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Three things I enjoyed this weekend:
- During our picnic on Sunday I read One Day All This Will Be Yours, a SF time travel novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As K.J.Charles wrote, "Just hugely enjoyable, slightly in the way Murderbot is enjoyable but without any morals at all. And there's a pet dinosaur! What's not to like?" It was hilarious from the start, though it took me a while to really get into it because of the "no morals" thing; best read when one is in a mood for such things.
- We finished watching Superman & Lois, which I enjoyed a lot. The actual plot was okay, but I really liked all the interpersonal stuff, especially the entire Kent family, but also the Langs. ( slight spoilers )
- After watching two streamers start playing it, both DD and I played Boyfriend Dungeon this weekend and enjoyed it a lot. (I'm not thoroughly informed but from what I've seen the "controversy" about the warnings is probably mostly because of mistakes made in marketing… but in the long term more publicity might be good? Idk.) A queer dating game with dungeon crawler elements where you can date your weapons is an intriguing premise and the execution was well done. It's not very long, it took me about five and a half hours to get to the credits and eight hours to max all the weapons/relationships, so it was great for a weekend. I didn't like all the relationships equally much, naturally, but some of them I enjoyed a lot, and combat with the different weapons was fun. Some of the outfits were cool too. The creepy stalker was genuinely creepy and uncomfortable, that was well done ( spoilers ) The game gives you the option to disable supportive texts from mom, which I did after seeing on streams just how, hm, clingy and stressful mom is.
( My playthrough )
There's a lot of potential for crossovers/fusions with other fandoms and worldbuilding, the game only just came out but I'll be keeping an eye out. So much potential for wielder&weapon dynamics etc.! I don't think I'll replay the game very soon but I do look forward to the two additional characters that are supposed to come in later patches.
- During our picnic on Sunday I read One Day All This Will Be Yours, a SF time travel novella by Adrian Tchaikovsky. As K.J.Charles wrote, "Just hugely enjoyable, slightly in the way Murderbot is enjoyable but without any morals at all. And there's a pet dinosaur! What's not to like?" It was hilarious from the start, though it took me a while to really get into it because of the "no morals" thing; best read when one is in a mood for such things.
- We finished watching Superman & Lois, which I enjoyed a lot. The actual plot was okay, but I really liked all the interpersonal stuff, especially the entire Kent family, but also the Langs. ( slight spoilers )
- After watching two streamers start playing it, both DD and I played Boyfriend Dungeon this weekend and enjoyed it a lot. (I'm not thoroughly informed but from what I've seen the "controversy" about the warnings is probably mostly because of mistakes made in marketing… but in the long term more publicity might be good? Idk.) A queer dating game with dungeon crawler elements where you can date your weapons is an intriguing premise and the execution was well done. It's not very long, it took me about five and a half hours to get to the credits and eight hours to max all the weapons/relationships, so it was great for a weekend. I didn't like all the relationships equally much, naturally, but some of them I enjoyed a lot, and combat with the different weapons was fun. Some of the outfits were cool too. The creepy stalker was genuinely creepy and uncomfortable, that was well done ( spoilers ) The game gives you the option to disable supportive texts from mom, which I did after seeing on streams just how, hm, clingy and stressful mom is.
( My playthrough )
There's a lot of potential for crossovers/fusions with other fandoms and worldbuilding, the game only just came out but I'll be keeping an eye out. So much potential for wielder&weapon dynamics etc.! I don't think I'll replay the game very soon but I do look forward to the two additional characters that are supposed to come in later patches.
