Street Law (1974)
[#91 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2025]
I was considering watching How to Train Your Dragon 2 this evening (as I’ve been intending to since May), but after playing four hours of Skyrim and reading a Fafhrd-focused Lankhmar story, I decided it was probably a good idea to get some variety from viking-themed fantasy.
Saturday, 15 November 2025
Video Games
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition
Inevitably.
I sat down this afternoon intending to finally start Dispatch. If you don't know, it's structured like a TV series with eight episodes, so my plan is to treat it like one: play a whole episode, then either do the whole next one or aim to spread them out, paced like how I watch TV TV. But instead of finally diving into episode one, I 'accidentally' loaded Skyrim instead. Oopsie.
Today was good, though. I've spent my 30 hours so far all in the same locale: the first town and city the game leads you to, and their surrounding environs. I keep meaning to venture out (there's a lot more world to see) but get distracted by local quests (or other business like looting, crafting, potion making...) Well, today I got into a drinking contest in the tavern... and woke up a whole 24 hours later in an unfamiliar temple, which turned out to be in a city on the other side of the continent. That's one way to do it!
In terms of how the game is programmed, this is a quest that can trigger in any tavern anywhere after you reach a certain level — I could have explored every single place on the map before starting it. But I think the way it's happened for me is the best, frankly. Walking out of the temple into, not only an unfamiliar city, but one that looks completely different to anywhere else I've seen so far, was a fantastic experience. It made what has happened narratively hit home in a way I don't think it would have if this were somewhere familiar — it feels like I've been on a black-out-drunk adventure and have no idea how I got here or why, rather than just "oh, I'm in this place again". And now I have to not only work out what happened, but also make my way 'home' across half the world that I've not seen before.
Yep, I'm certainly not stopping sinking time into Skyrim now!
Inevitably.
I sat down this afternoon intending to finally start Dispatch. If you don't know, it's structured like a TV series with eight episodes, so my plan is to treat it like one: play a whole episode, then either do the whole next one or aim to spread them out, paced like how I watch TV TV. But instead of finally diving into episode one, I 'accidentally' loaded Skyrim instead. Oopsie.
Today was good, though. I've spent my 30 hours so far all in the same locale: the first town and city the game leads you to, and their surrounding environs. I keep meaning to venture out (there's a lot more world to see) but get distracted by local quests (or other business like looting, crafting, potion making...) Well, today I got into a drinking contest in the tavern... and woke up a whole 24 hours later in an unfamiliar temple, which turned out to be in a city on the other side of the continent. That's one way to do it!
In terms of how the game is programmed, this is a quest that can trigger in any tavern anywhere after you reach a certain level — I could have explored every single place on the map before starting it. But I think the way it's happened for me is the best, frankly. Walking out of the temple into, not only an unfamiliar city, but one that looks completely different to anywhere else I've seen so far, was a fantastic experience. It made what has happened narratively hit home in a way I don't think it would have if this were somewhere familiar — it feels like I've been on a black-out-drunk adventure and have no idea how I got here or why, rather than just "oh, I'm in this place again". And now I have to not only work out what happened, but also make my way 'home' across half the world that I've not seen before.
Yep, I'm certainly not stopping sinking time into Skyrim now!
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
This week, a bunch more pickups from recent offers (a couple of Criterions from the ongoing UK sale, for example), and a couple of new releases — including a DVD-to-BD upgrade, continuing to gradually chip away at that old format's tally. I certainly don't think it will ever get to 0 (not even close), but... well, it is what it is.
Number of titles in collection: 3,634 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 980 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,654 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 480 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 8,731 [up 9]
Number of films: 4,641 [up 8]
Number of additional cuts: 473 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,278 [up 7]
See you next week, faithful reader.
This week, a bunch more pickups from recent offers (a couple of Criterions from the ongoing UK sale, for example), and a couple of new releases — including a DVD-to-BD upgrade, continuing to gradually chip away at that old format's tally. I certainly don't think it will ever get to 0 (not even close), but... well, it is what it is.
Number of titles in collection: 3,634 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 980 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,654 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 480 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 8,731 [up 9]
Number of films: 4,641 [up 8]
Number of additional cuts: 473 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,188 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,278 [up 7]
See you next week, faithful reader.
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