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schneefinkThree 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. I kinda want more of the aftermath in Smallville… even after the town seemed ready to forgive Kyle and Lana after they stepped up during the crisis, why should they forgive the town? When Tamera, one of Kyle's coworkers at the fire station, said she hoped he would stay – why didn't she express her support weeks ago, instead of staying silent? How are Kyle and Lana supposed to trust the townspeople again? And it's nice that Lois bought half of the Gazette, but with so many people moving out of town they're going to need a new business plan.
Natalie arriving was a great ending.
I hope someone writes the AU where Morgan did find another way and ends up being wacky uncle Morgan to Jon and Jordan.
- 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 though I really wish he'd ended up in prison instead of "just" in therapy. He assaulted and kidnapped people!!! And he kept being creepy even after swearing not to do it anymore after being attacked by Katana, so I don't trust his assurances of repentance one bit. 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 first maxed relationship was with Valeria, and that was great. Sawyer is cute but very, hm, naïve/helpless; the only reason I romanced them was because I thought the idea of a threesome where Valeria teaches Wielder what to do to Sawyer was hot. I only met Rowan when I was already in the second dungeon ("dunj" – first I thought that was silly but the term really grew on me) but I like them a lot too (and was delighted by how the dynamic turned out.) I wanted to do mostly casual flirting with Isaac but locked myself into a serious relationship route with him without realizing, that was slightly annoying but okay (his dad is such a dick.) I never liked Sunder very much, so in the end I wasn't that surprised that he broke up with me – I guess that the only way to get a happy ending with him is to agree to become a vampire? And I liked Seven fine but was never that invested, except when being mad at Olivia and her stalker tendencies. Pocket the cat was cute; the pacing at the end of his storyline was weird, we basically just met!, but at least it's open to interpretation.
I was disappointed we didn't learn more about the worldbuilding/background, especially after Rowan accused us of being the cause of dungeons appearing in the first place at the first meeting, and then that never came up…
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. I kinda want more of the aftermath in Smallville… even after the town seemed ready to forgive Kyle and Lana after they stepped up during the crisis, why should they forgive the town? When Tamera, one of Kyle's coworkers at the fire station, said she hoped he would stay – why didn't she express her support weeks ago, instead of staying silent? How are Kyle and Lana supposed to trust the townspeople again? And it's nice that Lois bought half of the Gazette, but with so many people moving out of town they're going to need a new business plan.
Natalie arriving was a great ending.
I hope someone writes the AU where Morgan did find another way and ends up being wacky uncle Morgan to Jon and Jordan.
- 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 though I really wish he'd ended up in prison instead of "just" in therapy. He assaulted and kidnapped people!!! And he kept being creepy even after swearing not to do it anymore after being attacked by Katana, so I don't trust his assurances of repentance one bit. 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 first maxed relationship was with Valeria, and that was great. Sawyer is cute but very, hm, naïve/helpless; the only reason I romanced them was because I thought the idea of a threesome where Valeria teaches Wielder what to do to Sawyer was hot. I only met Rowan when I was already in the second dungeon ("dunj" – first I thought that was silly but the term really grew on me) but I like them a lot too (and was delighted by how the dynamic turned out.) I wanted to do mostly casual flirting with Isaac but locked myself into a serious relationship route with him without realizing, that was slightly annoying but okay (his dad is such a dick.) I never liked Sunder very much, so in the end I wasn't that surprised that he broke up with me – I guess that the only way to get a happy ending with him is to agree to become a vampire? And I liked Seven fine but was never that invested, except when being mad at Olivia and her stalker tendencies. Pocket the cat was cute; the pacing at the end of his storyline was weird, we basically just met!, but at least it's open to interpretation.
I was disappointed we didn't learn more about the worldbuilding/background, especially after Rowan accused us of being the cause of dungeons appearing in the first place at the first meeting, and then that never came up…
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.
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