Books This week I read: The Anechoic Chamber a collection of short stories by Will Wiles Pretty good, I would say A Private Square of Sky was my favourite, but Meat Stream was definitely the most weird. A lot of people kind of went nuts during the pandemic, didn’t they… Volume 20 of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime by Fuse Building on what I said when I read volume 19, the series has just got bad now. Very little actually happened in this volume, it’s almost entirely one long fig...| barrucadu's weeknotes
Work I took this week off. Books This week I read: Volume 3 of the Rozen Maiden anniversary edition by Peach-Pit We’ve now crossed the point where the anime adaptation diverges from the manga, though the remake addresses some of it. I remember the ending of the anime being fairly rushed and confusing so I’m interested to see where the manga goes. The Borderland from Mongoose Publishing Most of the Traveller setting books cover a whole sector, or at least a substantial portion of one, whic...| barrucadu's weeknotes
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Books This week I read: The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson I’ve had my eye on this since reading Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad back in April. It’s a very different sort of story, but I enjoyed it a lot. It does refer to some of the things I was surprised weren’t in the Iliad, like the Trojan Horse and the death of Achilles; references to the lost epics that would have been common knowledge at the time of the Odyssey’s composition, I suppose. The poem repeatedly mentio...| barrucadu's weeknotes
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Books This week I read: The Deep and the Dark from Mongoose Publishing Reaver’s Deep is another fun frontier region with the Imperium, Solomani Confederation, and Aslan Hierate all being present, along with a variety of interstellar states. It’s a frontier powderkeg, much like the Trojan Reach (my preferred campaign locale) and the Spinward Marches (the traditional Traveller campaign setting)—it’s easy to see why these places are popular. Dark Nebula is almost entirely dominated by th...| barrucadu's weeknotes
I’d had my eye on this for a while, as it’s the book that gets recommended if you’re into mathematical treatments of accounting, but personally I felt it was a bit of a let-down. The book was interesting but not insightful. For example, after defining an algebraic model of an accounting system, the authors show how the standard algebraic notion of a quotient system can be used to derive standard accounting reports. That’s interesting! But then they go on to point out that the number o...| barrucadu's weeknotes
Books No books this week, but I’ve got a couple on the go that I expect to finish next. Roleplaying Games The Halls of Arden Vul We spent this session fully exploring the Set domain and taking note of interesting loot. I ruled that since the players had checked everything, it was now a safe haven, which gave them a huge amount of bonus XP (a house rule: each character received 10% of the XP needed to advance from the start of their current level to the next) and allowed them to cash in the ...| barrucadu's weeknotes
Books This week I read: Tales from the End of Time, a collection of stories by Michael Moorcock In which we return to the End of Time and get up to wacky hijinks with the denizens. My favourite was the first, Pale Roses, in which Werther de Goethe, a gloomy man who craves drama and emotion is tricked by his fellows into following a path that leads to him leaping from a cliff in despair. But it’s ok, because they can just resurrect the dead at the End of Time, and the emotional payoff was wo...| barrucadu's weeknotes
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