Biggest takeaway from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom gameplay demo this morning… did Link always have such a beautiful flowing mullet?
Kirby’s Dream Land – ★★★½
Sat and put in three 15-20 minute sessions to beat this now that’s available on the Switch. This is the first OG Game Boy game I have ever finished as I never owned a Game Boy growing up. 12 year old Brian would be so jealous.
Nice, very quick and very simple playthrough to see the origins of Kirby. My kids delighted at seeing the green Game Boy graphics but not enough to want to play themselves it looked “too old”.
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💿 Buy the new Kirby’s Return to Dream Land remaster for Switch
Remembering Alex Hay
Alex Hay, developer of the super useful Toolbox Pro iOS app, has passed away after a battle with cancer. MacStories has a nice tribute to Alex that’s worth a read and touches on his impact on the Apple automation community.
Considering I completely disagreed that several of these even are time travel movies (*cough* Demolition Man *cough*), this is a great fun Incomparable episode and I saved several new things to my watchlist.
“dad with two annoying daughters, who are crying because they just got in trouble, pixar style”
Trolling my daughters with Midjourney prompts as they argue over who gets to help with the next creation: “dad with two annoying daughters, who are crying because they just got in trouble, pixar style”
Bottom right one was our favorite, not sure why the other ones ended up with clown makeup. Ha.
The Obelisk Gate (by N.K. Jemisin) – ★★★★
Good followup to the first book in the series. I liked the world building etc in the first one a bit more but by the end (after a particular awful character is finally out of the story), I came around and am really looking forward to reading the finale of the series.
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📕 Buy The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin on Amazon
Synthwave Nolan Ryan
Midjourney prompt: Synthwave Nolan Ryan in his baseball uniform but on a cattle ranch
Created by me, inspired by Trent Walton
Melody Time – ★★½
I am so glad to be done with the musical anthology section of my Disney Animation Studios chronological rewatch. I assume I can safely literally blame Hitler for this down period between 1942 and 1950?
The Pecos Bill segment was ok, maybe I would have liked the whole thing better if I hadn’t just watched Make Mine Music and the other anthologies.
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💿 Buy Melody Time on Amazon
Murder by Numbers – ★★★½
Fun story. Mostly good writing. Surprisingly good characters. Plus Picross! Considering they’ve been acquired by Epic and Mediatonic will likely eternally be on Fall Guys and/or Fortnite content development, it’s disappointing that we likely won’t get any more stories like this from them.
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💿 Buy Murder by Numbers for Nintendo Switch
Roasted chicken or croissant?
Pretty sure I am indeed human, but it is admittedly pretty hard to tell the difference between a roasted chicken and a stack of croissants.
