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It created this whole genre of movies and at the time was something completely new. But when you look at plot, character depth (wet footprint stepping out of the shower), weeeell we had seen better even then. And when you compare it to the James Bond movies that came after, when the movie makers knew this was something people wanted, you can see how much more effort they started putting in for those.

I watched Dr No in the outdoor cinema this year. I didn't remember how bad that movie actually was. But it made history. So many things in later movies were directly inspired by it, including the villain dying in a tank of liquid, with just the hand above the water as he dies.

Tonight they are showing Casablanca. You may of course not have heard of this movie as it is ultra contemporary. It is basically about the current state of the world, talking about resistance against fascism as well as the plight of refugees trying to reach the USA.

Last thing I watched in the cinema was Barefoot in the Park with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda...

I just got my first vivarium and tamed some beasts. Need to meet Sebastian at the village to visit Anne. The first movie was really good. It did a great job at introducing a magical place and have it feel magical. You miss nothing by not reading the books. What stands out to me with Hogwarts Legacy is that unlike so many AAA titles aimed at an older audience, Hogwarts Legacy managed to have different body types. You have some people lean, some people with a bit more weight. You have old adults, you have young adults, you have children in their early teens you have children in their mid teens. Yes, predominantly they use one bodytype, especially as there is basically one human for all the poachers/ashwinders, but that is only because they created one enemy model, not because they generate every npc from one model as other games do.

It is getting to a point where they might as well bring it out as freeware..

I just got to the point where your teacher teaches you how to do stealth kills.

Hogwarts Legacy is a very disturbing game. 1) "Why are the goblins evil?" "They are starting a rebellion demanding equal rights." "Oh, how dreadful! Let's kill them!" With the player character making some actually very gaslighting comments on defeating them. 2) The player killing spiders with remarks on the lines of "If only you didn't look so disgusting". Killing wolves by the dozens. Then killing poachers (human beings) and stating "Now beasts are safe." The irony. And the people you kill are the dark wizards? 3) The school giving you a magic guide book that keeps track of your progress, and which the teachers can review to assess your progress. This quest log, journal etc, of course keeps your kill count. So it is a Hogwarts where Professor Weasely sits in front of the fireplace with a glass of wine in the evening and goes "Oh, my star pupil has killed 17 people today. That is 8 more than yesterday. They are really improving fast. I better arrange for them to learn some more spells."

I once forgot to turn my old wind up alarm off properly when I was living in halls of residence. After lectures I met with friends and didn't come home till late. But as those alarms didn't differentiate between AM and PM, in the evening it started ringing and didn't stop. My flatmates called campus security to unlock my room and check on me. They were worried I was lying dead in a corner, since I didn't hear the alarm

Age of Wonders 4 did a faction creation contest. They were going to pick three submissions to win stuff, have a fourth get a gift through community reactions, and a fifth by random draw. They apparently expected only some forum regulars to participate. They got a thread with 18 pages instead. So today they announced they'll do more winners.

Trying the Terror from the Void mod for Phoenix Point. I don't think I'll last long enough to see if any of the changes/additions from the mod are any good. The changes to classes and skill trees gets a meh - whatever rating on the internationally recognised melkathi scale*. The non-vanilla human enemies, where every group of scavengers, every squad of jericho troops, has a leader granting an ability to their team, and they all have cringeworthy squad names gets a please go back to writing Harry Potter fanfiction rating. Adding npcs to staff the initial base instead of having everything AI run, gets a thumbs up. But is that enough to get me to care? * often described as a jaded, grimdark version of the popular BruceVC game rating system. Just from the perspective that people are useless amateurs until proven otherwise.

I have the post for November with another ad already planned The UK at the time had good video game ads. I remember watching those when I was in Birmingham at uni.

The evil twin of Random video game news ! Today in video game history (and completely written without AI) : 27th of August 1999 27th August 1992

Using my phone since around 2014. Before that I had a small alarm clock freeware on the PC. That was a time I'd wake up to Sugabases - Too Lost In You; which ironically I do not listen to under other circumstances, only as an alarm The old alarm clocks were always so annoyingly loud.

Talk to Fionavar. You write it. He posts it. We read it.

Saw a Sally Rooney novel in the supermarket. Bought it just so I can say I can't travel to the UK for fear of getting arrested. I don't think I'll enjoy reading it

I am afraid you'l be right, and it will be one of those souls-action games. On the other hand, nothing in the trailer prevents it from doing a complete plot twist and have the characters travel forward in time to bring their rivalry into the current era to battle it out at a music event as K-Pop Idols. Then the game would be part life sim, part music industry management sim, part dating VN Unlikely, One can hope.

I don't know what to watch since I don't really like anything. I think last time I liked something was Ted Lasso, and before that Stranger (the Korean crime series). Or was it the other way around... I need to make money to make my own shows...

You wanted a simulation of the current events in the US?

I use sunscreen in the summer, when I have to be out for more than just dashing to the supermarket and back. But in Greece in the summer you should wear sunscreen. Saw the nice sunburn a friend got the other day. Really don't need that.

Bored on a weekend. So same thing.

Wait till you find out that Hexen has become a base building survival sandbox

I dove deep into the adulty parts of the interwebz and looked around a bit. Well, there is a lot of Renpy in that list, so expect those games to be a similar experience to Treasure of Nadia (so not really worth your time). Leap of Love changes the formula to at least to such extend that you are boosting your skills to impress a girl and live happily ever after - so the adult part isn't the main focus as in those other games, that are just an excuse to throw mediocre renders at you. Honestly, reading up on Leap of Love, I like the concept that you are a frog turned prince, but now you have to make sure a princes will actually want you around for ever after, so you don't get re-frogged. Adult version of Long Live The Queen, without being the queen. HuniePop is the only one on the list I actually played years and years ago. It is a decent match 3 game, and I play match 3 games to zone out. But there is so many, I have enough SFW choices that I don't need the NSFW ones. Sapphire Safari seems to be national geographics meets monster girl porn. So again at least it gets points for trying something different. Personally not my thing once more. But then again, nothing in that bundle is If I were to play any of the games on that list, it would be HuniePop for matching threes, Leap of Love for helping an amphibian out, or Sapphire Safari as a walking simulator. But match 3s and walking simulators you have better choices in the SFW part of gaming, because as always, those aspects of a game you aren't interested in do affect the ones you are - dev time is limited. For example the devs who thought King Arthur Knight's Tale needs a VS mode, took time away from the programmers that could have been used to properly integrate the free dlc into the campaign. Which means, meh. I wouldn't waste my time if I were you.

I watched Escape from Pretoria yesterday. Lots of actors trying to get accents right

I am not too bothered. It is the voice acting I find annoying, similar to, but not as bad as Expeditions: Rome. Voice actors do a generic "foreign" accent that is supposed to cover the whole Mediterranean and sounds nothing like anyone from anywhere in the world - unless voice actors are actually all from Voiceactorlandia and that is the voiceactorlandian accent. I enjoyed Total War: Troy. Only TW game I managed to finish a campaign. But I have been starving for a non-medival fantasy RPG. I would love an Elder Scrolls type game in a different fantasy setting. Something based on India or Mesopotamia or somewhere that hasn't been done to death. If only Carnal Instinct weren't a porn game :/ Take out the porn and give it proper funding, that game would be fun...