I had planned to write at least one more post on Skyrim, possibly several, but enough is enough. Haven’t been in that world in a good while, so it has not been on my mind for some time. I feel no inspiration.

So instead I’ll post a minor status update.

Andromeda: Been on hold for a while, but I’ll get back to it soon.

Started playing around with Civilization VI a bit, but only the free and rather restricted version, which, among other things allows for only 60 turns. It’s on the iPad, but it’s the complete game and no flimsy downgraded tablet port, which is great, but also means it’s currently being sold at full price (it was released recently), so I think I’ll wait for a discount before making a purchase. (Edit: it’s now temporarily sold at half price, think I’ll go for it!) (Edit 2: I did.)

In the last few days I’ve been playing a small tablet puzzle game that’s kind of amusing and engaging but not really that special. Much of the enjoyment and meaning lie in figuring out a methodic way to beat the challenges, how to think. Not quite all the down to the level of a step by step algorithm, though that’s certainly would be possible if required (e.g. for making a computer program do the work), but more like identifying a set of useful principles, questions and ideas, a system of sorts.

For the most part, so far, this way of going about it is probably more time consuming than figuring out the solution by trying things by semi-random intuition, but it’s also a lot more meaningful and less amorphous and intractable. And later on, when I expect the puzzles to become significantly harder — too hard for semi-random method — it’ll probably pay off in terms of time and energy as well. Either way, the more interesting and fun challenge is figuring out the approach.

And that’s it for now.