It’s just gonna be difficult for a while

[infryq]

Yesterday I spun some more blue and green Romney, and had a remarkably
productive afternoon at work where I just kept adding new features and
tests kept passing.

I’ve been reading a new book called Court of Fives that’s kind of like if
you made Anne of Green Gables (effusive, melodramatic) a biracial girl
being raised in the noble class in a weird colonized version of ancient
Egypt (necropolis, theocracy, racism). Fives is an athletic puzzle that
often maims or kills its players, and she’s quite good at it. The first
half of the book should have been better edited, as most of the exposition
sounds like it was just copy-pasted from the author’s worldbuilding notes,
but once she starts breaking laws to save her family, it picks up.

I’ve been playing a game called Topsoil, a space-planning game whose
strategy reminds me of threes but whose gameplay is completely different.