#fire watch

A Ranger watches the progression of a fire.

Yellowstone National Park

Euro Brady is like if game theory had a therapy license. Watching his playthrough of games that I've already seen is such a fresh perspective. He's so gentle, thoughtful, emotional, and funny. god, is he funny.

I just finished his play through of Firewatch, and my favorite line was, "I WAS TOLD THIS WAS A HEALING GAME!"

Didn't catch the end of Matt's stream, but Turt Reynolds better be okay!!!

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first of all, how the hell is this book 8 years old

second of all, who gave Nimitz a gun

third of all, LMAO @ Firebrand/Plays with Fire and Clean Killer/Fire Watch. I find it a little difficult to believe that the 'cats wouldn't understand the interplay with their names, but the whole thing really is just perfect from an irony standpoint, and a 'playing-the-game' techno-thriller standpoint

fourth of all, this book only managed to rehash like one or two chapters total out of the books I've previous read, including To End In Fire, which i really liked (and apparently to end in fire didn't come out til well after UH. which, nice)? Novel experience of reading an honorverse book whose contents I have not already read three-fourths of in some medium or another (discounting, of course, the epilogue to Honor Among Thieves which barely, if briefly touches on some of the same final points). And tbh the one chapter of TEIF was one i wanted to reread and didn't want to have to track back down from the library.

fifth of all, im still not incredibly sold on Emily just... giving up the ghost when Hamish is reported to have died, but the consequences...

ough.

Honor IS a killer. The reference to Scotty, and then Honor locking those thoughts up in a box so she can't be distracted from what she needs to do by the memory of how he restrained her... her flaw. Her FLAW! Weber did it pretty darn well.

She IS 'the Salamander', though I'd suggest a re-titling to 'The Dragon'. 'Salamander' doesnt have that killer ring to it.

I'm glad Mercedes was able to serve as her conscience when the Grand Fleet appeared on top of that poor little cruiser squadron, but i did almost believe for a second that Honor wasn't going to listen. That she was going to kill those surrendering ships.

She had the capacity. And she WANTED to.

And she would have, if she'd not surrounded herself with people who would keep her from doing it.

Lookout tower c.1950s in Idaho managed by Kristie Wolfe, available for rental through AirBnB. More photos c/o inhabitat.com | Video tour c/o Kirsten Dirksen. Thanks to @lusson on Twitter for heads-up.