Recent Media Stuff

Feels a little more restrictive than Legends Arceus, but has enough of that Legends brain-tickling that has me 55 hours deep with three more ranks to go.

The high profile pleasant surprise of my early fall, my main commendation is for the pacing of a thriller that could be confusing if it weren’t so dang entertaining just to watch spies talk around stuff.

Cute and satisfying to puzzle out. It’s a great weekend pickup if my oldest is playing or reading in the room with me.

Rewatched this recently as it is one of my favorite documentaries which sheds light on American race relations. Danny Bensi’s score is incredible.

A wonderful surprise. Both laugh-out-loud funny and insightful into the Irish struggle against the Brits.

Replayed coming off of my Blue Prince and E33 binges. Still among the best writing in the video game medium.

One of my bedtime reads. Compelling premise and some engrossing writing, but I’ve lost focus with the multiple perspective shifts and extremely dense world building.

Finished this for book club. Kara asked if it lived up to the hype and in some ways it did not, but in many ways it was exactly the right book for a stressful spooky season. Fast-paced, cinematic, and with enough social commentary to make it worth reflecting on, I’m glad we did it.

My main audiobook for drives. Hate to expose myself too much to Elon’s insanity, but it is satisfying to know he’s been a drooling troll every step of the way.

Our September book club pick. I thought I’d gotten in over my skis at first, but it ended up being a pretty memorable and satisfying read.

Only gave it the one listen-through and I landed on the side of people who gave it a side-eye for all the 180 pivot from celebrating her independence. But Erin has given me a lot of reasons why I should listen again.

This is not my peak Pokemon year, but I am like…three Pokedex entries away from fulfilling my childhood ambition of getting that certificate for the original 150 dex entries. Every now and then I use Crystal to level up the last remaining ‘Mon. Right now, ALL THAT’S LEFT is evolving Kabuto into Kabutops – I’m at Fuschia Gym in the post-game.

Contender for my Game of the Year. I’ve heard people turn on it as a time-waster, but I was happy to go as far as I did before the overall puzzle got too dense.

Finally got around to this classic and the clever way the narrative unfolds with the deceptively engaging gameplay is genius.

Didn’t expect to get sucked into this one, but there was a moment there where any moment not spent working or parenting was in moving my little guys around, making sure they don’t get obliterated.

I have learned how to make Balatro not ruin my life. But it was dicey for a while there.

I beat Lace! That might be my last accomplishment with this one, at least for a while.

Floating around Free YouTube movies for quite a while. It was fun to revisit and remember how the pieces fit together, although the plot is less airtight than teenage me remembered.