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Doing a Black Panther MCU binge before Wakanda Forever. First time I’ve rewatched this in ages, easily the MCU movie I least enjoy watching.
I truly hate storylines that revolve around miscommunication or simple misunderstandings. Even more so in this case because it robbed us of a true Captain America movie. The Spider-Man and Ant-Man bits are great though.
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Very physics-centric and I really just don’t think I have any interest in physics at all.
Read maybe 5 of the 20 chapters that the questions interested me and it was well written with good illustrations, but for the other ones I just could not get into them at all
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Got into Diamond Dynasty and building my card collection this year for the first time. Enjoyed that thoroughly without spending any money on it at all (which I know can be a problem for some folks) and without playing almost any online multiplayer modes. I was just building the collection for the sake of enjoying building the collection. Definitely activated the part of my brain that loved collecting IRL baseball cards my whole childhood.
I played it all summer long on Xbox while exercising and got into it enough I bought it for the Switch as well. I managed to put 200 hours into the game just according to the Xbox stats.
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First rewatch since I saw it when it came out in college. I recalled thinking it was really odd and just ok. Now I think it is really odd (even for Miyazaki) and great.
Not as high up on my Ghibli favorites list as the ones that are pure delight, but definitely one of the most well made and best stories of all their fantastic films.
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Amazing game.
Found all the secrets on my own except for the most of the secret treasures and fairies.
Bummed because I messed up and got the good ending first and now can’t get all the achievements. Maybe will go back and do a New Game+ run sometime to get the last two.
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Some of it worked, some of it really really didn’t.
One of my least favorite songs from the stage production “Sincerely, Me” actually worked really well here. It was just a fun musical-ass musical number. Many of the best songs/moments fall apart as they tried to insert them into the middle of key dramatic moments. They just never got the tone figured out.
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Finally completed Mass Effect 1 via the Legendary Edition on Game Pass. Turned the difficulty to the easiest and just enjoyed the world building, story, etc.
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100% including unlocked secret ending. Really enjoyed it.
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💿 Buy Death’s Door for Xbox
Really fun action platformer. Was always turned off by the art style in screenshots, but after so much praise for the game at GOTY time gave it a chance and really like it. Close to 100% completing it.
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Played for about 10 and just finished with close to 100% completion. (Will try to get those last few wickerlings to get there.)
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