Friday, August 6, 2021

Death's End

死神永生 (Sǐshén yǒngshēng), the final volume of Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy has a slightly different name in English than it has in Finnish. Google translate says the squiggles mean 'death immortality' so I'm not sure which is more accurate: Death's End or Kuolema on ikuinen ('death is eternal', or maybe 'death is forever' like how one James Bond novel by John Gardner is titled and translated). A character in the novel does say death to be the only lighthouse that is always lit so I'm kind of favoring the Finnish name.

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Immortals Fenyx Rising

Getting a month of Ubisoft+ maybe wasn't the most optimal course of action while also having an active 3-month Game Pass subscription going. But it was offered for a lowered price and I didn't know how long that offer would last. And most importantly, I wanted to play Ubisoft's colorful action-adventure game from last year, Immortals Fenyx Rising.