All's well here at The Dispatch. The snails have started trying to measure a lot of their daily activities in a way that they can quantify for later analysis. At least that's how they've described it to us. From our perspective it seems like they are spending a lot of time on YouTube watching videos about "life-hacks" and using some sort of graphing tool to visualize how many hours they slept vs how many cups of coffee they had in the morning. It was news to us that they even drank coffee, so we're more interested in talking to them about that than about whatever graphing software they're using. But they are pretty keen on the graphing software.

Game Boy 👾

• Magic: The Gathering
  • Getting to the end of the season content and feeling less engaged, which is probably a good thing for me
• Starfield
  • Only sparsely
• Tears of the Kingdom
  • Tried picking this back up after a while of not playing it and it was hard to get excited about
  • It's just not the cultural time and place that Breath of the Wild was

Links 🔗

• OpenStax
  • Cool source of free open-licensed textbooks online
• You're not lacking creativity, you're overwhelmed
  • familiar argument that there is too much information overload and how curating is an important/essential creative tool
  • mentions note-taking apps as a second brain and Obsidian is an example (links to this video)

Albums 🎧

• "Javelin" by Sufjan Stevens
  • on repeat: listened to it nine times this week
• "The Age of Adz" by Sufjan Stevens
  • Now That I'm Older sounds straight up like an Animal Collective song
• "Carrie & Lowell Live" by Sufjan Stevens
• "Twin Fantasy" by Car Seat Headrest
  • listened twice this week
• "Making a Door Less Open" by Car Seat Headrest
  • better overall than I remembered, but Hollywood is hard to get through
• "The Suburbs" by Arcade Fire
• "Trick" by Alex G

Podcasts 🎙️

• Not Another DnD Podcast
  • Started paying for the Patreon content and listened while doing chores
• Rude Tales of Magic
• Dungeons and Daddies
• Watching on Youtube
  • Lords of Limited
  • Limited Level Ups