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Not spoilering since it's been over a day now... Anyway, I was so worried it wasn't going to be him so I'm glad it was. I love how Majors played it too. Unexpected, but it felt right. Really interested in seeing how he does other versions of the character. I think the first "real" appearance of Kang is supposed to be in the next Ant-man movie I believe? Looking forward to it. With Renslayer taking off with a bunch of stuff, I kind of wonder if she isn't going to take on her more traditional role from the comics and be in a constant love/hate relationship with Kang and try to overthrow him an rule time in his place. Really don't care for how the episode ended so abrubtly like it did, but at least we know it's confirmed for a season 2, so that relieved the annoyance slightly. Was a nice set up for the next show releasing too I guess. XD

10.) Call of the Sea Fun little puzzle/adventure game with a Lovecraftian themed story. Even if you've read even just a little Lovecraft, you can see where the story is going pretty much 5 minutes in (and probably had a decent idea to begin with just from the trailer and name of the game XD ), but it still had its moments. Some decent Lovecraft themed easter eggs too. Puzzles were solid without being punishingly hard. Had to actually stop and think about them, but never felt like I was going to be forced to consult a guide. Enjoyed it.

I also loved the Throg cameo. Had to rewind to make sure I saw it right because it went by so fast. Also, with Alioth showing up, I'm even more convinced Kang is behind the TVA. That's two characters with HEAVY connections to him now that have shown up (not to mention the whole time travel thing in general). If they're trolling on this one, I might actually be a little mad. XD

Got my second shot last week. Hit me HARD early Friday morning. Felt like the worst case of the flu I've ever had in my life. Woke myself up shivering violently about every 30 minutes or so over the course of like 10 hours of attempting to sleep. X_x That part stopped before I had to go to work, but I basically did nothing that entire night. Was mostly better by Saturday and 100% by Sunday so doing much better now. XD

Not gonna lie, I had some doubts about this show after the first couple episodes even though I was enjoying it, because the time-stuff just REALLY feels like it doesn't track with some of the other MCU stuff, and after the opening scene of what happened in Sylvie's past, I was starting to get annoyed (so they let alternate timelines exist just because until they decide they've gone too far? Was she always female? Or did Loki just casually gender-swap as a kid? And if so, what was the divergence here? So many questions from such a brief scene), but now I'm even more intrigued by what is happening after finishing. That mid credit scene was especially interesting. They better explain this shit properly by the end. XD

That is DEFINITELY what that looked like. I was interested in this already, but this trailer has me even more excited now.

I'm kind of curious what they're doing here for a couple reasons. For one, they've used Enchantress already (in Agents of SHIELD, unless they really are throwing it out the window). However, there is a comic character named Sylvie that is actually tied to Loki in the comics. She was given powers (and possibly existence) by Loki and ended up adopting the appearance and name of the Enchantress for a time so this idea still tracks despite Agents of SHIELD (whether it still counts or not). Will be interesting to see if they are playing with the comic story and adapting her to be a time-variant Loki to simplify things, or if there's something deeper happening (such as she's not the real Variant and they're yet to be revealed). With so little left to this however, (2 episodes? really? why is it so short?? ? ) the latter seems unlikely.

Finally got to watch it. Is getting pretty interesting. Mobius' boss/supervisor/whatever you want to call her is an established comic character. Ravonna Renslayer is most notable as having heavy ties to Kang the Conqueror. Interested to see if there's anything else that could tie to him with all the time travel shit being thrown around. Fun side note: In the comics, Ravonna is typically portrayed as a red head, and went for period of time disguised as Nebula. Would have been hilarious if they had got Karen Gillian to play the role imo.

There are a handful of benefits of having an XBox even if you have a PC. Mainly via Game Pass as they put a fair number of things onto the Xbox Game Pass that aren't on the PC side of it (including some "Day 1" titles). So if you are going in for the Game Pass, there are some benefits to having an XBox still. Just as an example, there are currently 381 things on Game Pass for the XBox, and only 270 for the PC version. Also if your computer is actually a potato. Though that is slowly becoming less important as well with game streaming as it becomes more viable. They're running beta on their cloud gaming portion of Game Pass so as long as you have decent connection speed, hardware is going to be less of a concern.

