Week in review: Week to 4 October
Oct. 6th, 2024 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedanther. Went for a bike ride for the first time in a couple of months. My bike is in pretty good condition, although I think the seat needs adjusting to be a bit more comfortable. With the weather warming, I'll need to try to remember to take a water bottle with me if I go on a long ride (my bike came fitted with a carrying bracket for a water bottle, but I've never actually used it).
. The week to 4 October is a big week in the chronology of Dracula, being the week where Dracula's victims start actively fighting back and things begin happening in earnest. In terms of Re: Dracula, there were three days with hour-long episodes and one, the most action-packed day in the entire story, with an episode lasting two hours. I'm generally enjoying Re: Dracula, though continuing to be annoyed by the ads that get stuck on the beginning or end of most episodes (and, in one instance this week, in the middle) and reliably break the mood that the episode is trying to create. I'm also continuing to find sometimes that if I consumed some other dense piece of media already in the day, I'm not ready to listen to the scheduled episode of Re: Dracula as well; the two-hour episode, in fact, I put off until the following morning for that reason.
. The dense piece of media I had been reading on that occasion was "And What Happened After", a long Lord of the Rings fanfic about what became of the hobbits who sailed off to the utmost West with Gandalf and the elves. I was re-reading it so I could write a rec post for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fancake, which you can read here if you want to know more.
. The random book challenge for October is "sort your to-read list alphabetically by author and read a book by the first author you haven't read before". The book thus indicated was the first part of a series that I have no access to the later parts of, so I skipped it and went with This Is Improbable, by Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Annals of Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prize.
. I've reached the end of the story mode in Tactical Breach Wizards. At the end of the final battle, the player is given a choice to make - a variation on the standard "bring the villain in alive to face justice" vs "the world would be better off with the villain dead" dilemma that's usual for this kind of story - and the game, I gather, gives different versions of the 'where are they now' epilogue depending on which choice the player makes. Something that struck me is that, due to the circumstances in which the villain is defeated, there are actually three options presented, one in which the villain winds up dead and two in which the villain ends up alive. I don't know if the two 'alive' options are functionally identical, or if they lead to different epilogues; replaying missions skips the story bits, so the only way to get to the final choice and explore a different option is to play the entire game again, and I'm not sure I'm quite that curious.
. The week to 4 October is a big week in the chronology of Dracula, being the week where Dracula's victims start actively fighting back and things begin happening in earnest. In terms of Re: Dracula, there were three days with hour-long episodes and one, the most action-packed day in the entire story, with an episode lasting two hours. I'm generally enjoying Re: Dracula, though continuing to be annoyed by the ads that get stuck on the beginning or end of most episodes (and, in one instance this week, in the middle) and reliably break the mood that the episode is trying to create. I'm also continuing to find sometimes that if I consumed some other dense piece of media already in the day, I'm not ready to listen to the scheduled episode of Re: Dracula as well; the two-hour episode, in fact, I put off until the following morning for that reason.
. The dense piece of media I had been reading on that occasion was "And What Happened After", a long Lord of the Rings fanfic about what became of the hobbits who sailed off to the utmost West with Gandalf and the elves. I was re-reading it so I could write a rec post for
fancake, which you can read here if you want to know more.. The random book challenge for October is "sort your to-read list alphabetically by author and read a book by the first author you haven't read before". The book thus indicated was the first part of a series that I have no access to the later parts of, so I skipped it and went with This Is Improbable, by Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Annals of Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prize.
. I've reached the end of the story mode in Tactical Breach Wizards. At the end of the final battle, the player is given a choice to make - a variation on the standard "bring the villain in alive to face justice" vs "the world would be better off with the villain dead" dilemma that's usual for this kind of story - and the game, I gather, gives different versions of the 'where are they now' epilogue depending on which choice the player makes. Something that struck me is that, due to the circumstances in which the villain is defeated, there are actually three options presented, one in which the villain winds up dead and two in which the villain ends up alive. I don't know if the two 'alive' options are functionally identical, or if they lead to different epilogues; replaying missions skips the story bits, so the only way to get to the final choice and explore a different option is to play the entire game again, and I'm not sure I'm quite that curious.
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Date: 2024-10-11 11:10 am (UTC)