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  • I finished the last map of Voyages today. I'm still very happy with the game and enjoyed the simplicity of the new mechanics on this map.

  • Today I played the fifth map of Voyages and finished the A Most Epic Voyage. The nemesis introduced by the AMEV definitely made the game much harder, but I was able to finish the map with enough stars. I didn't get to use the mechanics introduced in this map a lot, but the drifting and diving choices felt meaningful.

    There's just one more map for me to try for the first time but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the game.

  • I played map 4 of Voyages today. The beacon mechanic made this map a lot of fun to explore.

  • Today I played through map 3 in Voyages. The addition of filling out journals to track encounters with creatures was fun.

  • The latest episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men is a lot of things.

    It's a good jumping on point to understand the podcast, it's hosts, and X-Men broadly.
    It's a live podcast with crowd questions and engagement.
    It's partly a recap of the history of the comics and the podcast.
    It also has a portion with a disruptive person who flees when Jay doesn't rise to the bait about identity politics.

    The episode: xplainthexmen.com/2025/06/491-

    Jay's open letter to the disruptor: xplainthexmen.com/2025/06/an-o

    This podcast has been my favorite for years and it's hosts are decidedly among the good ones.

  • A campaign to stop road widening (what kind of asshole widens a road in a city?) has decorated trees along Robie Street.

  • I left some books at the nearest little library and livened it up a bit. I'm hoping someone falls in love with Astro Boy from the omnibus.

  • A world map was painted on the courtyard at Hope Blooms.

  • Kristen De Palma's We Love Nova Scotia mural at the waterfront is an ad for wine, but it's beautiful.

  • We spent most of the day along the waterfronts on both sides of the harbour. Visiting a battleship bored Celestine, but she was enthusiastic about slushies.