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I FINISHED A BOOK
Jun. 11th, 2020 06:46 amSo's I got this book with the Boss Fight kickstarter (they're books about videogames) that was about this game called P.T.
Actually, lemme back up. Okay so there's a series of books about videogames called Boss Fight(s?). They focus on specific videogames and can be analysis of a certain feature, a monograph on the game itself, the process of localizing it, etc, etc. Anyway, the latest 'run' had a bunch of free videogame related books in The Same Sort Of Vein as stretch goals. A stretch goal being when they earn money over their goal and are like 'okay so everyone gets a car' (I am not always sure how wise this process is) and they blew through all their stretch goals bam bam bam. So I'm getting a lot of free books, plus the ones I paid for!
So there was this game called P.T. that was actually a demo for Kojima/Guillermo Del Toro/Norman Reedus videogame Silent Hills (the s is important) which ended up cancelled and then eventually P.T. was scrubbed from the internet!
And I'm like, you BET I wanna hear about this increasingly mythical horror game!
EDIT: I finished it! Oh man right as the description of the Lisa ghost got really scary someone started thumping around upstairs and I'm dead now. That was fun! There was a cranky note here earlier but once it got going, it really got going.
I've been watching mystery shows as well and trying to avoid ones with particularly heavy police presence and so the amateur sleuth line has been the one I'm following. Cadfael, Campion, and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. Now it turns out I'm still a bit of a, how you say, moral absolutist because I'm two episodes into Hetty and a little boggled that nothing ever happens to the murderers. I'm wondering how long this trend goes on. In Midsomer it took like two seasons before they ever successfully arrested someone without a Mysterious Horrible Death occurring or 'they've gone mad! bleeding mad!'
Details:
Cadfael is about a monk what solves crimes in his monkly way. Episode 2 had a minstrel telling him he'd never understand the minstrel's problem (he had peasant sex in the church) because Cadfael was just a big old virgin who had never known the gentle touch of a woman. Bloody sex peasants!
Campion is about Tristan from All Creatures Great and Small being a Manic Pixie Dream Detective and I have the most mixed feelings about this one.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is about a 60 year old housewife who decides to become a detective and acquires (described as 'waiflike') teen!Dominic Monaghan as her faithful sidekick. Morally grey in ways I wasn't really expecting, honestly, but most certainly not the end of the world to subvert my expectations. Very compelling characters.
My dad told me to try out Vera, Hathaway and Shakespeare Investigates(?), and Rosemary and Thyme. He also tried to suggest me a sitcom and I kept going 'wait, so where's the murder?' don't try and pull one over me, dad, I know what I want and it's not your sitcoms.
I actually advertised my short fiction to the world yesterday and as far as I know, no one even saw and you have no idea how much of a relief that is. I get to know I Tried without dealing with the consequences of Being Known.
My twitter feed right now is:
-Protests (good)
-Statues getting fucked up (someone decapitated Columbus! YES)
-JKR hot takes (I found out she was a terf back in 2014 as the result of her being like, super pissed some politician named Jeremy Corbyn was Alive and Breathing Her Air and I keep jettisoning her to unused memory in my head until she opens her damn mouth again and I have to deal with my well meaning mostly cis friends making sure I see the bad stuff over and over and over and over)
-final fantasy and she-ra fanart
Offline:
-Let's (discuss possibly that we should) rename all the stuff in our small Canadian city named after confederate soldiers because how did that happen anyway?
-Protests
-Someone stole a bunch of stuff from our yard but they accidentally just took the stuff we were junking and one power cable. Godspeed, dudes. Enjoy our spring cleaning
-Lilacs! Oh they're out of bloom already nvm nvm
Actually, lemme back up. Okay so there's a series of books about videogames called Boss Fight(s?). They focus on specific videogames and can be analysis of a certain feature, a monograph on the game itself, the process of localizing it, etc, etc. Anyway, the latest 'run' had a bunch of free videogame related books in The Same Sort Of Vein as stretch goals. A stretch goal being when they earn money over their goal and are like 'okay so everyone gets a car' (I am not always sure how wise this process is) and they blew through all their stretch goals bam bam bam. So I'm getting a lot of free books, plus the ones I paid for!
So there was this game called P.T. that was actually a demo for Kojima/Guillermo Del Toro/Norman Reedus videogame Silent Hills (the s is important) which ended up cancelled and then eventually P.T. was scrubbed from the internet!
And I'm like, you BET I wanna hear about this increasingly mythical horror game!
EDIT: I finished it! Oh man right as the description of the Lisa ghost got really scary someone started thumping around upstairs and I'm dead now. That was fun! There was a cranky note here earlier but once it got going, it really got going.
I've been watching mystery shows as well and trying to avoid ones with particularly heavy police presence and so the amateur sleuth line has been the one I'm following. Cadfael, Campion, and Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. Now it turns out I'm still a bit of a, how you say, moral absolutist because I'm two episodes into Hetty and a little boggled that nothing ever happens to the murderers. I'm wondering how long this trend goes on. In Midsomer it took like two seasons before they ever successfully arrested someone without a Mysterious Horrible Death occurring or 'they've gone mad! bleeding mad!'
Details:
Cadfael is about a monk what solves crimes in his monkly way. Episode 2 had a minstrel telling him he'd never understand the minstrel's problem (he had peasant sex in the church) because Cadfael was just a big old virgin who had never known the gentle touch of a woman. Bloody sex peasants!
Campion is about Tristan from All Creatures Great and Small being a Manic Pixie Dream Detective and I have the most mixed feelings about this one.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is about a 60 year old housewife who decides to become a detective and acquires (described as 'waiflike') teen!Dominic Monaghan as her faithful sidekick. Morally grey in ways I wasn't really expecting, honestly, but most certainly not the end of the world to subvert my expectations. Very compelling characters.
My dad told me to try out Vera, Hathaway and Shakespeare Investigates(?), and Rosemary and Thyme. He also tried to suggest me a sitcom and I kept going 'wait, so where's the murder?' don't try and pull one over me, dad, I know what I want and it's not your sitcoms.
I actually advertised my short fiction to the world yesterday and as far as I know, no one even saw and you have no idea how much of a relief that is. I get to know I Tried without dealing with the consequences of Being Known.
My twitter feed right now is:
-Protests (good)
-Statues getting fucked up (someone decapitated Columbus! YES)
-JKR hot takes (I found out she was a terf back in 2014 as the result of her being like, super pissed some politician named Jeremy Corbyn was Alive and Breathing Her Air and I keep jettisoning her to unused memory in my head until she opens her damn mouth again and I have to deal with my well meaning mostly cis friends making sure I see the bad stuff over and over and over and over)
-final fantasy and she-ra fanart
Offline:
-Let's (discuss possibly that we should) rename all the stuff in our small Canadian city named after confederate soldiers because how did that happen anyway?
-Protests
-Someone stole a bunch of stuff from our yard but they accidentally just took the stuff we were junking and one power cable. Godspeed, dudes. Enjoy our spring cleaning
-Lilacs! Oh they're out of bloom already nvm nvm