this is a wonderful little game that i'd been looking forward to as something to play and chill. i know it has multiplayer, i'm just not doing that rn because i want to take it at my own pace while i do other shit. its a lot of fun!! i love the cutesy solarpunk aesthetic and it has been a delight to explore so far.

I was not 100% planning on watching this one but then I found out there was a second season i hadn't seen, so!! I had vaguely known about this season too, I'd heard people talking about the plane license situation but didn't actually click that it was s2 of the show so! that's on me for being a silly goose

Season 1 is endearing and special to me because while it is very much an absurd comedy mockumentary show, it sucks you into this bizarre rabbit hole and just leaves you with this narrative that's so....human, yknow? It's just about the way we want to be perceived and do silly things to control people into a narrative that's gonna make us look good. The first time i went into this after finishing NATHAN FOR YOU, I was expecting a lot more of that kind of bizarre funny, but like. The NFY finale followed by s1 of THE REHEARSAL is a bit of a gut punch. Wonderful balance between (possibly fabricated) vulnerability and comedy that hits soooo good.

S2 was new to me!! i'm so glad I watched this blind lmfao I lost my shit at the cloned dog episode because like what the fuck man where are we GOINNGGGG!!! i do love it when a show holds your hand and takes you on some deranged artistic journey. this was so great, and again! a really cool look into our very human desire to people please and stay in our lane, even when it might kill a plane full of passengers. wonderful show. such a sweetly endearing finale, honestly

i looooooove nathan fielder, i've always joked that he's who i want to be when i grow up

this is a silly little absolutely absurd comedy show that you've honestly probably seen bits from somewhere on the internet without realising it ("i'm in heaven now! so sorry i died!" is one of the more recent ones that springs to mind). felt like a rewatch because there is a documentary coming out next month directed by nathan fielder & lance oppenheim (a24's YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING) that i am deeeeeeeply excited for. i think NATHAN FOR YOU should be mandatory viewing to like actually understand his specific brand of crazy before going into the movie

despite only reading 4 of them this year, this log covers all 6 of the phase 2 books, plus the grimoire!

well i finally got around to finishing these at long last; i started them last year right after I finished my re-read of the original books (which was indeed a whole year ago now). I'll be honest, I hated them, got about halfway through and gave up. last week I managed to finish BEDLAM, the book I'd abandoned halfway through, and powered through the final three books. Good god dude this was honestly kind of a miserable experience all round. additionally, I own these physically and while there's nothing stopping me from pirating a kindle version for when i'm in public, I was actually worried I wasn't going to be able to focus on them unless i have the actual physical no-distractions-allowed book right in front of me, which just means I spent the last week or two awkwardly wedging the book under my arm and shuffling between work and the cafe across the road before someone asks me what i'm reading. there is no good way to explain why i'm a grown ass full time employee reading a book series for 16yos with a big magical skeleton on the front cover.

I found the first three books of this phase to be so painfully uninteresting and reading them was quite a chore. I abandoned BEDLAM halfway through for.....about 10 months......because I did not give a fuuuuuckkkk oh my god. in my review/notes section of the original series, I wrote "no 14yo wants to hear about emotionally mature conversations, they want to hear about magically exploding people into viscera" and to be honest, I still don't think I want emotionally mature conversations from these characters. i want more magical viscera explosions. there's no reason to aim for sincerity and emotional maturity when, quite frankly, the author is not very good at it. it's unsatisfying. The next book, SEASONS OF WAR, I thought had found its footing a bit again. I actually quite enjoyed that one - likely because my favourite of the original books (phase 1, I guess, is what we're calling it) is LAST STAND OF THE DEAD MEN and its very reminiscent of that. I have to say that I really don't care for the overarching plot that's been building in phase 2; it's cheap and just recycling things and characters from phase 1, but i did find the last three books to be a lot more fun as individual books than the first three in this iteration were.

There is a little part of me that's wondering if I just hate these because of nostalgic reasons - I grew up with the phase 1 books, I begged my parents to buy me the first one when it released in 2007 and dutifully bought and read every book after that. I loved them. Still did on my reread last year! The question is, are these books actually uninteresting, or am i just not a child anymore and have my interests shifted? They have matured in this phase - they're much more gritty and grounded and a far cry from the way violence and real life issues were carefully danced around in phase 1. I mean, don't get me wrong, the first phase certainly is violent and treats its young readers with a level of respect that i think is great. It's just that phase 2 has corrupt cops and nazis and drugs, so.

