I think it does an interesting job of depicting a brain that gets overwhelmed, especially during the train trip. (Which… the audiobook is unabridged. How?? There’s a lot of imagery and drawings, I kinda want to find out how they handled that.) The family situation though 😬😬

#52: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Reread after ~10 years, I remembered broad strokes. Lots of overwhelmed people making tough and/or poor and/or VERY poor decisions. I found the book exhausting despite its relatively short length, which is likely the point.

*stares blankly into the distance* maybe if Sega ever released/refreshed Saturn content, I could actually try some of these

I wish I’d known NiGHTS was going to get delisted from Steam before it happened

She does cover ACNH for a decent chunk of the final chapter, noting her initial skepticism and being put off at seismic changes to the core of the game, but also expressed understanding that ACNH came out at basically the perfect time, and it’s what a lot of people needed.

#51: Animal Crossing. Primarily a history of the first AC game. Loved the development story and its info tidbits, with a brief look into its online community and how trading/visiting worked. Other series games mostly show up in comparisons. Would be interesting to see how the author views ACNH now.

I liked BOF4. Played it on Vita several years ago. There was one sequence that was intensely annoying, though. (Assuming you get far enough, it’s a ‘hide and seek’ sequence where you are the seeker.)

e.g. our new administration has decided to slap a $2000 surcharge on state employees who carry health insurance for spouses, if the spouse is also eligible to get insurance. But what if they have kids? There’s no modular rate, it’s single or family. Kicking a spouse off then doesn’t save a dime.

Yep. Anecdotally, I know several people who voted R in the past election (be it governor, president, or both), and have expressed thoughts such as “Where’s the plan? I thought he had a plan?” and “They’re actively making my health insurance go up more than any raise I could possibly get”.

For someone like me who didn’t even start getting into the hobby until after GTR was already out of print, this is amazing; I’d been able to play the Italian version thanks to the kindness of @andyhre.bsky.social, but the English version will be a lot easier to get played with most people I know.

Not only that, it arrived and indeed, it’s never been played; three out of the four card boxes are still sealed.

For those not deep into board games like I am, that is absolutely wild. That’s like stepping into a time portal back to 2009 and buying it off the shelf.

I tried this on Switch a few months back and bounced off it HARD. The crew I run with rides or dies with the Wii version, saying the controls don’t make sense on Switch. (But even they say it’s… more ‘important to the series’ than ‘good’.)

#50: Earthbound. I’ve long thought that part of the reason I never clicked with this game is that I’ve never been in a sufficiently altered state, and this book did nothing to disabuse me of that notion. The book certainly has interesting life stories woven together with the game’s wackiest bits.

So DS9 was only a year or so off w/r/t the Bell Riots, huh

Library bookmobile had Mario Galaxy 1+2 *and* Once Upon a Katamari this week, so I’m set for a bit