have a pleasant taste. I should add that I went with raspberries and mint for flavoring, which has the byproduct of giving the mead a really nice pink color.

Watched Mulan and Damsel. Mulan was first up because we do a movie night with my son most Saturdays, last week was as Moana, which he enjoyed. My wife had never seen Mulan either and both her and my son ended up loving it. After the kids went to bed we watched Damsel and some stand-up that I don't remember anything about. I had fun with Damsel and the standup made me chuckle at the marriage stuff but I can't remember the name of the guy for some reason. E: it was Steve Trevino. I can recommend him to any married folks easily but not sure if it'll land as well for single folks.

Condolences Majestic.

^ I have gotten a few profile backgrounds with the pointy points, and a few forum smilies but the reason I haven't spent many points is 1---to qualify to get the game-related ones one has to have a certain amount of hours played in them, and since I play mostly Offline, Steam thinks I don't, and most of the forum smilies/icons are too minuscule or too game-specific re: forum posting anyway. Their forums is the only social I do. 2---I have not done enough Steam-tasks to qualify for most of the profile-altering or whatever features. Or something. Re: the cards, I meant more that I don't even know how to trade them to others - I think someone tried to explain that, and some other Steam-y social actions, once, but I promptly forgot. I just thought they were some way to make a little bit of wallet cash somehow. I probably would've loved all that social Steam rewards and the like if it had existed back in the mIRC chat days and I was really into only socializing more. 25+ years too late for me now tho.

No HoonDing was right. The books never revealed anything about that plot thread. Never.

Caesar3- When you know a game well enough from the past, to think you'll breeze through, but have forgotten certain key elements and lose half a block to "pestilence" because you didn't place any Clinics. Also, remembered there was a map editor. So I installed that and have since spent more time adjusting freeplay scenarios+making a couple from scratch then playing the missions. Which I likely will never actually play (my made maps). Why is it so fun to hand-place fertile farmland, trees, water etc. one dot at a time?

Did another play through of Disco Elysium. Will probably do the last part again with the other partner just to experience it.

Recently got the news that a former friend of the family was found dead by her son. Her son used to be a friend of mine until the end of school caused us to lose contact. Say what you will of the perils of mobile phones and social media, one thing they certainly made a lot easier is keeping in contact with each other. The only people from school I still have contact with were those from the vocational high school I went to - and that only because we all had instant messaging (anyone remember the then ubiquitous ICQ?) and mobile phones. Friends and acquaintences from before, like the aforementioned son? No, not really. Anyway, apparently she already had two heart attacks and was diabetic, and her health issues caught up with her. She also went through a lot of mental health issues, some ages ago, some years ago, some recently, like when she had an affair with a married man and did not take it too well that he would not leave his wife for her. She also had two sisters, and both commited suicide, one of them as a little girl, the other as adult. The other sister was a former teacher of mine - sort of, she gave me (private) physics lessons when my school's physics education was, well, let's say, a little lacking in depth and focus. She had a stroke a couple of years ago, then fought tooth and nail to get enough control of her body back so she could end her life on her own terms. Wee, that post became a little bleaker than intended.

First I had the bad arthritic knee episodes (mid-late 30's maybe?). Then it was the hands (off and on late 40's?). Apparently, in my 50's, it's now time for ... the hips. It's not constantly painful, but they're stiff and feel weirdly a bit socket locked thus balance, turning, rolling (sleep is sporadic lately) is unstable and certain motions can trigger pain flares like my leg/s is/are tied to a moving horse. Here's hoping it's like the knees/hands where in 6-10 months it may still feel a bit"off," but yet use-abilities are close-ish to normal. Wonder what it'll be in my 60's. Elbows? Good times.

No, just a joke on how Brian Herbert's books don't exist