As I alluded to in previous posts, most of my 2023 has been absorbed with playing Genshin Impact, my newest hyper-fixation, as well as Honkai: Star Rail from the same developer. In retrospect it's not all that surprising this has happened. I have a lot of friends that play both games, I was becoming increasingly burnt out on Fortnite after playing it regularly for nearly three years, and other properties I'm interested in have either ended or are on lengthy breaks (see: Doctor Who)

Because I have these games on the brain, I thought I'd write out some of my thoughts on them so far. I'm pretty much current on both, which means spoilers below the cut for the most recent patches in each (4.1 in Genshin, 1.3 in HSR).

( Lukewarm takes under the cut )

Honestly didn't realize that I haven't posted anything here yet this year. January was both unending and somehow sped by without me really noticing.

The month has mostly been dealing with work stuff and playing Genshin Impact. I've made it pretty far already after only starting a month ago, but I think I've finally hit a stage where it's gonna basically force me to slow down which is probably a good thing. Also been watching (and re-watching) K-Pop survival shows. Boys Planet is fine so far but I'm much more invested in Girl's Re:Verse and Peak Time (which hasn't premiered yet but DKB will be in it so...)

Doctor Who has been more on the back-burner than I had expected in it's anniversary year, but that might be because new episodes are so far away that it's been out of sight out of mind. Kind of bummed that I didn't finish out the Wilderness Years last year but I still have plenty of time. (Honestly Twitter itself might implode before the Specials air at this rate).

The only down side is that my sleeping habits have gotten really bad - either I'm not getting enough or I'm getting too much at the wrong time. It's made it really difficult to do any kind of consistent exercise much less start going to the gym like I've wanted to. I just wish the learning curve for using gym equipment and actually getting some kind of personal training wasn't made so deliberately difficult.