Movie Review: The Last House
Movie Review: 1.5/5 Kind of entertaining in the beginning, but it gets so bad as it progresses towards the end. Laughably bad.
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Video Game Review: Spider-Man Remastered
Video Game Review: 4.4/5 Beautiful looking game. Well optimized for PC. The first few hours, the gameplay is tremendously gripping. However, it becomes repetitive, and because of that I am glad they made this a shorter game.
Book Review: The LOTR: The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
Book Review: 4.25/5 A fantastic conclusion to an all-time story. However, there is 100 pages of exposition.
Video Game Review: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Video Game Review: 5/5 Sekiro will teach you life lessons. I only recommend playing this game if you commit to finishing it beforehand. Defeating the final boss will change you as a person. I'm a broken record saying this about almost every FromSoftware game: if you are a gamer you need to play this game.
Migrating My Homelab off of Anthropic's Stack
Due to the claude -p billing changes (yes I know they rolled them back at the last minute but if you read the rest of this you'll realize why I'm not going back) I decided to move off of Anthropic for agentic homelab use and general AI usage. You can see my first post about this just after I had set all this up. Clearly, I was excited - and I still have that same level of excitement - controlling…
Video Game Review: DARK SOULS III
Video Game Review: 5/5 A masterpiece. If you want to play only one "Souls" or "soulslike" game, play this one. Perhaps I need to revisit Elden Ring to declare that, but for now I'm standing by DS3 as the best of the best. This took what DS1 did and made it better in every way - as well as taking the good from DS2. Amazing level design, fantastic bosses, and the best gameplay.
Video Game Review: DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin
Video Game Review: 4/5 I only got halfway through this game before I corrupted my game save trying to manually sync it between my PC and Steam Deck. I played about 16 hours though, so I think I still got a good feel for the game. I'll certainly come back to it but I was not in the mood to start fresh after 16 hours of gameplay was lost. Gets a bad rap, but I thought it had a unique charm. The…
Video Game Review: DARK SOULS: REMASTERED
Video Game Review: 4.5/5 First time playing. Had a blast, though I got a bit tangled up in the map not knowing what I was doing. It's cool how it all connects. A game that if I had unlimited time, I'd instantly replay and see everything it has to offer.
Video Game Review: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Video Game Review: 5/5 A game you should play if you call yourself a gamer. Fantastic art style that will age well, memorable characters, a story that's good on the surface and on a deeper level, and addicting gameplay. There's more to speccing and building out characters than there is to the actual battles, but it feels nice to see your build strategies come to fruition in combat.
Book Review: The LOTR: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Book Review: 4.75/5 Much more exciting than the first book, though it still maintains the charming world building. Overall slower pace than average, but not overbearing. Loved both sagas of the non-Frodo gang as well as Frodo and Sam's. Amazing setup for the third volume.
Homelab Claude Daemon
I'm making this post via a remote session through the Claude mobile app. I've given it a skill that can create blog posts for me. The Claude mobile app chat interface is easier than a web form! Worth the tokens :) Additionally, the agent is able to run devops skills for deployments, infra changes, etc. As well as editing code, obviously. Fun times!
Delta Neutral
I recently built Delta Neutral, a self-hosted concentrated liquidity hedge rebalancer. In Uniswap v3-style concentrated liquidity pools, liquidity providers pool two assets within a bounded price range. The position is not static: as price moves within the range, the pool continuously rebalances the asset composition. This means your effective exposure per asset drifts over time. If you want to…
Book Review: The LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
Book Review: 4.25/5 Like The Hobbit , I again really enjoyed Tolkien’s writing style. The Hobbit felt more enchanting and easier to read, but The Fellowship of the Ring is clearly cut from the same cloth. The composition of Frodo's adventure (or what we have adventured so far, at least) is probably my favorite aspect of the book. Most noteworthy sections to me included Tom Bombadil, the Prancing…
Book Review: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Book Review: 5/5 I absolutely loved this book. My introduction to Tolkien; what a fantastic, cozy writing style.
Book Review: Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Book Review: 5/5 My second Dostoevsky read. I remember telling someone I felt cozy reading this, and I'll never forget the look they gave me back in return. There's something about his atmosphere and storytelling that is so incredibly captivating. Most get swept up in his themes and depth, but I moreso enjoy his characters and the world they interact in.
Book Review: House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by David Bellavia
Book Review: 4.75/5 Borderline must read. Not for the faint of heart. The Big Red One of the Iraq war.
Book Review: Remember the Ramrods by David Bellavia
Book Review: 3.5/5 More about David Bellavia's struggle with adjusting back to civilian life. Interesting, yet boring, yet a good reminder that the price is more than just combat for service members.
Book Review: God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Book Review: 4.75/5
Book Review: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
Book Review: 5/5 One of my favorite books ever. Leto II is such a cool character, Alia's tragedy, The Preacher - I hope they can capture the entirety of this book in a movie one day.
Book Review: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Book Review: 4/5