8.) Control: Ultimate Edition God I love this game. Easily in my top 5 of all time. One of the few games I've wanted to replay in recent years, and this was a good opportunity since it was free. The PS5 version was a world of different from the PS4 one. Near non-existent load times, and finally got to see a really good example of ray tracing at work. Control is free on the Epic game store right now so I'm considering grabbing that and playing it again on PC. XD 9.) (Mobile) Kingdom Hearts: Union X They finally finished the story in the f2p mobile KH game that's been going for a few years. Will be shutting down at the end of the month and they wrapped up the story for it. As per usual KH fashion, it answered a few questions, and left like 8 more in its place. X_x They're not completely getting rid of the game. They're just disabling the "game" part of it but are leaving the theater mode in tact and functional so you can still watch all the story stuff which is kind of cool. Will need to go back through it at some point and see the story all together instead of drip feed once a week to once a month over the course of years. Maybe it'll make slightly more sense that way. XD

A teaser for that leaked a few months ago, was waiting for them to say more about it. Don't much care for battle royale games but I'll probably give it a look when it comes out since the setting is interesting. Looking forward more to VTM: Swansong at this point. Should get more info on that one before the end of the weekend too. Side note since I forgot to update this with the last actual Bloodlines 2 news: Hardsuit Labs has been completely removed from the project and Paradox has passed it over to another (as of yet unnamed) developer. With the turn the development of the game appeared to have been taking, it's probably for the best honestly. They're apparently going to announce who's taking over once all the legal shit is settled and everything signed and squared away, but they're getting full access to all the work that HSL had done so hopefully it'll just be a matter of cleaning it up and fine tuning everything and they're not going to take an axe to the story (which had been completed already).

Burned through Shadow and Bone, Invincible and Season 2 of Love, Death & Robots recently. Shadow and Bone was kind of interesting. Definitely a super strong young adult vibe to that one but it wasn't bad. Not sure where some of the storylines are really going but at least it got greenlit for a 2nd season so maybe it'll end up making sense. Invincible was fantastic. Kind of could tell where the story was going after the first ep, but it was a hell of a ride none the less and got pretty intense at the end. Kept having to look up voice actors since over half the characters sounded familiar. XD Was looking forward to another season of Love, Death & Robots after the original. It's a fun little anthology series of animated shorts basically. Varying animation styles and tones. A couple of them this time around were super intense. Really hope they keep doing these because they're always interesting.

I had been holding off getting it to be sure everyone at risk was able to even though I was able to get in pretty early due to my work (despite only working with like 3 other people at any given time). However, I have started hearing stories of places having to throw doses out recently and they've lowered the minimum age to 14 now (also our mask mandate is officially gone. ) so as soon as I heard the local pharmacy got more in I set up an appointment. Had heard they only had the J&J one but when I went to sign up they had the Moderna one too so I did that one. Probably the most chill shot I've ever had in terms of the needle itself and initial reaction. Over the next 36 hours or so starting later that day, my arm hurt like nothing else. Didn't get hit with anything else like some people have though so that was good. Get my 2nd one the 24th. Have to see about getting the older two kids in now as well since they're both itching to start looking for jobs now.

7.) Cibele Not even sure where I got this game. Must have been packed into one of the random Humble Bundle's I've bought over the years. Barely what I'd call a game at all. More like an interactive short film kind of thing about relationships that develop in online games. Felt a little cringey at times (though more because it was true to form than anything actually wrong with the way it was written). Super short and didn't really feel like it resolved in any meaningful way. Seems like it was just the creators way of telling a personal story in the best way she new how. Definitely felt like a niche sort of experience that would be lost on most people. Not something I would be likely to recommend to anyone I know, but it was quick and straight forward which is pretty much what I was looking for before I headed to bed.

