When Chow Yun-Fat came to the US, he brought a reputation from various Heroic Bloodshed epics, from John Woo and Ringo Lam – a reputation as an action star with a strong acting range. So, it’s unsurprising that his early roles would fall into that same category, with The Replacement Killers doing a film in that style, but with some admittedly more Hollywood sensibilities.
Continue readingI managed to defeat the resurrected Beld.
Continue readingI find the next boss fight against a reincarnated Beld.
Continue readingSAG-AFTRA is voting to authorize a strike on video games, and as with the current strike, I support SAG-AFTRA on this, so I talk about how this might impact my Let’s Plays and other content.
Continue readingI get back to the right part of the map.
Continue readingI continue wandering around to figure out where to go next.
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Anime Review: Memories
There’s sort of a Big Three list of anime anthology films that are frequently recommended, all of which have Katsuhiro Otomo involved to some degree or another – Robot Carnival, Neo-Tokyo/Labyrinth Tales, and Memories. I’ve seen Robot Carnival a couple times in the past (and should probably give it a review here), and I got to see Neo-Tokyo as part of the OVA film festival at the Hollywood Theater in Portland. After that screening, they announced their next event would be a screening of Memories – so I had to finish up the hat trick.
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Film Review: Logan’s Run
On the one hand, Logan’s Run is a pretty straightforward ’70s dystopian SF film – a futuristic society (likely controlled by computers) created in the wake of some form of ecological collapse that is malevolent and oppressive. We’re in the territory of Saturn 3, or Silent Running. However, this builds off of the premise of “What if the people saying ‘don’t trust anyone over 30’ turned 30?” – which isn’t exactly the best premise to build a movie off of.
Continue readingI try to figure out where next.
Continue readingWe find the squeaky mallet! (yay) And for a session where game audio isn’t getting recorded! (boo).
Continue readingThis month is the last month Netflix will be mailing out physical DVDs, so I give my thoughts on the end of an era.
Continue readingWe have our final battle against Pirotess.
Continue readingWe have a fight with another dragon (and I think the last of them), with Narse, the Black Dragon of Marmo.
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Book Review: Ninth House
Time to finally get caught up with the Sword & Laser picks with Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, the August pick.
As a content warning – in addition to this book discussing a murder, it also includes a discussion of sexual assault, including a character who is raped while drugged.
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Book Review: Fourth Wing
Unfortunately, I’ve fallen a little behind again on the books covered in the Sword & Laser Book Club, from a review standpoint, so it’s time for me to get caught up with some of the past books that I’ve read and finished. The first of these is Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros.
Continue readingWe get another ability that unlocks more of the map – water breathing.
Continue readingPirotess kills someone close to Deedlit.
Continue readingLet’s check in with Robin and see what he and The Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) are up to.
Continue readingWe overcome this battle against Karla, and her alternate form, only to find her cutting a deal with Pirotess.
Continue readingWe have a boss fight against Karla, where she uses multiple forms.
Continue readingThis month we talk about the Record of Lodoss War OVA – with some tangents to the novels, the Actual Play, and the Chronicles of the Heroic Knight OVA (and also Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth).
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Supers RPG Experimentation: A-Ko
So, with tabletop RPGs, I like to pick out a few character concepts to use for creating characters to help learn the system – often based on anime, movies, TV shows, or novels – trying to emulate those characters to help learn the system. For example, for Fantasy games I tend to go with the Heroes of Lodoss. Recently I’ve picked up a couple of supers RPGs – the Marvel Multiverse RPG and the Sentinels Comics, and I’m creating some test characters in the process of trying to learn the system. My first trial run: A-Ko.
Continue readingWe continue collecting spirit keys for the Heroes of Lodoss – our old friends.
Continue readingWe move to a more overgrown area of the Labyrinth.
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