With August nearly out of the way, I thought I should do a quick post on what’s been happening. First up we have Bloodborne (PS4 edition). I’m afraid to say I am terrible at it and it feels like it is running at 10 or 15fps - especially after being spoilt with PS5 games such as Horizon, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion and others. So I’ve popped it into the bin.

That’s not to say I haven’t picked up the controller again. Thanks to Dr Kero I have been able to give Bloodborne another go. Yes, yes. That means I didn’t put it in the bin… but Dr Kero has also given me the gift of Final Fantasy XVI. That’s right, it’s 16, not 15. FFXV is actually in a bin somewhere. That game was horrible. 🚮

FFXVI is right where it needs to be. The graphics are gorgeous and the story grows on you, slowly you uncover the secrets of… well, I’m not actually sure what the continent is called. But it’s engaging enough to play in large blocks before my brain starts to melt.

In other news, I’ve finally had my BA.4/5 bivalent COVID-19 shot. I had just missed out on BA.4/5 last time around and ended up with the BA.1 bivalent shot. But now I’ve got the latest at the time of writing. New ones are around the corner and apparently won’t have the original strain in them anymore. Somehow I still haven’t had a rapid antigen test come back positive for COVID yet. I still think some protection is better than none. The strongest benefit of vaccination was reducing my own risk of serious disease; protection against Omicron infection and onward transmission was more limited and shorter-lived. Side effects were very mild this time. Just a sore arm, which is probably due to being stabbed… ha ha! 😆

Fatality! That’s a lizard skull and spine, would you look at those little teeth! I’m catching up on the Super Nature World backlog before we hit spring in… oh no, only five days? I should probably get back to that then! I still haven’t processed footage of Flicky and a whole heap of modem videos still to come on the main channel.

For those who follow me on various social media platforms, I’ve become more active on Reddit. Each new blog post also goes out manually to Bluesky, Mastodon and Tumblr. You’ll note Twitter has been X’ed. And now Facebook.

But why manually post to each platform? At the time, Jetpack Social limited free sharing to 30 shares per month, so that was getting removed from my WordPress install too. Facebook had been changed back to a profile instead of a “Page”. What exciting times! 😅

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