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#Borderlands4 I'm slowly building up each character and figuring out (or not lol) how to fit each manufacturer into an allegiance for the maybe six characters to maximize weapon/combat variety. It'll be another few hundred hours before I get it on lock, but Vex appears to be the sniper du jour.

lol, I love how standardized the voice commands are, but they added a one-off for their apparent intended market. To be fair, it's pretty on point.

At the recent No Kings protest, I heard someone count around 1200 people, which is a record for the area. Clean, no violence/altercations, and I only saw one dude who tried to roll coal.🙄

Over the couple hours, I got a personal smile/wave from a number of drivers (stopped counting at 30).

Just finished a second read of The Final Architecture series - loved it just as much the second time. I just started Rosewood.

Related - recently in Las Vegas, and the Sphere was set to some color swirl that made me think of the cinema depiction of the Shimmer... a little creepy.

#Borderlands4... been waiting to see the physics engine here show off a little, though I'd be pleasantly surprised if juggling enemies like this was something one could do on demand.

Rarely do I have the house to myself where I can take the stereo system out and stretch its legs. The fronts are some massive Altec Lansing things that survived a theater fire in SF in the 70s, handed down through friends and family where they are currently rocking my world.

Anything sharing real estate in a Venn diagram with Children of Men and Borne has my interest... Oryx and Crake looks fun, I'll read that next, thanks!

#Borderlands4 Ohhhh they nailed the movement in this with the glide, double jump, and grapple. I mean, the mantling, slamming, and sliding are still faves. Among them all, you can really stretch your legs in this game.

The moss garden at Gio-ji temple, Japan during the cherry blossom season: I went there in search of giant bamboo (which didn't disappoint), and I'm also a sucker for solid moss gardens, but the falling blossoms stole my heart.

Of all the places I frequent here in the mountains, this isn't nearly the highest, but it somehow rates as the Top Of The World. It is the highest point on a cool trail though.

I'm on a second read of The Final Architecture series by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I first read this in the middle of a serious science fiction binge, and most of what I remember is that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Book 1 is down, and I'm well into the second. This could be wonderful as a motion picture.

A bike trip to the largest Juniper tree in the world.

A recent weather system brought wind, which brought lightning, which brought fire, which brought smoke, which brought some orange to tonight's sunset. There were a bit over a dozen cars around Inspiration Point for this evening's.

#Borderlands3 Bandito and I trading fire... that little orb near the bottom is an impact projectile from the Ice Queen rifle that's about to ruin this fella's day. I love how the spurs these guys have are just pointy hooks.

Pardon the recording quality... some old Canon pocket camera .AVI file converted to .MP4 for Bluesky here. This is my old dog who had a love affair with the snow.

Borderlands, the Pre-Sequel - the whole space station, larger-than-life laser, moonshot cannon, and lead up to this part were awesome, but this scene blew my mind. "What do you mean 'she'? Who's 'pumpkin'? OH HELL NO, WHAT IS THAT?!"

Looking forward to Borderlands 4!

This is the slimmest manatee I've ever seen; most of them were in the river behind grandma's house in Florida (or in a zoo), and they were all rotund things. It's probably observation bias from a relatively small sample than this being actually unusually slim though. Cute fella (Belize).

This pool (Caye Caulker, Belize) had tree/bougainvillea branches growing overhead, so there's extra work keeping the pool clean, and there were strap reinforcements holding the branches so they wouldn't break for hanging over so far. I love the fact that they didn't just cut them off.

The fine dust on desiccated trails here in the summer lends itself to recording footprints. On my last bike ride, I saw bear, marmot, quail, snake, mouse, lizard, deer, fox, and a slew of others (including some bugs I didn't recognize), but this millipede track is my fave.

Torgue's already funny, the setup for this joke started like nine years ago, I totally didn't see this coming, and the execution is perfect. This might be the funniest thing I've ever seen in a video game.

Campsite from last night - just a mat, bag, and a pillow under the open sky. I had passed this rock some time before and always thought it would make a good open air spot. Fell asleep watching the Perseids fall.

While I love the story, I keep forgetting how it seems to drag. I've read it three times now, and there probably won't be a fourth. I also read Ishiro Finney's Scars, only to find out after I fell in love with the characters that it's only 84 pages. I'm currently reading Orange World.

The view from our room in Caye Caulker, Belize (just got back from a few days there). The Sargassum was pretty thick - the windward side of the island had a ~20' coating, which had started to rot in the surf. Locals tell me it's the most they've ever seen... they were coming at it with dump trucks.

The S.T.A.L.K.E.R series might have the best atmosphere of any game I've played, and 2 is no slouch. I like the electrified water here because it makes the water spout sparkle, plus the bloodsuckers pick up a blue hue when they get shocked so I can see them when they're trying to be invisible.

Perhaps the last lupin patch of the season.

China Mieville is easily my favorite author - there isn't a piece of his fiction that I won't re-read at some point. On topic: I just re-read this for maybe the third time, and am now well into The Scar. I just made the connection between the two stories (I've never read them back-to-back before).

An hour out of town, 90 minutes off road, 30 minutes of rock crawling in 4 low, and a quarter mile scramble on foot brought me to a secluded lake. I put a hammock and warmies into a little raft, finned up, and pushed it to a cute little nook a bit over a mile into the lake (total swim was 3 miles).

Gearbox really nailed the metropolis under siege in #Borderlands3 with the inclusion of Promethea. I'm on a stealth assassination mission in Lectra City, and Meridian Metroplex in the background is on point.

This is the biggest millipede I've ever come across.

Huge fan of the #Bioshock video games, I think the game told the stories better? Like there was more story in the book, but there were more details about the stories in the game, though I think that's because this book was written as an afterthought. Looks like I'm due for yet another replay.