Yeah, I agree re open world. I find open world design both overwhelming and a bit exhausting. Even if the hours I dump into a game are the same, the sense that I’m actively wasting my life doing nothing is more palpable when I feel like I”m running around and doing mundane things in real time. On the other hand, if…
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You’ll enjoy Eddie Izzard’s fruits bit then (to which the author’s pear comment is referring) - pears covered at 4:26 mark:
Ugh. This was me last year, riding my bicycle slowly up a hill. I love my bicycle and ride it everywhere. Random man: “Nice bicycle!” Me, genuinely: “Thanks!” Random man (in a low lecherous voice): “...and you look real nice riding it.” (Leaving me wishing that hill wasn’t so steep. Oh good. Now you’ve got a great…
And how. I liked ReplyAll’s LiveJournal focused episode on Russian troll farms - https://gimletmedia.com/episode/100-friends-blasphemers/ I remember (as a big fandomwank and ontd reader and reasonably prolific LiveJournaler in the mid aughts) noticing a strangely growing prominence of Russian users (seemed like that…
I usually give new shows five episodes to find their feet if I’m reasonably interested in the premise (though to be honest, with anything set in space it takes a lot to dissuade me from watching.) The first two prologue-style episodes didn’t do it for me but I was on board after episode 3. This one felt like a bit of…
If you’re at all interested in harder sci-fi (near future astronauts), I’d recommend checking out Planetes (from 2003/2004) about a team of under achieving ‘garbage men of space’ (tasked with cleaning dangerous debris from around the earth’s orbit as humanity expands its reach from standard space stations and a moon…
It took me until I was about two thirds of the way through the first season for Bojack to really click. I watched the pilot and it was fine but I wasn’t that engaged so I didn’t pick it up again until I started hearing great things about the second season. Not that I was exactly suffering through the early section (I…
Yeah, I think the only other thing that’s portrayed it that well is Hyperbole and a Half:
Good god. My life is now complete.
Nnnrrg. Reminds me of the collective uncomfortable squirming in the audience during a screening of Wolf Children. Everyone was on board for those cute werewolfy children in an otherwise wistful, moving, coming of age drama. No one was on board to see how those titular wolf children were made.
Having roared through all the episodes until 3:30AM last night/this morning (it never really feels right calling it the morning when you haven’t slept yet), I look forward to reading the rest of the reviews. God, this show.
I had just finished reading the first 3 Song of Ice & Fire books when I heard HBO had picked it up and sites like Winter is Coming began reporting on early casting announcements. It was weird to watch it to go from a niche nerdy world to a mainstream phenomenon. Suddenly everyone was reading Game of Thrones on the…
My ‘trash magazine’ equivalent reading in the early aughts was Livejournal’s FandomWank. Nothing like a gossip community dedicated to documenting pan fan forum drama.
Agreed. Costume design has been killing it this season.
Ah, I watched that commentary after this comment. It’s also frustrating how much they committed to the whole nonsensical ‘is Sansa swayed by Littlefinger / sister strife’ build up just for that one payoff. It seems they thought they were toying with audience expectations that ‘anything’ could happen and clearly put…
Indeed. Which made it feel like this ought to have been settled an episode or two ago. Unless there were some background arrangements needed to secure the loyalty of The Vale. But then I’d also rather have been let in on the Stark siblings’ plotting and any dramatic tension that might be mined there over the…
I kind of like the theory I read somewhere around these parts that suggested the Night King likely saw the comet in the sky that signaled the birth of dragons and started to really ramp up this whole ‘march on the wall’ thing in anticipation of getting a hold of one.
I kinja-live! Or I’m a Kinja-wight? At any rate, much obliged.
100% agree. That scene alone was great, but ended up being wholly undermined by everything that came before it. It’s like they knew how they wanted Little Finger to die first, and then worked backwards to (poorly) explain it, fixated on maintaining a stupid ‘gotcha’ twist over anything that would ring true or make…