Another playthrough of The Witcher: Path of Destiny today. Stuck with The End of the World story as I convinced the boy to play with us this time around, and wanted it to be simple for him to learn.

Things flowed much smoother this time around. In the end, three of us tied on the victory track, which meant absolute victory was based on the initiative track - which is something I don’t love about the game, to be honest.

But we ended up playing through a different storyline and it was a good time. Looking forward to cracking into the Striga story next time around!

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Why does the internet only ever feel slow here when I’m trying to download a 20GB image file for a story?

Ahh. The mad scramble to find all my documents from 12 months ago before I go to the accountant tomorrow to do my tax return. Fun night for me!

At the behest of the boy, today we played Monopoly. We played the Avengers version, which adds some really interesting elements that made it the most interesting game of Monopoly I have played in a while. I lost, completely, but had some fun doing it. There were still tears (but not mine).

Chopper Lego.

I must have it.

Also, I want a bigger version. Maybe not life-sized, but make it 5,000 pieces. Let’s go, Lego.

First play through of The Witcher: Path of Destiny.

Took a bit to get used to the mechanic and try and understand all the different elements, but ultimately had a good time. Will probably play that story again before moving on to the next one.

I’d forgotten just how disappointing Batman v Superman is as a movie. Too long and tedious, with squandered talent and no likeable characters. Ugh.

Life is just a crazy whirlwind at the moment. There’s just too much going on - and I’m not even talking about politics. Teenagers and their sport and social lives, freelance work while looking for a job and keeping things ticking at BTTR… I just looked up and April is almost halfway done…

Did April fools day not happen this year? I only received one stupid press release about it today, which was obviously deleted very quickly. But I haven’t seen much around today either. Maybe there’s some hope after all?

Boy’s first trial soccer match today. The team came out strong. He scored the first goal of the year, and had a couple of extra shots. It looked like this year could be different.

Then he fell over and hurt his arm. Came off. Swollen and in a lot of pain. Team completely lost its momentum and conceded 5 unanswered goals by the time we took him to the doctor.

He’s had an X-ray, and it doesn’t look like a fracture right now, but we need to wait for the full results.

Friends, it has been a wild day.

Yesterday when this news was announced I was feeling a bit down, and couldn’t bring myself to celebrate it. But I’m feeling a bit better today, and I am stoked to be a finalist for three individual awards at the 2025 IT Journo Awards. Plus, BTTR is up for the Best Independent Media award too. It’s … read more

Been a few weeks since the last board game play. Today we pulled out Wingspan, and I managed to demolish the family thanks to a collection of birds giving me extra bonus cards. Personal best score of 99.

Sitting in on my daughter’s piano lesson and I’m drowning in awe. I don’t know how she got so talented. Wasn’t me.

Went out this morning with the DJI Flip, but stuffed up the mic (100% my fault) and didn’t record audio on most of the pieces to camera. Trying to work out how to salvage it now.

Disney Plus updating its subscriber agreement with this gem:

We’re clarifying that, as we continue to increase the breadth and depth of the content we make available to you, circumstances may require that certain titles and types of content include ads, even where the subscription tier is indicated to be ‘no ads’ or ‘ad free’.

Today a courier dropped off the wrong package – I assume he mixed up my street name and another local street starting with the same letter. But I don’t know that, so I’m waiting for the courier company to sort it all out.

Fun games.

Real first world problem here, I know, but it’s still frustrating that after two years of doing BTTR (not to mention the 15 years of tech journalism before that), there are still so many PR companies not communicating with me. Makes it hard to write about those products…

I have so much tension in my back and shoulders right now. Repeatedly find myself hunching and have to consciously correct my posture.

Ended up in the Wayback Machine for the Giz AU archives today looking for something, but I wasn’t prepared for the grief seeing my old fur ball smiling on an article…

Before Christmas, I got to the final mission in Star Wars Outlaws. Instead of playing it, I decided I would explore and do some extra side missions.

Friends, I haven’t played it since. Instead I’ve been playing FC24 and WWE 2K24, and enjoying both way more than I should.

I feel guilty about it, too.