fucking Starfield
I bought a kindle to do the ebook thing a while back to save space. It’s so buggy and slow it gave me the ick for ebooks. Like the way it looks, like the idea of it, but the way it works is another ballgame.
I was on vacation, under a shade tree on a beautiful beach, sipping a piña colada, and turned my Kindle on to continue reading this really interesting book I had started on the drive.
Brick.
I was so mad I just put it away. I wasn’t going to waste any vacation time trying to figure it out. Glad I decided that too, it was well and truly a paperweight.
Never again
I just use a crappy Android tablet I got for $20 on Amazon. Any yes, for that price it’s utter garbage, but all I need is an epub reader and an SD card.
I’m using a very very old nook and enjoy it. I kinda want whatever I use to be just for reading, and nothing else. This way it all points to one thing. I also have like a first or second Gen kindle but it, while technically better, is slow as heck and filled with bloat.
I am tempted by modern colored e-ink, but I hear it isn’t super color accurate yet.
Diablo III
I don’t usually watch series. But I had so much hope after a friend made me watch Westworld. Then when Westworld 2 came out your title describes how I feel about it.
VR seemed like it would be exciting, but in a small room and being older it is difficult to not hit something or to not get some sort of vertigo is feel sick. It just isn’t for me despite really wanting it to be!
As a kid in the 1990s I was really hyped up about the concept of VR, but lacked the ridiculously expensive gear to try any of the interesting stuff that was out there.
Nowadays I’m idly interested in the concept of VR, but lack the ridiculously expensive gear to try any of the interesting stuff that’s out there.
What is the interesting stuff you’re interested in? The only things that appeal to me would be Star Wars flight sims, being a superhero of some kind, or that survival game in the Alien universe.
In general this was my experience as well. There is one important exception for me which was Google Earth. Being able to sit in a chair and drag a huge model of the earth beneath me and view distant places like I was a bird is just magnificent. Doesn’t make me motion sickness the way most games do.
Oh, that’s interesting! My son has the MetaQuest3 and I wonder if that’s available for that to try out some time. Might be cool!
Spore (video game) The original demo was amazing, what actually hit retail just was trash in comparison
As a Guild Wars 1 player, I was very excited and really followed the hype for GW2. Only to be disappointed to how different it was from the one. Can’t blame them for innovating, but it was not the continuation of what me and my friends wanted. The shift to being more of an actual MMO made me feel completely insignificant in PvE, using just the basic automatic attack or doing my best to combine my skills didn’t make a difference, the mob would kill the monster anyways. In GW1, all of PvE is instantiated just for your small group, so in general, everyone’s action is important. The PvP felt very generic and didn’t have the uniqueness of the 8v8 of the 1 anymore. I really appreciated the constant gameplay innovation from Mike O’Brien and the art direction, but it was just too different of a game.
You can definitely still get that thrill of highly impactful combat, just not at any of the major meta events. The world at this point is so big that if you’re anywhere that’s not on the event timer you’ll probably be roaming by yourself. If you find a small event chain and it’s just you pushing it, it can be exciting and suspenseful. Knowing that if you get downed, all of your progress will reset, it’s a great moment when someone else runs up and starts reviving you and helps you succeed.
There are also instanced scenarios like dungeons, fractals and raids where you and a team have to be strategic with your classes and builds and how they synergize, and then there’s the added dimension of much more demanding movement and maneuvering than in the first game. I loved both games, they’re different but both great in their own ways IMO. If you only ever played in some of the starting maps I highly recommend giving it another go.
Most recently, it was probably Rebel Moon. I didn’t have high expectations and thought it was going to be schlocky, but it was not the fun kind of shlock in the end.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
I was hyped up for that game. Twilight Princess was from way at the beginning of the Wii era, and then way at the end was finally another game, they had released some cool artwork for it, who was this mysterious maiden figure…
GOD what a trash game.
Streaming for movies and TV series. The idea was great on paper but there is hardly anything worth watching and the execution is so awful. I did multiple trials for different services and they all sucked. Music streaming however is great, it’s not even 2 Eur for one month and the execution is amazing.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie. Gawdawful, glad that Douglas Adams didn’t have to see it.
He wrote a significant part of the script before he died. Personally I think he would have approved.
It’s a good tripping acid movie
The weirdest part was they included the setups for the jokes, then skipped the punchlines.
I really liked how they had Mr. Prosser (the guy with the bulldozer), wearing a fur lined Mongol hat, but if you hadn’t read the book, you’d have no idea why that was funny.
“Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn’t know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.”
I ADORED the first Inside Out, so naturally I was super excited when I heard the news that a sequel was in the works.
Then the marketing started to roll out, until the release, then the critics.
Quickly realized in was a really bad sequel, that suffered because of Disney’s anti-LGBT problems, and generally lacks a soul.
Never bothered to watch it. Don’t want to ruin the first movie.
FWIW, I really enjoyed both of them. The first is better, but the second is worth a watch IMO.
Hostel! It was mega hyped for a year and Tarantino wouldn’t fucking shut up about it, but then it was shit and ushered in that period where no horror movies were made except torture porn :(
I always thought that was Saw’s doing
You’re actually right saw released 1 year earlier I must have missed it at the time
That’s so weird… I swear I heard about hostel way before saw. Like early teens compared to late teens difference. I wonder if the cultural wave was just weird where I lived.
I had the same memory, maybe it’s just because the first Saw didn’t get such a huge hype cycle so we didn’t notice it as much ?
Justified: City Primeval
I LOVED Justified… The new series was pure shite… Timothy seemed like a fucking side character and went from being a cool badass with a heart, to a joke.
And don’t get me started about his forced love interest… Holy shit that was awful.
Happy Gilmore 2. I absolutely adore the first one, and I thought “Well, the second one can’t be bad. it’s such a great first movie!” Ugh. I was wrong. So very wrong.
Worst. Movie. Ever.
Yea I haven’t seen it yet but a lot of my dumb coworkers were explaining it to me and just from there explaining I was like nah no thanks. I say dumb coworkers because all of them are extremely conservative and all on the anti woke bs.
Save yourself the time. Dont bother with it
I thought it was a really good sequel with a nice twist and redemption arc. Considering the first one was almost 30 years ago, it was a test to see if they could capture the humor of the time while updating it.
Now, the most recent Bill and Ted? That did NOT work, and I turned it off after 30 minutes despite wanting so incredibly badly to want to like it.
The excessive flashbacks were what got to me. If any movie could expect that fans would’ve watched the first movie 50+ times and be able to quote most of it, I think Happy Gilmore would be on that list.
You’re gonna die, clown!
