During the Snowflake Challenge I was thinking of linking to my old Anidb account, which is largely unused, but then I went and looked it up, and read the reviews that high school me had left on a few things, many, many years ago, and decided no, let's not show this to people.
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Anyway, Snowflake Madness is over, so it's time to start making posts about Baldur's Gate 3. The below is going to be spoilerific, so here is the more spoiler free reaction first. The game is very good but almost too long, The choices and relationships are also excellent, especially for a mainstream RPG, but I am maybe a little spoiled by Visual Novels and still think that they do a better job with some of the elements of narrative.
I've been playing without too much save scumming. A couple times a sequence has felt a little unfair, or the consequences of certain choices did not seem properly clarified, but for the most part, I have rolled with the very many punches that have come my Tav's way, and it's worked out.
Challenge #14
Try something newYour top 5 fandom spaces (Discord, Twitter, etc.) in 2023 were:
Your top 5 most appreciated fandom contributions were:
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playingstory . I'm almost completely through all the VNs from the BLM bundle. I have a possible six games to go, assuming that all of them are actually Visual Novels and not something else, actually, which many under the VN tag are. I was hoping to have that finished up by the end of last year, but juusst missed and am now distracted by Balders Gate 3, haha. Once I have played all the VNs in the bundle, I have a master post already mostly written out in which I give out "awards" to the games I enjoyed the most for one thing or another, and will be offering to give away some of the games via a steam code or similar to give back to the indies who made those games and donated to the cause. I'm hoping this will happen by the end of winter, but I think it depends somewhat on how soon I extricate myself from Baldur's Gate.
The other project that I actually work on with some mild consistency is my worldbuilding, but I don't consider that fannish activity. It's just sort of creative work. I've been lazy about organizing everything into something legible so maybe I'll work on that today a little.
And even further from fandom but also on a more fannish vein(?) I'm practicing Hakobi Usucha Ro, which is sort of an early fundamental form for tea practice. It looks like this:
New Year's is kinda over, but I still want to sneak in a rec for a fun design blog, Spoon and Tamago. Every new year they do a "New Years Cards" post that shows of some cool graphic greeting cards. Here's the post for this year.
And here's the recent two Snowflake Challenges.
Challenge #3
Fandom Wishlist
Challenge #4
IceBreaker Challenge! Tell us about yourself.
Well, the first thing about myself is that I am very private and my fandom philosophy has always been that the Streams Do Not Cross. So I won't say too much about my real life, but I can say some stuff about who I am in the context of fandom.
Tl;dr because the below got a lot longer than I expected: I'm mostly just a blogger and member of the peanut gallery. I've written a few fic but mostly just like talking about stuff I like with other people and looking at nice art and reading the occasional fic. My fandoms are mostly video games, but I'm also into anime and cartoons, and sometimes fiction.
I tend to be a little nitpicky. I like complaining about things or being critical about them, but only in a well meaning way if that makes sense? I never expect others to share my views of media and don't think if something doesn't work for me it shouldn't work for anyone else. I just have a pessimistic nature I have never been able to completely tame.
My roommates wanted to see Godzilla and since I had seen a bunch of people saying it was very good, I thought fuck it, why not. I had never seen any Godzilla movie before. The old Japanese movies looked amusing but I had no interest in them, and the American movies looked bad. This movie was fine. It was good in a very, ah yes, Japanese drama, sort of way. Godzilla itself was cool, some of the action was neat, the human interest stuff was cheesy and predictable, but it was earnest enough. I'm very much not a fan of the sort of directing that goes into some of Japanese drama, where the actors chew the shit out of the scenery, and this movie had a whole lot of that. It's one of the reasons I don't spend that much time with Japanese live action even though it would be good practice for me. And I couldn't get too invested in the story because it was so paint by numbers. I found the sets and the costuming to be the most interesting part of the whole thing.
I'm not the audience for these movies.
The one thing I found endearing was how Godzilla was animated. We've come a long long way from the special effects of the first movie, but because the man in suit movement of Godzilla is so iconic, this Godzilla still had a weird, stiff gait and funny proportions. This amused me.
But I don't thing I'm seeing any more movies in the theater for a long time. We have a few nice cheap theaters nearby, they used to be 5 dollar second hand theaters before COVID fucked things up and now they're a little different but still cheap. But whenever my roommates want to go watch a movie they want to go to the fancy place a whole town over that costs 15 bucks and the scrooge in me just can't abide this so after swallowing the sticker shock twice in a short period of time it's back to library rentals and a friend's netflix for me..
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