Failures next Sunday (or tomorrow on the blog itself).
Sunday, 1 March 2026
this week on 100Films.co.uk
Just sneaking in to this week (because it was posted this morning) is my review of January on 100Films.co.uk...
Failures next Sunday (or tomorrow on the blog itself).
Failures next Sunday (or tomorrow on the blog itself).
Saturday, 28 February 2026
Fiction
Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber
VI. Adept's Gambit Chapters 1–2
The longest Lankhmar story so far (it's got chapters! Or numbered sections, at any rate, and what are those if not chapters?)
VI. Adept's Gambit Chapters 1–2
The longest Lankhmar story so far (it's got chapters! Or numbered sections, at any rate, and what are those if not chapters?)
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Good old "I'll just pop into Skyrim for a few minutes, do this one thing... but while I'm here... oh, and also..." and suddenly it's been well over an hour and you still feel like you've "just done a couple of things".
Good old "I'll just pop into Skyrim for a few minutes, do this one thing... but while I'm here... oh, and also..." and suddenly it's been well over an hour and you still feel like you've "just done a couple of things".
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Only one new addition this week, although it is a five-film box set. It's also time for the monthly running time update (we're 1/6th through 2025 already!), but quite a few of this month's additions were upgrades (including one new copy of Thunderbirds replacing two old ones), which means it's not as much of an increase as my physical pile of recent purchases would've made me think.
Number of titles in collection: 3,668 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 974 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,694 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 508 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 8,809 [up 3]
Number of films: 4,711 [up 5]
Number of additional cuts: 484 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,163 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,282 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
615 days, 18 hours, and 46 minutes.
(Up 18 hours and 34 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Only one new addition this week, although it is a five-film box set. It's also time for the monthly running time update (we're 1/6th through 2025 already!), but quite a few of this month's additions were upgrades (including one new copy of Thunderbirds replacing two old ones), which means it's not as much of an increase as my physical pile of recent purchases would've made me think.
Number of titles in collection: 3,668 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 974 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,694 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 508 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 8,809 [up 3]
Number of films: 4,711 [up 5]
Number of additional cuts: 484 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,163 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,282 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
615 days, 18 hours, and 46 minutes.
(Up 18 hours and 34 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 27 February 2026
Video Games
Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure
5. The Windows Sky-High
Finally finished this part off, with help from the guide — another puzzle where I got most of the way there, and maybe if I spent a long time pondering it I would've alighted on the solution, but it's just so much easier to pluck that final 5% from a walkthrough (for good or ill).
Monument Valley
5. The Windows Sky-High
Finally finished this part off, with help from the guide — another puzzle where I got most of the way there, and maybe if I spent a long time pondering it I would've alighted on the solution, but it's just so much easier to pluck that final 5% from a walkthrough (for good or ill).
Monument Valley
Thursday, 26 February 2026
Video Games
Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure
5. The Windows Sky-High
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Today, just a quick excursion to pick up some great loot I missed on an earlier expedition... and then a lot of time spent crafting and enchanting and selling. I only meant to do a bit of it quickly, but somehow spent an hour on it. Oh well — quests next time? Maybe.
Monument Valley
It's a shame installation woes and poor controls put me in a bad mood about this, because it's actually pretty clever (still think the controls are rubbish, though). Seems like it'll be quite short, though, so nice that it was free.
5. The Windows Sky-High
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Today, just a quick excursion to pick up some great loot I missed on an earlier expedition... and then a lot of time spent crafting and enchanting and selling. I only meant to do a bit of it quickly, but somehow spent an hour on it. Oh well — quests next time? Maybe.
Monument Valley
It's a shame installation woes and poor controls put me in a bad mood about this, because it's actually pretty clever (still think the controls are rubbish, though). Seems like it'll be quite short, though, so nice that it was free.
