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Casually Completing Classics:1984 Part 7 (2.3)

 We get some decent background here. Winston works 60 hours a week, and Julia even longer. London was nuked ~30 years ago.  ("Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!" she said parenthetically) Parenthesis original. I liked this bit: She seemed to think it just as natural that 'they' should want to rob you of your pleasures as that you should want to avoid being caught.  As well as: She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
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Apparently, this week is just me rambling about physical books on here.

 I can't find my marked up copy of 1984. I thought I had it on my desk at work, but I couldn't find it. I checked my bag, since I knew I put it in there the other day to bring it home when it snowed. I can't find it anywhere at home. It doesn't help that I have like 20 almost identical copies in my room at work. This is a filler post. EDIT: I found it. It fell under the dining room table.
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I wonder what book I have the most copies of.

 I kept accidentally buying Flight of The Intruder as a kid, thinking it was a different book in the series.
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We Have Engaged The Borg (2025)

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  We Have Engaged The Borg Bonus:  The Borg, they have engaged them. Summary:  It's a fan made splat book. Commentary: Great (not-so-little) fan project, tying together all the bits and pieces of Borg/Wolf 359 stuff across multiple series. Honestly, better written than most first party Star Trek  stuff. The Federation actually functions as a semi-rational if flawed democracy, instead of the Idealistic Fascists they normally are.
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Duke Nukem 3D (1996) L.A. Meltdown

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Probably the best part of the game. I've always been more of an id Tech than Build guy, but I'm home sick and Duke 3D was $2.50, which seemed like a reasonable amount to spend to sit on the couch and replay something. (Apparently I bought a Switch 2 mostly to play old games I could already play on my computer, but on the couch.) I don't really have strong memories of Duke 3D , though I did play it when I was a kid. Well, I shot my way through the first level set, and here's what I noticed. Good: The environments are pretty well done. I've talked a bit about Doom-Cute in the Doom entries and Duke has it from the get go. Arcades, jails, etc. Even just a city street gets some nice details and nick nacks. Likewise, there's a lot of nice little details. The bloody footprints when you step past an enemy, the mirrors in bathrooms, stuff like that. Bad: It's even worse on a controller (side note, the Switch port is not nearly as nicely done as the Doom one, get som...
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I guess I took a snow day yesterday.

 RIP my blog streak, for no reason other than my own stupidity. Jan 1 2024-Jan 25 2026 (I think, never really confirmed).
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Weighing In

 Since one of my resolutions this year was around weight loss I figure I should track it on here at last occasionally. I peaked last year in late winter at a little over 215 (I wasn't really formally tracking then, so I don't have an exact number). Late last summer, I was down to 203. Then we had all the holidays and my scale broke, then I bought a new one but it was a dud, and then I finally got a new one up and running about a week ago. This morning's weigh in was 208.2. Not great, but closer to my low than my high. BACK TO WORK!
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