I've only missed one month of PS+ games from being forgetful...but it was the month they gave away Dragon's Crown. Still mad about that.
Nice to see you back around. You had disappeared for a while (like I'm one to talk lol). Glad to see it wasn't a permanent change.
As soon as you mentioned that you'd gotten a PS4, I wondered if World of Final Fantasy was part of the reason. I'm planning to get that eventually. The end of the year is always so busy for me at work, I hardly get to play any games. Still gotta put together my own year end wrap up and awards blog too. Might take me till next weekend 
Right now I'm looking forward Gravity Rush 2 coming out in a couple weeks.
I still need to pick this up. Hoping to keep it to 100 hours though 
We've been slowly making our way through Diablo III for several months now, though we played it only once in December (busy month!). I think it'd be kind of boring solo (haven't tried) but I really enjoy it as a multiplayer game.
I think there's just three book: the original, a prequel, and a sequel. I'd certainly like to read them all. I also want to get the Realtime stories (Marooned in Realtime sounds especially interesting, I think). I still just can't believe I went all these years and never heard his name one time. It's a vast world of books out there, I guess.
I knew I could count on you, Snee! 
...or, at least, I figured if anybody would have read it or would find it interesting, it would be you.
Earlier this year I actually looked through a list of all the Hugo winners and the thought about reading them all did cross my mind—it would make a really cool reading list!—but thankfully I dumped the idea pretty quickly. I have enough cool books to read without trying to track down a bunch more.
I've seen that Pillars of the Earth book. It's HUGE!
This year is probably the first of the last five that I've really gotten back into reading novels. Sometimes you just need to do other things.
I did some reading about him online when I first came across one of his books and it seems like A Fire Upon the Deep is probably his most well known and highly regarded. But yeah, I can't imagine he's written anything that isn't chock full of interesting ideas.
I have a confession. When I listen to NWP while commuting, I...I wear pants!
I know I haven't gotten to participate or comment all that much but I've been sticking with the show. I try to use what little free time I have to actually play games, so the internet doesn't see me all that much lol. And commuting is my podcast time, so I never can comment right when I'm thinking about it. But I wanted to make sure to comment after listening to this episode because I was rather shocked, first by Patrick's gross oversimplification of Dark Souls—apparently any game with dodging and hitting is just like Dark Souls—and then by how he dismissed Julian's opinion as invalid. In fact, he said anyone who disagreed with him simply hadn't thought through it enough. I sure hope such hubris was fueled by alcohol because surely he's not such an ass when sober...right? Then again, how often is he sober for the podcast And Julian, don't be so quick to assume that Patrick is everyone's favorite because it's simply not true.
