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Games: Travel and vacation schedules meant no board game gathering this week.
Miscellaneous: A couple of longform articles:A Ghost Estate and an Empty Grave We Still Live in Fast Food Nation
Music: First house session of the new year; with only four of us there, a lot of opportunities to call sets, which consisted of a good mix of familiar and new tunes. One of the guys is, unfortunately, a noodler, playing into any and every silence, which makes it very hard to start sets. I will just have to be assertive about playing over him if he's there next week.
Roleplaying: Newest D&D Homebrew campaign had our "Beach Episode" holiday one shot this past weekend. As ever, it was an absolute blast. I sound like a broken record, but our DM is phenomenal: she gets such a good mix of role play, exploration, and combat into every session, and you'd never know she is--by her own admission--winging things half the time.
I played a kobold bard and loved it. As with my goblin rogue, I chose this critter because I wasn't convinced it would be fun to play, and as with my goblin rogue, she has become one of my favorite characters. Turns out, I really enjoy playing characters that don't quite get larger humanoids. And bards are just so versatile. It's been...five years since I last played this class, and man it was fun throwing all those spells and buffs into the mix and watching what happens. We'll be back to our main characters in the next session, but since this one shot took place in the same universe I hope we'll have a chance to revisit these ones as well.
Television: We finished Max Headroom S1. The final episode, Blanks, is my favorite of the season, and I'm always surprised by how long the show takes to introduce them compared to the movie. Having blanked myself from as much 21st century Big Tech as I can, I feel a special affinity with those guys. (And again, damn, this show was prescient: social media-elected leaders, the attention economy, doomscrolling, ransomware--it envisioned them all.) We'll probably get started on S2 tonight.
I also watched the first three episodes of Heated Rivalry. This is a very horny show. (Which, no complaints there. XD) But I had been anticipating something more along the lines of Our Flag Means Death, where the romantic relationships are one element of a larger general narrative, and not the primary focus of the show. (I was surprised and honestly a bit bummed that the hockey is just window dressing. I'd been expecting an ice hockey story with a romance subplot versus a romance story on an ice hockey stage set.) That said, the production values are good and the actors have excellent chemistry that they--blessedly--maintain even in the show's most explicit scenes...which unfortunately has not always been the case with other such offerings (I'm looking at you, Our Flag Means Death).
I don't feel particularly participatory about this show (yet?), but I am very much enjoying it and will probably wrap up the final three episodes this week.
Video Games: Finished my first game of the year, Botanicula, which is a perennial favorite. It's just such a visually beautiful game, with a great soundtrack and really clever puzzles. As ever, I have to space out my playthroughs so I don't just immediately remember how to solve everything the next time I play it. I'm trying to decide if I want to dive straight into Samorost 2 or opt for something a little more serious (e.g., Darklands or Pentiment).
これで以上です。
Miscellaneous: A couple of longform articles:
Music: First house session of the new year; with only four of us there, a lot of opportunities to call sets, which consisted of a good mix of familiar and new tunes. One of the guys is, unfortunately, a noodler, playing into any and every silence, which makes it very hard to start sets. I will just have to be assertive about playing over him if he's there next week.
Roleplaying: Newest D&D Homebrew campaign had our "Beach Episode" holiday one shot this past weekend. As ever, it was an absolute blast. I sound like a broken record, but our DM is phenomenal: she gets such a good mix of role play, exploration, and combat into every session, and you'd never know she is--by her own admission--winging things half the time.
I played a kobold bard and loved it. As with my goblin rogue, I chose this critter because I wasn't convinced it would be fun to play, and as with my goblin rogue, she has become one of my favorite characters. Turns out, I really enjoy playing characters that don't quite get larger humanoids. And bards are just so versatile. It's been...five years since I last played this class, and man it was fun throwing all those spells and buffs into the mix and watching what happens. We'll be back to our main characters in the next session, but since this one shot took place in the same universe I hope we'll have a chance to revisit these ones as well.
Television: We finished Max Headroom S1. The final episode, Blanks, is my favorite of the season, and I'm always surprised by how long the show takes to introduce them compared to the movie. Having blanked myself from as much 21st century Big Tech as I can, I feel a special affinity with those guys. (And again, damn, this show was prescient: social media-elected leaders, the attention economy, doomscrolling, ransomware--it envisioned them all.) We'll probably get started on S2 tonight.
I also watched the first three episodes of Heated Rivalry. This is a very horny show. (Which, no complaints there. XD) But I had been anticipating something more along the lines of Our Flag Means Death, where the romantic relationships are one element of a larger general narrative, and not the primary focus of the show. (I was surprised and honestly a bit bummed that the hockey is just window dressing. I'd been expecting an ice hockey story with a romance subplot versus a romance story on an ice hockey stage set.) That said, the production values are good and the actors have excellent chemistry that they--blessedly--maintain even in the show's most explicit scenes...which unfortunately has not always been the case with other such offerings (I'm looking at you, Our Flag Means Death).
I don't feel particularly participatory about this show (yet?), but I am very much enjoying it and will probably wrap up the final three episodes this week.
Video Games: Finished my first game of the year, Botanicula, which is a perennial favorite. It's just such a visually beautiful game, with a great soundtrack and really clever puzzles. As ever, I have to space out my playthroughs so I don't just immediately remember how to solve everything the next time I play it. I'm trying to decide if I want to dive straight into Samorost 2 or opt for something a little more serious (e.g., Darklands or Pentiment).
これで以上です。
Tags:
- gaming,
- monday media,
- rpg,
- tv
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Not much hockey, though.
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(That said, I still 😍 HR as a show, even without much hockey.)
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