I actually think the BBC version does a better job of explaining quite how utterly outrageous this whole story is: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm glad someon has said Spence, he had just such an ability to craft narrative and personality - as with probably every Qing historian, the Death of Woman Wang remains the kind of book I'd like one day to write

Henrietta Harrison, Engseng Ho (especially The Graves of Tarim), Tobie Meyer-Fong - all just beautiful writers

This is insane. Both the normalisation of a two-week turnaround for that quantity of work, but also, in what world is writing an anonymised summary of achievement and uploading it to CoPilot less work than just marking them all in the first place?

Say hi to Lucy for me!

Yes, very much this. I am currently appreciating the fact that I am playing it with someone who is better at this sort of game than I am. Love the world, the way it hands out haunted morsels of narrative, but my fingers are so slow to learn this sort of game and each death hurts.

Would talk Silksong, can't talk Silksong as so far my experience can be summarised as "What an utterly beauti - oh shite I died again"

So considered, so accessible. And the story is always paramount.

I've always loved the way Supergiant approach this, and its through all of their games, not just Hades - as I (slowly) improve, they offer a range of ways to make it harder, so its not just an arbitrary higher health bar, I can finetune challenge in ways that suit me.

I have no idea how you get students to turn up. Once in a while they stop behind after class to talk to me, and I suggest this conversation would be better during office hours. I also work extremely hard to convince them I'm not intimidating, but it seems to take 2.5 years for them to believe me.

I had a personal tutor all the way through at Edinburgh (Julian Ward), and somehow, I had it in my head that turning up to speak to him was a dreadful imposition and/or a statement that I was academically struggling, which I wasn't.