I have read a book. As the interested reader might have guessed by now, it is “Great Naval Blunders” by Geoffrey Regan, a book about “history’s worst sea battle decisions from ancient times to the present day”.
This thing got on my list when our favourite gnomish overlord, The Mighty Jingles, read, or rather retold, the books opener “The Voyage of the Damned” on Mingles with Jingles Ep. 143, starting at 16:10 – which is the story of the Imperial Baltic Fleet, sent to the pacific to fight the Japanese. The amount of hilarity ensuing from geography alone gives a tiny glimpse into what is about to happen, and it only gets better from there.

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Hey there.

To force myself to produce some content from August on, here are some things I might have something to say about. YMMV.

• Mad Max – First Impressions
• The System Shock Remake (there is a kickstarter, I kid you not)
• Very First Impressions of The Witcher 2, or rather a rant about interface design and why I might never go on with this game
• Anno 2205: Orbit DLC, which will be released on July 20th and played by me as soon as possible
• Day-to-day use of the NAS, as soon as I can get my ass moving and set up a regular back-up
• And on the mobile side of things, there is You Must Build A Boat and Pokemon Go vs Ingress

I might actually follow up with some actual content.

…the stuff I forgot yesterday. Whoops.

There are:
Company of Heroes 2
Evocron Legacy
System Shock Enhanced Edition
Naval Action

All first impressions, all behind the break.

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Looks like I didn’t do much here. Whoops.
But then, that was to be expected.

However: the things I’ve done so far in gaming this year:
The first Anno 2205-DLC
The Talos Principle
Stardew Valley
Armored Warfare
Dark Souls II
Dwarf Fortress
Streaming

Also: I finally got the ink I thought about for quite some time. Ouch.

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A nice evening, and a happy new year to all three of you.

Here’s the obligatory list.
GOTY: Life is Strange
No further discussion neccessary.

MOTY: Mad Max Fury Road
Honorable mentions to Inside Out and Kingsman: The Secret Service

BOTY: The Martian
Two more recommendations, even if I haven’t finished either so far: Debt – the first 5000 years and Leviathan Wakes (Exodus 1)

Another honorable mention goes to the graphic novel Sunstone, which is ongoing on DeviantArt. So far I’ve read the first two collected volumes, and it could get way worse before even remotely getting bad.

Have a good time.

So, The Lord GabeN, in all His glory, hath heard my prayers and gifted upon me a Shiny New Toy.

The Steam Controller.
Why did I get it?
Because I’m an engineer, the subsequent pathological love for interesting new tech-stuff, disposable income and poor impulse control.
Also, I wanted to try out controller-based PC-gaming for quite some time and decided to save myself for the Light of the Lord GabeN, instead reverting to the tools used by the Filthy Console Peasants. But seriously: I really wanted to take a look at this thing. It arrived on Friday, I got it on Saturday, and over the weekend I tested a whole bunch of games with it. Here is what I found.

[Disclaimer I: I never really used a controller before, except in agony-filled afternoons when friends decided we would game on their consoles. I have no way of comparing this thing to any other controller, so I wont.]
[Disclaimer II: Depending on how things work out, there might be a follow-up post some day, hopefully addressing problems mentioned here.]

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