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Recap | October 2025

9 November 2025 /

Overall, this month was… mixed. I felt like my brain was stagnant; not going to any bad places but also not really going to any good ones. Logically I know that’s my own fault for retreating into distraction-land rather than doing anything new or spending time with people. I have annual leave at the start of Nov, which I’m hoping to use as a bit of a reset button.

Fun

Music/Podcasts

On the 12th I ended up having a new-music day; I had intended to buy some newly-released albums on my radar today, then realised that I had missed some interesting ones that released in August and September. My “Inbox” in MusicBee briefly hit 500 songs, so it was time to pick some of the albums in the Inbox and decide whether they should be moved into my main library or if I didn’t like them as much as I expected. Every album I listened to that day – Better Days, disparity, Dead Silence, and Easier Said Than Done – went into the main library. My favourite new album this month was definitely Totorro’s Sofa So Good, however.

Data

I spent one day having a podcast-tidying spree on MusicBrainz. The task I set myself this time was to tidy up the episodes of No Such Thing As A Fish and Lateral that I added under the old rules for podcasts so that they reflected the improved rules for podcasts. For some reason I forget parts of the podcast guidance each time and need to look it up afresh whenever I return, and even then I doubt I’m doing parts of it correctly. This is weird for me, as normally detailed written instructions are my preferred way to understand things. My guess is that its because of the lack of concrete examples: it would be helpful for me to have confirmed-correct examples of every level of detail for an episode of some podcasts – the release group, the release, and the recording of the same episode – to remember how they fit together and which elements don’t need to be included at all three levels.

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Recap | Apr 2025

3 May 2025 /

A pretty easy month, with few issues or complicated situations, but also an unfocused month. There were days here that I could have used far better. On the other hand, I did enjoy myself!

Fun

Games

A couple of my friends make custom maps in Halo, and last week we spent a few hours touring their collective maps. Some were old favourites, ported over from older Halo games, while others were recently-created maps that we were looking for bugs in. My favourite of the modes was basically a Titanfall clone with Mantis mechs, which worked really well. Others are great in small doses but too chaotic for repeated matches, such as Thrusterball, where two teams fight for control of a throwable ball while armed with gravity hammers and max-speed thruster packs.

I continued to be stuck into Galacticare – both playing the DLC levels and trying to complete the regular levels on challenge mode.

Finally, I had been looking forward to the Iron Banner event in Destiny 2, but the skill-based matchmaking was not working out well this time – trying to play as a group of 4 resulted in massively unbalanced and hard-to-enjoy matches. So we gave the new community puzzle a try instead. We solved 20 of the 27 chess puzzles by ourselves, but realised we had solved them inefficiently and so had too few moves left to sensibly continue. We returned the next day with a guide, then decided to leave solving the unlocked ARG to the dedicated community!.

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