I don't really know what it is that put me off these books. I can't pin down anything specific and on paper, I should love them. Continuation of my childhood fav books but the protag is now my age and the books are a bit less kiddified? Also answers some burning questions I've had since I was in high school, AND dips into character backstories and fleshes them out further? Great! But no, for some reason it just doesn't work or click with me. However! Everyone else I've run across in recent years fucking hates them too, so it's probably not just me.

I will be the first to admit that it's a strange and unusual form of self harm, but I'm probably going to read the phase 3, uh. "trilogy"? it's calling itself a trilogy but there's 5 books for me to suffer through, so. at least they're short lmfao. I didn't want a bar of these last year but unfortunately i'm a completionist and i Need To Know. i just need an ending dude

also yeah not sure where else to put this but I'm including the grimoire in this since it released after phase 2 - this was fun! I like lore. I like titbits and illustrations and such. i'd bought this long before I wanted to read phase 2 and turns out it does need a lot of phase 2 context, so this was my reward.

i have seen this long form analysis video of this series several times in the last couple of years but I've never sat down myself to just watch the full series. i'm glad i did! i wish i'd done it before the analysis but alas. live and learn i suppose. this is such a deligtful art project and though it's a little hard to grasp, i do so love this kind of odd and surreal style of storytelling

i actually watched ERSATZ the day it premiered on youtube because I'd been following the creator on twitter and was SUPER interested in the series, namely due to the fact that it's got an essence of MAD GOD about it. it looks great, i adore the stylised animation and the grimy aesthetics, and the story concept and episode itself were fantastic!! i watched it again today before watching the new TRENCH DOGS short, which was also phenomonal. that is the kind of body horror i love; two beings alive and aware sharing the same host body is just sooooo so good. augh.

strong recommend for this series!! it has loads of potential and deserves support. also it's australian and we love an australian horror win here on vulpecula dot neocities dot org

genuinely the trailer for this game almost made me tear up when i saw it a couple of months ago LMFAO. it's sooo so sweet and charming and endearing and i knew exactly who i wanted to play this with the second i saw it. two of my best friends in the world are scattered across the country and we rarely see each other in person, but we all had free time this weekend so we sat down and played it together and it was so wonderful!!! bonus points for being delightfully australian flavoured in it's environments - it's so cool to wander around somewhere that looks and sounds exactly like a bushwalk i'd do with my friends in person too.

i thought the puzzles were great and i particularly loved having to figure out ways to communicate with the challenges the game gives you. it's such a nice feeling to approach a challenge where you can't talk it out, but knowing your friends well enough to pick up exactly what they're trying to do with some silly little hand motions. i also particularly liked the radio and communication systems - all through the map are radio antennae that light up green when someone is using the radio system and flash red when they're not. i got so lost and separated from my group in the dark at one point until i saw a blinking green light in the distance and the relief i felt was so genuine lmfao. great game!!! fantastic experience with friends!

i really quite enjoyed this; it's got a really good level of tension to it and does a phenomonal job of pressing that stress down on you and making you your own worst enemy in the game. it's got an essence of HOUSE OF LEAVES to it that i couldn't quite explain, however, my interest was piqued because of this youtube video, which i watched after i'd finished (or thought i had) the game on my own. i aint doing all that shit just to see the hidden things with my own eyes though, but the video is really good.

this thing is such a mess dude but there's a little bit of enjoyment to be had in the first couple of episodes. they're silly!! i like them independantly. we watched this between finishing the show and starting the movie so it's less agonising when it's buffered between them lmfao. i wrote a bunch about the series here if you want to see better articulated thoughts on why i think this failed the way it did.

loathe as I am to call anything a "comfort show", I find myself coming back to BEBOP all the goddamn time when I'm in a specific weird funk. or just for no reason, really, i don’t need any excuse to rewatch this show. it's probably the first thing most of my friends associate me with. this is one of my favourite shows in the world - and, yknow, it is as good as everyone tells you it is. the art, the animation, the dub, the music, the story. everyone raves about it and it is for good reason. it's a show that's been analysed and adored to death by people much better at articulating things than me, but I can throw in my two cents anyway.

