Aeronautic Primates and Other Delights

I think I've petered out on Mass Effect. While I still have a couple of different playthroughs I can do, I've been playing these games for a month straight. I've switched to Outer Worlds as a breather game, especially as there is DLC I haven't played.

Finally socialized for the first time in over a year, going over to airawyn's place for a small gathering. It was a lot of fun and I didn't forget how to talk to people! I think.

Here's the very short movie list:

Fate of the Furious (2017)

I'm all caught up on Fast and Furious movies that are out on digital disc. I still need to see F9, though.

I played through Until Dawn again, unfortunately getting three characters killed (to be fair one of them is really hard to keep alive). I played Kingdom Hearts 3 up until a point, but there's a whole section that requires you to deftly maneuver your basically un-manueverable spaceship and I'm not doing that. Probably. We'll see where I am in a week.

We also finished Legend of Korra Season 4. What a good show.

Movies I've seen before are in italics.

Housebound (2014)
Dracula (1931)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
I Married a Witch (1942)
Daughters of Darkness (1971)

sol_se found Housebound on Tubi and was really eager for me to see it, so we did. It's a neat New Zealand horror with comedic touches about a woman under house arrest, but the house might be haunted. There are multiple twists and it's very tightly edited and paced. I liked it a lot.

Then she wanted to see Dracula's Daughter, but we got about three minutes in before I remembered that it followed directly from Dracula (1931) which she had also never seen. So we watched that first. We watched the sequel the next day. Lugosi is excellent as the Count in Dracula, but you can see director Tod Browning basically giving up for large sections of the England-set portion of the film. Dracula's Daughter is dark and foreboding, but suffers from a lot of talking head scenes. It does have a couple scenes of (accidental, probably) lesbian desire.

I made a resolution to start using my Criterion Channel subscription more, as it's basically been on the wayside since sol_se moved in. So, Saturday morning before she woke up, I caught Blood on the Moon, part of their Western noir collection. I was mostly drawn to it because it's directed by Robert Wise. I don't know how noir it is, but it is a satisfying oater with a complex leading character (played by Robert Mitchum).

I Married a Witch was on sol_se's To Watch list, so we checked that out. I've seen it before, but I was happy to watch it again. Veronica Lake is great fun as the titular witch, weaving a spell on Fredric March (who is much too old for her). It's a delightful comedy.

Since we were already watching lesbian vampire movies, we absolutely had to go to Daughters of Darkness. Such a lush horror film, with some very weird death scenes. Delphine Seyrig is divine.

I didn't complete a single film all week. I did get halfway through The Limey, but my ADHD is just not being my friend these days.

I mainly played Dragon Age: Inquisition and painted D&D minis.

I don't actually *journal* here much anymore, which is silly. I like you all, I assume that you all like me (or are secretly plotting my doom, in which case, good luck with that, let me know how it turns out) and may have some interest in what's going on with me. The answer is, in terms of actual life things, not much. However, I have media that I've consumed. So I'll go over that.

( So here's what I've been up to in bullet points: )

That's about everything, except anything I forgot or didn't feel was notable enough to bring up.

I want to take a little more time to ponder cesperanza's request about continuity errors, so it's moving to later in the month.

Working on Festivids has been kind of a slog this year, which makes me sad, since I was on fire last year. I am trying to be more... I don't know... forgiving of myself? I suffer from depression and ADHD and I can't compare my productivity at one point in the year to the same point the year previous. It doesn't work that way. I need to accept that.

Also, I am still playing lots and lots of Borderlands 2. And do not get me started on System Shock 2.

Just got a $20 credit from the Playstation 3 store. Yay! I'm going to use it to buy some Mass Effect 3 DLC, but I need opinions on which to purchase.

My options are as follows:

• The Citadel DLC
• Omega DLC
• From Ashes & Leviathan DLC together

Thoughts? 

Oh, also I am through the ( cut for Mass Effect spoilers )

So I'm prevented from playing any farther through Deus Ex: Human Revolution because I'm currently ahead of where echan is in the game and ze is a spoilerphobe. Every time ze comes into the room and there's plot (and I'm at a point where it's almost all plot or plot-adjacent), hands go to ears and ze goes "Lalalalala." If I remember to warn zir, which I rarely do.

So I have to wait for Echan to catch up.

Echan, I should mention, is a slow, methodical player in a game that rewards slow, methodical players.

This wouldn't really be a problem if the game wasn't so damn good. I kind of feel like I'm in the middle of a cyberpunk novel. 

The Deus Ex series: consuming my every waking, non-working minute for the second time in seven years. Dammit.