/Gaming

As I sit down to write today, I find my mind is just not in it. I had originally planned to talk about how we tend to "stagnate" as we grow older, but alas, I think that will have to wait until a future post. Today I will talk about what's actually on my mind right now: [Caves of Qud](https://www.cavesofqud.com/). I've really just barely started the game. I've spent no more than a few hours on it and only gone through a handful of "deaths". So far I really like it! The only thing that's itching me is that it feels somewhat "sparse". Maybe I'm just not that familiar yet with the game, and that's why. Don't get me wrong, in some ways the game does feel huge and has a deep and well-connected history, but the amount of people (and the kind of people) just doesn't make that much sense to me. In some ways it feels a bit like [No Man's Sky](https://www.nomanssky.com/) (at least as it was when I played it about three years ago), where there's more "space" than "stuff". Still, it's lots of fun. I like how every fight is its own little puzzle that must be solved with careful positioning and choosing which abilities to use at the right time.