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Today I finished the DLC with almost all achievements popped up
though I undid most of them immediately because a lot of them are mean.

The only achievement I didn't do yet is the one where you don't bring extra friends, just the three with lines. I don't see how that's doable on any reasonable difficulty level.

I was playing on a custom difficulty slightly below core because core kicks my butt too much.
I only sort of figured out the puzzles - however you're supposed to logic the levers without blowing yourself up my brain simply does not do so I blew up a lot until it told me the puzzle was solved. Yaay?
And I did the fiddly achievement but I would have got a lot more benefit out of it if I'd done it in reverse order, I pushed some things down that didn't do anything, just because they were there, but if I'd climed a wall and done things the opposite way around, much damage, very helpful.

So that was fun and the achievements went bing :-)

Of course then I started the next DLC with those characters right away. Basking in a sense of accomplishment feels like it is for people who didn't reload quite as often. But I did the first fight there and only needed to reload once when I realised it was Boss Fight Time.

I still don't think I've really got the hang of playing a magus but the stabby spells have a lot of potential so I continue to try and make it work.

But I should take at least a day off or I disappear into gaming land.

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beccaelizabeth

Today I played the same levels of the same game I have been doing the other days, but this time I built the character so it at least slightly works, and looked up a guide to Achievements so I could do some of the unlikely ones.
... and immediately undo them. I don't think it is very nice when they have achievements for ( Read more... ) but it turns out some of the secret achievements hardly anyone does are unkind ones.

I think I am also on track to do a very fiddly achievement that needs getting right on every section of the DLC, so that's nice. Also trying to do things the fiddly way turned out to make the fighting parts a lot easier. Neat.

Also today I got some laundry done so on the whole I am feeling very accomplished.
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This week I have been mostly playing one of the DLC for Wrath of the Righteous
badly
on Core difficulty, where playing badly is not among the survivable options.

I am far enough along I do not want to start again but also far enough along I can see how I have borked my build entirely from the get go. Never played a Magus before, have got the wrong weapon and am making a mess of it. Currently surviving on cantrips and that's not sustainable.

I could start again, I could drop the difficulty, but at the moment I am playing the same fights over and over and over and wondering how I could be doing any better and getting stuck and having another go etc etc etc

And, eventually, noticing I am no longer having fun, and going away again.

Not a great way to play.

Also, doesn't give me much to talk about.

I did get two achievements for checking in all the corners for things, but it don't feel like progress when I know how many times I had to try the same fights to do it.

Then I stop playing and look at the actual real world news
and I really don't have anything to say at all at all.

So.

That's my week.

queen_ypolita

Finished since the last reading post
Heaven on Earth, with lots of beautiful photos and other illustrations, and a brief history of the construction process of each cathedral included. Short chapters made it easy to read one chapter at a time, but on the whole, it was a bit bulky and heavy to hold.

Embers by Sándor Márai in Carol Brown Janeway's English translation of the German translation (the translator's name not included in the English edition) of the Hungarian original. That was something of a surprise to me, for the English edition to be a translation of a translation rather than of the original text. For about the first half, I rather enjoyed what seemed to be a slow build-up to a significant moment, but for the second half, I was getting increasingly irritated by what seemed to be a life wasted on getting hung up on something he was pretty sure had happened but he wasn't going to discuss, until now, but not really even now. The title did seem rather appropriate.

Currently reading
Nothing, so I obviously need to pick up something new.

Reading next
As above, at least I've got a few options on my shelves. I'm not sure how much reading I'll do over the next few days as my mum and sister are coming to visit.

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queen_ypolita

My mum and sister are going to come over for a few days towards the end of next week, so my weekend has largely been about tidying up, getting rid of junk, and figuring out what more I'll need to do next week. I also rearranged things on my desk, which wasn't really necessary for the cleaning or next week but something I'd been thinking about for a couple of weeks. The work laptop I've been using since April is a bit bigger than the older one was, so the way I had monitors and stuff set up before didn't work as well any more.

And I'll need to be on the phone to the dentists first thing on Monday. Starting from Friday afternoon, one of my molars has been super painful with any pressure on it and I strongly suspect I've got an infection at the root. Painkillers and eating very, very carefully have kept things tolerable—I don't like taking painkillers unless I really have to, and this has really been one of those times. I can't remember the last time I resorted to taking both ibuprofen and paracetamol at intervals. No idea how quickly I can be seen, but hopefully between tomorrow and Thursday. I might need to replan my office days though.