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Is it also coming to Europe?

On Wii U, I think you were able to use Wiimotes or something. That's not possible on Switch?

Severed has been released today on Switch eShop, €14.99 / £13.49. Quite the surprise. In other news, Axiom Verge is out on October 17th.

^True, there is another Stark but he died so long ago that he's forgotten.

What a season so far!

Have any of you seen Casual? I just finished the third season and I still think this is a very good show. The humour is quite alright but more importantly, the characters are likeable to a large extend, and the pacing is nice.

For the first time in 9 years, I guess, I just went through a period of 4 weeks without any other exercising than walking up the stairs for five stories once or twice a day. See, I got a son on July 7th and was admitted to the hospital afterwards because he wasn't quite well. So I had neither the energy nor the time for exercising, unfortunately. Now we are home, and he is well, so I went for a run yesterday. Did 3.3 km in 14,5 minutes, not bad for a first run in ages. Now to figure out how to add a child into the life balance...

Just finished Cave Story+ (second ending at least, don't wanna try to go through Hell at the moment!). Really, really good game but geez, the price is steep! That's about the only negative point I have, though. Also some save points are a little too far behind the hard points - I hate doing the same stuff over and over so that frustrated me. My playthrough took just about 7.5 hours and was my first time.

There is finally a release date now. November 17th in Europe.

I love dead baby jokes. They are objectively funny. Like, what's the difference between a pizza and a baby? The pizza wasn't alive when it was put in the oven. I usually don't get offended by that kind of stuff. However, if people are wrong about something, I tend to get a bit upset and may use a harsher tone of voice when explaining that they are wrong. It's not that I'm angry, I just want them to understand.

I finished Oceanhorn the other day. I had a very, very average experience with it all in all, the puzzles were boring and samey and the combat lackluster but I liked exploring the world and finding stuff. I had a few weird experiences where I fell down a place I couldn't get out of or where I could swim in one direction but not back again and other errors in the game. However, did I miss something along the way? I had NO CLUE how to defeat the final boss so I looked it up and saw that you had to use a specific item at a specific time. Was that ever explained? Overall, I think I'd recommend the game to children not very experienced with adventure-games. I think they would enjoy it more than someone like me - a Zelda veteran. I also bought Snake Pass at a discount the other day. Looking forward to trying that out. But first! BotW Master Trials!

Managed a 82 kg full squat clean today. I've done some power cleans that are heavier previously but this is my heaviest full squat clean ever. The form was quite good but apparently I have a bad habit of stopping a bit in my movement just above the knees when doing full cleans which is a bit weird. Effectively, I could just as well do hang cleans instead.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ has been announced for September 14th in France by justforgames. Likely that's the same date we get it in the rest of Europe as well.

I expected that trailer to be completely crap but I actually laughed a couple of times. Seems like they updated the premise a bit from the old 90s-movie. May watch it once it hits Netflix.

Is the Trial of the Sword worth getting the DLC for now or should I just wait for Pack 2? Anyone completed it yet?

I got contacted on LinkedIn last week by a manager in my organisation that had found me and wanted me to join a very important project. I went to an informal coffee meeting with him Monday and it's really interesting. Rather than using PL/1 and Cobol, working with older colleagues and such, I would enter a more modern IT development environment with younger people, C# as a programming language, and the job would in a higher degree utilize my competences within mathematics and software engineering than my current position. Careerwise it would be stupid not to apply for this job so I've decided to do that even though it might mean periods with more hours which is bad timing as I'm about to get my first child within a month or so. So now it's all about keeping this secret to my current manager - I have a meeting with her in a week to find out what to do with me in the future!

So finished my studies today with a nice grade and a new title of professional master in software engineering. Also got promoted to Senior Software Engineer from July 1st though that basically only means more responsibility as I already got the most of the pay-raise that was going along with the title. Now for that talk with my boss about career path and what I want to do with my professional life... that's a hard one!

I read and finished Crisis on Infinite Earths last week. What a story! That was massive, it was well-written and not that confusing - though some things could have been explained a bit better - and it was sad. It is very obvious from reading stuff that came after this that it really had an effect on the entire DC Universe and I feel that it is an important book to read. Now on to Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis, though I'm unsure whether they are actually part of the same story. They should be done by next week and then I'll read Injustice Year 1 and 2.

25 minutes long.

Sneaky reveal! Can it be trusted? Atlus hasn't confirmed it, I think.

Do you have a source? Last time I checked this was only announced for North America but it may have gone by me. The video is called "Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology (3DS) - Teaser Trailer (North America)" so doesn't apply to Europe.

Ooooh. I get it!

Pokémon Shuffle 2! Yay!

From NintendoEverything:

It was quite good as entertainment. Not great film art but it wasn't necessary for it.