It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness.

In the last 25 years I’ve hit rock bottom and also experienced the happiest moments of my life. Can’t sum it up any better than Dickens.

The article author seems to write this off as just another run of the mill sci-fi rpg, but I’m pretty excited for this. Peter F Hamilton is one of my favourite authors and he’s done the world building to support the narrative of the game.

Going to be reading his tie-in novel over the xmas break and it seems to have got decent reader reviews so long as you like his style of writing.

There was was a panic around disco? Huh, TIL.

I also don’t know the difference between hip-hop and rap. Separated them out to be on the safe side.

I do know the difference between house and techno and get mildly annoyed when people use either of them as umbrella terms for dance music. It’d be fair for fans of hip-hop and rap to feel the same.

In case you’re interested (and very simplified): Techno started in Detroit and was influenced by early German and French synthesiser music, plus the car factories.

House started in Chicago and was influenced by soul, gospel and disco.

• Jazz
• Blues
• Rock n Roll
• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Techno
• House

Way more than 4.