Briar King

Been a hot minute... I'm still chipping away on Grandia but I just bought Sky 1 since its 35% off. I'm a long way still from getting back to Zemuria but when I do I still plan on going to Calvard next.

I finished up Twelve Months in 3 or 4 nights. I picked my reread of the books back up that I had paused on bk 5 and I really hustled to be done so I could go straight to bk 18 on release day. I finished with 3 days to go. Now im rereading Hamilton's Commonwealth 1st duology. Almost to the end of bk 1.

I typically do just cause they so small a company and have built such a enjoyable play experience and I want to support them but that's just starting to get to be a little to $ hungry to me. CS's, CB and Rev were fine but yeah Calvard 1 jump ups have just been annoying to watch unfold. I hope they get some push back on CV3 that they went to far and CV4 ain't so high...

Holy hell I just looked up Horizon last night and the ultimate editions that I always get for these games to give them love is $170 before tax.. That's like $40 higher than Day 2 which was already $15-20 higher than Day 1. That's starting to get to be a bit to crazy for me for a digital buy. I'm going to be in for a hell of a long wait for a 30% sale.

Where Winds Meet looks mighty intriguing.

I always get the costumes. I'm just not to sure about starting season pass bs. So they are just gonna do special skins every so often?

Did I see that right that Sky is pulling that "season pass" bs??

No. My next trip in Zemuria will be Daybreak and I have no clue when that will be honestly. I'm glad its good. Will definitely get around to it. Is it point for point to the original?

Is Suikoden a good series to play through?

Finished Hamilton's Exodus. It was a fun one. I really cant wait for this game setting. Eagerly awaiting bk 2 for sure. My plan was to go straight to rereading his Commonwealth bks but I just found out Dresden 18 is hitting this January so so I've taken up that reread again starting bk 5 that I put down in 2021 to begin a reread of WoT right before WoP premiered.

Finally Daybreak 2 is on sale at 20% off. That took the longest time of any of these since I've been playing em. I ll have to go buy some fund cards as its till just over the $100 mark and my sub needed redoing I don't have enough on anymore. Claire Ob is at 10% now to. I'm not sure if I ll grab it also or wait for a 20% to hit. I ll most likely wait as im still going strong on Death Stranding 2. Hell maybe i ll just go ahead and go for it and play it afterwards and give more time for game 3 to hit before I start back up with these.... ugh decisions.. I've been enjoying the breather but I do oh so love this franchise and want back all at the same time and I got to admit these PS5 graphics are so eye opening when away from Zemuria after spending literal yrs there...

I forgot how addicting delivering mail is!

I want a physical of Death Stranding 2. I would very much like it today on day 1 but I will have to go to town. Tomorrow I have a dr appointment at 2 so will be in town anyway but that's on day 2... decisions man... make 2 trips in 2 days or 1 but be a day late on a much anticipated sequel. Woot woot surprised that my dumb Walmart actually had it out for sale. They never have anything out on release dates I want. Sooo I didn't have to go into town after all! Download in progress. I do miss the days when you buy a disc and put it in the game starts. Waiting for downloads sucks.

100 pages! Yay. Been rather strange not turning on a console since. Ive been able to read though! Will be back after Death Stranding 2. I needed this recharge for sure much as I have come to utterly love Zemuria!!

Jim Butcher is a fun author. His books are on the shorter side. Dresden Files isn't completely done yet but 16 or 17 out of 23 are out now. Don't really get good good till halfway into bk 3 but bk 4 onwards is pure fire. Then there is his 6 Codex Alera that are pure gold. That series is done.

Wow Exodus at only pg 30 is amazing. The lore is mind-blowing. Very epic in scope. I can tell this is from the true Bioware Mass Effect team. Its crazy reading Sci Fi after so much Fantasy. I can't wait to play this game and it's amazing that an author of Hamiltons caliber is writing a tie in book. I'm so here for it all!

That was a 6 month grueling grind to get through. SLA is just to different from other works that I love by BS imo. I was hoping Dr Kaladin Therapist Extrodinare(seriously successfully Shrinking multiple people in mere days is just ridiculous!) would die finally but nope he's free to keep on being a Debby Downer in 6. At least the other annoying head case MC Shallan took steps of progression to get rid of her multiple personalities. Being with these characters for 1000's of pgs whining and being off the rails isn't very entertaining on my end. I actually enjoyed Venli this time. Wanted more Lift! I hope she gets her own "book" while I'm still interested in SLA books. I really liked seeing Tanner. That's my name and it's not often to run across in life/entertainment. Always enjoy Dalinar. That said that contest of champions was sooooo underwhelming. I like Adolin. I guess I'm interested to see where the Unoathed thing goes. Its unexpected and shakes things up. Renairn and Jasnah just blah I don't care about either one but maybe I could start if Jasnah takes up Retribution's Regent position.. Navani I guess is playing Snow White now? Her and Dal's visions arc took up just to much time for me. Me being a slow reader didn't help for sure but that was what like 8 or 900 pgs long.. I felt...not much for Szeth. He was better entertainment as the assassin in white imo. For now I can say I'm still in for SLA6

Finally finished SLA5 today at 4am. Been chipping at it since release date 6 months ago. Onto Hamilton's video game time in book Exodus.

Skipped Pom, VM :(, Miranaire and the cool but Hella broken Trfyin X. Its the only thing that makes sense. Maybe in lue of MQs there is skits?

I line up with guides 23 listed plus the 2 Mishlem vacays. Maybe the mini game completions add to total? Even with that though there would only be 30.. Baffled.

Oh yeah I had everything on other colors. I did just go back on to see if more white ones popped up but it didn't even have them listed on chart. I just found it highly strange that 3 Daydreams didn't count at all. Its baffling. It really feels Hella weird being done with the West today. I'm going to use my now open gaming time to read SLA 5 more. So ready to be done with it....

Ok didn't know if I missed any. For some reason the next goal it had for me was to view 31 Daydreams and I've been sitting at 26 for quite awhile.. those 3 didn't add to the goal so I have no clue what they want...

8/2/24-6/2/25 345 hrs 30 mins. I was not a fan of the 3 txt Daydreams. I don't know if I ever saw the Calvard setup one mentioned but all 3 of those were in there. I'm a bit burnt out at present so starting Daybreak wouldn't be a great idea. Death Stranding 2 hits 6/26 so I'm thinking about just messing around till then. Give myself a few months to recharge.

Lightbringer is a fun read. I've somehow broke pg 800 on W&T so haven't put it on shelf to dnf quite yet. Still close though.

Got all trials and full 700 BP. I've been ready for a week now to engage the top floor of 0th Stratum but my newly graduated son has been here hogging my ps5 the entire time. I think he ll go back to his mom's Friday maybe and then it's time to wrap up Western Zemuria.