Mundane update

The LAN party has come and gone, frustrations and ecstasies alike. Natural Selection is my new favourite Half-Life mod. Well, that and I'm probably going to put Homeworld 2 on my gift list for Winter Solstice. Very pretty.

Finished Lois McMaster Bujold's Paladin of Souls on the weekend. Like the last book in this series, The Curse of Chalion, she went for the romantic angle at the end. My feeling is that it's not strictly necessary and in Curse it came very close to being a bit too ham fisted (but she always manages to dodge somehow!). This one felt more reasonable for such an ending somehow. Perhaps because the character comes to this realization in easier stages. The story was, of course, excellent. That was true of Curse as well if I ignored the sappy ending, but nothing felt out of true for this story.

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