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 Just finished Cursed, by Thomas Wheeler.  First I saw the series on Netflix. It was OK, definitely not great. I read a Frank Miller interview that implied that the book and series complement each other (not really), so I decided to get the book. The story, an Arthurian myth about a magic girl that gets Excalibur (never called that on the book, AFAIK) is almost the same. The book has some different details, and like 3 times the use of magic (which I liked, as the lack of use of the main series topic bothered me in the series). There are illustrations by Frank Miller, but most are not great. By the end of the book I kind of liked them. Overall, very nice, and as usual, better than the series.

 Idle Idle GameDev is another idle game for Android.  These are named so because they "keep running" in the background (i.e. when you get they generate results that look like they were running). Developers love them because they can be very addictive (with the sense of accomplishment because of easy upgrades), they are easy to monetize (just sell points for upgrades or time boosts) and you can extend gameplay by having reboots with upgrades. All of these apply here. Also, the whole UI are basic forms - I'd make fun of them, but it makes sense in the context. On one hand, I really like the concept, and it has plenty of great ideas. I've played for quite a while and unlocked almost all visible upgrades. However, it is pretty buggy, specially skipping over updates - like showing having upgrade points except that you don't, after a while you discover this. Also, things like dropping all employees from bug fixing, and it still runs for who knows what reason. So I can r