God of War: Ragnarok is kind of a miracle of a game.
It has a length that makes it feel like an old school epic like Lawrence of Arabia, but it doesn't feel like a slog.
It makes ancient legendary characters feel modern and relatable without having them feel inauthentic or cheesy.
It keeps adding features and functionality without making the mechanics feel overly complicated.
It's not just game of the year for me, it's game of the decade so far.
2022 was arguably the biggest year at NASA since the Apollo days.
The Webb Telescope started running, DART diverted the path of an asteroid, and we sent a spaceship back to the Moon amongst other things.
Keep looking up, the upcoming years are going to be even bigger.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-big-2022-historic-moon-mission-webb-telescope-images-more
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The more I think about it, the more I love Avatar: The Way of Water. There’s so many multilayered themes and ideas that really stick with you and leave you marinating on it.
One of the biggest for me is Spider. Both his biological dad and adoptive dad left humanity behind. He doesn’t even really identify as human that much.
The “grown ups” kind of deride him on either side, but the Sully kids still totally love him and accept him.
I saw Avatar: The Way of Water last night and mostly loved it!
The best thing about it to me was that it was a “family movie” without being a family movie. It didn’t tone anything down, it just was about a blended family doing best by one another.
The 3D didn’t seem like as big as a leap as the first one brought, but was still pretty cool. As far as big holiday movies go, it’s going to wow plenty enough.
One last plug for some of my work:
My wife and I host a podcast with a rotating cast of friends about live music, music festivals, and the community around it. (Yet another way @leo influenced me!)
It's mostly around the Bonnaroo music festival, but if any of that stuff is up your alley, we'd appreciate your listen.
@MikeElgan Bezos taking the role of condescendingly telling "the poors" what to do was troublesome enough, but I had a problem with some media treating his edicts as if they were on stone tablets just taken down from the mountain.
Thanks for giving that whole thing the pushback it needed!
Another fun piece of me to share with the community. Back in 2020 when things shut down, my hobby that I picked up was live mixing EDM music. My sister gave me the stage name "CatLo" as a joke, but I decided to keep it.
After a few streamed shows and some garage raves, I played two shows at Bonnaroo this past year and also have a big NYE show coming up next month too.
Find some of my mixes here: https://soundcloud.com/djcatlo
Listen to DJ CatLo | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.
This photo of me is from back around 2019 when the SLS rocket in #Artemis1 was in testing.
This is the test article of the fuel tank that was set up on the stand at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsille, AL. Engineers kept applying pressure to it until it finally broke, verifying it could stand up to the pressure of launch and then some.
Thanks to all of their awesome work for many years, Orion is now in orbit around the Moon this morning!
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