2000 AD
Prog 2438
Prog 2439
Prog 2440
As well as all the ongoing strips, there was one three-parter told across these issues, so I got a little carried away. All good for the catchup, though.
Sunday, 9 November 2025
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
I was desperate to keep playing, but also didn't want to sink quite so much time into this today, so managed to limit myself to just two hours. Hilarious how, just a few weeks ago, I was still considering that a "long session" on other games.
...oh, but then I loaded it up in the evening to "just do something quickly" and ended up playing for another three hours. Oops. That was partly stupidity: I messed some stuff up, tried to forge ahead, it got worse, so I had to load a save game and repeat a bunch of stuff. And then I messed up differently and had to reload again. I started saving more often at that point — I hadn't needed to before because there was enough autosaving going on, and I'd never really ballsed anything up badly enough to want to reload. Always good to learn.
Funny: I thought I would've been playing Foolish Mortals a tonne this week, possibly even finishing it today (if not sooner), and instead I've barely started it and sunk more time into Skyrim than it likely would've taken to finish FM. You never can tell which way you're gonna go, huh?
I was desperate to keep playing, but also didn't want to sink quite so much time into this today, so managed to limit myself to just two hours. Hilarious how, just a few weeks ago, I was still considering that a "long session" on other games.
...oh, but then I loaded it up in the evening to "just do something quickly" and ended up playing for another three hours. Oops. That was partly stupidity: I messed some stuff up, tried to forge ahead, it got worse, so I had to load a save game and repeat a bunch of stuff. And then I messed up differently and had to reload again. I started saving more often at that point — I hadn't needed to before because there was enough autosaving going on, and I'd never really ballsed anything up badly enough to want to reload. Always good to learn.
Funny: I thought I would've been playing Foolish Mortals a tonne this week, possibly even finishing it today (if not sooner), and instead I've barely started it and sunk more time into Skyrim than it likely would've taken to finish FM. You never can tell which way you're gonna go, huh?
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
A slightly late update this week, because (a) I spent so much of yesterday playing Skyrim, (b) it's time for the monthly running time update, but I hadn't collected the running times for most of this month's ~28 additions, and (b) no one but me cares.
Number of titles in collection: 3,629 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 981 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,648 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 478 [up 4]
Number of discs in collection: 8,722 [up 12]
Number of films: 4,633 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 473 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [up 13]
Number of short films: 1,271 [no change]
Also, it's time for the latest monthly running time update...
Total running time of collection (approx.):
610 days, 15 hours, and 50 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 10 hours, and 40 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
A slightly late update this week, because (a) I spent so much of yesterday playing Skyrim, (b) it's time for the monthly running time update, but I hadn't collected the running times for most of this month's ~28 additions, and (b) no one but me cares.
Number of titles in collection: 3,629 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 981 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,648 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 478 [up 4]
Number of discs in collection: 8,722 [up 12]
Number of films: 4,633 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 473 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [up 13]
Number of short films: 1,271 [no change]
Also, it's time for the latest monthly running time update...
Total running time of collection (approx.):
610 days, 15 hours, and 50 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 10 hours, and 40 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Saturday, 8 November 2025
Fiction / Non-Fiction / Games
Daggerheart: Core Rulebook
Skipping ahead to a different section today: in my game, we're levelling up for the first time, so I decided I ought to read all about that.
Skipping ahead to a different section today: in my game, we're levelling up for the first time, so I decided I ought to read all about that.
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Decided to play a little bit before bed last night (after midnight, hence logging it today) — ended up staying up 'til the small hours. Then, this afternoon, I popped in just to make a small change... then decided to play a bit... and, suddenly, most of the afternoon was gone and I had to force myself to stop.
Anyway, that added up to over 6 hours of play. And I still feel like I'm only just getting started. I guess the main story takes 26 hours if you actually follow the main story, which I'm not really — but I think that's most of the the game is so beloved: there's so much else to do. Indeed, a lot of advice specfically advises dodging the main story for various reasons, so that's kinda what I'm doing.
Decided to play a little bit before bed last night (after midnight, hence logging it today) — ended up staying up 'til the small hours. Then, this afternoon, I popped in just to make a small change... then decided to play a bit... and, suddenly, most of the afternoon was gone and I had to force myself to stop.
Anyway, that added up to over 6 hours of play. And I still feel like I'm only just getting started. I guess the main story takes 26 hours if you actually follow the main story, which I'm not really — but I think that's most of the the game is so beloved: there's so much else to do. Indeed, a lot of advice specfically advises dodging the main story for various reasons, so that's kinda what I'm doing.
Friday, 7 November 2025
Audio Drama
Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Adventures
1.2 The Return of the Doctor
That title... was this meant to be the first release and for some reason had to be bumped? And if not, why would you give that title to your second story? Sure, it doesn't matter, but it feels silly to me. Especially as I thought this was an all-round stronger story than the actual first release and therefore might've made a better choice to kick off the range.
1.2 The Return of the Doctor
That title... was this meant to be the first release and for some reason had to be bumped? And if not, why would you give that title to your second story? Sure, it doesn't matter, but it feels silly to me. Especially as I thought this was an all-round stronger story than the actual first release and therefore might've made a better choice to kick off the range.
