Outside of the superficial stuff (they’re both mages in the modern world who have a problem with authority and a large part of the overarching story is about power struggles within the main political structures and all that) they’re pretty different. Dresden is a good guy with a ton of power so while he’s always up against threats a lot bigger than he is, he’s always able to fight back effectively and overcome it. In comparison, Verus doesn’t have that kind of magic and can’t compete, so by necessity he has to become much more opportunistic and ruthless, he’s a very morally-grey character, possibly slipping down over the line and becoming irredeemable.

I really enjoyed it and strongly recommend it. It’s even finished, so you don’t have to wait years as the story unfolds! 12 novels and 2 novellas and you’re done. One is set at the halfway point, but I read them both at the end and thought it was probably better that way than if I’d read it chronologically, up to you.

I just finished the latest InCryptid, for the first time there were two POV characters and they’re my two favourites, which was nice. It was pretty good. As usual the status quo got a bit shaken up by the end, but for once I’m not a big fan of it.

Being as vague as possible for spoiler reasons it feels like the author wanted to undo something she did years ago but couldn’t just write around the changes that had already happened. Most of the main novels add new characters to the lineup and the most interesting part to me is seeing how the family adapts. The latest “new” character will potentially change the dynamic in an interesting way, but the novels are so hyper-focused that you don’t really get to see much outside of the current immediate crisis. The short stories between books are fun, but there’s never enough slice of life for me.

As for my gym audiobooking (The Wise Man’s Fear), I am about halfway through my least favourite sections of the story. I have no idea how these spoiler tags are meant to work, so I’ll just say Kvothe has finished learning to love, and now he will learn to fight, you know where I am if you’ve read it. In my head Tempi is Silent Bob, I know it’s pretty much the opposite of his physical description but it’s all I can see.

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Have you filtered out 99.9% of this site?

I’m definitely not arguing that, just that every article I see presents them as this super serious contender and everything. Maybe I’m just in denial and I refuse to accept it because they’ve been the racist asshole joke party led by the same idiot for literally my entire life.

SBS is really fuckin pushing One Nation these days.

Since last week’s post I’ve finished Battle Ground (plus Christmas Eve, Little Things, The Law) & Twelve Months from the Dresden Files, and Risen from Alex Verus. That just leaves the last few novellas from both series to cap them off.

After that, it’ll be the latest Incryptid book I missed from earlier this year, then I dunno maybe back to finishing Mercy Thompson before taking a break from urban fantasy for a while.

As bad as that match was, his one against Goldberg at a different SA event was even worse. I recommend it heartily (if you don’t like them, that is).

Undertaker. Giving the streak up to Lesnar of all people and then he just kept going anyway was pretty shit. I’ve never really liked Reigns, but they should have saved the streak for the retirement match.

Or… Did Taker come back again after that for the Saudis? Since covid broke time I can never really remember when anything happened.

I finished up the Lord of the Rings trilogy today, loved it. Now I’m about a third of the way through a reread of Battle Ground (Dresden Files) so that I can get to Twelve Months, probably starting on Thursday. I also listened to ~40% of the last Alex Verus book, I’ll be finishing that in the next two workdays too. This is the one good thing about working night shifts in security.

Man it’s probably been over a decade since I played this, for some reason I thought the original version was taken down when it was remade in 3D.

He’s not as fast as or faster than the Flash

It never occurred to me that pdf would come to mean what it does. This is concerning.

Big W good, Woolworths bad. Alright.

This list just proves to me that I have no idea what’s going on in other people’s heads.

I recently downloaded an emulator and TP with someone else’s save just to go fishing in that lake again. Best part of the game. Your next dungeon is pretty interesting too, have fun.

I didn’t make it through all of S1 of Invincible (though I’ve read the comic a couple of times and really wanted to like it), but at one point during a conversation William had two mouths because they pasted the open mouth over the closed one and didn’t have it in the right position.

I also noticed in S1 of Gen V during a fight scene you could literally see the seam around characters’ faces where they’d been stuck on the stunt actors, so after that I just assume anything from Amazon made recently is going to be sloppy. That was probably the least of Gen V’s problems though.

Satisfactory just got an update too. There are a couple of big changes to vehicles that make me want to jump back in. I’ve been too busy playing FOUNDRY though, which is basically a voxel Satisfactory.

Is this what that teaser was for?

I’ll take it I guess, I have the whole series but it’s in like 480p for some reason and still somehow hundreds of gigs, might as well replace it all.

The other day I finished The Two Towers, it was great. Right after that I binged all of Skin Game (Dresden Files 15) in one day which has been my favourite in the series since the first time I read it.

Now I’m just cleaning up a couple of random things I’ve had on the backburner, then it’s Return of the King, Peace Talks and Battle Ground as soon as possible so that I can get to Twelve Months.

Other than that, I’ve picked up my The Wise Man’s Fear audiobook again now that I’m working out regularly again because it was my gym noise back in… wow late 2024. Time flies.

Apparently Michael G Manning’s latest book came out a couple of weeks ago too, but I haven’t had any luck finding it for some reason, no idea what’s happening there 🤷‍♂️

Same, I have a couple of extensions to fix youtube. No ads, no shorts, no recommendations, no autoplay, no “most relevant” whatever the fuck yt thinks that means, then keyword filters and auto-hide played videos. The subs tab is just unwatched stuff from the people that interest me.

When it becomes too hard to keep up with fixing all of the shit they break each update to try to make free users’ experiences worse, I’ll leave before letting them push anything on me I don’t ask for.

Australia used to have an inland sea existing 120 to 90 million years ago called the Eromanga Sea

*looks up Eromanga*

Oh no