Scheduled two exams today. Had 4 days to prep for them, was super stressed but I managed to pass both! Going to take it easy for the rest of the week.

Emu?

I’ve been told that this way they have no choice but to hold up the coat of arms.

After half a week of traffic issues, was finally able to do my preferred form of exercising this morning, feeling pretty good now!

A bit late but hi!

It’s a couple hours by car from where I live, so I’m probably too lazy to go…

Had a busy week. The two of us played two scenarios of Gloomhaven JotL. I changed from my initial tank character to Voidwarden, who’s got a buff/debuff and action granting/manipulation mechanic. She’s a lot more fun for me and I feel like she works a little better with my partner’s ranged character also. The last scenario was so close, we were 1 and 0 turns away from exhaustion when we won. Funnily enough we both got squeezed into a corner and surrounded by the boss’s summons so the boss couldn’t get to us.

Was really hoping to be able to play more of Aeon’s End but alas, the weekend went by really fast. Going to get an expansion for it next time I go to the shop.

We also tried out Bread & Fred, a video game of two penguins connected by a rope climbing a mountain. I was hoping it would be hard and rewarding like Celeste, but it was mostly fun and frustrating due to us constantly jumping at the wrong time and falling off… Would definitely recommend assist mode checkpoints if anyone else wants to try. It was a bit weird that they only supported the same input type for both, would have liked to use controller and let my SO use keyboard.

The Reckoner by Brandon Sanderson. Not a lot of people like the series, but I always loved it, and it seemed that so many scenes were written with a visual medium in mind already, and exaggerated in a way that would work well in an animation, not in a Live-Action production.

Progressed our Gloomhaven JotL campaign a bit, packed it up for mow. Think I’m going to change character next time we continue the game.

Played my third game of Aeon’s end, it was great, we barely won with one player left at 2 HP. It was great

Yep only 4 characters

We’re a few sessions in now, we know the rules but still often forget things. I’m still finding it difficult to evaluate my cards, both for making my deck and for playing them.

I’m finding the ‘discourage discussion’ part more of a miscommunication issue. The guide stressed about not discussing details and selecting cards at the same time, and with me having no idea about the gameplay at the time, it just sounded like forcing a specific type of scenario in game theory.

Now that we’re more or less familiar with the rules, it feels much more natural. Occasionally we do break the discussion rules though, because we really enjoy highly detailed planning, and there’s no Gloomhaven police here to confiscate the game.

Btw JotL has battle goals. Not sure about retirement goals, we each have a pack of cards that we’re not supposed to open or read about till level 5.

Played the first couple scenarios of Gloomhaven jaws of the lion with my partner, which amount to most of the tutorial lol. Last time I spent over a week on a game’s tutorial was Persona 5. It’s been a bit confusing, slow but also exciting so far.

I think I like the game but I’m frustrated by how the rules sometimes discourage discussion. Really looking forward to finishing the tutorial and doing this side quest my partner just unlocked.

I was going to mention the series too!

I’ve been listening to the cold reads of the new book on YouTube. Very excited about the book, it’s going to be torturous waiting for the audiobook to come out.