Hp moaned at me so I'm writing some of my top choices from this year.

I most recently finished Day of the Triffids. I thought it was a great book if not as realistic in some ways that the next book I'll list is. The story was pretty well rooted in reality and for the most part and didn't really feel like it was written in 1950/51. The root, pardon the pun, of the problem was pretty realistic too, man meddling too much. I'm bad at reviews but it was very good sci-fi.

Station 11: A book recommended to me by a colleague and I thoroughly enjoyed. Big spoilers ahead.

Throughout the book though it feels very real and I think because of the recency of it it was a lot more relatable than day of the triffids was. The jumps in time were something i was told threw people off but I didn't mind them in the slightest.

Currently reading I Am Legend which as war said in his post from last year, pretty neat. I'm about 80% of the way through and it's been good so far, I don't imagine that changing much.

Honourable mentions:

The first one goes to On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. I read it because of wan posting about Ocean Vuong, and his appearance on the dua lipa book podcast lol. It was a very different book to anything I've read but it was incredibly well written and engaging throughout. Would definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to branch out from their usual escapism type fiction.

Slaughterhouse 5. It is on so many people's goat lists, so I finally read it myself. Solid read, dark content but illuminating as well, would highly recommend. It's on the goat lists for a reason.

Edit: Forgot about a book I read called By Light Alone. It definitely has an interesting concept but the book overall is pretty mid with a mediocre plot and a like 90 page chapter to end it out. I think I read it because I found it at the back of by bookshelf and thought I'd re-read because I'd forgotten it. The main concept of living "by light alone" wasn't really explored as well as I'd hoped but there are definitely parts that delve a bit deeper into the hardships it can cause.

Can we change the title to charlie (non brit) please

His first log is a few weeks ago, L post sorry chief.

resource/ui/scoreboard.res

Search for %kills% and %deaths% and make them both visible and enabled 0.

Slemnish played with jay on an eu team I'm sure

Rest in peace man, you are a genuine legend and hero in TF2.

I remember being nervous about saying hi to him at CPH lan in 2019 lmao. He was playing with alfies team so I was kinda hanging around anyway. Pretty sure all I said was something along the lines of "pleased to meet you, you're a legend". He was sound as fuck and we chatted a little bit about life and tf2 before the next game started.

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Ctrl-f for chat in hudanimations.txt, valve added a thing that moves it when you join casual servers, I think comp servers too. Just delete the whole animation and you should be good to go.

Man I was a huge fan of the series up until the last two books, book 4 wasn't the best, but I held faith for 5. I thought wind and truth ended up being a pretty big disappointment. I feel like the story and the universe are just getting way bigger than is enjoyable to read about in one series. I'm kinda checked out at this point after reading the stormlight archive since it first came out.

The books all have great moments, and I know you need peaks and troughs, but man they're so far apart that I barely cared by the end. If Sanderson cuts down the word count by like 30% I might read the next in the series, but it's Sanderson so that won't happen.

Didn't say in my last post but I'm currently reading The Library at Mount Char, it's been ok so far.

I've read a few books since my last post, my main highlights include:

House of Leaves: Highly rated and lived up to the hype imo, a little weird to begin with but it just keeps on giving. I did read it on kindle so I believe I missed out on a lot of shit regarding the physical layout of the pages and text.

A Short Stay in Hell: Amazing novella that I really do wish was longer, but that would probably defeat the purpose.

The Portrait of Dorian Gray: A very enjoyeable read and timelessly relevant.

There might be something older, but this comes to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anuN9-9zg24

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Writing this out really makes me feel old. I remember the feeling of dejection when the Immunity boys lost back at i52, I was rooting for them so much. The walk back from where I was watching the game to the actual lan hall (sort of hall, the ricoh arena was weird), the amount of people commiserating with the team, the happy cheers coming from basically only the mixup players that they had won.

Very glad to see that the curse is broken, even if it took a couple of years to happen, and even if it wasn't the overall win. The event also showed that it really goes to show that even as isolated as the scene in AU is, it's definitely not fallen behind at all. It was really sick seeing a full-on top level international LAN after so long, it's got me looking forward to playing this season (in mid, I'm washed).

Congrats to the eu witness lads too, it wasn't ever in doubt though.

I do not see my boys oodles or inso in S-tier (from the thumbnail, I'm going no further.), list means nothing.

NEET league

Unless he's edited the OP since you asked, it says he was banned for cheating. Claims there was no cheating in comp (just pubs) but that doesn't really matter anyway, for this thread at least.