finished watching Chernobyl (Miniseries) 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Excellent cast and nails the atmosphere, the period etc. Dramatizes the events of the accident and the cleanup well. The lectures about the superiority of the western system are maybe a bit too on the nose especially considering what we've seen in the USA after 2024.

finished watching King Solomon's Mines 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑
This is basically "Temu Indiana Jones" but it does have big stars like Sharon Stone so I guess it was an ambitious project at the time It's a collection of cliches and stereotypes that the modern viewer will probably not find so amusing and a bit all over the place but I guess it's relatively competently made and can be fun in the way that most even bad old (pre-90s and CGI) films are for me.

finished playing Darkest Dungeon 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Got back into playing this, last time I did not have my Steam Deck and got bored of it fairly quickly but with the Deck it's been fun. Some games just work better with a handheld that can resume at a moment's notice.

Now finished a playthrough on the easiest radiant difficulty after tons of hours poured into this. It was fun but also feel I've had enough for now and I don't think I'm going to start another run anytime soon.

Definitely the most playtime I've gotten out of any Epic Game Store freebie so far, I must be hundreds of hours playtime total by now with multiple started runs and taking this successful one pretty slow.

wants to read The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915
about USA getting close to civil war again after the only one

finished watching Saccharine 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

finished watching Generation Kill 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
Fairly raw & depressing, definitely don't expect any heroes like with Band of Brothers but that's fair since the Iraq war is a very different one from WW2. Probably the 2nd best miniseries depicting war after that one for me. Have not seen Das Boot in that form though.

finished reading Origins 🌕🌕🌕🌗🌑
This outlines the evolutionary history of life on earth in some detail. A bit dry in places. I doubt I will later remember anything from the sections that are just listing different branches of species while mentioning some defining features. Some other parts Rhodes makes more interesting. The topic is fascinating and the author knows what he is talking about so it is certainly still worth it.