wychwood: Trip with a harmonica plays the blues (Ent - blues)
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I finally completed Dragon Age: Veilguard, after only four months. I enjoyed it! with spoilers )

Other games: I played the rest of Carto, which is a very enjoyable little map puzzle game and I recommend it; I started Submerged but didn't get very far with it, played a bit of Loddlenauts and liked that better, will probably play more; picked up Quilts and Cats of Calico which has a ridiculous story mode that I'm working through, finished the second act but got stuck on one puzzle where my solution appears to be mathematically correct but doesn't get the right number of cats so I must be misunderstanding a rule somewhere, much more overtly math-y than I was expecting somehow; progressed my re-play of The Secret Order 2: Masked Intent which is as ridiculous as all my Artifex Mundi games but still oddly satisfying; and played a few minutes of Psychonauts after Sunday's video game concert included a track from it and I realised that the name was familiar because it was already in my Steam library. That one was mildly entertaining, but the interface feels a bit janky and the graphics are hideous (...it is twenty years old, probably not surprising); I'll probably try a bit more.

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May. 20th, 2025 11:02 am
wychwood: Dief loves RayV (due South - RayV and Dief)
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I continued the culture theme - actually I forgot to post about it, but I also went to the opera! That was ten days ago now, Peter Grimes, a Britten piece I'd never actually heard before. What a downer though.

Anyway. On Saturday I went to the cinema to go and see Ocean, a new David Attenborough that was having a theatrical release. Excellent as ever, although mostly not new; I liked the juxtaposition of "incoming climate disaster" with the example of Save the Whales as a campaign that really worked. Afterwards I had a couple of hours to kill before church, and they were offering £5 tickets, so I took myself across the building to see Thunderbolts*, which was entertaining, had some genuinely touching character moments, and did not go in for too many extended fight scenes as a replacement for plot. I mean, there definitely were plenty of fight scenes, it's still Marvel, but sometimes you think "really we could have cut half an hour of fight scenes out of this film without losing anything" and I didn't, here. Helped that it was a two-hour film, probably.

Then on Sunday my dad got confused answering one of the crossword questions and produced the concept of Douglas Adam's Watership Down, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since.

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May. 17th, 2025 10:05 am
wychwood: Rodney was very nearly impressed (SGA - Rodney impressed)
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I don't have a TV or any fancy subscriptions, but fortunately my friend A does, and since I was the one who introduced her to the Murderbot books a few years back, she took pity on me and invited me over to watch the new show with her )

So far, pretty fun, but also somehow a little disappointing? But really I did expect that.

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