On Tuesday, the 14th of November, 2023 the 8th major update to Satisfactory arrived in Early Access, after spending months in the Experimental branch to shake out the worst of the bugs… most of them, anyway. We have a few things to talk about with “U8” but today we’re going to focus primarily on the new engine’s support for something called “Lumen” and how that makes an already-pretty game even prettier.
I suppose I should say a few words about the other new record I picked up last week:
Filter’s The Algorithm has a few songs I mostly like (and even “For The Beaten” almost loses me in places) but overall is not my cuppa tea. That’s not to say it’s bad, just not-for-me, not an overall style I like. A bigger fan of the band than I am would probably like it just fine, as it is definitely more-of-that.
To be fair, nearly every Filter album I’ve heard (other than the nearly-flawless Title Of Record) is like this for me, where I end up with two or three songs in rotation and a whole bunch of “nope, don’t want none of that” tracks. So take this with the grain of salt it probably deserves.
“We’ll go hang out somewhere, indoors, where there’s food. It’ll be great!”
And here I am, desperate for socialization yet diabetic as hell and guess what, COVID still exists and will still definitely do its best to kill me like it’s killing hundreds every week still yes even now despite what the official organizations are pointedly not telling you, and since keeping a mask on while watching other people eat and stressing constantly about whether my mask’s seal is good enough isn’t one of my favorite pasttimes, I’ll have to pass on that invite, which sucks because I don’t get invited to things hardly ever to begin with and turning down invitations is a great way to make invitations even less frequent.
Sigh.
Did you know that the Double D boys released a new album a couple weeks ago? I sure didn’t! Luckily, a coworker mentioned it in passing yesterday. That was probably the best part of my entire day, if I’m honest.
So, how is it? Hmm.
(more…)But that doesn’t make it fun.
Monday afternoon I got the second of the two parts of the “Shingrix” vaccine, a shingles preventative. The first round was a couple months ago during my semi-annual doctor check-up, and that knocked me on my ass for two solid days. This time? Only one solid day of aches all over and a head stuffed full of wool. That’s an improvement, right?
I also got my latest COVID jab and the flu jab a couple weeks ago. Am I getting used to needles? (No. Not really. I’m just less of a wimp about it now.)
All in a good cause, mind you. I don’t want the real thing, flu or Coronavirus or shingles or any of it. So, this is me, once again trying to stay out ahead of any of that garbage.
I’m passing a lot of my time playing games lately, a mix of new and really-very-old. Let’s run down the list a bit, shall we?
