Unlocked Nubari from his release event. Cheap character, 100 shards.
Unlocked Ragnar through Guild War. Once he was very important in Guild Raids for his double melee damage buff.
Unlocked Typhus from a random pull, although I was farming him, so I was missing just some 20 shards. Still, it’s a very good result, as he’s the last Death Guard I was missing, and Death Guard are nasty.
My next goal I’ve set to promote Celestine to Mythic, since I had her close enough, and got her Mythic weapon from Rogue Trader shop. Mythic weapons are interesting, because they alter how character plays. In Celestine case, she’s able to resummon her minions if she lands a kill, or to land an attack if they are alive, which should make them and her so much stickier and nastier. Got lucky with her “10K damage” mythic quest, as I had exactly the Tyranid boss lined up: big enough the damage, but not leveled enough to mitigate with armor.
Day: October 4, 2026
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Tacticus
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Hot Pursuit (2010)
I don’t play racing games much, as I’m not good at them in general. But there is something about Xbox 360 era racing games that I adore. And Hot Pursuit is one of the prime examples.
There is no customisation or personalisation, no dud cars, you just get into something like Chevrolet Camaro and drive. In this game, they even have rolling start, dropping you in front of the wheel as the car already drives, instead of a grid start. There is no slowmo or rewind, which I rely on a lot, but there are rechargable gadgets and shortcuts.
I also like how the game lets you drive Pagani Zonda as a preview just an hour in.
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Moby Dick, Herman Mieville
By the 3rd of the book it suddenly changes styles, and each chapter becomes a separate inner monologue of a different crew member: Ahab, Starbuck, Stubb.
At that point I also started to doze off a bit, as 1850 style of the author became very tiring. He has the tendency to pile adjectives, or to ask rethoric questions over and over again:
What kind of oil is used at coronations? Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear’s oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil. What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted state, the sweetest of all oils?