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I just got to the point where your teacher teaches you how to do stealth kills.

Hogwarts Legacy is a very disturbing game. 1) "Why are the goblins evil?" "They are starting a rebellion demanding equal rights." "Oh, how dreadful! Let's kill them!" With the player character making some actually very gaslighting comments on defeating them. 2) The player killing spiders with remarks on the lines of "If only you didn't look so disgusting". Killing wolves by the dozens. Then killing poachers (human beings) and stating "Now beasts are safe." The irony. And the people you kill are the dark wizards? 3) The school giving you a magic guide book that keeps track of your progress, and which the teachers can review to assess your progress. This quest log, journal etc, of course keeps your kill count. So it is a Hogwarts where Professor Weasely sits in front of the fireplace with a glass of wine in the evening and goes "Oh, my star pupil has killed 17 people today. That is 8 more than yesterday. They are really improving fast. I better arrange for them to learn some more spells."

I once forgot to turn my old wind up alarm off properly when I was living in halls of residence. After lectures I met with friends and didn't come home till late. But as those alarms didn't differentiate between AM and PM, in the evening it started ringing and didn't stop. My flatmates called campus security to unlock my room and check on me. They were worried I was lying dead in a corner, since I didn't hear the alarm

Age of Wonders 4 did a faction creation contest. They were going to pick three submissions to win stuff, have a fourth get a gift through community reactions, and a fifth by random draw. They apparently expected only some forum regulars to participate. They got a thread with 18 pages instead. So today they announced they'll do more winners.

Trying the Terror from the Void mod for Phoenix Point. I don't think I'll last long enough to see if any of the changes/additions from the mod are any good. The changes to classes and skill trees gets a meh - whatever rating on the internationally recognised melkathi scale*. The non-vanilla human enemies, where every group of scavengers, every squad of jericho troops, has a leader granting an ability to their team, and they all have cringeworthy squad names gets a please go back to writing Harry Potter fanfiction rating. Adding npcs to staff the initial base instead of having everything AI run, gets a thumbs up. But is that enough to get me to care? * often described as a jaded, grimdark version of the popular BruceVC game rating system. Just from the perspective that people are useless amateurs until proven otherwise.

I have the post for November with another ad already planned The UK at the time had good video game ads. I remember watching those when I was in Birmingham at uni.

The evil twin of Random video game news ! Today in video game history (and completely written without AI) : 27th of August 1999 27th August 1992

Using my phone since around 2014. Before that I had a small alarm clock freeware on the PC. That was a time I'd wake up to Sugabases - Too Lost In You; which ironically I do not listen to under other circumstances, only as an alarm The old alarm clocks were always so annoyingly loud.

Talk to Fionavar. You write it. He posts it. We read it.

Saw a Sally Rooney novel in the supermarket. Bought it just so I can say I can't travel to the UK for fear of getting arrested. I don't think I'll enjoy reading it

I am afraid you'l be right, and it will be one of those souls-action games. On the other hand, nothing in the trailer prevents it from doing a complete plot twist and have the characters travel forward in time to bring their rivalry into the current era to battle it out at a music event as K-Pop Idols. Then the game would be part life sim, part music industry management sim, part dating VN Unlikely, One can hope.

I don't know what to watch since I don't really like anything. I think last time I liked something was Ted Lasso, and before that Stranger (the Korean crime series). Or was it the other way around... I need to make money to make my own shows...

You wanted a simulation of the current events in the US?

I use sunscreen in the summer, when I have to be out for more than just dashing to the supermarket and back. But in Greece in the summer you should wear sunscreen. Saw the nice sunburn a friend got the other day. Really don't need that.

Bored on a weekend. So same thing.