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Jan. 3rd, 2019 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sidewaysMedia round-up:
• "Completed" my Goodreads challenge by squeezing some Animorphs books in there at the last second, a move that's kicked me into continuing to re-read the series. Not intending to count the ones I read this year towards this 2019's reading challenge (15 books! remember that year I read 52? sigh), but they're a nice warm-up. I'm still very fond of Ax as a character.
• Saw Spiderverse 1.2 times again, the .2 reflecting the viewing that got cut short when the movie theatre was evacuated due to a fire.
• I watch/played Bandersnatch, which I enjoyed enough to look up some of the other top recommended Black Mirror episodes (USS Callister, White Bear, and White Christmas). I found myself fairly ambivalent to them, however. USS Callister was solid except that it felt about twenty minutes longer than it needed to be, and the other two episodes seemed to rely heavily on social / technological conceits that were so contrived the narrative fell flat. A sense of horror and any social commentary tends to wither when these situations would really only arise if everyone lost all possible grasp of common sense, and White Bear's twist in particular was painfully clumsy. Ah well.
• Still slowly moochin' along in Tyranny. It's a hurdle to feel the usual attachment to your companions when you're all...terrible people, basically, but I've acquired a couple more neutrally-aligned individuals who I'm more sincerely protective of. I've decided my Fatebinder's key motivation is revenge, because I've never done that before and this seems as good a game as any to roll with it.
• "Completed" my Goodreads challenge by squeezing some Animorphs books in there at the last second, a move that's kicked me into continuing to re-read the series. Not intending to count the ones I read this year towards this 2019's reading challenge (15 books! remember that year I read 52? sigh), but they're a nice warm-up. I'm still very fond of Ax as a character.
• Saw Spiderverse 1.2 times again, the .2 reflecting the viewing that got cut short when the movie theatre was evacuated due to a fire.
• I watch/played Bandersnatch, which I enjoyed enough to look up some of the other top recommended Black Mirror episodes (USS Callister, White Bear, and White Christmas). I found myself fairly ambivalent to them, however. USS Callister was solid except that it felt about twenty minutes longer than it needed to be, and the other two episodes seemed to rely heavily on social / technological conceits that were so contrived the narrative fell flat. A sense of horror and any social commentary tends to wither when these situations would really only arise if everyone lost all possible grasp of common sense, and White Bear's twist in particular was painfully clumsy. Ah well.
• Still slowly moochin' along in Tyranny. It's a hurdle to feel the usual attachment to your companions when you're all...terrible people, basically, but I've acquired a couple more neutrally-aligned individuals who I'm more sincerely protective of. I've decided my Fatebinder's key motivation is revenge, because I've never done that before and this seems as good a game as any to roll with it.
