The soundtrack is amazing. The Rza produced it and it introduced me to The Flaming Lips, Sunny Day Real Estate, Method Man, Mazzy Star, and Nick Cave.

Jolene - Dolly Parton

Nana na nana nana nanana

I bounced off Perdido twice, then tore through The Scar then went on to read his whole back catalog. It’s my favorite of the Bas Lag “trilogy”.

Where Wallace at, yo?

I tried a number of them but never found one that felt right. I went back to the stock Pixel launcher. It’s far from perfect but I’m getting too old to tinker on features I’m not using anymore. I use the same 4 or 5 apps every day so it wasn’t worth the time investment.

If you avoid initiating the conversation with him, the two human/drow/humanoids will patrol a bit and conveniently both stop under a large chandelier that has a little pin holding it up. Dropping it can one-shot them both.

There are candles all over that dais that will ignite grease pools.

There’s a wooden bridge behind and above Dror that will easily break and drop whoever is standing on it into the chasm.

Knock a goblin into the pit behind them and there are two spiders that will eat them.

Using the environment to your advantage helps a ton.

Fucking passive voice as per usual - “the woman was struck”, not “the pig shot her in the back.”

I like a Canadian Old Fashioned.

Bourbon

Maple syrup

Angostura bitters

Ice

Orange peel if you have them

If it’s a casserole, there’s a 90% chance it’s Minnesota.

Maybe they could fix Jedi Survivor first.

I’m replaying the Arkham series and I’d forgotten that Ashley’s VA plays Oracle. I couldn’t figure out why I was getting annoyed every time she called Batman until I made that connection.

The Steam Deck only has a single USB-C port on it, so you would need the dock for USB-A ports. The good news is that the existing USB-C port is on the top of the Deck and the dock connects via a short cable. You can use the dock as a stand but it’s not required.

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/dock

I heard from a “friend” that it runs very well on a Switch emulator on a Steam Deck. Some pre-rendered cutscenes are janky. It has a pretty cool system where you can take a screenshot that will pin to the map to indicate places you need to find back to once you unlock a new ability, and sometimes those don’t render right either. But otherwise, gameplay is flawless. Or so I’ve heard.

I’ve been champing at the bit for new Mieville fiction so I’ll take what I can get. My wife got me October for Christmas but I haven’t been in a non-fiction mood lately.

Comics will usually be published as individual issues. In the case of Invincible, it was 144 issues.

Then issues will be rolled up into trade paperbacks (sometimes called TPBs or trades). They usually follow a short story arc. Under the “collected editions” section of the Invincible wiki you can see it list which issues are in each of the 25 TPBs. Depending on which printing, it’s possible to get TPBs that group issues differently.

Then you’ll get Omnibuses or Omnis that bundle TPBs into a few giant books.