And I'm still convinced my save is bugged Shifting Earth-wise. It still gives me overwhelming Rotted Woods with no notifications, and then I finally got Noklateo with no notification and that lasted for a single run. Pretty sure I will (offline) never see the Great Hollow again.

Even if he didn't mean it that way, the dig at Team Cherry came across REAL bad. Like, yeah, they WERE right not to cross the globe to the world's currently extra-festery fascist butthole for two seconds of disingenuous-feeling acknowledgement. The tone + time prove they were right!

I "like" that they could only conceive of training to beat Vecna as, like, CrossFit because, I assume, "80s training montage" or something when it doesn't make a lot of sense to get physically fit to fight Hentai Sylar.

Moment-to-moment, it's also just engaging trying to keep Scholar's buff/debuff consistently active. Meanwhile, I'm pretty unimpressed with Undertaker (so far). The biggest disappointment overall was how they're just given to you at the same time. I was hoping for a lil unlocking puzzle or quest...

Caveat: Even if the whole Sir Pentious-Cherri Bomb relationship doesn't quite work without the pilot.

In conclusion: A very funny book; I feel like the non-stop epic characterization of Mexico as an apocalyptic wasteland is probably racist; I was not so much fond of the Moby-Dick-style subsuming of The Kid into The Glanton Gang "they" for long stretches but also get the thematic implications.

Having a bad 360 + heavy attack move in a Ninja Gaiden game has to be a crime. "Ooo--twin swords 360," I thought, like a fool!