I thought it was a good idea at the time

Sony has announced that from January 2028 it will entirely stop the production of physical discs for new PlayStation games. From that point onwards, new releases will only be available in digital versions from the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Games released before January 2028 will still be available on disc.

They cite "consumer preference" as the reason, but we all know what's going on. If there's no physical media, you don't really own your game. You're only renting it.

as for why these thoughts weren't liveblogged: I had three hours of driving today (hour and half there and back) (sports is hell) and I use my computer for tumblr

i had heard the pool scene was good but omfg?????????????

I don't know enough about anatomy for this. I had to google where the frontal sinuses were located in the middle of gideon kissing harrow

so so so glad i was reading this as an ebook because the dictionary feature was me best friend there were so many words i didn't know. as someone who uses big words too much according to my friends

the writing was just so good? like how do you blend gideon's stupid lesbian thoughts about every woman she meets and random comments about how harrows ass is flat with some genuinely stunning descriptions???? It shouldn't be possible

love some of the smaller details of the worldbuilding, how ninth soap is made of human fat, gideon + harrow's sunglasses and veil since they aren't used to this level of sunlight, it's all just adding a lot to the story idk

as someone who willingly read, enjoyed, and purchased with my own money, a book about tuberculosis, I think i'd be remissed to not mention the parallels between the older view of consumption/tb as a disease of poets and beautiful wasting away and Dulcinea's illness, I think that's a really interesting thing that I don't really see explored a lot and i really liked it :)

Speaking of dulcinea i would like to adress these posts that i made in the height of ignorance:

Yeah so i don't love dulcinea anymore. she was amazing but also she's directly responsible for literally everyones death so. Highly ironic that i (even if jokingly) said that she'd be the next victim of her own damn monster. I'm sure all of you who reblogged that post with ominous smiles are happy

which naturally brings us to the new character tier list:

Gideon

War Crime

Sex Pal

Jeannemary

Issac

Cam

I love palamedes guys i've said it fifty times we have one guy who knows science and i love him for it. it's kinda just him and harrow (+ ianthe obv) actually actively succeeding at the trials and he isn't made of war crime so that's more impressive on his part

pal, harrow, gideon, and cam's dynamic as a group is so precious to me. Pal and Harrow just talking about fancy necromancy stuff, cam occasionally adding useful input, gideon occasionally adding unhelpful sex jokes. Pal and harrow kinda hate each other kinda respect each other don't want to work together but are working together, pal and gidon are fighting over the same woman, pal and cam are a really good necro/cav pairing, harrow and gidon are a really bad necro/cav pairing and a really good necro/cav pairing simultaneously, it's all beautiful

GRIDDLEHAWK. SO GOOD. I DON'T HAVE WORDS.

the children!!!! Gideon always described them as "teens" so i assumed they were like 16 or something but jfc 13 and 14 are literal infants in the lyctor trials and of course their only real parental figures had to die three seconds and they're left with the disfunctional polycule of doom who immediately get them killed (Harrow.)

speaking of death, wtf basically everyone died. I'm assuming a few of them won't stay that way, both gideon/cam have no body, pal's only got a piece supposedly and i wouldn't put anything past him, it seems kinda weird to get all these great characters and kill them off in book one of the trilogy (also cam and pal aren't nearly as codependent as you guys are saying so i'm assuming they come back or yall are severely overstating it)

I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, I'll probably post some of my comments while reading (yes i'm stealing your idea @runasulienadanika) later on + make some of these thoughts more codified and into their own posts + new thoughts so yeah! Really good, you were all right.

+ bonus for once maja wasn't making ominous comments this time!

GtN:

Lyctorhood is cool and we should all compete for it. like on the Bachelor

The bad guy for this book turns out to be a Lyctor who wants to kill God because after 10k years she actually hates it real bad. interesting.

In order to defeat her, Gideon (beloved protagonist) dies. readers everywhere are devastated, but it had to be done....?

Harrow gets to meet God! The next book probably shows us the other Lyctors, that will be so exciting probably

HtN

Every single Lyctor we meet is utterly destroyed by the grief of killing and eating their cavalier. huh.

Harrow destroyed her brain and gave up everything she has worked for her whole life (lyctorhood, her necromantic prowess, sizable chunk of her mental faculties) in order to preserve Gideon's soul like an unboxed funko pop

Ianthe seems to be having a bad time too...?

Existing lyctors decide to kill God because after 10k years they are still stuck on the fact that the had to kill their life-partners/lovers/etc to ascend. interesting

Ok so like Mercymorn says, THIS version of lyctorhood sucks but there must be a better one, right? if John did it and Alecto is still alive (if in stasis) then there should just be another way. imperfect lyctorhood is out perfect lyctorhood is my new best friend? excited to find out more in the next book!

NtN:

Camilla and Palamedes are bodysharing in some sort of pseudo-Lyctorhood state. wow Cam-and-Pal are really hot when they do that soul merge thing to kill the guys on the beach and oh Camilla seems to be dying from this,

Ok so obviously Cam and Pal's half-lyctorhood bodysharing wasn't ideal, but I'm sure they can figure out something better. and OH! if they're calling the Lyctorhood of before the petty lysis then whatever Grand lysis is about to happen must be the solution right,,

Cam and Pal are gone forever, Paul is born, and I am crying?

Back at the ranch beach dream, sure the soul gestalt didn't work out but it seems like we are also getting John Gaius Backstory, maybe we will finally get to see what perfect Lyctorhood really is!

Ok so I guess John exploded the entire planet and killed everyone on it and stuffed the soul of the earth inside his body and it didn't fit so he made her a body and THAT'S Alecto, and THAT was his "perfect" lyctoral process. uh,

Nona is Alecto with amnesia and also whenever she thinks about John or the body she was put in she seems to be experiencing some kind of severe trauma reaction? and Alecto-with-memories seems to not be enjoying this either....