Video Games

Balatro
Played my most successful run yet. Still feel like I'm muddling through rather than really knowing what I'm doing, but when the right cards come up and synergies click, it is moderately satisfying. Got defeated at the end of Ante 6 (of 8) and that took almost an hour, so still the idea of this being a "one more quick run" game is ludicrous to me.

The Sphere
I'm pretty good at point-and-click adventure games — I've been playing them most of my life. This one came out today, free, billed as a 20–30 minute experience. After an hour of playtime (some of which was spent faffing with Steam Deck controls to make them palatable, to be fair), I'm still stumped by one puzzle; and I only got past the first "puzzle" because I happened to see a solution on Reddit. It looks pretty, at least.