Eyeball (1975)
Possession (1981)
[#84 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]
Blindspot 2024 #10 — the second horror film I mentioned.
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Games
Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket
I've never been that fussed about Pokémon. When I got my first GameBoy (it was a Color, if I remember correctly) back in the '90s, I did have one of whichever iteration of the game was then-current, but I didn't play it a huge amount in the end. I mean, the fact I can't even remember which game it was tells you something. But now my nephew is the right age to be really into it, so when I saw this app was coming out today, I thought I'd give it a go.
It's based around opening packs to collect cards (all digitally), which after a couple of levels you can use to build decks and battle (a slightly simplified version of the real card game's rules, I believe). I ended up spending all morning on it, and then some time in the afternoon too. Oh dear... I mean, that's probably a good sign to the developers and the Pokémon company, but not so much for my free time.
I've never been that fussed about Pokémon. When I got my first GameBoy (it was a Color, if I remember correctly) back in the '90s, I did have one of whichever iteration of the game was then-current, but I didn't play it a huge amount in the end. I mean, the fact I can't even remember which game it was tells you something. But now my nephew is the right age to be really into it, so when I saw this app was coming out today, I thought I'd give it a go.
It's based around opening packs to collect cards (all digitally), which after a couple of levels you can use to build decks and battle (a slightly simplified version of the real card game's rules, I believe). I ended up spending all morning on it, and then some time in the afternoon too. Oh dear... I mean, that's probably a good sign to the developers and the Pokémon company, but not so much for my free time.
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Monday, 28 October 2024
Games
Syberia
Hadn't forgotten nor given up on this, just been busy with other stuff. Played about another hour-and-a-quarter until I ran out of immediately-obvious things to do. There's a fair bit of back-and-forthing and 'puzzles' that amount to "figure out the right order to pull random levers", with little conversation and no monologuing from our 'hero', which makes the character feel rather distant and bland. In other words, it's no LucasArts game.
Hadn't forgotten nor given up on this, just been busy with other stuff. Played about another hour-and-a-quarter until I ran out of immediately-obvious things to do. There's a fair bit of back-and-forthing and 'puzzles' that amount to "figure out the right order to pull random levers", with little conversation and no monologuing from our 'hero', which makes the character feel rather distant and bland. In other words, it's no LucasArts game.
Sunday, 27 October 2024
TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
7x72 Week 15: Tuesday
7x73 Week 15: Wednesday
7x74 Week 15: Thursday
7x75 Week 15: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Slow Horses
4x05 Grave Danger
4x06 Hello Goodbye [season finale]
7x72 Week 15: Tuesday
7x73 Week 15: Wednesday
7x74 Week 15: Thursday
7x75 Week 15: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Slow Horses
4x05 Grave Danger
4x06 Hello Goodbye [season finale]
Saturday, 26 October 2024
TV
Friends
4x09 The One Where They're Going to Party! [5th or so watch]
4x10 The One with the Girl from Poughkeepsie [5th or so watch]
The Rookie
5x21 Going Under
The Rookie: Feds
1x21 Bloodline
The final Rookie / Rookie: Feds crossover — which was barely that, more two scenes in Going Under that led into Bloodline, and gave them an excuse to feature Nolan in the latter. Anyway, the show got cancelled, so this is the last episode of Feds I'll ever have to watch.
Slow Horses
4x03 Penny for Your Thoughts
4x04 Returns
4x09 The One Where They're Going to Party! [5th or so watch]
4x10 The One with the Girl from Poughkeepsie [5th or so watch]
The Rookie
5x21 Going Under
The Rookie: Feds
1x21 Bloodline
The final Rookie / Rookie: Feds crossover — which was barely that, more two scenes in Going Under that led into Bloodline, and gave them an excuse to feature Nolan in the latter. Anyway, the show got cancelled, so this is the last episode of Feds I'll ever have to watch.
Slow Horses
4x03 Penny for Your Thoughts
4x04 Returns
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
I alluded last week to a deluge of stuff turning up this week. Well, it didn't. Fair enough — it was all preorders due out on Monday, anyway. So, next week should have a pile of stuff (just in time for the monthly running time update, which means I've got one week to work out how long the Lars von Trier box set runs — unusually, it doesn't say on the packaging).
This week does have one new title: Doctor Who Season 25. We've reached something of a tipping point in the Doctor Who Blu-ray range at last: as well as upgrading DVDs of stories from season 25 itself, this allows me to also officially pass on stories from seasons 12 and 24. How? Those seasons are already out on Blu-ray, but the DVD editions are in box sets with stories from season 25, so I'd been hanging on to them. There should be more of this kind of thing going forward; as well as, hopefully, special features that have gone walkabout turning up again, meaning even more DVDs can officially be 'removed'.
Number of titles in collection: 3,387 [down 2]
Of which DVDs: 995 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,392 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 397 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 8,177 [up 3]
Number of films: 4,217 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 404 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,797 [down 3]
Number of short films: 1,171 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
I alluded last week to a deluge of stuff turning up this week. Well, it didn't. Fair enough — it was all preorders due out on Monday, anyway. So, next week should have a pile of stuff (just in time for the monthly running time update, which means I've got one week to work out how long the Lars von Trier box set runs — unusually, it doesn't say on the packaging).
This week does have one new title: Doctor Who Season 25. We've reached something of a tipping point in the Doctor Who Blu-ray range at last: as well as upgrading DVDs of stories from season 25 itself, this allows me to also officially pass on stories from seasons 12 and 24. How? Those seasons are already out on Blu-ray, but the DVD editions are in box sets with stories from season 25, so I'd been hanging on to them. There should be more of this kind of thing going forward; as well as, hopefully, special features that have gone walkabout turning up again, meaning even more DVDs can officially be 'removed'.
