I finished Hades to my satisfaction and then tried to find another game. I tried a few things, but none of them were clicking for one reason or another. So I decided I'd jump straight into Hades II after all.
And, you know what? It's great. Not a huge surprise. They took Hades, kept the essence but changed the flavour a bit, and then added a whole nother Hades on top. It's two Hades! Hadeses? Hadii? Hadeae?
Anyway, I liked it. I'm was gonna come out here and say I was done, but, coinciding with the console launch, apparently they've added a whole new game mode. I should probably give that a try, at least.
I have played a bit of Star Trek: Resurgence, and I intend to make a blog post about that at some point, but I find Telltale-style adventure games a bit stressful. So I keep needing to put it down. Apparently it's no longer for sale, which is a great shame, since I feel like this is closest to what a Star Trek game should be. But maybe I'll save that for its own blog post.
So I guess I'll go back to Hades II for a bit, as I was missing it.
2026 is kind of a sad year for Eurovision owing to some poor management decisions. But I won't go into that here. I've decided to continue deepening my love of this weird bit of nonsense. And this year, I ended up watching a whole pile of national final shows, which many of the countries use to pick their entrants.
So most of these haven't been introduced to me this week. I've been enjoying them for a while. And I've also been enjoying songs that didn't win their national finals, and those I've been adding to my ongoing "Almost Eurovision" YouTube Music playlist, which I started a couple years ago.
This list isn't who I think will win. The odds are saying Finland right now. I don't really believe them, but I don't think I have any particular insight into who will actually win Eurovision. Instead, after the cut, these are songs I just like, that speak to me, or I think are special in some way.
Stack Overflow is a website where you used to go to ask questions about computer programming and get answers from people who knew what they were doing. It gamified helping people, and, for a while, was cool and fun.
It became a joke that programming was just copy-and-pasting code samples from Stack Overflow. I even recall a mass email from management where I was working warning people to knock that off.
