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[Dungeons and Dragons]

Dungeons and Dragons

The film is fine.  I can see why many found it enjoyable and I can also see why it didn't really have legs.  For the most part I had fun.  It had a very standard and generic story.  It's sense of levity was fine.  I'll admit a guilty pleasure in seeing the characters from the cartoon show up.  I saw that cartoon as a kid and have revisited as an adult and I still thoroughly enjoy it.  The film doesn't benefit from having the reference and it hindered my immersion.  Don't have me distracted by thinking about cartoons I enjoy, film - you're supposed to be keeping me engaged :rolling_eyes:

At times it seemed more like the film was targeted specifically to fans of D&D and not necessarily to a broader audience, which I guess is nice.  Without that connection it's really just another trashy, entertaining, action romp - the bread and butter of my movie nights of late.

I might make time to rewatch the cartoon again sometime in the future.

I have been ploughing through Naruto recently.  Mostly by accident.  I felt like reading something light for 20 minutes one day, plucked the first book from my shelves and have been almost obsessively reading it since.

I find it fascinating trying to figure out what I love so much about an incredibly flawed series.

Thank you all for the kind words.  It's been great getting a positive reaction to it - I'm very happy with how it turned out.

I have a few other more recent pieces I'm almost as happy with, but they don't have any connection of 2000AD related stuff.

is there a Sony Walkman just out of shot attached to her belt? 😂

Absolutely. 

After a recent couple of sessions where she lost agency as a crazed A.I. took control of her body I had her listening to music with it to help her centre herself. Just so I could make reference to the picture and a previous Traveller game where I played a musician character.

I get as much out of Rollerball as I ever did.  That said, I've always seen it as a bit campy and janky from the get-go and that's what charmed me.

I couldn't get more than 15 minutes through the remake.

This is a quick picture I did of my current character for my TTRPG groups game of Mothership, Jocasta Neuro.  She is an android and a leader within a android rights group called the Android Liberation Front.

I think it's obvious what I drew a lot of inspiration from, so I think it's appropriate to share.

I finished reading all of the main series Discworld novels last night.
It has been a ride seeing how the series changed and developed from one book to the next.
The peak of the series happened before The Last Hero
I was certainly less impressed with the last few books and I'm really unsure about the final one.  The afterword seemed to contained a caveat that it wasn't actually finished and I can see that.  On the one hand I can see how it may be regarded as a nice way to end the Tiffany Aching series and the series in general... on the other hand I think it should have been left on the shelf and Raising Steam was the last book.  That book was about how the Discworld was changing and would never be the same again and that would have been a great beat to end on.  I also think I Shall Wear Midnight was a nicer point to end Tiffany Aching's story.
Still good books and enjoyable reads.  Going to need to cleanse my palette after this, though.

[Midsommar]

I finally got around to watching Midsommar.  Well half of it.

This might be controversial, because I've only heard good things about this film, but oh my god is this film a boring pile of shite.  My initial reaction was "oh, this is high-brow hostel".  It may have been, I don't know, I didn't get to the actual horror.  I was too irritated by the arsehole characters and their tedious bullshit.  I'm not fond of the pagan cult bullshit, either.

It would have been better if it were shorter and faster paced, had charismatic and compelling characters or both.

I have sat all the way through utter detestable garbage that I despise, so I think it's pretty damning to a film if I turn it off half way through because I don't think it's worth finishing it.

Nevertheless, I can see why other people might enjoy it.

All I ever remember of that film is the mass decapitation scene.

Funny thing about B5 is even if I disregard Season 5 and pretend it doesn't exist, the show still badly fumbles it's ending.

It does actually bother me a little because I think the first three seasons are great.  The build in tension is wonderful and it just got better and better.  But I can really tell Season 4 was rushed and Season 5 is a mess.  There was a story to be told and they were on track to tell it and then they got derailed.  I can't help but think of what could have been. 

...B5 fumbles it's ending with it's stinking garbage of a last season.

It's weird, but every time I watch B5 I think this way going in to Season Five but soon find myself wondering why. It has some great episodes like The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father and The fall of Centauri Prime, amongst others, and I'm always glad I watched it. Weird.

You're right, that is weird.  Don't worry, I won't hold it against you. 

My big criticism with DS9 is I think it fumbled in wrapping up the Dominion War stuff.  They were constantly on the back foot and when the Breen join the fun it looks like disaster and then poof, they win, yay.  Plus there is all the Dukat and Winn stuff which creeps me out.

I'm not going to say I dislike Season 7, however, as I love loads of episodes and I have a crush on Ezri Dax still to this day.

It's no way near as bad as how B5 fumbles it's ending with it's stinking garbage of a last season (I know they thought the show was going to get cancelled and rushed through season 4, but still).

Currently revisiting DS9 on Netflix — I think this is the first time I've watched it since the series originally aired in the UK on Sky. I know how the storyline develops, but I'm pleasantly surprised by how good the early episodes actually are.

I'm also revisiting DS9 again.  I finished TNG and it's hard not to move onto DS9 after that.  DS9 really does start pretty strong.  I think some may forget that because it gets better.

I just finished the first published 40K book, Inquisitor (later renamed Draco).  I lost interest in 40K novels a while ago when I realised that the Horus Heresy series of books is a badly written mess of the same over-wrought melodrama - and was forgettable and boring.  I couldn't get into the Eisenhorn series either and I started thinking that maybe the 40K stuff was just a little bit crap, actually.

But someone said that Inquisitor was weird and horny - I could I resist?  I can certainly see why someone would describe the book like that.  It kind of is weird and horny in a derivative and juvenile way.  Plus there are couple parts that I can only describe as transphobic.
It doesn't really conclude satisfactorily, being the first part of a trilogy.  I don't think I'll be reading the other two books.
The prose were readable and flowed well enough, but often failed to grip me.

With that said, it's one the best 40K books I've read.  One thing going in it's favour is it is short.

[Prey]

Prey

Finally got around to watching this.

Better than the previous two attempts at Predator films by a country mile (four if we're counting the AvP films).  The call backs to the original film were perhaps entirely unnecessary, but I am not going to hold it against the film.  The lead is a boss, both character and performance wise.  I like it.  Which makes for three Predator films I like.