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Cyberpunk 2077
Completed Cyberpunk. I can’t complain much about the arsenal, there are plenty of cool and fun unique weapons to play with. Only category that puzzles me are the machine guns: there are just two types of LMGs, the second was added in the DLC, I think. And there is exactly one HMG type in the…
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Tropical Highland Fling, Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Received my second bottle from Scotch Malt Whisky Society, Tropical Highland Fling. This one is only 12 years old, which for 90GBP sounds overprices, but at least it’s 58% ABV, cask strength, so I’d say at the top of the price range. It is super interesting, though. I was guessing rum casks, because it is…
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Hereditary
This wasn’t what I was expecting. I thought it will be a take on haunted house. Maybe some commentary on how Grandma tries to control the family in her death, same as she did in life. Then I thought that maybe Grandma groomed the granddaughter to be her host. Then the car scene happened. And…
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Sony Trinitron
Struggled to understand why I’m not getting any picture. Turns out, TV doesn’t automatically switch to SCART, even when there is signal. As I didn’t get a remote, I was glad to find that “input” followed by + does the trick. I tried connecting Neo Geo first, but by the time I figured how to…
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Dragon’s Milk Tales of Gold, New Holland Brewing
I rarely go back to write about beer I’ve had before, but I’ve finished my second and last bottle of Dragon’s Milk Tales of Gold, and it’s still one of the best beers I’ve ever had. Maybe it’s the barrel aging, or the the added lactose, but it has this amazing creaminess and vanilla notes…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
Completed Phantom Liberty by siding with Songbird all the way, because I thought it will be the most difficult. You get number of options to betray her in the process, and then you can shoot Reed dead in a cutscene. It’s a good spy thriller, and the best Cyberpunk 2077 story, but every Cyberpunk 2077…
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Sony Trinitron KV-M1401U
I didn’t plan to buy a CRT. They are overpriced nowadays, since everyone is into retrogaming it seems, and nobody produce them anymore, and they degrade with time. Limited supply, growing demand. They are also very heavy and bulky, and most sellers refuse to ship them, or the shipping can be while not astronomical, quite…
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Pet Sematary, Stephen King
“Rachel looked on this, his only real hobby, with a wifely indulgence that held, he supposed, some elements of contempt; even after ten years of marriage she probably thought he would grow out of it. “ I have read a lot of Stephen King as a teenager, but not Pet Sematary. I wonder what I’d…
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CaDA Master C61505W Viva Hypercar (Ferrari La Ferrari)
3rd bag, 5.5 hours, over 2 months, though, with a break of almost a month in the middle. I wanted to finish the gear box in one go, as the gears aren’t held together by anything until fully assembled and simply fall out, so I spent more than one hour in a single sitting on…
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Lochlea Cask Strength Batch 2
Once you get deep enough into whisky, there are a couple of topics you start to encounter: “batches” and “rebuys”. Batches are relevant to cask strength whiskies mostly, because any blending diffuses the character, while making whisky more consistent. “Batch” is between “single cask” and “age statement” for me at least. People still rave about…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
The Brazilian spies sidequest is what I’d expected from more quests in this game. You’re asked to track a spy that was MIA half a year ago, but not his tracker came back online. Only it’s not the spy, but his interrogator who fell out of favour that activated the tracker. You’re asked to kill…
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HifiMan Ananda Stealth
Don’t laught, but I replaced my Hifiman XS with Ananda. I got an open box this time, and with a coupon, the price was the same I paid for Hifiman XS. The main visual difference is the metal headband with headstrap on Ananda. No more 3D printed crap. The sound quality is… the same, to…
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Myst 2021
Another point’n’click adventure that I found extremely obscure back in the day, this one a 1st person as well. First I tried the Masterpiece Edition, which, although it works, is basically unplayable. There’s a Windows 3.11 border, blurry prerendered graphics and discrete movement that induces motion sickness, because you rotate at arbitrary angles, depending on…
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Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
The problem with Cyberpunk story that it’s gameplay is in dissonance with it. The story is that Relic is killing V, and he doesn’t have much time left, but in reality, you can play however much you want. Of they wanted death breathing down the neck, they could just do time limit like in Fallout…
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Painting Ghostkeel Battlesuit
I already painted one 10cm base model, Horticulus Slimux from Warhammer. It had a lot of detail, but Ghostkeel Battlesuit is interesting in many different ways. First, I’ve never seen instructions to paint before assembly. When I painted Commander Farsight, I cursed and swore that the next model I will paint in parts, but here…
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Neverhood
Another point’n’click I remember from my childhood. The navigation is discreet first person, though. There’s no inventory, character just uses the item when needed. No active zone highlighting on the other hand. Puzzles are simplistic so far, except for the music puzzle. Although I might be just not very good with music puzzles in general,…
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Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Completed Blood Meridian. I must say, I enjoyed the book, despite the fact it had no structure or rhyme or rhythm. There are rarely justifications for characters actions, or some type of closure. It does help knowing that Glanton’s Gang was real, and one of its alleged members wrote a memoir describing its misdeeds. Not…
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Tacticus
Unlocked Lucius from his final LRE. Was missing 25 shards, because some tracks were impossible with my current roster, so had to spend blackstone. He should be useful in long battles, as whoever kills him gets damage over time, and if he dies, Lucius comes back. Should be a nice distraction. Unlocked Sekhetar Robot from…
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Pokeno Origin whisky
18 taster from the Advent calendar, this one is from New Zealand. It’s very floral on the nose, jasmine like, and very light and smooth, to the point I thought it’s a blend. At 50GBP, it’s not great, but it is discounted to 30GBP, which make it not great but cheap whisky.
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Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
Despite all the unexplained violence, I was enjoying the narrative until the style shifted. First it was the tale how Judge first appeared in front of a company of headhunters in order to lead them around volcanoe for a few days like Moses in order to produce crude gunpowder like a bunch of bloodthirsty Robinsons,…