Been out of the anime loop for a LONG time (pretty much since FMA: Brotherhood finished up) and have only watched a handful of stuff since then, mostly game adaptation stuff (Daganronpa, Persona 4). Watched Demon Slayer recently at a work friends insistence and enjoyed it quite a bit even though I wasn't really into some of the characters and didn't care much for the art style and some of the character designs (I find that I've become kind of snobbish in my old age. XD ) . Just the past couple days I've been watching one that really reminded me of why I used to like anime so much though. Saw a random picture of a character from Dorohedoro on twitter and looked it up and found there was an anime for it on Netflix and figure what the hell, there's only 13 eps. Was hooked with the first episode and watched the whole thing over the past few days. So weird and pretty consistently funny. Interesting character designs as well and I liked the art style. Thought it was going to lean super heavy into the gore at first, but I never felt like it went overboard. Hoping to see a season 2 eventually.

What in the actual fuck did I just watch?

Watched "Those Who Want Me Dead". It wasn't too bad. Nothing overly memorable about it, but I wasn't bored watching it. Probably would have never bothered to see it if not for the HBO Max thing with new movies though. Also started watching "The Devil All the Time" but not sure if I'll finish it. Some great acting in it, but god damn is it miserably depressing so far. Stopped halfway through because I had to do some other stuff and not sure if I have the heart to go back to it. X_x

You're still listed on your inactive account. If you didn't activate the cross save thing off of your psn account, it wouldn't show you in it when you play or check anything.

They REALLY need to roll Forsaken and Shadowkeep either into the base free game, or make them an all-in-one bundle thing with the current expansion because there is literally no reason to buy them outside of story stuff and a handful of exotics since nearly all the gear in them is sunset.

Waiting to see more on Eternals and how well Shang Chi will be done (looks great so far). If they can nail those, we'll know Guardians wasn't just luck. Not that I expect there to be anything wrong with them. Those are just nearly as obscure as Guardians had been. The fact that they can dig past their big names and come up with something that propels them into the mainstream has always been my favorite part of these movies. Not overly surprising though. Even Iron Man was a b-list super hero before this whole thing started. At this point, I'd honestly be more impressed if they managed to fuck up Fantastic Four.

Looks like I have another club to join. Also, hello new person. Since you actually kept coming back I figured I'd poke my head in here. XD

6.) The Signifier This is a game I've had on my wishlist since before it came out last October. Seemed like an interesting premise, but reviews said it was relatively short so I was waiting for a sale. Definitely an interesting game. Reminds me of a toned down version of the "Brain Dance" recordings from Cyberpunk which was probably one of the most interesting parts of that game. Basically, you're trying to find out how a woman died by using a scan of her brain from shortly after her death. It appears to be suicide, but she was the VP of a tech company and the timing was suspicious so you've been called on to investigate it. You use the scan to go through both objective and subjective representations of her memories from various points in her life ranging from 5 years old or so to just minutes before her death. You also investigate and speak to people in the real world to find clues that will help unlock understanding of what you've seen in her memories and can utilize things found in the memories to further interactions with some people. There are some interesting choices to be made along the way that can change the ending. The one I got was pretty bleak so I'm hoping another play through will hopefully turn things around a bit. In terms of gameplay, it's a relatively simple adventure game/walking simulator, with some light puzzles. Visually, it's pretty trippy as the memories you visit are not always clear and things in the subjective representation can be tainted by the persons emotions and mental state resulting in some pretty chaotic stuff. I really enjoyed it overall and it was an interesting concept. There's another game called 'Observer' that I'm looking at getting because it has a similar sort of theme to it but with more of a dark, futuristic, cyberpunk style that looks like it could be interesting. Also managed to get my last few completions in Hades done and saw the ending. Still playing here and there to finish some of the side stories and see the epilogue. Love that you continue to get unique interactions even after you're done with the main story. Such a well made game.

Got some good feels out of this. Also logo/title reveals for basically everything for the next few years (don't think all of them had been shown yet?) Couple quick shots from Eternals as well. And then that last logo.