Been a looooooong time Texas played a complete game like this against anybody, let a lone on the road against a top 3 team.
Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches has a new solo single out
Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches has a new solo single out.
She’s also doing a solo tour. Definitely different vibe than her music with Chvrches but I like it. Somehow I missed this news back in July.
Chvrches is easily my favorite band of the last decade (maybe ever?) so selfishly this makes me a bit nervous about their future. “Over” just came out 6 months ago and was FANTASTIC so hopefully this has nothing to do with the future of the band.
The one white guy in K-dramas
You think I can get a role as the one white guy in a K-Drama? I have no acting ability, but based on being in the room while my wife has watched 900 different series that does not appear to be a requirement for the job.
Color palette? Pallete? Pallette?
I am physically incapable of spelling palette (as in color) correctly. Pallete? Pallette? Why are there so many Ls and Ts and Es??
7.5 years later, I’ve finished Uncharted 4
I preordered Uncharted 4 on January 12, 2016. Over 7.5 years later I finally finished the game streaming via Chiaki to my ROG Ally.
Played the first 4 hours or so back in 2016. Played the first 4 hours or so again when I got the Legacy of Thieves PS5 upgrade last year. Even with the drawbacks (mostly occasional audio and visual glitches in first 10 minutes of session), the advantages of playing anywhere in the house just makes it so much more likely I can find time for a game.
Really a tough game to pick up right after playing TotK (holy crap was the exploring and controls frustrating for the first couple hours). Uncharted 2 was my favorite game of that generation so I’m glad to have finally wrapped up the series.
Will give it a while but looking forward to picking up The Lost Legacy eventually.
A downright frigid 91 degrees out
I just said, “oooh it’s only 91 out” out loud and thought about taking the dog for a walk. It’s amazing how repeated highs of like 107 will warp your brain.
Review: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – ★★½
The characters, Sadie in particular, just never seem to get more mature in their thoughts or their actions despite anything that happens in their lives. The constant reappearance of the toxic, abusive character with only cursory mentions of what is often literally sexual assault never really seems as introspective as it should. Of course, Sadie and Sam’s own relationship is equally toxic pretty much throughout.
Just incredibly immature thoughts on relationships, work, video games, and life in general.
Rating: 2.5 stars
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Pac-12 has collapsed
Went to a work happy hour for a couple hours and the Pac-12 completely fell apart.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – ★★★★★
A truly remarkable achievement in ways that I’m not sure any of us could have guessed when Nintendo announced they were making a sequel to Breath of the Wild.
Tears of the Kingdom refined pretty much everything my former (spoiler) favorite game offered and added seemingly endless new ways to traverse, interact, and manipulate the vast world. And it also added an actually intriguing and touching story on top of it, though that story is still told in a slightly improved but still suboptimal non-linear fashion.
220+ hours, all 152 shrines, every single light root, and I barely scratched the surface of everything in this game. I finished the game at only at 61% complete and there are huge areas of the surface map I’ve literally never been to.
It may just be recency bias talking, but Tears of the Kingdom might just be my new favorite adventure/open world game of all time. Breath of the Wild was more of a breath of fresh air and I was still thinking about it months/years later, but I’ve never so obsessively consumed every bit of game the way I did with TotK over the last 2 months. I can’t wait to see what is next for the Zelda franchise and can’t imagine what Nintendo has in store for us next.
Rating: 5 stars
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Bloodsport – ★½
The first 10-15 minutes of this may be some of the worst acting I’ve ever seen and they somehow don’t bother to start bloodsporting until like 40 minutes in to a 90 minute movie.
The bit at the end where they claim Frank Dux did all these amazing things just screamed “lol, sure you did dude.” Went to Wikipedia and yep, shady as heck and likely mostly all made up including any military history.
Rating: 1.5 stars
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