It's okay, I guess. He forgot mine too.
Yes...forgot...certainly didn't deliberately withhold to motivate more rapid development of future updates...
Well, then that gives me something to shoot for given that I need to start writing the next section!
Thank you!
Alright! Since I'm about to start getting ready for work and have to wake the heck up, allow me to put up my recommended reading list...
I, as lots of people, have been following one of the first CK3 AARs,
Ged's Existential Nightmare by none other than the one and only Dark Lord of the Sith
@TheButterflyComposer. If you have not, it's fun, it's remarkably quick, and I wonder if there could be another deep, dark dive into devious deliberations amongst dark disturbing deviants by dungeon-light... my awkward attempt at alliteration aside, it's a lovely read. A thought, however, that perhaps Urrika is a relative of Kelebek? Hmm...
Casting my view to my other nightstand reading, my eyes fall upon
@DensleyBlair 's epic work,
Echoes of a New Tomorrow: Life After Revolution in the Commonwealth of Britain. A deeply interesting work that despite having nary a screenshot, or even any relation to the readers of the gameplay, is eminently written and captures the imagination! Sorry, Densley, no alliteration for you.
Much of my free reading time of course is dedicated to the HoI2/3 boards--I've mentioned before and will continue to advocate that it really is more of a family out there--and so no reading list would be complete without both of
@El Pip's HoI2 works,
For King Haakon and the Fjords! to which I was a late adopter, but since caught up, and his masterpiece,
The Butterfly Effect. I believe that Pip has gone through and threadmarked the latter, making for an easy way to get through it using the board's Reader Mode, which if you are not aware, parses all non-threadmarked posts out and allows for a continuous read. Specifically in the Hearts of Iron 3 section, there's
@Bullfilter's
two major AARs (
Quick and Dirty 2: A Soviet Resurgence as well as
Talking Turkey),
@Eurasia 's interactive AAR,
Utsunimiya's War,
@roverS3 's
Odin and Stalin's Secret Committee, and last, but certainly not least
@Farsky 's
A Wehraboo and a Hat In Charge of Italy, which only makes me more angry at Erdogan for causing so many geo-political headaches.
I have to say that I don't get around to much of the other boards--EU:Rome gets a nod for Bullfilter's other work,
Civis Romanus Sum, and while trolling around looking at other fans who might receive a nod, I noted that in
@Le Jones AAR,
A Royal Prerogative, the thread creator
only comes fifth in posts in his own AAR... which just boggles the mind.
Since we also seem to be starting a trend of recommending some other lovely time sinks: Among Us has been humorous for me (I go by Impostor on there, and it never fails to surprise me that people somehow think it's me... when it clearly isn't), and it's free on mobile (but $5 on Steam, go figure...). I've also been working on honing my coding skills so that maybe, one day, I might put it to use. Maybe. Somehow.
That said, attention now turns to the actual important matters: the new fan of the week. Going off of his member page, he's spent over six and a half days online in total since joining here in mid-2013, which is head and shoulders above my own 44 hours since I joined the boards in late 2008... His posts are in-depth, critical pieces that provoke deep thoughts in writAAR and commentatAAR alike. He's actually already been mentioned, and last received this award eight months ago but this will be his third total award.
@roverS3 come on up and receive your honors!