I just like making words okay

I should do more conlanging. I want to make the High Entia conlang I was fiddling with into a more full fledged conlang, and I've been neglecting [name expunged to keep original work apart from fan presence].

Or to put the title in other words,

Liath zalia thia iaceizim lualm.

Harvestella Review

I've been talking elsewhere about getting back into reviewing video games, and then completely forgot to actually do it! but I took extensive notes on the game while I was playing and I remember it well enough, so I might as well do it anyway.

I played the Switch version of the game.

So! Harvestella is a jrpg-farming game hybrid developed by Live Wire and published by Square Enix. I've had a bumpy road with farming games in that I enjoy the underlying gameplay loop, but I get bored of it quickly if there's not enough content surrounding it to break things up. I'd hoped, after seeing the game on stream and playing the demo, that the fantasy world, story and combat would help with that.

The TL;DR of the review: Yes, it absolutely did that; I've never stuck with a farming game for as long or as happily as with this one, but it may or may not hit the same for other people.

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Culinary experiment of the day

...was a full success. It's a good thing I always look at example recipes on food packaging, because that's where I got the idea from.

Get potatoes, ones on the large side, and boil them. You'll still want them to be firm enough that they don't crumble or deform when you pick them up. Let them cool down, cut them in halves lengthwise and then spread cream cheese on the flat side. Add finely chopped onion and garlic, season with salt pepper and whatever else tickles your fancy, then wrap a slice of bacon around them and slap them on the grill for 15-20 minutes, depending on how crisp you like your bacon.

(Or put them in the oven, as the recipe suggested, but I try not to use that in sunmer.)

I thought it'd get messy to wrap them or make a mess on the grill, but not at all actually. By the end the potatoes were still nicely firm and the cream cheese-onion-spice-bacon made them taste great. I'll definitely make this again in the future.