Terry Pratchett
The first watch is for the plot twists, the themes, the tension and intrigue, and the table-flipping reveals in the climax. The second watch is for the long quiet dialogues, the layers of ambiguity, misdirection, reconstruction and deconstruction you couldn't see before, and a full appreciation of the lighting as a paid actor. Perhaps the third watch will be a study in the line it walks between dramatic and comic tone.
Utterly delightful. I will never sleep again.
Always a fun rewatch. I kinda want to rip that guy's moustache off for touching Ickle without asking.
I love it when things like this become important research for stuff I’m working on.
A friend of mine has been telling me to play this game for yonks so I guess here goes
Why did I know — the SECOND they said an AFL team was involved in an incident — that it would be a sexual assault?
“What footy team do you go for” the one that understands consent, man.
Them: This train will be terminated at Southern Cross. Me: Oh no … poor train
I’m pretty beginner at bass guitar, but I’ve been studying the part for The Necropolis (Hades II) by ear and it is absolutely wrecking my fingers. This is a good thing.
A fun romp and a distilled, fast-paced taste of the action, comedy and sense of character that makes the original series great. Builds on the lore of the existing series - bridging A:tLA, A:TLoK, and A:SH in some beautiful ways. But, while the Gaang each get a couple of great moments, they feel like they're there just to be there. This ultimately makes their world feel smaller when it should feel bigger.
It always takes me longer to read a script than I think it will. Gotta start accounting for that.
Cool, the AusGov emergency alert system works.
Me, an intellectual: All models are wrong, but some of them are very useful. Derek Zoolander, forgetting his line: But why male models?
When there’s a cat in the window
Working on an instructional blog post about story structure for features and starting to think it might be multiple articles instead. Hooray!
Overheard a couple of elderly ladies learning about Sam Neill’s death in real time and reminiscing about Death In Brunswick. Jurassic Park is great and all but these ladies knew ball.
I find it so difficult to focus on the things that are going right instead of on the things that aren’t. Anybody got tips that aren’t a form of avoidance or denial?
At least half of the technical problems I’ve ever dealt with in my life weren’t “obstacles that had to be solved for” so much as they were small points of friction that added up. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth smoothing the way first so you can do a bunch of it.
I opened Unity and, for once, nothing broke. So, to get settled in, I did that thing I’d been meaning to do: I updated the settings in my Documents folder so that I could move the project where I want it to be in my file system.
Yeah … I broke it.
Updated my micro.blog subscription today because it bugged me that I couldn’t attach a bunch of videos to a post earlier this month, and it was still rolling around in the back of my head this week. I’ve been getting a lot of value out of it so far, so the extra $10 per month seems worth it.
A heartfelt exploration of loneliness, yearning, and some subtle harms of repression and homophobia that we don't often get to see laid bare. The various foreshadowings all-but-explicitly scream at you and punch you in the face about the oncoming collision, yet it still surprises. Haunting, satisfying, incredible.
I’m a writer, but not in the “I’ll post a well-thought out argument” sense. I’m a writer in the “I’ll find a snappy way to express a bunch of different things at once, which are all true” sense.
Life hack: Whenever you’re tempted to use the words “biased echo chamber”, try using the phrase “people who disagree with me” instead.
They’re biased (they disagree with me). They’re in an echo chamber (they disagree with me).
It’ll keep you on your intellectual toes, all right.
Audiovisually, the new 🎮Star Fox is a masterpiece. The campaign is a 1:1 recreation of Star Fox 64 but the multiplayer is an excellent (if barebones) modernisation. The updated story and dialogue clarify the premise, world and lore in some charming ways but otherwise leave a lot to be desired.
A high-fantasy adventure series about a ragtag bunch of misfits who drink to solve conflicts, vomit on their patron gods' shrines and whose catchcry is “fuck shit up” has no right to be half as funny or a quarter as devastating. Watched: The Legend of Vox Machina Season 4 📺
Finally read that formal feedback, after like a month. I’d been worried about the fact that I’d built it up a little in my head, and it wasn’t a complete game-changer but it gave me a few new things to think about, while affirming that in general terms I’m on the right track.
Terry Pratchett