no game is perfect, except of course... 1000xRESIST

expedition 33 is so inspirational as a creative person. it's like every JRPG story about a ragtag group of randoms coming together to do something beautiful and amazing, except it's REAL LIFE and i can PLAY their beautiful and amazing thing.

i suppose "underappreciated" might be the wrong word for it -- it's more that i rarely see it talked about to the same extent as other properties which it handily surpasses in quality. outside of spaces made specifically to discuss it (like its subreddit), i see very little convo about it.

youre so real for this natalie, it's so good.

hell yeahhhhh i wish i could wipe my brain and watch it again, SUCH a good show

where are you at in your watchthrough right now?? 👀

(this post is about many books ive read but the most recent one is foundryside)

i mean wait what, second season? what am i talking about, no such thing exists

unironically i think you can skip season 2 and only watch season 1 of arcane and have a perfectly enjoyable experience. even though it ends on a cliffhanger, i think it's a thematic full circle (admittedly a bit of a dour one) or at least comes close enough that it can stand on its own.

i think it's better than hollow knight (which is a game i think had a lot of flaws too) but it's only by a very thin margin. this is a deeply frustrating game to play at times, a feeling i never had with its predecessor.

the world is beautiful, im deeply intrigued by the story and what's going on, im having a lot of fun learning about pharloom as a kingdom. the bosses are almost all perfectly tuned, but then all the basic-level grunts are absolute menaces, and everything deals two masks worth of damage. EVERYTHING.

i think in some respects the difficulty is mitigated by hornet's versatility. but this is a RIDICULOUSLY difficult game that doesnt give you the tools to properly combat its difficulty until well over halfway into its runtime. and it sucks because i love SO MUCH about the game

been so excited for it after that beautifully made trailer for the PC gaming show last year. i am terrible at rhythm games but i will make an exception for Peak

i feel very much like im missing out on the show that everyone else saw, which sucks because i really like alien and wanted this show to be good on account of really liking noah hawley as a showrunner. maybe i just need to give it a rewatch with a different mindset

as someone who has never held a cigarette before, i really believed you were smoking that 1000xRESIST pack. excellent work natalie

god i wish SO BADLY that i could get my hands on them. or, like, talk to tony gilroy myself. i need to see how that man's brain works so i can employ all his techniques in my own stuff. he should do writing lectures like brandon sanderson except instead of being a mormon he's just a really cool guy

so... what you're saying is that i need more girlfailure content in my life. noting this down and nodding my head sagely.

issue #0.5, "The Nearness of You", is my favorite single-issue story ive ever read. Busiek knows how to write a damn good comic

have you read Astro City? it's an anthology series by Kurt Busiek. it's all the strength of Marvels but in his own universe. it's in a very nice goldilocks zone of having a good amount of content without too much, and a interesting setting that doesn't demand knowledge of itself to engage with it.