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My son played a few of the levels which I haven't even tried yet. Going through those as he did not care about secret stuff!

I also got to the end credits the other day and am going through courses where I missed something. The course overview is really good in this regard but when standing next to a course that has been cleared it should show what was found in that course. It's very satisfying to open up secret levels and routes in this game, and I'm itching to get back to it. I just don't have the time right now.

Yeah. That sucked lives from me as well. After a few attempts, I just said fuck this and looked it up. Ashamed of that, but whatever.

I came across a Big Purple Coin today that seemingly required a specific badge. I have not met that before (this was world 6). Besides the obvious like Dolphin Kick Badge in underwater levels and Badge Challenge levels, is there any other coins that require specific badges?

Yeah, I'm interested in getting this for Switch at some point, I hope it does well and is a decent port. My wife even showed interest in it so maybe it's something we could enjoy together, if we had the time.

As I said, I play with my son (6 y.o.) and I force him to play as Nabbit and Yoshi as he is terrible at avoiding enemies (I don't get it, why is that so hard) so it's great that they don't take damage so that he doesn't die all the time. It's just a shame that this feature isn't selectable on every character, because he really wants to be Elephant Mario. I'm a bit baffled by that design decision. However, besides it being horrible to watch, he has actually got quite a bit of progress in the game. He doesn't do the hard bits of course and seldom gets all the purple coins but he doesn't care about that anyways, he just wants to go face Bowser ASAP (he's quite the impatient one). I'm curious to see how far he would get if I didn't play on the same file as well (and thus I am grateful that I don't have to pursue an achievement for completing the game with no game overs - the penalty for getting game over is so small that they just as well could have skipped having lives...).

I've played it with my son for an hour. Characters don't interact this time around, so no boost jumps or teasing the others. However, if one player dies, it turns into a ghost and the other players can revive it. That helps a bit. Other than that, no real multilayer.

Disney Speedstorm has gone f2p. Is it any fun or mostly just a tedious grind? Might download it for my son but don't want him to be discouraged.

Have you met my wife? Yeah, I know that I won't be getting any sympathy but I was (and am) frustrated by the lack of flexibility in an otherwise excellent scheme. But it turned out that my workplace is not to blame, the government forced some new rules on paternity leave that make it impossible to spend the time and still get money after the child is 1 year old. Previously, there was an upper limit at 7 years old but they wanted the fathers to spend more time at home in the early years so they changed the system and made 11 weeks exclusive to the father where it was shared beforehand, meaning that less fathers took the time off.

My wife and I started Sex Education season 4 the other day. Two full episodes in, and I just really don't care about it. It' way too much this time around, can't really enjoy it.

I'm having af small beef with HR at my work at the moment. Thing is, I got a daughter in August and am planning my paternity leave. My workplace gives me my normal salary for 12 weeks of my paternity leave (which is pretty normal here in Denmark). However, they will only do that if I spend all 12 weeks before my child is 52 weeks old - but my wife and I think it's better for our child to be at home for a longer period of time so my wife takes one full year (some of it is without income) and then I take over. But we can't do that because of my workplace's random rule, and HR is not willing to discard it even though they can give me no reason at all as to why it is there in the first place. In the public system, we can take our paternity leave (or parent's leave) at any time until the child is 9 years old, and we get compensated by the public system with a (somewhat) small amount of money. A workplace can then take the compensation and pay out the full salary instead which is a privilege, I know, but this being the case, my work should not care the least about the age of my child, which is what provokes me. It's just a local agreement with a local union at my work. When I talked to them, four HR people quickly surrounded me and told me that what I wanted was simply not possible, despite me having done it twice without problems. I lose about 65,000 Danish Kroner. because of this, which is about two month's pay, so it really affects my financial situation privately, even more so because my wife is without her usual income for half the year already. But since I believe that more time at home will give me a more robust and strong child, I'll take my leave. I could also just accept the situation and take the leave within the 52 weeks but then I wouldn't be alone with my daughter, my wife would be home as well, and then it doesn't really make sense for me as the time is spend to bond with the child.

Oh, that's nice. And much more affordable than the other Mario sets (though of course also less bricks). Might grab it!

If I were to play this, my wife would kill me the moment I started it.

I've considered it but haven't really seen the anime or read the manga, so it's not on the top of my list. It does look like some silly comedy that could be great to watch during the fall.

Switch Up

I know it's normal to have a Direct in September but I don't feel like I need one. We pretty much know what's coming until February and the rest of the year is already pretty packed. I could see them throwing out a Partner Showcase, though.

Is the DLC free?

I'm at about 65 hours on this game and just completed my fourth temple, the Spirit Temple - I enjoyed the first part of that temple, it was a good puzzle, but the warrior you got access to was way to weak for me. I need to go to Gerudo now for the final Regional Disturbance-quest. I'm also chipping away at the underground, though I don't particularly enjoy that place. It's a bit too empty and dark for me, and there's so much more to do on the surface and skies. I feel that I need to up my pace for completing story-stuff now, as I also have other games I want to play. However, I simply don't feel I have the time to play much these days, so it's not that I can just sit down a complete the game.

New game on August 30th:

Watched Beef this week. It started out well, with humour and something to think about, but as the episodes went by, it just got more and more absurd and in the end, it just got surreal. I really didn't enjoy the last couple of episodes and don't think they made much sense. Had it been two episodes shorter and with fewer side stories, it could have been better Still enjoyable, though, and the acting was good.

Out on October 17th. Just days before Super Mario Bros. Wonder. That's just bad timing...

My wife gave birth to a healthy baby girl yesterday. Third child. Had anyone asked me 20 years ago if I'd ever get children, let a lone three, I'd laughed at them.

Scott Pilgrim anime gets the name Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, and it comes out November 17th. Looks really good! Really catches the style of the comics. It's also really funny that they are using the same actors as in the movie. Nice gimmick. (I think Michael Cera was great as Scott.)