the first time i watched this show, I was in exactly the right position to find value in its core themes - this is probably why I've latched onto it so hard, but i don't think it's lost its value to me over the years at all. It's as impactful and important to me now as it was all those years ago. obviously i'd come into this show decades too late - i was born in the year it was airing, and then i had to bypass the silly mental block i had that wouldn't let me watch animated things in high school - so i was in my, like, early 20s when i finally got around to watching it? and a weird spot in them, too. it feels so silly to be this attached to a show this much but hey. my brain does what it will and just takes me along for the ride

this show is about a lot of things - bounty hunters, space heists, very cool jazz music - but it's also about trying to find meaning in a world you feel displaced in, it's about the value of connection and the loneliness of avoidance. Its about learning that acceptance - of yourself, of others, of your situation, or your past, or your actions - is imperative to make room for progress. It’s about how clinging on to the past will kill you, and you have got to learn to let it go and lean on other people instead. The only way out is through, yknow?

COWBOY BEBOP explores it’s genres and themes so beautifully and thoroughly - it’s a little bit neo-noir, it’s a little bit western, it’s a little bit sci-fi, it’s a lot of music. It cares so much about the history of all of these things and that’s why it all coalesces together in a way that nothing else i’ve ever watched has done. all of our little cast of characters are unique and individual, they all get their spotlight episodes and focus is shared between all of them. I love its slow paced nature, and how much of the show takes place in long stretches between heavy plot action. one of my favourite episodes is just a silly nothing episode that barely involves the BEBOP crew at all! I love how damn good the show looks too - the backgrounds and scenery and attention to detail on all these planets and outposts are so good; you can tell where the episode is taking place just based on these little worldbuilding details within the scenery alone.

UGH this show is so special to meeeeeee <33 i love it so bad everyone should watch it

very nice!!! i had fun. night to see the gaang again and also VERY pretty movie

fuck yeah man s2 was JUST as good as s1. the plot truly is fine, like i'm vaguely attached to it in the same way i'm vaguely attached to any plot in all fallout media. i'm just absolutely delighted to see how much love and attention to detail has gone into this show. a truly good adaptation that remains faithful to the source material and genuinely feels like it is right out of that world. FNV is one of the best games of all time man i was going feral when i saw the trailer for this season. AUGH. it looks so damn good

it's, yknow. it's fine. they took the silliness of it all away but its alright. it grew on me

ohhh TRIGUN. you are so special to me. this'll be a long rambly one probably so lock in. also, rampant spoilers for a 30yo franchise ahead

i've said it before that i'm really not an anime girly, i fell deeply and violently in love with COWBOY BEBOP (1998) years ago because of it's themes and aesthetics and i've been occasionally trying similar things that people recommend to me since. i think somewhere in 2020 I had gathered my friends to watch TRIGUN with me for two reasons: a) there was a newer soft reboot series in the works that i was interested in, and b) it seemed to be the natural next step after COWBOY BEBOP. there's this tumblr post that i love that compares the two and has stuck with me since i read it; fundamentally these two shows are about avoiding a past that perpetually haunts you, and what direction the characters take to deal with that. i love, LOVE a narrative about pushing through against the odds, i love a narrative about love persevering, and most importantly, i love a narrative about how love is so important even if it's not enough in the end.

1998 TRIGUN is silly. it's goofy, it's like, mostly filler. it's borderline unserious compared to it's later manga narrative plot and yet it is one of the most consistent gut punch medias i've ever watched in my life. like. the love was there. god knows the love was there, and it mattered so much, but it changed nothing. you gotta keep going despite it all. i know it probably hits harder after reading the manga in its entirety and getting more of that story than the anime was unable to provide, but i do believe it's very good all on its own. my first time watching it was my first experience with anything TRIGUN related and i felt the same way then as i do now with further knowledge. i could write essays on the themes of vash and wolfwood, of vash and knives, of literally any of the characters and what they represent in this show because it's so clear from the beginning what roles everyone is going to play and they do it SO well. i love this show dearly.

