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Normally if a game is multiplatform, I'll get the PS5 version over the Switch/Switch 2 version. But since Mixtape was released as a Switch 2 exclusive, I thought I'd give it a try.

It looks and plays beautifully. I didn't notice any graphical or performance dips the whole time, on either handheld or docked.

Just a PSA. Typically playing a game on Switch means compromising the experience somewhat. Not the case with Mixtape.

We might not know for sure until the songs get recorded and released. The one about dust and feet might be my favorite song of hers.

How do Naomi, Alex, and Amos get past the guards to the docks, after Holden and Miller go to investigate?

When Holden and Miller are trying to get to the Roci, they find about 100 guards lined up, blocking the passage between the casino floor and the docks. It's not until the vomit zombies are unleashed and the guards begin falling back (and eventually start shooting at each other when half of them realize they're just there to be fodder for the protomolecule) that H&M have a window of escape. And even then, they still have to kill a bunch of guys and steal their armor, then run through a massive shootout, to reach the Roci.

It makes me wonder how Naomi, Alex, and Amos got past the guards from their hiding spot above the casino floor. We can guess that Amos did Amos-y things, but even then, it seems highly unlikely the three of them would have been able to pull it off.

...the underground sneak Amos onto Laconia with a pocket nuke before the events of Book 8? It seems like that would have been incredibly difficult to pull off without Amos or the ship that brought him being seen and/or detected as suspicious by the Laconians.

Also, I'm wondering what would have had to happen for Amos to get the go-ahead to actually set off the nuke.

Right after finishing Babylon's Ashes, I was really surprised to see so many people consider it one of the worst, if not the worst in the series. After finishing the series and looking back, I still consider it one of my favorites. Top 3 or 4.

The fact that there were more than four perspectives felt to me like opening up the Expanse universe in a way that had never done before. Getting inside Fred Johnson's head for a chapter, Marco for a chapter, and Anderson fucking Dawes for two chapters, etc. was incredibly enlightening. The Dawes chapter where he's whipping support for Holden might be my favorite chapter in the entire series. It rounded out these characters and made them more than secondary players to our usual heroes.

Revisiting old friends like Avarsarala and Prax (his chapters were especially compelling, in a small stakes but deeply personal kind of way that still had implications for the overall story) was a delight. Fillip's entire character arc was so heartbreaking, but complete and rich.

Another one of my favorite moments is when the Roci and Pa's ship meet in space just outside of Ceres, and Holden and Pa talk for the first time. It was such a vivid and tense picture of these two unlikely powerhouses teaming up, with all sides feeling like torpedoes could be fired off at any moment.

Even if people don't like Book 6 as a whole, they seem to love the final battle of the book. But the battle wouldn't have felt so climactic and deeply satisfying if the little pieces hadn't been put together. The final moments are set up so beautifully.

Book 6 reminds me a lot of Book 3, in that there's a ton of setup in the first 2/3rds for a batshit final third. But IMO, Book 6 did it even better, because we weren't feeling so claustrophobic in the slow zone the whole time. The universe opened up, and we took a ride with folks who were experiencing all sides of the war.

I miss Weezer guitar solos on every song.

I’m not clinical staff but I’ve worked adjacent to them in hospitals for almost a decade now and one of the most annoying, bizarre experiences you can have is a shift with a patient that can’t/won’t stop screaming.

For example, last week I had to fix a sink in the ED. It took a while to handle so I was there for a good 2 hrs right at the start of my shift. That whole time there is an exorcism happening two doors down from me. The woman is screaming, bellowing, hollering as loud as can be. It’s perversely impressive even if it is annoying. My vocals couldn’t howl for that long.

And trust me, people tried to calm her down. Nurses tried to talk to her, a social worker tried too. They ran through a checklist of things that could be wrong. Nothing worked. So she screamed and screamed and screamed. She even switched it up and ululated from time to time. Almost like she got bored or like it was a game.

Regardless of that, you can’t just stop and ED (or any unit cause it’s not just EDs that get screamers) everything while this person is yelling. Which leads to strange conversations like this:

Nurse A: “so here’s mrs. Alberta Johnson. She’s 64 years old, diabetic and came here for chest pains and-“

Screamer: “OH GOD SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!”

Nurse A: “-shortness of breath. She’s a real delight you’ll like her.”

Nurse B: “oh yeah she sounds like a treat”

Screamer: “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

Going on in the background of everything you do. She was screaming when I started, when I left and 6 hrs later when I came back there to check on my fix. God bless the staff that day lol. At least I could leave.

I know it’ll never happen but man that would be so cool to see. Though I wonder how they’d do auditions for the part lol