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Northern Monk Oath and Harrogate Best Bitter
I tried another Imperial stout from Northern Monk a few years back. Northern Monk Oath is a bit light for Imperial Stout. Not as sweet or syrupy. But its 8.5% hits like all 10% ABV. For a beer that’s sold in the supermarkets, it’s a bargain. And Harrogate Best Bitter (not the best name for…
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Red Alert Remastered
I mentioned AI in the Soviet campaign getting reenforcements from offscreen. In Allied campaign, it’s actually worse. First I noticed more planes coming than AI had airfields. Then in some missions it will drop flamethrowing paratroopers that decimate buildings, and don’t exist in normal game. Allies have more missions than require you to get a…
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Red Alert Remastered
After enjoying Command&Conquer Remastered less than expected, I didn’t plan to play Red Alert, but I ended up finishing the Soviet campaign anyway. What surprised me is that the campaign of Red Alert isn’t broken by remaster, unlike Command&Conquer. Which doesn’t mean that the game isn’t broken: Soviet V2 being able to destroy power station…
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Knife magnet
I’ve been using IKEA knife magnets for years. Don’t remember if I brought the one I had from the old apartment or just bought a second one. But with my knife collection growing, I got a bit tired of scratches from metal on metal. So I decided to buy a wooden knife magnet instead. It’s…
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Path of Exile 2
Compared to Diablo 3, I feel there’s less cooldown management, but more effect management. Diablo 3 had modifiers on skills, but here each skill has at least two modifiers. Enemies hit by poison start bleeding, enemies killed from bleeding explode, enemies killed while being electicuted electricute others, it’s all a chain reaction. Balbala the Traitor…
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Octopath Traveler
Primrose arc is the best one yet, because it has gravity to it, which most JRPG plotlines lack. She is a disgraced daughter of an assasinated noble that works in a brothel. Her friend helps her escape only to be killed by their owner. I had a lot of trouble with this boss fight, mainly…
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Signatory Whisky Speyside M 16 years
Macallan is a strange whisky. It’s considered to be good, but not good for its price, and it doesn’t have characteristics that are considered to be good, such as 46% ABV. By this point, there’s an entire category of YouTube reviews of “MacCallan alternatives”. There is a catch, though, which is independent bottlers. I have…
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Command&Conquer Remastered
I decided to try NOD campaign after all, if only for the CGIs, but on Easy. The difficulty is as I remember it, but on the other hand, the difficulty also lowers the costs of units, so still not the original experience. You can’t step in the same river twice, I guess. I remembered the…
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Commander Farsight
This is the only model I wanted to paint when I started painting Warhammer a year and a half ago. And finally I got to it. I must apologise to Citadel Plastic Glue, it actually works well with Warhammer. It is larger than I expected, 60mm base, and has around 50 parts. The really nice…
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Path of Exile 2
I might say it as well now, this is everything I wanted Diablo 4 to be. The linear progression means you don’t fight level 50 hedgehogs. And the fact that enemy bodies do not disappear until you leave the zone adds to the spectacle. By level 15 I got my first unique item, and by…
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Path of Exile 2
I never managed to get into Path of Exile 1. Similarly to Titan Quest, the Greek/Roman aesthetics doesn’t appeal to me for some reason. Path of Exile 2 is another story: it’s gothic style is less of Diablo, and more of Warhammer. I usually like to play as Paladin, but since there’s none available, I…
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Tiberian Sun Firestorm
Completed GDI campaign. I think I’ll skip NOD campaign, as I’ve seen most if not all of the new NOD units already, and there wasn’t much new to begin with. To the best of my understanding, both the GDI and NOD endings are somewhat canon, because when you start the expansion campaign for GDI, they…
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Tiberian Sun
Completed the NOD campaign. Once NOD gets artillery, it’s game over for GDI. The most overpowered artillery since Ground Control. It is even smart enough to deploy automatically once in range. Story is still rough. You complete a mission, and the next thing you know, Slavic is captured by GDI, then rescued by Cyborg Commando.…
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Garmin Fenix 8
It’s an interesting watch, because almost everything I like about it could easily be implemented in Garmin Venu 3. How expensive is it to have 5 buttons instead of 3? But 5 buttons allow you to turn display on or off, and also scroll up and down without using the touch screen. In general, I…
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Aberlour 18 and Bunnahabhain 18
There is a certain irony I write about random whiskey tasters, but sometimes ignore bottles I buy. I’ve had Aberlour 18 for over a year now, although didn’t touch it much, and I recently opened Bunnahabhain 18. Both are great whiskies for their price, although both are slightly subdued from what I had expected. Aberlour…
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Tiberian Sun
On one hand, it feels like I should have started with the NOD campaign, because Kain first introduced in it, and it has tutorial tips, which I didn’t notice in the GDI campaign. On the other hand, it still feels like I’ve started watching from the middle of the show. Who’s Hassan and why is…
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Mikkeller Beer Geek Vanilla Shake
Mikkeller is as much underground as BrewDog there days, so it’s always good to see an Imperial Stout expression from mainstream producer. It has zero head, full body, like Imperial Stout should. What surprised me were the whisky notes. Turns out, it’s literally whisky infused. Not sure what that means, I understand “barrel ages”, but…
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Tiberian Sun
Completed GDI campaign. Out of all the GDI missions, “Weather the Storm” is the worst one. You aren’t allowed any flying units due to ion storm, which means you have no way to counter NOD artillery. You also have no map. And the last mission is though. The real problem is the time limit of…
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Redbreast whisky
I had a bottle of Redbreast 12 from 2020, and I might have pulled it in one of the advent calendars as well. But this time, I decided to get a taster set with Redbreast Lustau and Redbreast 15. Lustau is smooth and sherries, smells of vanilla, with some oily texture common to Irish whiskies…
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Tiberian Sun
The game works well on modern PCs, but since it’s not a remake, the control scheme isn’t modernized. You issue orders with LMB, you cannot select units of the same type with double-click, and the waypoints work weirdly. As a kid, I completed this game, but didn’t like it. First C&C was straightforward, especially with…