I haven't played either of them, so I'll have to go on hear-say. Beyond a Steel Sky is deemed to be a solid sequel and is always recommended to those who liked the original. It just won't achieve the classic status of the original. Paradigm is generally considered a "modern-day classic". Supposedly a great game. It's on my backlog too, but so are hundreds of other adventure games.   I still call adventure games my favourite genre, but somehow they require more willpower to actually start up and play. Don't know why... 😇

In the office today for my suggested 'last Friday of the month social' for those who complained about there only being twice-a-year full team days. I suggested them for anyone who wanted the additional social days to come on site when they knew others would also likely be around. For the [every single month so far since December], I'm the only person in. Occasionally others come in on these days but it's always for other reasons (testing on site, having other plans in the eve etc). I shall continue passive aggressively coming on site for these until I bin off this organisation (which is feeling more and more likely) and will smile and nod when people complain at the next away day that there aren't enough social/team building. Eyeroll. Wfh yester and actually went for a walk at lunch to the shop. Realised I'd forgotten something halfway back so it became a longer walk! Morning run, darebee and kettlebells, and got the physio in late (and badly but still done), had URL games in the eve which didn't finish until nearly 11pm, and then had to finish packing for the weekend's singing competition.   Yesterday: 🥗 10pts 💧 5pts 🏃‍♀️ 10pts 🚶‍♀️ 10pts 🦵 5pts 🐝 5pts 🔔 5pts* 💡 0pts Total: 340pts   *it's annoying the teapot emoji doesn't work on some browsers so kettlebells will be 🔔 now

Is this one of those 'you can't change someone else's behaviour but you can change how you respond to it' situations? Very much easier to say that actually do...     Very interesting and kinda cool       Hard agree

Eek, how did that happen?!

I'm in the office today so I'm not sure I'll be able to get away with sneaking these in...  

Noice! I need to get back to these!

Oh hey, I've been tracking my daily steps since May 11th and I recently decided to convert my logs into distance for a Walk to Mordor on my challenge. Might as well sign up here too, here's a summary thus far:   May 11: Left Bag End May 15: The hobbits camp along Stock Road May 17: A Black Rider (Nazgul) appears. The hobbits escape notice by hiding May 19: The hobbits have another close call run-in with a Black Rider. Elves appear to chase it off. May 21: Camp at Wood End. The next day, the hobbits cross Stock-brook. May 25: Arrival at Crickhollow and rest for the night. May 29: Rescued by Tom Bombadil. Night spent at his home. June 3: Lost at the Barrow-downs and captured by Barrow-wights of Angmar. June 7: Reach Bree. Meet Strider. Spend the night at the Prancing Pony. June 11: Camp in Chetwood. June 13: Camp in Eastern Chetwood. June 18: Camp in western part of the Midgewater Marshes. June 20: Camp in eastern part of the Midgewater Marshes. See flashes of light in the east during the night (Gandalf on Weathertop). June 23: Camp by a stream. June 24: Can see crumbled ruins on the Weather Hills ahead. June 27th: The hobbits and Strider begin their ascent towards Weathertop. This is the point where Sam sings/recites "The fall of Gil-Galad"

Ah, that would explain your reaction when I tried to play Beneath a Steel Sky a while back. Which, shortly after we discussed it btw, I found out that it's got a sequel in Beyond a Steel Sky. Also, next up on my gaming backlog is Paradigm, which I understand is also an adventure/puzzle kind of game. Any thoughts on either?

I have four cats at home, and I'm the favourite human of all four. Cat butts already get presented to my face enough to not have to endure it during a video game as well... 😅   I'll let you know once I've platinumed the game and know the differences between the 4 house-specific missions... 😇 *If* I get that far, because holy crap, the spider-infested caves and the Forbidden Forest in general are scary. Despite my character probably being more powerful than Voldemort. 😱   Let me just stick to "good is not soft". 😇 I want to win, but not *at all costs* if that would mean compromising my character's humanity. But I *will* win... 😏 Evil just for the sake of evil? Very far removed from who I am / want to be. 😅   Will do. Only played one match so far. Will update when I've played a few more.   I've been moderator over at AdventureGamers.com since 2011. Let's just say that I know this firsthand, which is why I include those gifs too... 😇

Challenge Day 11: Thursday, June 27th   Nutrition Weight: 93,1kg (-0,1 kg). Oh wow. So now I'm really in the 93kg zone? Sweet. It'll be a big thing mentally to drop under 90, been a very, very long time since. Fasting: Given the shakeup on the previous day, I had breakfast and lunch, aiming to skip dinner. I was however still kinda low on calories total, slightly hungry and it felt like I wouldn't be able to make it through the night, the morning after and eat again when it was Friday lunchtime. Thus, I broke my fast later in the day to have a glass of wine and a few grapes before they'd go bad. This takes me to 10 hours of fasting, which is still better than I expected and at least I kept my calories low despite the three meals. Tracking: Around 1800, as mentioned, kept this in check.  Walked exactly 9.800 steps and drank 4 glasses (1L) of water.   Walking My 9.800 steps translate to 6,7km, which brings me to the point where the hobbits and Strider begin their ascent towards Weathertop. This is the point where Sam sings/recites "The fall of Gil-Galad"   Sleep Another 5,5 hours of sleep. This however was the first time in quite some time where I was actually woken up by my alarm, instead of waking up on my own, or by the cats catting somewhere nearby.   Non-tracked things: DuoLingo and Album of the Day done. Although I'm not reading, this Walk to Mordor thing already has me somewhat interested in re-visiting Middle Earth. I was never a big fan of the books if I'm honest, because it's such a slog. First time I made it to Rivendell and dropped it, then years later I finished the Fellowship but didn't bother with the other two. I did enjoy the films tho, and spent much time on the MMORPG when those things were still worth bothering. Progress on this Walk to Mordor thing is so slow at my pace that I'm looking into rather minute details about where the heroes were at each point of the story and it's kinda rekindled my curiosity, to the point where I found some audiobooks of LotR to maybe listen to while doing other things, kinda like I listen to podcasts. If anything, it's clear to me those books were written and meant to be read during a much, much slower time, not today's frantic pace of work and the Internet.   No warrior art for today, the video will have to suffice.