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>PLAYAN
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War. I'm on a major Tolkien kick, and I beat Shadow of Mordor a few years ago, after the first time I finally read the main books (Hobbit, LR, Silmarillion). It was alright, but seemed like it could be expanded a lot. The sequel looked like it did expand it a lot, but I was burned out on the formula and didn't get to it until now. I'm at the second city, and it looks like there are quite a few more. They aren't enormous, but they get the job done. I like that the cities are actual cities from the books/movies this time, even if the first two don't really feel like it. But it's a little better than nothing, and I look forward to the more important cities that I can see come later on the map.There are a few mechanics that bug me, but it mostly seems like more of the same. That's fine, I suppose. I'll probably beat the whole game.
I remember people on this board at the time told me the sequel wasn't pozzed, because given the time it came out, I was very suspicious. The people on this board lied to me. Right at the beginning of the game, your two main companions are a female warrior and a black warrior. I checked his profile to see if there was at least some mention of him being from Far Harad, but no, they couldn't even bother to do that. And the girl being so eager to fight flies in the face of the entire message of all of the books. Eowyn makes the message very clear. Yeah, she can fight, but why would she want to? You shouldn't want to fight. Sometimes you need to, and you gotta do what you gotta do, but it's not something to be relished, and if you can find another way to solve the conflict, then that is even more heroic. Not only does Eowyn learn her lesson, but it's the core premise of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Thorin is a warrior and wants to fight for glory. Bilbo wants to do the right thing, but that doesn't necessarily mean fighting, and he helps by doing things other than fighting. And then of course Frodo and Sam continue the same theme. Aragorn is a hero, sure, and fighting was his role, but he didn't want to, and he understood that Frodo's non-combat role was not only just as heroic, but even more heroic. This Gondorian girl doesn't get that, and it seems like the writers don't get it. Because of course they don't. Talion and Celebrimbor being essentially anti-heroes is already something that would probably make Tolkien spin in his grave, but I'll allow it because it's somewhat necessary for the gameplay formula, and because the game seems to at least acknowledge that their philosophies (and specifically how Celebrimbor is changed in the game) make them flawed. But they had to insert a feminist bullshit character that spits in the face of what is arguably the core theme of the series, just so they could be feminist.
>WATCHAN
ReBoot. They have an official livestream (actually two, for some reason) on Youtube, and I have massive nostalgia for this show, so I've just been leaving it on 24/7. Every few loops I'll notice a new detail. This show just gets better with age. Recently some people making a documentary about it found the original tapes, and have already released a higher quality version of the first episode on Youtube. It's making me begin to hope that they'll bring the series back and resolve the cliffhanger ending. I shouldn't want them to bring it back, since they actually did a few years ago, with that piece of shit, The Guardian Code, but there will always be a part of me that wants to see what the ending was supposed to be. The show's creator says he knows it but he doesn't want to release it because he hopes he'll get to make it some day. It's been 23 years, and he's gonna die eventually. If he doesn't make it soon, he'd better just release the fucking script online.
>LISTENAN
Youtube's been recommending me AI comedy songs, mostly '70s style funk about pimps. My favorite so far is "Don't Test Me, Bitch." Great song, and has convinced me that AI is better than all the shit on the radio.
>READAN
Conan the Barbarian. Got a collection with all the stories by the original author. I'm only a few in, but they're cool. The book is in chronological order, not release order, but it does list the publication dates, so I'm going by release order instead. It's interesting that the first published story already has Conan as king, and then the next few are earlier in the timeline, but make some references to his later destiny. I'd miss the references if I read in this book's order.
I also didn't realize that Conan was set in the same world as Kull. I guess I should have read that first. But I have this physical Conan book, so fuck it. The continuity isn't important, but it is cool. I do appreciate that the author goes to significant lengths to make it somewhat believable that this is set in our own past, and in an essay even explains which of the races in his stories eventually became the races we have in the present (or at least in real recorded history). I like history stuff, and it's cool that this is well framed as history. Tolkien sort of does the same conceit, too, but Howard goes a bit further with it.
>EATAN
Pizza rolls. I'm surprised whenever Anon answers anything that isn't pizza rolls. It just feels like the natural food of Anons.
>DRINKAN
Water. It's the only drink I like. Everything else just leaves me more thirsty than before I drank it. Water is the only drink that isn't for degenerates.
>FAPPAN
Shitting dick nipples.
>FEELAN
Terrible. I'm here, aren't I?