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Aug. 15th, 2021 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sideways• After five years I felt the sudden urge to rewatch Person of Interest, and have at last made it to the season 2 finale, which remains a solid favourite. I love an AI very much ;__;
• Picked up Death Stranding on sale, and have subsequently experienced the notorious writing decisions of Hideo Kojima for the first time. The concepts and worldbuilding are fascinating; the actual experience of playing the game is - well, also fascinating I suppose, but in more of a bewildered boggling way. Even setting aside the part where nobody talks like a normal human being who understands how conversation works, and fighting really hard to set aside the bizarrely fetishistic nature of half the game mechanics (I did not expect to have so much time devoted to Norman Reedus' bodily fluids, what the absolute hell), I'm having a hard time getting past the fact the developers seem to have forgotten to make the fundamental gameplay... y'know, fun? It's like Kojima played Skyrim and decided the best part of the whole game was slowly and painstakingly picking your way through rocky mountains, getting lost and falling off cliffs. To each their own...
• I've had Invincible on my list for a while, and then atweirderwest's recommendation I idly threw on the first episode and proceeded to accidentally down the whole thing in one sitting because I don't have self-control. A solid 8/10 - fantastic animation and likeable characters, nothing especially ground-breaking in the well-populated genre of "superhero deconstruction" but it executes its story well. It also executes a lot of other things. Mostly people. Dang.
• After some brief dithering I decided to treat myself and put in an order for a 25th anniversary edition of Sabriel. I've always regretted not getting the fancy hardcover limited editions of His Dark Materials, and the Old Kingdom trilogy holds a similarly dear place in my heart.
• As amusingly often seems to be the case, several of the webcomics I follow are approaching long-awaited confrontations at the same time. Unsounded and The Property of Hate are the ones that have me sitting on the furthest edge of my seat: TPOH for the tantalising possibility of answers to an underlying mystery, and Unsounded because, oh god, oh no, this is going to really hurt.
• Picked up Death Stranding on sale, and have subsequently experienced the notorious writing decisions of Hideo Kojima for the first time. The concepts and worldbuilding are fascinating; the actual experience of playing the game is - well, also fascinating I suppose, but in more of a bewildered boggling way. Even setting aside the part where nobody talks like a normal human being who understands how conversation works, and fighting really hard to set aside the bizarrely fetishistic nature of half the game mechanics (I did not expect to have so much time devoted to Norman Reedus' bodily fluids, what the absolute hell), I'm having a hard time getting past the fact the developers seem to have forgotten to make the fundamental gameplay... y'know, fun? It's like Kojima played Skyrim and decided the best part of the whole game was slowly and painstakingly picking your way through rocky mountains, getting lost and falling off cliffs. To each their own...
• I've had Invincible on my list for a while, and then at
weirderwest's recommendation I idly threw on the first episode and proceeded to accidentally down the whole thing in one sitting because I don't have self-control. A solid 8/10 - fantastic animation and likeable characters, nothing especially ground-breaking in the well-populated genre of "superhero deconstruction" but it executes its story well. It also executes a lot of other things. Mostly people. Dang.• After some brief dithering I decided to treat myself and put in an order for a 25th anniversary edition of Sabriel. I've always regretted not getting the fancy hardcover limited editions of His Dark Materials, and the Old Kingdom trilogy holds a similarly dear place in my heart.
• As amusingly often seems to be the case, several of the webcomics I follow are approaching long-awaited confrontations at the same time. Unsounded and The Property of Hate are the ones that have me sitting on the furthest edge of my seat: TPOH for the tantalising possibility of answers to an underlying mystery, and Unsounded because, oh god, oh no, this is going to really hurt.
