Animal Quest

For starters, if you are unfamiliar, Animal Quest is/was an early 1990s DOS computer game that revolved around the food chain/web. You played as an animal, tried to eat your prey, and not get eaten by your predators (or let your predators eat all the prey you wanted to eat). Once you got enough points, you obtained the ability to move diagonally, allowing you to more easily escape predators or sneak up on prey.

So of course, one of my favorite stupid things to do in Animal Quest was, once I got diagonal mode, was to sneak up on prey that did in no way require sneaking. Because it couldn't move. Like eggs. Or acorns. Gotta sneak up on those eggs, don't want them running away. XD

Also, if anyone would like to play Animal Quest, https://archive.org/details/AnimalQuestV2.02SW1993AliveSoftwareStrategy

The Ocean and Jungle modes aren't available in the demo version (I haven't been able to find a non-demo version anywhere anymore), but Forest is pretty fun. IMO.

Pern

I learned recently that there's a new Dragonriders of Pern novel out, Dragon's Code, by Gigi McCaffrey (Anne's daughter? I haven't done much research yet), and gosh, I hope it's better than Todd's novels. Like, he had some great concepts, but I just don't think he did a great job of writing them.

I put in a library hold this afternoon. Hopefully I'll have finished The Crystal Shard by the time it arrives, so I won't have to try to finish one fandom while getting ready to immediately start reading another. (And then once I finish Dragon's Code, I'll put in a hold on whatever the next title in the Forgotten Realms series is.)