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Conan Exiles dropped their latest update, which adds factions and NPC camps to the Isle of Siptah. That's a pretty big update, and for me it finally makes the expansion lands really worth digging into. So I'll probably set aside Valheim, which needs more time to develop, and get to work building my fortress in Conan.

Are there NPC's in Valheim, like in Conan?

Two Worlds II is the original dictionary entry.

Found the official band of my Mongolian teaching unit.

My wife is a cheer coach, and that sounds like a typical week for her.

So...the big bad guy that chases you in Prey shows up more often if you are more violent in your actions. I snuck around mostly and only saw him a couple times.

Doh! Well, Valheim is the new cyberpunk, I think.

So when am I supposed to try to kill the first boss in Valheim? Because I am terrified of him right now.

So I bought Valheim before it as cool. Played about 30 minutes, had bad performance on my fairly new computer, and refunded it. Then everyone and their mother bought it, and I saw all the pictures posted here, and I am weak-willed, so I gave it another try. I'm enjoying it more but I still can't get it to perform well. I get a lot of lag whenever I try to sprint around. But it is fun building chimneys.

I got the Pfizer shot last week and have another appointment in a couple weeks. I go back to work at the end of the month and see students April 5th. Life is starting to get busy again.

Sarkeesian wasn't playing the victim card. She cashed in on an academic exercise. All of the overly sensitive gamers are the ones that annoy me. People need to take themselves less seriously. Video games are sooo uhmportant!

RIP Harambe

Yeah. Couple that with 73.6% of Americans being overweight, and you've got a pretty good idea why the US did badly.

I need to read the Manon Rheaume biography.

Well they did bring back Louie. I had a blast with Coming 2 America. It was fun and the visuals were crazy. I don't even understand how they made Arsenio look like the Shaman. I've been listening to a bunch of Arsenio Hall interviews this last week and I am glad he is back too.

Wow dog_days, are you reading the novels as well?

I remember in 7th grade, my parents had the bright idea to send me to a private Christian school, since I wasn't doing well in public. It was not a good fit, and I got sent to he library as a punishment regularly. This was a pretty terrible library for a 7th grader, since it was all preachy stuff. The one decent author I found was Stephen R. Lawhead. He had a scifi series about living on Mars and I enjoyed it. Then I read some fantasy books he wrote. I'd say that led me to a lot of the older fantasy and scifi stuff I eventually read. I don't really remember it being heavy on the Christian themes, at least not any more than CS Lewis. So that helped.

I just found out that the actress that plays Scarlett Witch, or Wanda, is the younger sister of the Olsen twins.

Anything by Lloyd Alexander was my jam. I never got into comics or graphic novels, it was mostly just novels. This was the kind of thing I loved going back even earlier:

Hah, I thought they were all the same pic. Which shows how well I was paying attention when I read it early in the morning.

I imagine if they were his big ones, that is what would happen. Apparently he had 45 original books, and I don't think the 6 pulled are in the top of his catalogue.

Well said. Children's books are a different matter than classic literature, and it is fine to have different standards for them. Huck Finn is important as it is capturing a very specific time in our American history. I'm all for protecting it. Some dated looking caricatures in a picture book don't get the same reaction from me. It can still be used as a discussion piece, it isn't getting scrubbed from the history books, but there are better options in the children's section of the library.

Got the Giants versus the Dodgers on TV tonight! I love watching Spring Training. When I retire I want to just spend every March in Arizona watching games.

To be fair, the Mayan definitely COUNT, because at least they had a concept of zero, Egypt, Greece, and Rome.