great show!! please watch it. its goofier than i made it out to be i promise, it's just so very dear to me and if i think about it for more than 30 seconds at a time, i go insane!

this isn't like the best iteration of TRIGUN i've ever seen but we were so grumpy about STARGAZE that my friend and i sat down to watch this instead of thinking about it too hard. oh wolfwood you are the love of my life

i sense a TRIGUN (1998) rewatch in my near future.

this was a WONDERFUL silly little game where you and a friend solve crimes, one of you a human detective and the other a dog! each of you have your own little quirks and abilities and have to work together with limited communication to solve the crime! so much fun; it's only in early access at the moment and only has a tutorial and the first case so far, but you defs gotta give this a go if you like escape rooms and locked box puzzles

i tell you what, i fucking love trigun. i adore it. in 2023, i went absolutely bonkers over TRIGUN: STAMPEDE to the extent that three years later if i type "tr-" into my phone, it STILL tries to autocorrect it to "tristamp". i liked STAMPEDE very much, i thought it was a fun and fresh take on the manga and the 1998 anime. STARGAZE is s2 of this new era trigun and that said, STARGAZE was just so.......mid? resoundingly mid. i genuinely did not care for like 80% of this season i am so serious. the pacing is DOGSHIT, i dont know what the hell is going on and where we're supposed to be, and i've watched the 98 anime and read the manga like a million times!!! this cannot be comprehensible to the first time trigun viewer dude

wolfwood is one of my all time beloved characters and i was iffy about his character in STAMPEDE but holy christ almighty what the fuck are we even doing in STARGAZE. i'm actually so fucking mad at the direction they took his character AND THE FUUUUCKINGGGG 8TH EPISODE. OH MY GOD. oh my god. im so fucking mad dude im so mad i think they are cowards for what they ended up doing with his character arc. furious. hated it. the rest of this show was just mediocre bullshit

i dont want to talk about it man i love this movie and i love being able to share my friends' first viewing of it

holy shit. you have to play this game. you have to play this game; it's free on steam right now!!

what a beautiful narrative about hope and persistance. what a joy to be able to experience this, right now, in this point of time, for free.

still the best movie in the entire world. rewatch inspired by this fantastic analysis/review i watched yesterday!

i am familiar with kane pixel's youtube work and was kind of into his backrooms series in like 2022, but inevitably fell off it when there was evil mould or whatever introduced. there is no denying it's a very good youtube project, though, and the quality is unmatched (though my fav of his projects is always going to be THE OLDEST VIEW). i have never really been one of those people who hates the ever-changing concept of the backrooms and i think it's fun to let people run wild with it so! i went into this movie with no real expectations aside from being curious about the whole thing

it was alright!! it was pretty cool to see the backrooms visuals on a cinema screen. i also had the whole theater to myself which was super cool and very thematic lmao. kinda weak narrative but that's what happens when you make a story out of a concept based on vibes, i suppose. didn't hate it, had a decent time with it. it did look really good

This is, admittedly, a little out of my wheelhouse and I'm not big on fantasy or medieval narratives in general, however. I'd heard good things and a lot of people recommended this one to me (primarily during my PATHOLOGIC psychosis) so I thought I'd give it a go. And it was fine! I do enjoy venturing into other genres and I do like a good found family trope but ultimately it was just a little underwhelming, i think. Like. Exactly what you expect to happen ends up happening so it's not even like a biblical horror that subverts expectations or anything, its just like. Hell Bad But Holiness Good! Also a lot of guys are going to kind of look like lions

Its not that it was a bad book, it was a perfectly serviceable book, it's just that soooo many people recommended this to me that I thought it was gonna be fantastic and it ended up being resoundingly mid. I did like our main trio of characters well enough and it was unexpectedly funny at times.