Wednesday, 25 February 2026
Video Games
Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure
4. The Duel of Wits
5. The Windows Sky-High
So far I've persisted until finishing a chapter each day, but I got stuck on Chapter 5 and didn't want to lean on the walkthrough too much (I've already had to resort to it a couple of times when I thought I knew what to do (and I was right) but couldn't work out what text to enter to make it happen).
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Monument Valley
Got this puzzle game free on Epic a little while ago; started playing it now because the Steam version is in a bundle with its DLC and I thought that might be better, but I needed to know if I liked it enough to pay for it. It's quite clever, but also clearly not made to be played with a controller — I believe it was originally a touchscreen phone game, and it feels like it. I could use the Deck's touchscreen, but I don't want to get finger smears all over it that'll annoy me when I play regular games. Might try installing it on my Mac and playing with mouse. Anyway, I doubt I'll be buying it — the free version, while less than ideal (getting it to run took more fiddling than it should have), will suffice for what it is.
4. The Duel of Wits
5. The Windows Sky-High
So far I've persisted until finishing a chapter each day, but I got stuck on Chapter 5 and didn't want to lean on the walkthrough too much (I've already had to resort to it a couple of times when I thought I knew what to do (and I was right) but couldn't work out what text to enter to make it happen).
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Monument Valley
Got this puzzle game free on Epic a little while ago; started playing it now because the Steam version is in a bundle with its DLC and I thought that might be better, but I needed to know if I liked it enough to pay for it. It's quite clever, but also clearly not made to be played with a controller — I believe it was originally a touchscreen phone game, and it feels like it. I could use the Deck's touchscreen, but I don't want to get finger smears all over it that'll annoy me when I play regular games. Might try installing it on my Mac and playing with mouse. Anyway, I doubt I'll be buying it — the free version, while less than ideal (getting it to run took more fiddling than it should have), will suffice for what it is.
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Fiction
Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber
II. Lean Times in Lankhmar
I’ve enjoyed all the Lankhmar stories, to one degree or another (I’ve not read a bad one yet, but some are, of course, better than others), but I think this may be the greatest of all. So far, at least.
II. Lean Times in Lankhmar
I’ve enjoyed all the Lankhmar stories, to one degree or another (I’ve not read a bad one yet, but some are, of course, better than others), but I think this may be the greatest of all. So far, at least.
Monday, 23 February 2026
Video Games
Bael's Rock: A Text Adventure
1. The Ghosts of the Desert
2. The Trial of Hope
Picked this up during Steam's recent typing-related sale and decided to play it on my Steam Deck. Playing a typing game on the Steam Deck may sound a little ridiculous... and it is. But I kinda wanted to see if it would work, and... technically it does, but typing using the onscreen keyboard is a little slow. As you only need to do simple commands ("examine door", that kind of thing) it's ok, although you can't see the text entry box while you're writing, so that's a pain. But as the game has no Mac version, the Deck remains my best way to play this. Which is daft, but there you go.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Started this up today without a real goal in mind; thought I might just read all those notes that were dumped in my inventory by the Anniversary Edition and start the quests. Well, in the end I played for an hour... and actually did stuff! Started some of those quests. Progressed a few. Even finished some — gasp!
1. The Ghosts of the Desert
2. The Trial of Hope
Picked this up during Steam's recent typing-related sale and decided to play it on my Steam Deck. Playing a typing game on the Steam Deck may sound a little ridiculous... and it is. But I kinda wanted to see if it would work, and... technically it does, but typing using the onscreen keyboard is a little slow. As you only need to do simple commands ("examine door", that kind of thing) it's ok, although you can't see the text entry box while you're writing, so that's a pain. But as the game has no Mac version, the Deck remains my best way to play this. Which is daft, but there you go.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Started this up today without a real goal in mind; thought I might just read all those notes that were dumped in my inventory by the Anniversary Edition and start the quests. Well, in the end I played for an hour... and actually did stuff! Started some of those quests. Progressed a few. Even finished some — gasp!
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