Tale

I usually enjoy that sort of film (the psychological melodrama involving women and the role they play - see The Red Shoes, Suspiria, Inland Empire as other examples), but this one left me pretty cold. I felt the aesthetic tropes by which it tried to capture a cracked psyche were all pretty standard for the genre and I ultimately had a bit of a "seen it all already" feel with it. In terms of Satoshi Kon films I think it's the weakest of the four I've seen (the only four he released, I think?) - however, if you enjoyed it I would eagerly recommend his follow-up Millennium Actress, a superb trip through the golden decades of Japanese cinema. Tokyo Godfathers is also great. Thanks! I'll have to check it out. And maybe those other movies you mentioned to.

https://www.polygon.com/2017/6/13/15787954/tyranny-dlc-free-update-bastards-wound-tales-from-the-tiers-release-date-pc Looks like we're getting NG+ in today's update as well as other changes and a smaller DLC for random events.

I just looked at my student loan balance... I'll be free of it within a month and a half!

Perfect Blue It's a movie I was sure I saw once before, right up until I actually started watching it. Nothing like I thought it would be. It's just a great psychological thriller, where I was expecting aliens or monsters or something.

I've got World End Economica episodes 1 & 2 (3 taken) Root Double Looking for a good home.

I'm about 30 hours into Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and it's getting a bit dull. The characters are still great, but the plot is stagnating into what I can only call a bunch of pointless skits. Spending an hour reading about the characters experimenting with tree sap to create sweets is cute and all, but I can't help to feel they could have moved the plot along instead.

Is it wrong to hope not?

I just found out Deep Ellum is having a lit hop tomorrow. I assume I'm the only Dallas area Obsidianite? It's a literary bar crawl. I'm struggling to guess at what that means beyond the fact that a bunch of local poets will be attending. But it sounds worth checking out. https://www.facebook.com/events/129649400912879/

This isn't dinner, it's a snack. But it's so remarkable that I have to talk about it. I like Pocky, because what self disrespecting weaboo doesn't. And so I saw these Pocky Matcha Green Tea Cream flavor ones. I thought I'd give them a try. And what's so remarkable about them is they just might be the worst thing I've ever eaten in my entire life. Truly horrid. Who the heck likes these things? I want to know so I may shun them.

Local favorite Fallout: New Vegas is now on GOG. Alongside Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fallout 3. https://www.gog.com/game/fallout_new_vegas_ultimate_edition https://www.gog.com/game/fallout_3_game_of_the_year_edition https://www.gog.com/game/the_elder_scrolls_iv_oblivion_game_of_the_year_edition_deluxe

I drank about 11 Angry Orchard hard ciders over three hours Saturday night. And started chatting up an old High School ladyfriend on Facebook as a result. I don't think it went terribly. Edit: Also, I'm about 80% sure my wallet is in the wash.

I'm about 80% sure that petition is a joke.

I want to say thank you to all of you for your sympathies. I like to say that I'm short on grief and long on empathy, but it means much that my family are in your considerations. Losing my paternal grandfather almost exactly a year after my maternal grandmother puts my emotional stability to the test. It makes me extremely worried for my sister and her brood. Also way too much hard cider today, so maybe that's why I'm all nice and stuff.

Fallout 3's level scaling makes it borderline unplayable for me later on. To say Fo4's non-lore friendly quests are worse is to sort of underplay just how bad what 3 did to Super Mutants. At least 4 brought in new villains instead of butchering old ones. And it has a much better sandbox, yes.

It's still better than Fallout 3. I would honestly rather play Minecraft, which is probably why I spent so long with Fo4 platinumed it.

I am absolutely loving Utawarerumono. Best VN I've read this year in all probability. The characters are simply fun.

The elder patron of the Tale clan has passed. I'm glad I went out to the lake to see him today, but it is regrettable he wasn't able to see me. He was looking forward to the lot of us coming out from what I hear, but it seems he had a stroke early in the week and has been acting delirious or confused since, only to end up sleeping through the past couple days. At least he was doing relatively well for his birthday a week and half ago. He was a good man and many are now lesser with his passing.

The trick Mr Gifted1, is not minding that it hurts. Or to enjoy pain. Mmm, stand me up. That's the spot. Jokes on you, I wanted to hang out at this coffee shop by myself anyway!

Having my strongest trait be that I'm "suave" and my weakest trait being "friendliness" has me weeping for the state of online dating. But I'm getting messages already, so I guess inserting morbid jokes about pushing rich old men down stairs and selling my friends out for cheez-its into all my quiz answers is going over smashing.

I have two 360 copies and a PC copy. Still haven't played it on PC. I should do that. If they added anything, I'd buy it on PS4 in a heartbeat.

A new Utawarerumono game? Adult version? XD No, it's console only, so all ages. And the third game is coming out for NA in September.

Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception I actually spelled that right on the first try this time! I really like two characters from the hour and I half I got in yesterday. If you see anyone bill this as an SRPG, just know they're lying to you. It's a visual novel first and foremost. I'm tempted to impulse buy that Starcrawlers as Melkathi is making a great argument for it, but my dance card is full.

I platinumed Nier: Automata. I still have some DLC challenges to do, so I didn't delete the save for a second time. Not committing to anything since I have Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception arriving tomorrow.

Alien Covenant If you're at all interested, then you should absolutely watch Prometheus a second time instead. This movie made me appreciate Prometheus. Where Prometheus was an interesting film done poorly, this was a mediocre film done okay. It is not the Alien prequel you've been wanting, it might be the prequel to that movie, but only if Scott is attached as Executive Producer.

Sorry, but I have bad news for you. https://www.gog.com/game/legend_of_heroes_trails_in_the_sky_the_3rd_the That coming out so recently is why those two games are so high on the list.