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Monthly Archive February, 2016

A Shot at Finishing Modern Times This Month… A Long Shot…

I seem to be finishing Modern Times missions at a rate of one per day. Granted, finished the eighth on Monday and the ninth only yesterday, but that was because I didn’t play the two days in between, so finishing the tenth this evening leaves me with two missions and three days until the end […]

About the Announced Changes to Eurovision Voting…

Significant changes to the Eurovision voting system were recently announced and they’re quite a mixed bag. On the one hand, separating televoting and jury scores was something that had to happen ever since it became a rule to have both in each country, and a format that only reveals the winner at the very end […]

At Least I Finished Mission Six of Tropico 4: Modern Times…

Since I’m not doing much else and see no reason to think I’ll get any motivation to write a serious non-personal post tomorrow if I didn’t in about a month if you’re lenient and close to two months otherwise, I guess simply mentioning that I at least managed to finish that sixth Modern Times mission […]

Finished A Dance with Dragons, Replaced Shoes and Got a Third Pizza

As it should already be obvious, since that’s when I posted the quick review, I actually managed to finish A Dance with Dragons on Sunday. My eyes didn’t like that all that much and I was having trouble focusing for the last couple of days, and also for some time after I finished, but they […]

Quick Review: A Dance with Dragons

I once read a review stating that A Dance with Dragons is a 1200-page book containing perhaps 200 pages of action, which with a bit of effort may have even been squeezed into 100. Which is true, and I’ll also add that some of that action is not presented directly, as it happens, but summarized […]