Number of titles in collection: 3,387 [down 2]
Of which DVDs: 995 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,392 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 397 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 8,177 [up 3]
Number of films: 4,217 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 404 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,797 [down 3]
Number of short films: 1,171 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 25 October 2024
TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
7x71 Week 15: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Slow Horses
4x01 Identity Theft
4x02 A Stranger Comes to Town
7x71 Week 15: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Slow Horses
4x01 Identity Theft
4x02 A Stranger Comes to Town
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
TV
Goblin Slayer
1x11 A Gathering of Adventurers
1x12 The Fate of an Adventurer [season finale]
Great two-part finale. Glad I stumbled across this show.
1x11 A Gathering of Adventurers
1x12 The Fate of an Adventurer [season finale]
Great two-part finale. Glad I stumbled across this show.
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
TV
Goblin Slayer
1x10 Dozing
1x10a Adventure Sheet aka Recap: Adventurer's Record
The second episode here is a summary of the main story so far, retold in mostly chronological order (i.e. some flashbacks from later episodes are moved to the start), which aired between episodes 10 and 11 during the series' original run. It's not been dubbed into English (even though it's 100% clips from previous episodes, so presumably they could've just edited the existing soundtracks) and I don't think it's included on any DVD/Blu-ray releases. Which is fair enough, really — I thought it might have a new framing device to link the clips or something, but no. It's entirely skippable.
1x10 Dozing
1x10a Adventure Sheet aka Recap: Adventurer's Record
The second episode here is a summary of the main story so far, retold in mostly chronological order (i.e. some flashbacks from later episodes are moved to the start), which aired between episodes 10 and 11 during the series' original run. It's not been dubbed into English (even though it's 100% clips from previous episodes, so presumably they could've just edited the existing soundtracks) and I don't think it's included on any DVD/Blu-ray releases. Which is fair enough, really — I thought it might have a new framing device to link the clips or something, but no. It's entirely skippable.
Monday, 21 October 2024
Films
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
[#82 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]
Blindspot 2024 #9 — the first of two horror films on this year's Blindspot list that I've been saving for October.
[#82 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]
Blindspot 2024 #9 — the first of two horror films on this year's Blindspot list that I've been saving for October.
Games
007: Everything or Nothing
Oh yeah, another new game. I'll spare you the details, but a perfect confluence of various different thoughts, impulses, and things I happened to see inspired me to get ahold of an emulation of this console game for my Mac (I actually own the GameCube version, so I can't say I feel too bad about 'pirating' this; also, it's 20 years old and not available in any form for a current-gen console nor on PC, so...)
Had a quick go at it, but the emulator doesn't seem to support using a mouse (beyond clicking) so it was a pain to control. I have old GameCube / GameCube-for-Wii controllers somewhere, but I'm sure there's no way to connect them up to a Mac (heck, if I was going to dig those out, I could just set up the console; though I think I'd need an adaptor to connect it to my TV nowadays).
I'd love to just dig into the game, but while the intro and tutorial were easy enough that I could take my time finding every single button I needed to press and slowly move my view around with random keys, etc, I doubt that would be sufficient for the game proper. Hopefully if I buy a controller it will be compatible with the emulator...
Oh yeah, another new game. I'll spare you the details, but a perfect confluence of various different thoughts, impulses, and things I happened to see inspired me to get ahold of an emulation of this console game for my Mac (I actually own the GameCube version, so I can't say I feel too bad about 'pirating' this; also, it's 20 years old and not available in any form for a current-gen console nor on PC, so...)
Had a quick go at it, but the emulator doesn't seem to support using a mouse (beyond clicking) so it was a pain to control. I have old GameCube / GameCube-for-Wii controllers somewhere, but I'm sure there's no way to connect them up to a Mac (heck, if I was going to dig those out, I could just set up the console; though I think I'd need an adaptor to connect it to my TV nowadays).
I'd love to just dig into the game, but while the intro and tutorial were easy enough that I could take my time finding every single button I needed to press and slowly move my view around with random keys, etc, I doubt that would be sufficient for the game proper. Hopefully if I buy a controller it will be compatible with the emulator...
Saturday, 19 October 2024
Games
Fortnite
Oh yeah, I am so Hip and With It and Down With The Kids that I just played Fortnite for the first time.
In truth, it's only because I discovered Amazon's Luna platform/service, which I have access to as a Prime member, and wanted to try it out. I don't think I'm about to become a regular Fortnite player, but it does open up other possibilities for gaming... though still only a relatively limited selection of titles work with it (so similar to film & TV streaming services, eh? Great idea; limited library), so I don't know how much there is I actually want to play.
Though, in investigating what I could play, it kinda reminded me that my Mac, while not brand-new or cutting edge, is hardly un-powerful; and while a lot of acclaimed PC games aren't released in Mac editions, there are ways to play them nonetheless. Point being: maybe I'm about to get back into computer gaming. Or not, who knows — it's not as if I don't already have more than enough hobbies.
Oh yeah, I am so Hip and With It and Down With The Kids that I just played Fortnite for the first time.
In truth, it's only because I discovered Amazon's Luna platform/service, which I have access to as a Prime member, and wanted to try it out. I don't think I'm about to become a regular Fortnite player, but it does open up other possibilities for gaming... though still only a relatively limited selection of titles work with it (so similar to film & TV streaming services, eh? Great idea; limited library), so I don't know how much there is I actually want to play.
Though, in investigating what I could play, it kinda reminded me that my Mac, while not brand-new or cutting edge, is hardly un-powerful; and while a lot of acclaimed PC games aren't released in Mac editions, there are ways to play them nonetheless. Point being: maybe I'm about to get back into computer gaming. Or not, who knows — it's not as if I don't already have more than enough hobbies.
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