So, I'm told it's the 200th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The only change of note being that Ukraine has reclaimed some of the territory it initially lost. Good on them, here's hoping for more of the same, since we're content to just keep feeding them materiel instead of getting our collective hands dirty.
Games, then... I ended up finishing the campaign in Power Wash Simulator, but the final mission (cleaning a pyramid/palace/temple thing) broke me for the game, just because the scale was so much larger than anything I'd had to clean up to that point (including a subway station). I had my fun with the game, but I don't see myself going back for any of the optional content, pretty much ever.
After that, I took a quick detour to play some Popup Dungeon. You can probably tell pretty quick whether it's the game for you, with its tactical RPG mechanics and papercraft aesthetic. I really rather like it, and may well come back to put more time into it as the mood strikes me, but it just wasn't enough to scratch a very specific itch I was having, so it's fallen by the wayside for now.
The itch needing scratched being, of course, Destiny 2. I actually tried to convince myself that any similar/adjacent shooters would do the job, but they all came up short in my estimation on one basis or another. Luckily, the most recent "major release" was on sale over the Labor Day weekend, and the current season (space pirates, woohoo!) had only been live for a week, so I got in on the relatively cheap. Of course, being the game it is, I doubt I'll be pulling away from it before winter at the earliest, but time will tell, as always.
Outside of that, one bit of news... I did put in an order for a 2023 Chevy Bolt EV. My aged Toyota Yaris hatchback is coming due for major maintenance in the spring, there's enough infrastructure to make owning an electric car feasible now, the new car should be significantly more efficient, and pulling power from our regulated electric utility rather than the wild price swings and dubious sourcing of gasoline vendors, all of those (plus potential tax incentives, of course) convinced me that now is the time to make the switch. Plus, I can just see the confused looks on peoples' faces when I pull up to a pump in it, until I pull out the gas can in the back for the mower. I'm really looking forward to it.
