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@badseed: My turnips are going for 151 bells if you or anyone else need to sell last minute. 5QRJL. It's a little past 6 PM now.

Pashmina asked what I like to do for fun...

I'd recommend adventure games that have an HD remaster/remake over their originals for quality-of-life improvements, resolution appropriate for modern displays, sound that isn't AM radio quality....especially if you don't have any nostalgia attached.

@ford_dent: I'm going through this set chronologically - currently at Disc 4, Son of Godzilla. Not sure if you already know, but the Japanese version of King Kong Vs Godzilla is on the supplemental disc. The trajectory of these movies, in terms of tone and target demographic, is fascinating because it starts off like HBO's Chernobyl but gradually skews younger, with every movie ending with an ecological PSA for kids:

"Shouldn't we thank Godzilla?"

"We can thank him by building a better world."

THE END

Despite the varying quality of these movies I'm finding them highly entertaining.

I'm playing a wider variety of games nowadays but have increasingly less tolerance for respawning or games with no forward progress. Genres I played almost exclusively in the 90s-00s (fighting games, racing games, shooters) have lost my interest in favor of genres I never used to play back then (RPGs, simulators, strategy). Genres I've never gotten tired of since the NES days are 2D action-platformers and adventure games.

Mass Effect: Andromeda - I stopped playing when I reached a rusty, acid rain planet, where I got lost in a hotel made of junk?? Really can't remember because I was completely done with the story and repetitive game design at this point. There was one story bit I enjoyed where you talk to your comatose sibling via neural implant...thought that was some good sci-fi.

Honorable mentions: No More Heroes 2, State of Decay 2, The Walking Dead Season 2

testing (Opera, 64-bit, Win 10)

Is that a larva wielding a knife? Is Snom about that lyfe?

@2headedninja: Sadly I have to agree. East is killing it despite working in a broom closet.

The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968) - 2/5

A feminist movie through the lens of a dirty old man, about a vapid newlywed bride who wears nothing but a skin-tight jumpsuit and rides her motorcycle (lovingly referred to as her "black pimp") cross-country to visit her lover, Le Samourai. Along the way she encounters men who pat her on the ass, catcall her, and other sorts of misogyny & innuendo while she daydreams about having her clothes torn off by whipping. She only wants to be sexually free and ditch her limp-dick husband but in the end she is punished for being an adulterer. I watched this on the Criterion Channel this morning -- home of Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, and Fellini.

I could not help notice that this film bears similarities to a certain auteur in the video games industry, and after some digging lo and behold: