escalation
I came into work on my day off, to substitute for a colleague, whose wife was giving birth to their kid; and shortly after my arrival learned, no one will show up before lunchtime. Good thing i started at 6:00… Had to come on anyway for our yearly health check, which i decided to opt-in this time. At the moment the lab assistant stuck the needle into a blood vessel, a colleague called me, and i freaked out because of my phone shaking in my pocket.
So i spent a large portion of the day wandering around work, like the Phantom does in the jungle, like a ghost. And when the production got in, they only wanted to know if they can use our fixtures, and then went to lunch. So i handed an empty venue to the second shift of the day, who managed the assembly of, and the show itself.
Kirby asked about Lego Voyagers1, which i'm also intrigued about. It's "only" three hours long, but i'd take three hours of a well crafted game over 60, from which 57 hours are spent killing wolfs who carry wallets on their person.
They started to learn english at school, and the small exercises and explanations we did seemed to have taken root, due to him being able to name the content of his pencil case, as well as knowing that the container is called a pencil case.
Staying with video games: On the one hand, the Retrogaming community is freaking out every time a crackdown on emulators or Rom sites happens, while YouTube reviews openly mention that Hardware-Piece-X plays Switch games. It's a thin line between piracy and preservation, but as long as a console is being in production, i see why Nintendo is escalating.
Renfield (2023) is a fine, gory, romp about Dracula's familiar trying to carve out a life for himself in then present day USA. Nicolas Cage plays Dracula, and the montage of him reenacting footage from the Bela Lugosi helmed film made me long for a "serious" adaption of the material with Cage in the role. Gorehounds will see this as an appetiser, and for everyone else it's just a fun movie you can kill 90 minutes with.
Lego Voyagers launch trailer // youtube.com↩