Also, this is a nitpick and I'll be the first to admit that, but the writing was so awkward and choppy and I feel like the line and paragraph breaks were just non-existent in this book. it made for a very disjointed reading experience, but I also say that knowing I read it on a kindle and its the first time I've ever really used one of these things so ??? idk maybe they're just like that. I had to reread paragraphs on previous pages all the time because it just jumps around so suddenly that I thought I'd missed something

hooolly shit dude i cannot believe it took me so long to get around to playing this. this game fucking rules. AND i missed hearing jonathan sims yapping more than i thought i did. perhaps this is what it takes to get me onto a TMA relisten........

i really liked this book!! fun concept, i love multimedia fiction and i love a good horror mystery novel. this book was awesome and jam packed with japanese folklore and horror. my only nitpick is the translator really americanised the translation and had stupid shit in there that's like "i called 911" or whatever and its like. did they? did they call that? what is wrong with just saying emergency services, yk? egh. anyway. good book overall, really liked it

holy fuck, dude.

this book made its way onto my radar after two separate friends brought it to my attention; one to tell me it made her feel physically unwell, and the other while talking about his personal feelings towards the book. i picked it up this afternoon intending to read a couple of chapters to see what it was like, and then i finished it in one sitting. could not put it down. this book is all sorts of fucked up and grim and horrifying and i loved it. jesus

good movie!! i enjoyed this a lot; i'm quite sure i've seen it before but it would have either been in part or just a very long time ago. either way, enjoyed it. i am quite a fan of NIGHTCRAWLER (2014) which has similar themes, so i did know i was gonna like this one.

i started listening to malevolent in january 2023, immediately fell in love with it and got all of my friends obsessed with it, and have been listening to it in spurts ever since. it finished its main story this year, so this month i decided to sit down and finally catch up on the final season. the premise is this: a cosmic horror podcast about a 1930s private detective who wakes up one day with no memory, no eyesight, and cursed by a strange book that binds him to an entity that uses his eyes to see.

i have not felt this strongly about a podcast in an incredibly long time. i've thought about it a lot over the last few years, and it is difficult to explain what this show means to me. it is so, so, so incredibly good and heartfelt and horrifying and funny and agonising. the characters and the entire cast are such a delight, and whatever the hell john and arthur have going on is so special to me. the horror is visceral and fantastic, often going places i really did not expect it to go. i love it. this show made me laugh, cry, stressed me the fuck out, changed the way i think about a lot of things, and i do think it's a very special one of a kind thing that i just won't ever find in a podcast again. the finale ripped my heart out, stomped the shit out of it and then threw it into a meat grinder and i fucking loved every second of it. what a fantastic, wonderful, incredible story. UGH. there were several parts of the last season that had me pausing the show to do a lap of my house in distress. incredible

there's a second series in the works, THRESHOLD, which only has a couple of episodes out at the moment and i am very excited to dig into that once the first season is over. i just want some time to really sit on and appreciate malevolent for now because i am going to be thinking about it for a long, looooong time

this is one of my favourite books in the entire world and i re-read it today out of sheer unfiltered fury after watching 15 minutes of the absolute insulting garbage that was good omens "season" 3. i didn't even like s2 if i'm being honest, they should've left it as a standalone. anyway. book reigns superior as always.

oh my god ohhhh my fucking god i did it. i finally did it. you can read all about my suffering here

finished s2! still silly, still fun

absolutely joyous little game. fun chill puzzles, wonderful little critters, great game to play while watching my show

hoogh man. i came across this insane little animation a couple of days ago and tracked down the context to the creator's comic and read the vol 1 demo in like 30 flat seconds and fell in love. finished the rest on my lunch break today at work. LOVE love love this comic so much. wonderful art style, wonderful unsettling visuals. very excited for vol 3. you can find it here!!

trying to work on reading more non-fiction this year so! been revisiting old favourites

honestly I don't even care that this has removed a bunch of stuff from the original. it's fun! i'm having a great time!!! endless possibilities with this customisation tool and i am loving putting my oc's and friends into this little fishbowl!!

after rewatching MURDERBOT earlier this month, I decided to dig into the books! I managed to get two at the library and enjoyed them well enough! they're fun, maybe a little too short and abrupt for me. mmm idk, these first two didn't grab my attention much, but I might look into the next few books after a little break to read some other stuff

it is a CRIME that it's taken me this long to watch this movie for the first time. i loved it!! the only wes anderson films i've seen prior to this one were ASTEROID CITY and FANTASTIC MR FOX, both of which i did love but definitely don't live up to this one. great movie, had a wonderful time

i always forget about this movie and then really, really enjoy it every time i revisit it.

happy 17776 day everyone!!!!

