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Conan Exiles - This sorcerer stuff is fantastic. I think I get a golem eventually. I had to restart, but that's no issue, since I love the early game. The new journey stuff is different, but it makes for a good change of pace. They also redid the intro a bit. The crafting hammer makes construction much easier too.

I was home sick yesterday and watched episode 1 of Night Agent. It was terrible. But then a show called The Recruit popped up on my Netflix list, and that is about a CIA lawyer. It is really good and I am a few episodes in. So thanks Netflix algorithm, sort of?

I don't know much about it, since I'm way down in the South Bay, but they did something similar to Fort Ord in Monterey and it turned out really well. Granted the scales of these projects are very different. When I was in High School, I played roller hockey at Fort Ord. The base was abandoned already, but somebody turned a warehouse into a roller rink. It was a bit of a creepy place to play, but the high school league was competitive.

The problem is BART is still stuck in the 90's. They haven't expanded or improved enough to meet the growth of the Bay Area.

In California, they could just build houses that are reasonable in size, instead of the mini-mansions they keep building and selling for millions of dollars. But they'd also have to create a decent transportation system for people, so that is definitely a pipe dream.

Ruby Bridges spoke at our school about a decade ago. She was fantastic and it was a powerful assembly. I couldn't imagime teaching in Florida right now.

Huh, he is out there. Well good to know he's still keepin' on. He was pretty mellow the last couple years before he disappeared. I don't think we were edgy enough for him.

This might interest @Guard Dog, but it might be behind a paywall... https://theathletic.com/4339875/2023/03/24/out-of-the-park-baseball-24/ Basically, some MLB teams are using Out of the Park Baseball to test scenarios and gameplan. It also give a great backstory to the game. The World Baseball Classic was amazing, btw. The best pitcher in the world faced off against the best hitter in the world in the 9th inning with a one run lead, and struck him out to win it for Japan. You can't write it any better than that.

Yeah, I haven't really figured out what to do with this. It is easy enough for me to file in April, but I owe a tidy sum and could use the extra time to pay it off. It still feels weird not doing it by April, though.

This should be standard practice in every state.

I bought Old World and the DLC. I had played it on the gamepass awhile back and enjoyed it, so I decided to buy it. I wanted to get it on GoG, but it was only on sale on Steam, so that was a bit of a bummer.

While I loved the setting, I remember the UI being pretty bad when I played them back in the early '90s. I can't imagine they've aged well at all.

Ugh, other people? Plus I don't know how to spreadsheet. edit: I tried spreadsheeting a bit in college, but it just wasn't for me. No judgement though.

I was looking for a decent spaceship game recently. I tried to get back into No Man's Sky, Elite Dangerous, and X4 Foundations, but none of them did the trick. So I ended up playing Star Traders: Frontiers. Sure enough, that scratched the itch. It has a great balance of crew management, ship combat, planet exploration, and story.

I have mixed feelings on the whole JK Rowlings thing. I certainly don't put her on a pedestal. But at this point, the whole Harry Potter IP is way bigger than her narrow opinions. The development team that made Hogwarts Legacy certainly doesn't deserve to be condemned for her actions.

Thanks for checking in @Guard Dog and I hope your health continues to improve. I am spending the day at @Gromnir's alma matter for a field hockey tournament. It has been raining all day, but I still got a nice run in through the hills. My daughter's team is getting killed on the field though. Cal Berkeley is a beautiful campus even in the rain.

I'm currently reading Trevor Noah's biography and I'm guessing SA isn't as perfect as some people portray it here. Granted it is probably fine if you meet certain pigment criteria.

Cyberpunk is great and apparently has continued to sell well. It was just buggy when it came out.

I'm pretty excited to play Hogwarts Legacy, as a person who owns a wand purchased at Ollivanders, and visits the Universal Studios park regularly, and rewatches the movies. But I decided to wait to buy it because I'm busy right now, and after hearing about the bugs, I'm pretty happy about that. I look forward to playing it in a couple months when you two have worked out all of the bugs in the game.

The seasons are all fairly short, as are the episodes. It's easily my favorite comedy. I've rewatched quite a few seasons.

Silo was a decent book, so it will be interesting to see if they can pull the movie off. I think I lost interest in the series at some point, though. Ghosted looks fun. Citadel looks terrible. Stanley Tucci sounded bored. I'm a Virgo looks weird and will probably be the best of the bunch.

Travis Kelce hosted SNL, and he is surprisingly good. His monologue is probably the best one outside of the stand comedians that host. I was pretty surprised that a football player was so good, but I guess I shouldn't, given the amount of players that became decent actors.

Huh, The Sims is back.

I'm pretty sure you can turn the lights off. There is an app for it.