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Ed Balls day seems to come sooner every year.
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On the topic of #UKLocalElections am I the only one who finds the concept of the metro mayor/"supermayor" deeply weird?
In a country with a strong parliamentary tradition we have:
1) presidential-style figures we call mayors.
2) without the equivalent of a London Assembly to act as a balance.
3) sometimes covering deeply rural areas (a Greater Lincolnshire one is coming!).
4) with powers that ordinary councils would have in most countries.They're popular but really odd imo.
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Missed out on the first Tomodachi Life but the new Switch one is deranged, proper fun like.
Do any Fedi people have weird characters on their island that you think people (i.e. me) might want to nick?
My own island currently has a not very convincing Alan Partridge, Kim Jong-Il, Barbie, a contestant from Race Across the World, Mr Blobby, the Michelin Man, Monty from Withnail & I, Harley Quinn, Xena Warrior Princess, Julius Pringles & Poseidon.
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KPop Demon Hunters - timely for the buzz for this one. 😉
Loved the blend of animation approaches, the soundtrack and the "whole world is Korea" setting.
Neutral on the obvious metaphor.
Not mad on a lot of the pre-Saja boys stuff (doesn't lean in enough to being a kitschy band movie or the demon stuff imo) or on every character save Rumi and Jinu not really getting development.
I like it, it gets better as it goes. May or may not love it on repeat views if they happen.
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Also, excellent game. Gameplay improved from the (already excellent) original, maybe graphically a little better. Story and music still very good but noticeably down a bit from the original, which was an all-time classic in those departments.
I'm a bit weird with games in that atmosphere and story matter more than gameplay for me so I guess the original's better, even though I only got to the true ending in II.
But II's still really good. Well worth it.
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Nearly done with Hades II - Steam achievements at 100% but haven't maxed all the relationships.
Torn about whether to push on. I stopped Hades I before I wanted to (left too long a gap and lost my muscle memory of the game) so part of me wants to reach my maximal ending point for the sequel.
The other part of me sees there's still a progression lock on that last relationship and can't be bothered if it gets grindy...
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Sad times, my phone pedometer only recorded 4.4k of steps today when I've actually done 7k. Mildly curious why it's quite so far off.
No, you're a boring toot.
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Sad times, my phone pedometer only recorded 4.4k of steps today when I've actually done 7k. Mildly curious why it's quite so far off.
No, you're a boring toot.
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Sad times, my phone pedometer only recorded 4.4k of steps today when I've actually done 7k. Mildly curious why it's quite so far off.
No, you're a boring toot.
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Sad times, my phone pedometer only recorded 4.4k of steps today when I've actually done 7k. Mildly curious why it's quite so far off.
No, you're a boring toot.
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But broadly it holds up - granted the parapsychologist and the skeptic are shaky: it captivates the feel of long-form live TV a bit *too* well (ie it sags in a very genre-appopriate way) and calling Mr Pipes' cupboard a "glory hole" has aged poorly, especially for a story where kids are integral - but the ending is genuinely creepy and it's also a spot-on parody of that kind of telly.
Not amazing but very solid, worthy of rotation.
2/2
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Bit of a late #Spooktober #MovieNight for you all, between Halloween and Bonfire Night. Watched Ghostwatch - only 33 years and a couple of days late.
Obviously with the pretence of it being a live recording of Enfield Poltergeist-style ongoings it loses something in watching it late. Even the "live" Inside No. 9 was so much better on the night vs a rewatch, and that's one of the 2010s' finest shows.
1/2
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Also not going to comment on the blow by blow play (it's a good match, surprised to see how firmly England are beating Canada so far though - Canada beat *New Zealand* in the last match).
But it's kind of weird how Canada is such a strong team in the women's game when they've never crossed my radar in the men's game, even at a kind of Romania/Georgia/Japan level. And most of the big countries are similar.
#rugby #RugbyWorldCup #rwc2025 #EngCan #CanEng #England #Canada
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Surprise game announcement, a remake of Surviving Mars - Surviving Mars: Relaunched.
Honestly, I found the original a quite good game with a banger of a soundtrack (not so much the score but the some of the radio stations were class).
So an improved remake with all the original content, some extras and modding isn't exactly something I was calling out for. But it's not unwelcome either. I'll probably give it a whirl.
#Paradox #ParadoxInteractive #SurvivingMars #SurvivingMarsRelaunched
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Said positives:
+ breezy fun
+ not bogged down by lore
+ good chemistry
+ lovely retrofuturistic aestheticNegatives:
- seemed generic in some ways
- stretched disbelief even for a superhero film
- little underbaked/rushed
- dull villain
- iffy motherhood plot
- global scale, extremely American tone
- related: two major plot points
- bunch of minor ones I noticed that didn't bug meStill enjoyed it.
#FilmNight #MovieNight #Marvel #MCU #MarvelCinematicMultiverse #FantasticFour #Fantastic4
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So. I saw the new Fantastic Four.