do yourself a favour and read this if you haven't already. it's all online. go in blind, don't read anything about it. trust

I was looking forward to this because i knew it was gonna be stupid. insane premise. what if there were a bunch of army guys with no names and they were being hunted by a sentient alien machine gun??? incredible. terrible movie but i had an absolutely fantastic time watching it

streamed this one to a friend because we both like doing detective games together - one takes the notes, the other plays the game. i was actually pretty impressed by this one! i liked the story and the reveal was done well; enough that we almost pieced it together ourselves and then were vindicated by it in the end. short, sweet, visually cool and interesting, and pretty easy all things considered.

i'm in a sci-fi mood and this has been on my brain this week!! started reading the books, devolved into watching the show since it's so easy and short. downhill from there.

i forgot this was funny, actually. i think possibly I enjoyed it more the second time around!!

yes. i watched it twice in theaters. watched it in imax this time. it has been a long time since i was this crazy about a movie

I said I'd get through it over the weekend but what happened is I actually just ripped through this in one sitting. i loved it. it's getting one less star simply because it's less silly than the movie and I think that's what I liked most about it, but I really, really loved it as a whole. i liked the fleshed out backstory into how the world is handling the crisis, I love how the characters speak and sound. i love it when authors are writing about something they're very clearly passionate about and that very much shows in this book. delightful story

I've watched a lot of space movies in my life and i can say with confidence that PROJECT HAIL MARY is one of the best ones I've seen in a very long time!! I watched this on a whim today while I was out at the shops; saw it was starting soon at the cinema and ducked in to watch it. best choice I've made all year. this film was beautiful, visually and as a story. possibly made in a lab for me specifically. I adored it so much, in fact, that as soon as it was over, I left the cinema and walked right to the bookstore to pick up the book and I intend on reading it over the weekend.

absolutely fantastic film, will be watching again. something about it is just so hopeful and wonderful; i'm a HUGE fan of space and given the upcoming artemis ii mission that nasa is launching in a couple of days, I am just currently filled with this giddy optimism and overwhelming love for the space advancements of humanity so this movie definitely killed me a little bit. oh my god it was so fucking good i loved it SO much

i bought a box set because i've been thinking about this show a lot lately and i love it sooo so dearly, yet dont own it! so. bought the box set. been making my way through it. i think at some point, i'm gonna make a page on the site for it because my thoughts are truly too deranged to corral into a small sentence here. i'm rating s1 specifically because i will be honest with you, the next two seasons are not of the same calibre. im sorry. but s1 is just wonderful. so cozy, so charming, so devastatingly tragic.

i watched most of these episodes over a dreary, rainy week and i was dragging a bedsheet and my projector outside to our firepit and watching it by the fire undercover from the rain and it was just soooo magical, absolutely how this show should be watched

so. you see. a new resident evil game has come out. i havent touched the franchise in a while (RE6 wounded me in unspeakable ways and i kind of didn't care for 7, so i also never followed up with 8 bc like. Where Are The Zombies) but RE9 comes with the return of my beloved king leon kennedy and i am a very simple woman who just wants to see her favs go through the torment nexus, so. i'm revisiting all the games i own to refresh my memory on the storylines, while also hoping RE9 will be cheaper to buy by the time i get to it lmfao

the RE2 remake is wonderful, no notes. this is a great game. it was also a great game in like 2010 on my ps3 when i played it for the first time, so i'm both biased and very attached to it. the remake is great. i'm bypassing RE3 unfortunately because i don't own it in a playable form :( but! RE4 (remake) is up next!!

ouuhhhh i've been waiting for this one to come out for a while now!! this is a wonderful little cozy game, still in early access days but honestly, plays really nicely and looks good! delightful quintissential cozy cafe game complete with cutesy critters, a wonderful decorative mode, and a nice, simple gameplay loop that's a delight when you're watching something on the other monitor. been powering my way through tv shows while playing it.

i am truly not sure how to describe this one without spoiling what makes it such a wonderful experience, so please be warned that this game is not what it seems, and you need to play it blind for the best experience!!

