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December 22, 2020
Last week’s Not-Shocking news: HBO Max now on Roku.
Yeah, I missed this because CYBERPUNK 2077. But we all knew this was going to happen. HBO Max needed to be on Roku, and Roku needed to be able to add that channel. They were always gonna make a deal; they just needed to figure out who got what.
I’m of mixed minds, here. On the one hand, I was willing to pay for a year-long subscription if it meant getting The Snyder Cut. On the other hand, this deal will do nothing to help the movie theater industry. And, on the gripping hand: there’s a bunch of DC Universe stuff that I can watch now. So there’s that.
My review of CYBERPUNK 2077 so far.
I dunno how far along I am in terms of the CYBERPUNK 2077 storyline: I’m at level 25 or so, and I’ve unlocked the entire map, and I’m starting to get the good stuff. So I’m that far along. I should also note that CD Projekt Red didn’t give me anything for this review, more’s the pity. I don’t like that I have to give that kind of disclaimer, but that’s the world we live in now.
Short review, so far: I’m playing it on a PC, so it’s great.
Slightly longer version: …I’ve been up far too late playing this game for the last week, and I’m only now slowing down. The dialogue is excellent, the storyline is engrossing, and the mechanics are largely fun*. I fully understand that people might strenuously contest that last sentence, on the grounds that they can’t get the game to work on their Playstation and/or Xbox. I also sympathize. But as a PC game it’s worth the money. I understand it works pretty good on Stadia, too. Go figure.
Moe Lane
PS: My current machine is an AMD Ryzen 7 8-core, 3.70 Ghz, with 16 gigs of RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060. I admittedly bought it with this game in mind, but it’s not particularly tricked out otherwise.
*The crafting system needs work, and some aspects of leveling and hacking money are not intuitive. Neither were smart weapons, but I worked that out on my own.
.reliarT tsenoH TENET ehT
I liked TENET more than Honest Trailers did. Which is to say, I liked TENET. But even I will admit that I’ll have to watch it a couple more times with subtitles on before I can figure out what the hell was going on in that film.
So why did I like it? Because it was trying to say something, and I react well to that sort of thing when it’s coupled with this level of SFX magic. Besides, I saw it in the theater. I miss theaters.
The COMING 2 AMERICA trailer. …No, really.
I started watching the COMING 2 AMERICA trailer going Meh. They had two minutes to sell me on the concept. Did they?
…Maybe? They definitely took a swing at it, at least. And it’s got Wesley Snipes in it! Why didn’t COMING TO AMERICA have Wesley Snipes in it? The dude’s funny!
December 21, 2020
Movie of the Week: Hogfather.
Although Hogfather is more of a TV two-parter. Nonetheless, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Christmas story is fun to see on the small screen. I may watch it tomorrow, once the presents are wrapped.
Moe Lane
Happy Solstice!
Remember, it only gets brighter from here on out. …In the Northern Hemisphere. Until June. And it’ll take a while to get warmer. But it still counts!
12/21/2020 Snippet, TIMMY AND THE CHRISTMAS ELF.
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Patreon!“What’s that?” the witch asked him. She looked a little cold, and a little scared, and really mad. Timmy didn’t know why. She hadn’t gotten hit with elf-shot.
“None of your business,” Timmy said automatically. But then he realized he didn’t actually care if she knew. If she was a witch, it was probably safe to tell her. “Yeah, sorry. The elf will leave if I don’t jam this thing into the fence. It’ll keep it in.”
“How? Is it a spell? A magic item? Some kind of artifact?”
“Uh. I don’t know?”
“How can you not know?”
Right then, there was a faint zapping sound, and an entire section of the fenced-in area went into shadow as a couple of lights shorted out. Jimmy was already running towards it. “I don’t have to know! I just have to know how to use it!” he said, over his shoulder.
THE GREEN KNIGHT gets new July 2021 release date.
More details here, such as they are. I’m on the record as liking the aesthetic of THE GREEN KNIGHT: to paraphrase Terry Pratchett, it’s got the look of a magic system where the flaming sword burns all the way down to the pommel. Hopefully everything’s back to normal by July, so that I can go see it in a theater.
Moe Lane
PS: There’s also a TTRPG.
Tweet of the Day, The Mouse Maintains Impressive Informational Security edition.
Nobody heard about this – or any of the other stuff that happened in the finale of THE MANDALORIAN – until Disney was good and ready. Also: since Disney has mentioned it officially and everything, I am ABSOLUTELY there to watch a smirking Ming-Na Wen shoot people even worse than her on Temuera Morrison’s behalf. I didn’t even know I wanted that! Thanks, Jon, Dave, and Robert. Happy holidays to you, too.
The Book of Boba Fett, a new Original Series, starring Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen and executive produced by Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni and Robert Rodriguez, set within the timeline of The Mandalorian, is coming to @DisneyPlus Dec. 2021. pic.twitter.com/JP54yEe9WF
— The Mandalorian (@themandalorian) December 21, 2020
