Interesting, I thought the ending of Worm was super satisfying and worth the wait.

I read it over 5 years ago and still think about it often, and still add to my playlist of songs that’s an imaginary soundtrack to it (‘Tracks’ by Chelsea Wolfe is the main theme).

Everybody else just go read it, it’s a web serial, it’s free. I’m amazed that he hasn’t managed to get physical books out yet.

Anybody read Worm by John McCrae / Wildbow? It’s this and it’s really really good https://parahumans.wordpress.com/

It’s Fall of Civilizations. The Aztec episode is actually only 4h 15mins, alas

Fixing bikes. But if I had to do it for a job, under time pressure, I’d hate it. Give me all afternoon to fix a bike and let me put on a 5 hour podcast about the collapse of the Aztec empire, that’s my happy place

I bought Ace of Seafood, in which you can play as many kinds of fish that all shoot lasers out or their mouths at other fish.

It’s absolutely baffling but probably not how you’d expect… I found it pretty technical and demanding. It’s like a very serious game where you fly F16s and dogfight and destroy aircraft carriers except everything is fish. It’s Japanese to the max.

I paid about £6 for it on the Switch, did not play it enough to get my moneysworth. But I think once you hear the concept, you will never stop thinking about it until you try it, so I was glad to be able to stop thinking about it.