IT TAKES A WAR was a wonderful little experience into group dynamics, the relationships between friends, and how little you truly know the person on the other side of the screen. i quite enjoyed it! it was a short game to play, it caught me fully by surprise and it did actually manage to jumpscare me with a cheap fakeout directional knock which very rarely happens, so extra points for that. i was so engrossed in the story that it caught me out of nowhere lmfao

is this not just one of the best marvel adjacent medias out there. i fuckign love this show honestly

rewatched this month because i'm trying really hard to hype myself up to watch DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN (2025) but like to be so fr. i dont think i give a shit about the new one. i cannot muster up the enjoyment for it. also it looks dogshit, like visually it's a crazy downgrade. so i'm struggling. but its fine because I will always have season 1 of THIS show, which is perfect television and i love it dearly

this. was certainly an undertaking, i can tell you that much.

i came across this game through a youtube channel, saw about 30 seconds of it's concept and immediately knew i needed to play it. this beautiful game is a PS1 game about three schoolkids and their dog who investigate strange paranormal rumours in their town. the gang hear about an old shrine to a crow god, and rumour states that those who see the human faced crow diety are doomed to be cursed for 100 days until they die. the kids investigate, get cursed, and in 100 days, one of them will die. you spend the game looking into weird stuff and spooky happenings to try and break the curse, all the while watching as the kids' personal lives start to crumble around them as the curse worsens.

this game, i think, was made for me. it hits everything i love on the head. narratively, it's beautiful. the animations are amazing - mocap pixels against stunning backgrounds, incredibly natural movements and quirks for each of the characters. gameplay is pretty strictly timed and there's loads of stuff you can miss out on if you're not careful. the world continues to exist whether you interact with it or not, which is delightful. each day, the gang will take the dog for a walk and look into whatever rumour you'd like to investigate that day. you can play as any of the three kids and the way you interact with the world - or the way the world interacts with YOU - is different based on whoever you are playing each day. i cannot effectively state how well written, good, and human these characters feel. i didn't expect to come out of this game with such a fierce attachment to them but GOD. this is something i rotated in my head over and over and over when i wasn't playing it. the story is just fucking delightful. i love this game. the atmosphere is beautiful. i'm gonna be thinking about it for a long time.

now, the caveat: it's a PS1 game, so. it needs to be emulated. that part is easy! it's also a japanese game. it never got an english translation. when i say that playing this game was quite the undertaking, i mean that i was running my screen through a translation app the entire time so i could read any of the text and actually progress anywhere, alongside having a playlist of the english translated game up to reference if i ever thought there was a dodgy translation in there somewhere. it was a VERY slow and finnicky process but ultimately...yeah, worth it in the end. the game expects you to do several playthroughs to fully grasp the story, as you can only experience each day once and you have to pick which character you'll experience it as. sometimes, this will lock you out of stuff. you gotta do it again on the second run if you want it. i love games like this. i really, really did love this one a lot - if it sounds good but you're not quite this level of unhinged then i strongly recommend the video that piqued my interest in the first place!

i cannot believe i just played such a short game with such a gut-punching, well implied narrative within a game with absolutely abysmally uninteresting gameplay. holy shit. this was definitely more of an interactive short story with some confusing puzzle elements involved. the voice acting was genuinely fantastic for a game of this size, which really just added to the inherent tragedy of the entire story. short, sweet, very repetitive and quickly boring gameplay, but i found myself very easily getting through it for the sake of finding out how the story goes. these are exactly the kind of projects i love to see and play!!

this was a nice little book! picked it up from the library because I can't resist a horror book about a house. yknow how it is. i think this was a fun little narrative with a wonderful focus on bugs and gardens, which are things i do love. the writing was a little bit tooooo......millenial-core for me, i guess? idk the protagonist was very like, quirky quippy one-liner kind of vibes which is mildly irritating but not enough to put me off. nice, quick little read!

it's fun! i put this on to have a little unserious drama show as background noise, but ended up getting a little too invested lmfao. i used to study to ER (1994) when i was in high school so nothing has changed clearly. fun and flawed and three dimensional characters my beloved! also fascinated with the episode structure. what do you mean all that shit happened in under 24hrs. looking forward to the new season!

why is all horror like this these days. what are we fucking doing. rambling plotless dogshit with uninteresting characters and an insufferable, very clearly author-self-insert main character. holy shit gothic horror my ass, this was a drama fiction at best and that's stretching it