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Aug. 23rd, 2026 08:26 pmestiroseI finally played Fields of Mistria 1.0; I've had it in early access but drifted away from it. I'm actually really enjoying it, though right now I'm in the slow bit; growing the most cost-effective crops, tending to animals, and figuring out what to do with my farm. I finished one of the main storylines and I think most of the other, but that's based on mild spoilers that I'm trying not to peek too much into other than to know if I have events coming after the ones I've experienced (which I do!)
(I also wrote a fic, but it seriously spoils the events of one storyline, so not linking it here.)
It's very well done! I think it feels more like a town where people interact a lot more than Stardew Valley does - in fact, every Friday for your first year, the entire town comes to the inn and there are entire storylines going on. (This does not repeat after the first year, but after you finish a certain quest line, you'll see a limited return to this format.) It of course has the standard museum/mines/friendships/relationships and so on. I don't know if it will completely replace Stardew Valley in my heart but it's a good game. You're required to fish/catch bugs/farm/mine, but you'll find you don't mind, and I love the unique enemy attacks every time you reach a new area in the mines.
I'm currently aiming to romance one of the local royals. (Note that while romance is not late-game, marriage is!) Of course, I want my farm to be presentable which will take some time; I haven't decided whether or not to purchase the extra plot. I am not a decorator!
( New player tips )
(I also wrote a fic, but it seriously spoils the events of one storyline, so not linking it here.)
It's very well done! I think it feels more like a town where people interact a lot more than Stardew Valley does - in fact, every Friday for your first year, the entire town comes to the inn and there are entire storylines going on. (This does not repeat after the first year, but after you finish a certain quest line, you'll see a limited return to this format.) It of course has the standard museum/mines/friendships/relationships and so on. I don't know if it will completely replace Stardew Valley in my heart but it's a good game. You're required to fish/catch bugs/farm/mine, but you'll find you don't mind, and I love the unique enemy attacks every time you reach a new area in the mines.
I'm currently aiming to romance one of the local royals. (Note that while romance is not late-game, marriage is!) Of course, I want my farm to be presentable which will take some time; I haven't decided whether or not to purchase the extra plot. I am not a decorator!
( New player tips )
Unforseen
Aug. 22nd, 2026 07:52 pmyourlibrarian1) I don't know if any of you ever watched Heroes but one of its stars, Hayden Panetierri died this week at just 36. Apparently her actor brother died 3 years ago. I also saw an article pointing out how she and Michelle Trachtenberg had co-starred in Ice Princesses years ago and now both of them died within 2 years of one another.
2) Amazon has been buying up and destroying out of print books to feed its AI programs, since these older books are guaranteed not to have AI content.
"In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag provided by 404 Media in one of the books included in this order so we could see where the book was going. And by extension, which company, AI or otherwise, was behind this massive order.
The book ended up delivered to the VGT3 corner of the LAS8 Amazon facility in the north east of Las Vegas, where the entrance carried this on-the-nose logo of a dinosaur with a book!"
3) Started watching The Shards, and it's definitely a different approach to the teen thriller. Knowing nothing about it, I was fascinated to realize it was a semi-autobiographical story by Bret Easton Ellis. The casting was particularly remarkable with its lead looking like a cross between Topher Grace and Andrew McCarthy, and the actress playing Susan really makes one think of Jami Gertz. ( Read more... )
4) Speaking of American psychos, As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See Opening
5) Phoebe Gates took a secret Stanford class on how to ‘rule the world’ —and reportedly recruited employees for her startup accused of wire fraud. There's some more detail on the course itself in the student paper. Perhaps it's just a binge watch of Shards, but it seems to me this is going to be a movie at some point…
2) Amazon has been buying up and destroying out of print books to feed its AI programs, since these older books are guaranteed not to have AI content.
"In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag provided by 404 Media in one of the books included in this order so we could see where the book was going. And by extension, which company, AI or otherwise, was behind this massive order.
The book ended up delivered to the VGT3 corner of the LAS8 Amazon facility in the north east of Las Vegas, where the entrance carried this on-the-nose logo of a dinosaur with a book!"
3) Started watching The Shards, and it's definitely a different approach to the teen thriller. Knowing nothing about it, I was fascinated to realize it was a semi-autobiographical story by Bret Easton Ellis. The casting was particularly remarkable with its lead looking like a cross between Topher Grace and Andrew McCarthy, and the actress playing Susan really makes one think of Jami Gertz. ( Read more... )
4) Speaking of American psychos, As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See Opening
5) Phoebe Gates took a secret Stanford class on how to ‘rule the world’ —and reportedly recruited employees for her startup accused of wire fraud. There's some more detail on the course itself in the student paper. Perhaps it's just a binge watch of Shards, but it seems to me this is going to be a movie at some point…
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Getting Engaged
Aug. 15th, 2026 02:38 pmyourlibrarian1) This effort in Chicago to create a non profit space for local news to emerge is an interesting one. (Particularly appreciated how they're trying to avoid the hostility on Next Door from the get go). I hope it works well because that's the sort of community communication infrastructure that could be truly helpful.
"Bell hopes chicago.com will appeal to Chicago Public Media’s existing audience while also breaking new ground for them. And she hopes creating a social-media-style, participatory information hub corrects a mismatch in available news mediums and people’s actual information habits.
We want to make sure that we’re providing [people] that information in a format that creates a daily habit like we used to have when you would wake up and get the newspaper from the front step, or turn on the radio and listen to it on your drive into work."
2) I found the results of this study on commenting on news sites unsurprising :
"The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced less conversation. The more analytically a story was written, and the more statistics it contained, the fewer people commented on it. Emotional stories did the opposite, drawing bigger crowds. ( Read more... )
3) I finally finished 1923 because my partner gave up on it, 3 episodes from the finish. So I was able to race ahead on it. I had very mixed feelings, as it seemed the show could have easily gone on for another few seasons. ( Read more... )
I liked 1883, which is partly why I watched this one. But I think I'm done with the Taylor Sheridan stories. There was a lot of interesting stuff in this one, largely historical bits and the way they're explored. But it's all too torture porn for my taste (and I'm not just talking about the literal kind, which they also have).
"Bell hopes chicago.com will appeal to Chicago Public Media’s existing audience while also breaking new ground for them. And she hopes creating a social-media-style, participatory information hub corrects a mismatch in available news mediums and people’s actual information habits.
We want to make sure that we’re providing [people] that information in a format that creates a daily habit like we used to have when you would wake up and get the newspaper from the front step, or turn on the radio and listen to it on your drive into work."
2) I found the results of this study on commenting on news sites unsurprising :
"The same stories that produced sharper, more analytic conversation also produced less conversation. The more analytically a story was written, and the more statistics it contained, the fewer people commented on it. Emotional stories did the opposite, drawing bigger crowds. ( Read more... )
3) I finally finished 1923 because my partner gave up on it, 3 episodes from the finish. So I was able to race ahead on it. I had very mixed feelings, as it seemed the show could have easily gone on for another few seasons. ( Read more... )
I liked 1883, which is partly why I watched this one. But I think I'm done with the Taylor Sheridan stories. There was a lot of interesting stuff in this one, largely historical bits and the way they're explored. But it's all too torture porn for my taste (and I'm not just talking about the literal kind, which they also have).
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