I recently got Aviary Attorney, one of the few games I've been excited enough to play that I bought it almost immediately when it came out. The game is a crime-solving visual novel set in in 19th century France just before a revolution, and is styled in ink drawings befitting that era. It's charming and delightful and, although it still has unwritten chapters to be added and updated in the future, I super duper recommend it. It's currently on sale on Steam for $13, so you too can play a weird Poirot/Phoenix Wright/Harvey Birdman falcon lawyer and spend two weeks looking for a sandwich that demands a password.

Unsurprisingly, the game has a decent amount of French in it, which has apparently been a final straw for me. I keep finding myself making things that involve French, which is terribly ironic because I just completely dislike French as a language. It's annoyingly superfluous and sloppy, and any language that involves letters that don't make sounds is just a confusing, messy waste as far as I'm concerned. Although I will say that it's very pretty and flows nicely when spoken - it's a very form over function kind of language. And to note, that doesn't mean I find English a good language either. But French keeps coming up for me and I keep using it and being influenced by it, so one of my two new years resolutions is to learn French.

The other is to work out regularly, I'm very bad at the 'regularly' part of the deal.