March 29th, 2024

Little more progress in Episode 9 in Arknights, most of the way through it. I didn't wind up reading ahead for the end of Episode 8, but this time I did. There's actually a big gap in story segments between 9-14 and 9-18 (both of those stages have story segments, but none of the four stages between them do; one of them is a side stage which uses a different numbering scheme), and I knew the story for 9-13 and 9-14 wasn't too long. Plus I really like the Episode. I still don't think I'm too crazy for the pillars as a mechanic but there's a ton of good level design.

The brakes for my car stopped working like halfway through the drive home. I could still stop my car, but I had to push the break all the way down to do so. There wasn't any warning, they just stopped working, but after the initial scare it was mostly just annoying. Still have to bring it in to get it fixed of course, really not safe to drive with them like that.