I have a very mild cold, but was coughing enough that I just did not sleep at all last night.
So, at just past 4AM last night, I finished #DragonQuest VI for the first time!
I was sorta lukewarm on V, but properly fell in love with VI.
The ‘Dream World’ as a central concept didn’t initally seem all that groundbreaking. However, it ends up being this potent vehicle for characters’ hopes/fears/pasts.
It might be the first of the DQ series I’ve properly loved, more than just appreciated.
I’ve not seen the latest eps yet, and am basically a Stranger Things hater at this point, but have a some thoughts on LGBT rep in the show.
I am *very* iffy on them tying Will’s sexuality with his powers. Especially as S5 opened with Young Will having something forced down his throat by Vecna, and all the blood transfusion talk.
That’s how he got powers, sure. But if powers = gay, then that’s heading into 😬 territory for me.
There was a time not all that long ago when, if you wanted to play all the mainline #DragonQuest games (as I do), all you needed was a 3DS.
I guess this only worked in Japan, but between the eshop releases, DS remakes and releases, and 3DS remakes and releases (including the weird cloud-streaming version of the MMO), you had the whole series covered!
Sadly, the 3DS eshop and the 3DS version of the MMO have been shut down, so this dream is no more…
This is sort of the reason why I rankle slightly at the prevailing wisdom that the RTD2 era is entirely thoughtless, irredeemable or 'slop'.
It's patently pretty unsuccesful in what it was trying to do, but there's plenty of weird, interesting stuff going on there.
I've decided to mark my return(?) to Mastodon with an out-there #DoctorWho take:
But isn't it interesting that Series 1 (2024) opens with a machine churning out stories raising a bunch of overgrown babies, and then ends with an embittered god squinting at a black-and-white VHS recon to uncover one inconsequential piece of information?
When I was at university, there was a vending machine near where I would often work that had snacks and drinks in it.
The whole thing was refrigerated, so whenever you bought some chocolate from it, it was really hard. And if you bought crisps, they were cold and a bit tasteless
#TheLastOfUs 1x03 spoilers:
I cannot overstate how much 'On the Nature of Sunlight' took me out of everything the ep was trying to do. Just immediate snap back to reality. I see through your game, TLOU
All I’m saying is: if, instead of ‘Beautiful ‘Cause You Love Me’, Girls Aloud had released the (superior) ‘On the Metro’ as their final single, their first and last singles would’ve been about public transport.
Sound of the Underground > On the Metro
It’s like poetry; it rhymes
fuck around and find out? you mean the two things i do on wikipedia?