What I did in August, from podcasts and manga, to binge-watching another anime and actually reading a book for once!
Here’s what I did this month!
Podcasts
I listened to 96 hours of podcasts! Although a fair amount of that was
while asleep.
Trash Taste had some really entertaining episodes recently so of course I
listened to some of them!
I listened to many of the Late Night Linux Family shows, more than usual
for some reason.
The Vergecast was also really interesting lately, with their episodes
about Gemini and Google being a monopoly
Stuff You Should Know was indeed awesome
Darknet Diaries was left behind for a bit lately, but not anymore
Into The Aether had some fun stuff, but they took a break for a bit so,
yeah.
Dungeons and Daddies was also fun, I am following season 3 as episodes
come out.
Relatos de la Noche remained on top, as my new favorite for night time
listening.
Anime & Shows
Dr. Stone was pretty unexpected, but I chose it on a whim and I basically
caught up with it and now I’m just waiting for the time a new season,
probably the last one, comes out. The plot is quite interestin; in a world
were humanity got turned to stone, pretified for millenia, and the elements
deteriorated every building and sight of its existence, leaving almost
nothing left. By sheer luck, a teenage scientist breaks out of his
petrification, and decides to figure out how to undo petrification and
build back civilization with the power of science!
Loki season 2 was quite the ride, I watched it with a friend in 2 days and it was pretty entertaining, I really like the timey-wimey stuff in it. There were some great developments but my biggest take-away is that I want to watch Doctor Who again.
Manga
Sakamoto Days made a return with all of its might. I had forgotten
how crazy it went with a lot of its fight scenes. I appreciate the
creativeness of a lot of its panels and how things developed, it got me
hooked until I catched up to its latest chapter. There are a ton of
stunning visuals here and I can only hope the anime for it—they
definitely have took their time releasing one—manages to do it justice. I
am on chapter 178.
DanDaDan is got a lot of reading time from me as well, but I still a
few dozen chapters until I catch up with it. Still, the arc I read was
totally crazy like always, but a bit smaller in scale. Despite this, the
new character is definitely among my favorites now. I am on chapter 129 so
far.
Creature! is a manga I started a while ago and that I found totally
amusing to read, it wasn’t good in the same sense as SD or DDD, but its art
was too good for a story that kept going all over the place. I kinda want
to find more stories like this of humans surviving some world full of
unsurmountable creatures and dangers in some apocalyptic world that also
has a serious tone, other than Attack on Titan I guess, which also evolves
into something different but in a better way.
How to Grill Our Love is maybe my favorite cooking manga—a.k.a. the
only one I’ve read—with a wholesome marriage in the middle of it all. I
don’t know what else to say, its a pretty comfy read and I want to it all
the food being cooked in it.
Gaming
Final Fantasy VI has been really enjoyable, I played a ton of it last month, pretty much a third of the story is complete.
Monster Hunter Rise has also seen a revival, I am almost done with the village quests and I’ll be doing some of the Guild quests soon enough. I really want to get some new gear though, like the Nargacuga set and some more elemental weapons.
Trails in the Sky FC saw some progress early in the month, but it stalled for a bit later on, I’ll still try and return to it since its been super enjoyable.
Reading
Hothouse by Brain W. Aldiss is a book I returned to after a while focusing on gaming instead of reading. The story has evolved in unexpected ways and I want to finish it quickly in September to focus on another book!
Device usage
Laptop
I am not sure why but I think I kinda borked my ActivityWatch data for this month, I don’t really know what happened exactly, but I’m fairly angry right now…
Phone
I used my phone for 223 hours which is kind of horrifying but welp.
Youtube for 52 hours (help)
Facebook for 25 hours (help)
WhatsApp for 20 hours (help)
Aniyomi for 19 hours (Dr. Stone lol)
Tusky for 17 hours
Discord for 15 hours
Firefox for 12 hours
Mihon for 11 hours
Signal for 9 hours
E-Reader
I read Hothouse for for 4 hours and 8 minutes, 204 pages
Final thoughts
Anyway, I lost my laptop data but I am quite sure I didn’t use it very much anyway. Especially because of the anime binge-watching I did earlier in the month as well as the manga and book reading. And of course, the amount of YouTube I consumed.
I guess everything always balances out and it is what it is. Regardless, have a good day everyone!
