Category: Music

Feels a little more restrictive than Legends Arceus, but has enough of that Legends brain-tickling that had me sinking nearly 70 hours into it by the time I finished the story. Will be fun to revisit for the occasional shiny hunt.

I’m high-key sick of the lazy criticism “they adapted the weaker part of a two part musical, so this is a big disappointment.” I don’t think you can lavish praise on the first part and completely dismiss Jon Chu’s approach to getting into the headspace of the lead actresses. Just admit you got swept up in marketing and now part of you regrets buying in. (I liked this one better than Part 1).

Some people say this movie lacks subtext and is too obsessed with humanizing the monster. I say, Guillermo should have occasionally interspersed clips of Sam Altman over Oscar Isaac’s face to really drive the point home.

I already have the feeling that this will be impossible for me to beat, which is part of what made getting a good “ending” in the first Hades very satisfying.

I have Paramount Plus because of Survivor, so the algorithm started recommending these movies to me around Halloween. I binged them over a weekish period and was surprising hooked by Scream 4 and the reboot movies. I do think the meta references broke the tension too much in the second and third movies, but Wes Craven probably peaked with the fourth one before he passed away.

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.