So... anyone else enjoying Elden Ring?

If you'll indulge me for a moment, I just had a fun encounter and have to share it somewhere.
I've only recently downloaded the game and sat down to play for a few hours, at one point I found myself walking down a slope into a swamp area, a message on the ground left by another player read 'Dragon ahead', looking ahead I saw a dragonfly, an annoying enemy as I'd already discovered, I chuckled at the clever use of message restrictions, killed the dragonfly and made my way into the swamp, it was at that point that a fucking dragon flew in out of nowhere and nearly killed me.

9/10 still haven't found the crabs

EDIT: found the giant enemy crabs, hit the weak points for massive damage, felt it now, 10/10 game of...
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My more perceptive watchers will have noticed that I did not upload at my usual time, unfortunately I was suffering from a medical issue over the last few days that rendered me bedbound and unable to access my computer, while I'm still recovering I am doing much better now and am able to upload again.
Alongside the more obvious result of a missed upload my issues also kept me from making progress in keeping my backlog at a stable level, so I'm very happy to say that I'm back.

On the plus side though, I did finally finish Deep Space 9 while I was stuck in bed, silver linings and all.

I doubt anyone noticed, it wasn't even a week after all, but I'm a creature of habit and missing an upload date was keeping me awake, so this post is more to put my mind to rest...
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