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Monthly Archive April, 2015

Review: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition – Director’s Cut

I started playing this game in June 2013 and then abandoned it later that same month, after doing pretty much what I could do without really advancing the story much in chapter two, the attempts to pick it back up over the following two months ending very quickly, after only some grinding. Eventually continued in […]

First Run on Track and Computer Turning Seven

Friday I finally got around to running on the track the first time, also noticing that it’s not actually on the National Arena, but next to it. Had probably seen a picture or two which should have made that clear before, but it simply made no sense to me, so I just assumed the images […]

Switching to Emsisoft and Finishing Copying My Old BookCrossing Reviews

Strangely enough, though it otherwise correctly listed that it had one day left of the trial and continued to work, my G DATA Antivirus refused to update yesterday. Or, more exactly, it updated the last time Monday evening around 11:30 PM, an hour later reported that no updates were available, and after that it said […]

Quick Review: Baptism of Fire

This time around, most of the action happens around Geralt rather than because of him, his contribution often being minor or even non-existent. However, this seems to offer the author even greater freedom, the result being a perhaps wider scope and worldbuilding, action, character development, adept social, political and environmental commentary, depictions of the horrors […]

Quick Review: Fevre Dream

This is definitely an interesting take on vampires. They make sense, they’re reasonably well explained and they rather fit into the world, or at least some of them do. Neither the properly dreadful beasts of old nor the very differently dreadful modern take, Martin‘s vampires are refined ultimate predators that, like humans, can choose to […]