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Race day is October 18th. The distance is 140.6 miles. Full Ironman.

I am on the last book and I'm concerned about having to wait for more. There is way too much to keep track of in these things and if I have to wait a year, I will be completely lost.

I did my last long training ride today, despite it being over 90 degrees about halfway through. I did good on nutrition. I was doing a 16-mile loop around a reservoir, and we had our car set up for aid. First loop I ate a bagel as I rolled out. 2nd loop I ate a small sweet potato, repeated that on the 3rd loop, and then ate a sandwich with salami and Havarti after the 4th loop. I found my wife and her friend back at the car after 4 loops complaining about the heat and a bee sting. They had only done 3 loops, so I told them to get moving. Then I put my running shoes on and ran for 40 minutes. It was way too hot and I was dying, but I got it done. I downed an entire coke afterwards. But I was happy my stomach was in good shape, so hopefully that will bode well for the race in 2 weeks. Let's hope Sacramento isn't surface temperature of the sun on race day.

I find Steam is pretty reasonable in terms of aggregate reviews. If a game is mixed or negative, it probably isn't worth my time. It makes it easier to weed through the absolute metric ton of games we have coming out these days. I'm not going to treat them like gospel, but if a game looks interesting to me and has positive reviews, it makes it easier to drop a few bucks on it.

I've got two weeks until Ironman California. I'm feeling pretty fit. I've knocked out a bunch of 10 miles runs and 6 hour bike rides. This weekend is the last long training session. I'm still worried about nutrition. I still don't feel like I'm taking in enough. I'm using sweet potatoes on the bike. Basically I just have some baked sweet potatoes in my back pocket and I eat one every 90 minutes. These are good and don't upset my stomach, but I think I need more. I'm going to try a couple sandwiches this weekend. One halfway through the bike and one before the run. Hopefully that will help.

I never started Act 3. I'm right outside Baldur's Gate and I just can't seem to push forward. But that is typical of Larian games. I don't know what it is. I like the combat, but maybe it just wears me out after a couple acts.

This was definitely sarcasm. Nice to see @alanschu posting.

I've got a speeder and I've crossed some desert in Dune without getting eaten. It is strange playing single player, since you don't have the urban sprawl of the online servers. It's a bit more creepy knowing I'm the only one out there in the desert with the worm. I also started Cyberpunk and bought the expansion. The game seems to run much better than it did at launch. I'm playing a female V. 4 different choices of nipples is quite the customization options. I had my wife help with my character so it wouldn't be weird.

JA3 is a fantastic game.

You can add Dawnwalker to that list. Best story driven RPG I've played outside of Obsidian games. Colony Ship is the only one on your list I really dug.

I started playing Dune single player, which is nice. It basically works like Conan Exiles now and you can set all the rules yourself. I have no idea why they didn't do that at the start, but better late than never.

Unfortunately PoE was on life support when PoE 2 didn't sell well enough, and Avowed was the last chance for that IP to hit it big. Outer Worlds 2 basically did the same thing. It is frustrating because these are all very good games in interesting universes. But Obsidian isn't a small independent studio that can survive with a small loyal fanbase. They need mainstream success to be profitable, and they are only going to get that with an established IP. It's a bummer, but I still expect their Fallout game to be fantastic.

Finished Dawnwalker. I was happy with my ending. I did run out of time on some stuff that I wanted to do, but I was also ready to finish the game after sinking 45 hours into it. I really enjoyed the story and Lacra is my new girlfriend. She would never admit it, of course, but she is clearly sweet on me. Post credits scene was cool. Honestly I'm just glad to know the game did well and I look forward to future games. I've had a great month of gaming with this and Zero Company. I don't finish a lot of games, so finishing two in a month is a surprise. They were both fantastic.

The quests in Dawnwalker also all do a fantastic job of connecting with the main goal. They don't feel like detours, they feel like puzzle pieces that unlock the bigger picture of the main antagonist. It's really well done.

It sounds like you don't really need to remove the time because you an get through most of the content in the 30 days. I'm feeling a bit of pressure. I'm level 22, around Day 13, and I've only killed one of the court. But I'm doing a ton of different side quests and they are all extremely interesting. The day/night mechanic is really keeping me jumping around too, since so many quests are tied to it. I know games using certain times for quests aren't new, but Dawnwalker does a great job of it. It feels very different playing at night versus day. Also Coen is possibly my favorite protagonist in a game in a long time. I'm excited to see what the developer does with him next.