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Entertainment > Games >

https://store.steampowered.com/app/612570/Fort_Triumph/

After clearing a map, I can’t open the cage to rescue the barbarian; these people didn’t fucking play their own game.

I got it free from Epic, and it was worth every penny; how garbage.

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Mushoku Tensei - (2021 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13293588/
https://mushokutensei.jp/

A NEET dies but finds himself reincarnated in a fantasy world, where he grows into with the competence and usefulness that he ought to have been working for in his previous life.

Starts strongly, but really spirals down into pulp crap. Still perfectly watchable overall. Recommended even for people who don’t like this sort of entertainment but like the sword-and-sorcery topic in general.

Watched at the end of 2022; no notes were taken.

Spawn - (1997 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120177/

A veteran mercenary is double-crossed and finds himself blacklisted into becoming a general in hell’s army.

This is a very high low-budget movie. It’s over-the-top, corny but only almost-fun. Some of the effects are amazing, but some are so damned bad I can’t imagine how they thought this could be anything more than a middling success. From a writing perspective, it’s not bad moment-to-moment, but the overall plot is a bit stupid.

This has nothing going for it but the incredible acting of a clown.


Before Midnight - (2013 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209418/
https://www.sonyclassics.com/beforemidnight/

Our main characters didn’t use a condom and stayed together.

I think it’s shaky and unrealistic, but it’s a nice walk-and-talk with great acting.



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