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Despite everything I said the other day, and only really playing Leaving Lyndow as a precursor to starting Evershade, and also starting Foolish Mortals since then, I once again felt Skyrim calling to me (I have a feeling it might be something to do with reading more of Lankhmar — I'd be gleefully installing a Fafhrd and Grey Mouser game if there was one!) As I already had it installed from when I nearly started it before, I thought, well, why not boot it up? (I mean, other than all the other games I've already started and should be playing).
But also, I thought that maybe I'll just end up noodling around for a little bit, get this urge out of my system, and then come back to it properly another time (because I do want to play it sometime). However, after playing for an hour-and-a-half without even pushing myself (and not being forced to: unlike so many other games I've played recently, this one lets you save whenever you want — hurrah!), it feels like I've barely started, and there's so much already waiting for me (as in, specific things to do, not just the general promise of the whole game) that I kinda want to go back and play more already. Maybe I'm about to follow in the footsteps of people who've sunk 500… 600… 700… 1000+ hours into this game over the last decade-and-a-half.
Despite everything I said the other day, and only really playing Leaving Lyndow as a precursor to starting Evershade, and also starting Foolish Mortals since then, I once again felt Skyrim calling to me (I have a feeling it might be something to do with reading more of Lankhmar — I'd be gleefully installing a Fafhrd and Grey Mouser game if there was one!) As I already had it installed from when I nearly started it before, I thought, well, why not boot it up? (I mean, other than all the other games I've already started and should be playing).
But also, I thought that maybe I'll just end up noodling around for a little bit, get this urge out of my system, and then come back to it properly another time (because I do want to play it sometime). However, after playing for an hour-and-a-half without even pushing myself (and not being forced to: unlike so many other games I've played recently, this one lets you save whenever you want — hurrah!), it feels like I've barely started, and there's so much already waiting for me (as in, specific things to do, not just the general promise of the whole game) that I kinda want to go back and play more already. Maybe I'm about to follow in the footsteps of people who've sunk 500… 600… 700… 1000+ hours into this game over the last decade-and-a-half.
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Video Games
Rogue Trooper Redux
Now I've started it, I may as well continue it... though that also goes for all those other games I'm partway through. But this one's only supposed to be 6 or 7 hours long, so it seems like I may as well polish it off... though it has 13 missions and I've clocked up almost 3 hours on the first three, so maybe it's going to taking me a little longer.
Now I've started it, I may as well continue it... though that also goes for all those other games I'm partway through. But this one's only supposed to be 6 or 7 hours long, so it seems like I may as well polish it off... though it has 13 missions and I've clocked up almost 3 hours on the first three, so maybe it's going to taking me a little longer.
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Fiction / Non-Fiction / Games
Daggerheart: Core Rulebook
It's kind of interesting to be reading through this when I've already been actively playing the game for a few weeks, because I sort of know it all (or, at least, the important bits), but am also sort of still learning stuff. At least I'm definitely gaining knowledge about parts of the game I don't personally use right now (e.g. other classes, ancestries, and communities).
It's kind of interesting to be reading through this when I've already been actively playing the game for a few weeks, because I sort of know it all (or, at least, the important bits), but am also sort of still learning stuff. At least I'm definitely gaining knowledge about parts of the game I don't personally use right now (e.g. other classes, ancestries, and communities).
Video Games
Foolish Mortals
The point-and-click game I mentioned yesterday. I really did intend to finish Gray Matter first, but then I got so hyped up for this in the past 24 hours (and I had already been massively looking forward to it, as I said) that I couldn't help but dive straight in. And if you want to do the same (which you should), you can buy it on Steam or GOG.
Rogue Trooper Redux
Even after everything I wrote yesterday about games I should be playing, I still went and started this and sunk 90 minutes into it. I bought it on a whim a few weeks ago because I've been enjoying the strips in 2000 AD, and the same thing today prompted me to actually fire it up. Reviews of it were mixed, but they seemed to focus on a lack of difficulty and, well, that's fine by me. I'm not expecting great things, and enjoying it enough so far. The only real issue is it's not been optimised for controllers, so every onscreen prompt is like "press ? for action". Which button do they mean? Press 'em all 'til you find out!
The point-and-click game I mentioned yesterday. I really did intend to finish Gray Matter first, but then I got so hyped up for this in the past 24 hours (and I had already been massively looking forward to it, as I said) that I couldn't help but dive straight in. And if you want to do the same (which you should), you can buy it on Steam or GOG.
Rogue Trooper Redux
Even after everything I wrote yesterday about games I should be playing, I still went and started this and sunk 90 minutes into it. I bought it on a whim a few weeks ago because I've been enjoying the strips in 2000 AD, and the same thing today prompted me to actually fire it up. Reviews of it were mixed, but they seemed to focus on a lack of difficulty and, well, that's fine by me. I'm not expecting great things, and enjoying it enough so far. The only real issue is it's not been optimised for controllers, so every onscreen prompt is like "press ? for action". Which button do they mean? Press 'em all 'til you find out!
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