MindFreak

Paternity leave is good for my physical condition. I've had the time to actually do some weights now, last I did front squats, 5*10 reps at 60 kg which is pleasing. Bench press is at 50 kg for 10 reps. I don't have more than 60 kg though so it's hard to become stronger. Endurance is good, though. Also set a new record on the rowing machine today. Did 5732 m in 20 minutes today, up from my previous best of 5719 last year. I can't go out running at the moment because I have to stay near my son (who is the reason for my leave so that's fair enough) but found out that there's 600 m around the block which I can run in about 2:10 so I've been doing intervals - 1 run, 1 minute break, 8 times. Good for gaining speed. However, I went out on a run yesterday with my oldest son (4.5 years), he was on his bike. Worst run ever, he talked the entire time and I had to push him the entire 4.9 km! I had hoped he would speed up sometimes and push me a little but he didn't. On the contrary, he sometimes just stopped pedalling and let me push him forward. Lazy son of a .. well, no.

I'm not much for playing retro games so probably won't pick this up. Played Turtles a lot in the NES back in the days, though. I didn't come very far into it but I enjoyed it being a massive Turtles fan nevertheless. I'll just get my Turtles fix from Shredder's Revenge when that comes out.

I'm five episodes into Peacemaker now. This is probably some of the best super hero television I have seen. It has a really good blend of humour, interesting characters, and mystery. Can't recommend it enough. You need to watch The Suicide Squad first, though, as it pretty much spoils that movie in the first 5 minutes.

I don't see any recent (as in for the past 7 or so years) examples in that list. And no game in recent time where we have already seen it. Plus, they are probably almost done printing the game, ready to ship it within the next couple of weeks. Having them stored somewhere shouldn't cost them a huge amount of money and as soon as the conflict is de escalated by the end of March, they will announce a new date for the game. (Military analysts don't expect the war to go on beyond March.) I also think that one of the reasons for this is that the war makes advertising the game really hard so instead of just sending it out without any promotion, they hold on to it.

I've decided to go with the new job. It sounds like a good mix of seriousness and relaxed culture along with tasks that resemble what I'm doing now. I probably won't get a pay raise per se but my current salary includes my own contribution to pension (5.25 % of my salary) which will be removed and on top I get 21 % on top of my salary paid to my pension scheme by the new employer (11 % now). That's quite the boost! So that will give me more money on the bottom line.

Yeah, that was so obvious that even I though of it!

Is there a good game between those on sale? Could do with a new game and have my eyes peeled on Ender Lilies which is supposed to be a good Metroidvania. I still have Metro Last Light to play though, but the protagonist is Russian so...

So you only get some challenge out of the game if you replay it? That's stupid. I don't replay games or watch movies twice because I have too much to do. I just want a game that is fun the first time I play it and playing a game that does not at least give me reason to mind what I'm doing and doesn't have a good story is just unnecessary to play.

56 hours for me.

Yeah. Haven't got a mail about cancellation of my pre-order, though. On the contrary, I got a reminder email about it yesterday. Can Russians themselves still buy stuff?

It really is a happy game with lots of charm. No, it's not hard but at least you have to watch out just a little this time. The missions are also a nice touch (only got 4/5 flowers on stage two and I thought I was thorough). I do wish it was sped up a little bit, though. Kirby is slow.

I'm not saying games should be soul crushingly difficult all the way through but I just don't think the past Kirby games I've played have had a good balance. They were so easy that it was just not fun to play them.

Oh. Misread this then: https://nintendoeverything.com/kirby-and-the-forgotten-land-demo-released-new-trailer/ I'll play it later, looking forward to it. Normally I would skip Kirby games because they are simply too easy and not interesting but this looks way better overall.

The demo includes three levels and a boss fight. Also a new overview trailer: (not sure if completely new, it contains a lot of the stuff from the latest Direct but well, it's a new UK version at least.)

I wonder if Nintendo could delay this title due to the recent war breaking out. I don't think they should but given the content of the games it might be relevant and make marketing quite hard.

Well, I was more leaning on rescuing someone being chased by a pack of bulls. But they could go all in and add bullfighting as well. They do eat Pokémon in the universe.

Wonder if they'll do something like the bull run in Pamplona. That would be amusing.

I bought the MK8 Booster Pack from my Russian eShop account. It was 2075 rubles. I'm a bit interested to see if that transaction actually goes through and how much I actually end up paying. The price in rubles is locked but the currency conversion is not. Or if my bank will even allow it at this time. It hasn't been a problem previously. (I had some gold points on the extra account that "lives" in Russia that I wanted to use).

Another new trailer for Fantastic Beasts 3: I'll definitely watch it but I'm a bit skeptical. I don't really understand why we need those Fantastic Beasts-characters in the movie...

Looks great but damn, I had not expected them to release in 2022! This autumn is just going to be packed. Really liking the world I'm seeing.

But that Johto Tour was announced at least last month so have they just put something more under that banner or?

I haven't been able to find the Pokémon Go announcement anywhere (checked Twitter, news outlets and Reddit). Anyone seen it?

I assume this will be made available on the official Pokémon YouTube channel?

On Tuesday, Ikea delivers a new kitchen to me. Ten days later, my father and father-in-law will tear down the old kitchen, rip off the wooden floors (that we lay down just before moving in) to remove some tiles that made the wooden floor unstable. Then the new kitchen will be implemented. I'm looking forward to that as I've never done anything like that before. I'm a mathematician, I don't use tools! But I wanted to save money and since I'm on paternity leave, I have the time to actually do it. I'm just happy that my fathers are there to help me. Other than that, I don't need to do much but there is still lots of knowledge about keeping a house healthy that I need to obtain.

Just curious - what kind of books do you prefer to read? I read fantasy - surprise? - and I love getting lost in a new world with new stuff to discover.