Honestly, not bad, but not exactly a classic (as a movie or as a Marvel movie). About Ms Marvel level - a smidge more generic but also more charming.
Back to basics, a bit by numbers (in a general sense, not MCU-by-numbers as such, but breezy and fun.
I guess overall I enjoyed it and liked it even though I've more negatives to note than positives?
#FilmNight #MovieNight #Marvel #MCU #MarvelCinematicMultiverse #FantasticFour #Fantastic4
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CW: 28 Years Later spoilers
If you're familiar with the UK the imagery in the final scene might be a little bit extremely provocative - but, as has been pointed out, in the film's world the clock stopped in 2002. The characters don't know what Saville did. We do.
If you're not familiar with the UK it's probably at least structurally interesting and pleasingly mad.
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CW: 28 Years Later spoilers
It's several different movies combined and somehow isn't stretched too thin.
A zombie horror. A family drama about a sensitive boy. Coming-of-age. Commentary on militarism. And on Brexit. Worldbuilding. Assisted dying advocacy. A reflection on death. And on how we make heroes and villains, in the same scene also a sentai film plus gore.
Should be a shitshow, despite some hammy moments it's not. Brilliant.
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Saw 28 Years Later and, honestly, bonkers. In a good way.
It knows it's not going to be to everyone's taste, it doesn't care. Several films in one but still feels connected to 28 Days Later.
It's wonky but genuinely brilliant - and the latter depends on the former. BUT:
- not for everyone.
- some points that are too on the nose, require a little suspension of disbelief re: logistics or hinge too much on chance.Spoilery chat:
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CW: American Fiction spoilers
Scrap the idea of the family drama side of this being okay. It gets progressively worse.
At the risk of spoiling things that's deliberate, the film is reframed at the end, a lot is recontextualised, it's clear it is self-aware. This helps far less than you'd expect.
It's not completely devoid of positives but don't see why this one got acclaim. It's unsubtle and shallow, bit of a slog. Arguably that's the point, but it's still a slog.
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CW: American Fiction spoilers
Scrap the idea of the family drama side of this being okay. It gets progressively worse.
At the risk of spoiling things that's deliberate, the film is reframed at the end, a lot is recontextualised, it's clear it is self-aware. This helps far less than you'd expect.
It's not completely devoid of positives but don't see why this one got acclaim. It's unsubtle and shallow, bit of a slog. Arguably that's the point, but it's still a slog.
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CW: American Fiction spoilers
Scrap the idea of the family drama side of this being okay. It gets progressively worse.
At the risk of spoiling things that's deliberate, the film is reframed at the end, a lot is recontextualised, it's clear it is self-aware. This helps far less than you'd expect.
It's not completely devoid of positives but don't see why this one got acclaim. It's unsubtle and shallow, bit of a slog. Arguably that's the point, but it's still a slog.
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CW: American Fiction spoilers
Scrap the idea of the family drama side of this being okay. It gets progressively worse.
At the risk of spoiling things that's deliberate, the film is reframed at the end, a lot is recontextualised, it's clear it is self-aware. This helps far less than you'd expect.
It's not completely devoid of positives but don't see why this one got acclaim. It's unsubtle and shallow, bit of a slog. Arguably that's the point, but it's still a slog.
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Watching American Fiction. Mixed views. Competently executed and the family drama side of the plot is okay (if very thin).
But, admittedly as a white non-American, the other side of the plot to me criticises stereotypes of Black/AA media while indulging in its own form of it. I'd say it at least knows it but it's as subtle as a brick to the face as a film, so can I really be sure?
The two threads of the film barely interact and that's its biggest strength.
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Watching American Fiction. Mixed views. Competently executed and the family drama side of the plot is okay (if very thin).
But, admittedly as a white non-American, the other side of the plot to me criticises stereotypes of Black/AA media while indulging in its own form of it. I'd say it at least knows it but it's as subtle as a brick to the face as a film, so can I really be sure?
The two threads of the film barely interact and that's its biggest strength.
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Watching American Fiction. Mixed views. Competently executed and the family drama side of the plot is okay (if very thin).
But, admittedly as a white non-American, the other side of the plot to me criticises stereotypes of Black/AA media while indulging in its own form of it. I'd say it at least knows it but it's as subtle as a brick to the face as a film, so can I really be sure?
The two threads of the film barely interact and that's its biggest strength.
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Watching American Fiction. Mixed views. Competently executed and the family drama side of the plot is okay (if very thin).
But, admittedly as a white non-American, the other side of the plot to me criticises stereotypes of Black/AA media while indulging in its own form of it. I'd say it at least knows it but it's as subtle as a brick to the face as a film, so can I really be sure?
The two threads of the film barely interact and that's its biggest strength.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, surprisingly, worked. Really captured the spirit of the original and that off-kilter 80s-90s comedy that alternative types had then, while updating in a way that felt right.
Honestly, I had fully expected this to be a write-off. Nope.