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Feb. 21st, 2019 08:37 pm• Watched most of Umbrella Academy. I confess I started skipping around a bit by the end; I liked it but not enough, and the pacing was too slow for that lower level of engagement. I seem to be cursed with finding Netflix series just a few too many episodes long for my liking.
• Planning on queuing up Russian Doll as my next to-watch though, it seems to be well-received.
• I'm still enjoying Tyranny but oh my god. Oh my god it's so stressful. "I want choice-based roleplaying games with consequences!" I cry, and then chew my fingernails to sad nubs when a game actually delivers. And everyone's awful, including me, and I'm doing such awful things, nominally to serve my end goal of getting into a position where I can strike at my enemies from within, but at what point am I no better than them, huh? Huh??
• I have no intentions of picking up Anthem, which judging by the reviews has turned out to be exactly the Destiny copycat everyone feared, insofar as it's copying all of Destiny's worst flaws too. I'm nursing some real sorrow over this. Mass Effect was one of the two series that catapulted me into gaming with a will as an adult; I still hold ME2 dear as one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. The wild lack of logic behind forcing a company like BioWare to create a game with little focus on story, characters, or choice is almost unfathomable.
• Sea of Rust is terrible and I don't recommend it. Speaking of wild lacks of logic: why would you write a series about robots and make them think and feel exactly like humans?
• Planning on queuing up Russian Doll as my next to-watch though, it seems to be well-received.
• I'm still enjoying Tyranny but oh my god. Oh my god it's so stressful. "I want choice-based roleplaying games with consequences!" I cry, and then chew my fingernails to sad nubs when a game actually delivers. And everyone's awful, including me, and I'm doing such awful things, nominally to serve my end goal of getting into a position where I can strike at my enemies from within, but at what point am I no better than them, huh? Huh??
• I have no intentions of picking up Anthem, which judging by the reviews has turned out to be exactly the Destiny copycat everyone feared, insofar as it's copying all of Destiny's worst flaws too. I'm nursing some real sorrow over this. Mass Effect was one of the two series that catapulted me into gaming with a will as an adult; I still hold ME2 dear as one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. The wild lack of logic behind forcing a company like BioWare to create a game with little focus on story, characters, or choice is almost unfathomable.
• Sea of Rust is terrible and I don't recommend it. Speaking of wild lacks of logic: why would you write a series about robots and make them think and feel exactly like humans?
