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I'm done with episode 4 as well and want to watch the rest. It's a lot more about the feelings and persons than zombie action which is good, and I really like Joel and Ellie. The acting is great and their chemistry is awesome. When The Walking Dead was the shit my wife and I watched some episodes but about halfway through (or maybe all the way through) season 2 we quit as it was just depressing, no hope or light in the show at all. If the same happens here, we will probably quit as well. As of now, they haven't really got a goal except finding Joel's brother somewhere which isn't really that interesting.

I have apparently bent a rib last week. I dropped a large wooden plank on my chest and while it hurt, it wasn't much. I was a bit sore the next few days but nothing serious. Now, though, it hurts every time I breathe, and sneezing is terribly hurtful! It's apparently normal for the pain to grow steadily worse over 7-10 days. I can't exercise properly because heavy breathing is painful. Hopefully the recovery will be swift.

Got the Lego Mighty Bowser today from my wife and kids! Really happy about that, looking forward to assembling it. Might even let my oldest son help me out, he loves Lego and can spend hours assembling stuff. Using the iPad builder app, he can even do it alone now (he's 5).

Disney continues its live-action adaptions and have just released the first trailer for The Little Mermaid, coming in May: Yeah, something's just off for me. Maybe Sebastian's too real looking? Ursula is very true to the cartoon version, though.

Yeah, the sounds played at the end of the trailer always reminded me of Twilight Princess, glad I'm no the only one.

Sounds interesting. Certainly seems novel but won't have the time to play the game straight ahead after the release.

The final season of You has been fully released now. It think this fourth season is probably the best yet, it has been really entertaining. Only two episodes left, I'm excited to see how they wrap it up.

https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1633120394302324737 Lego will be announcing something today. It'll be interesting to see what it turns out to be Live now, they showed a Dry Bones Bowser Castle expansion for Lego Super Mario, available August 1st. Also a Donkey Kong add-on!

Played the demo yesterday, really enjoyed it. And luckily, a store just put it on sale for as cheap as about £20 (directly converted) so ordered it, going to pick it up tomorrow. I'll be playing Figment 2 this weekend for review purposes but after that, I think I'll dive into this. Looking forward to it.

A (true) demo has been released, and the game just got a new trailer:

A demo has gone live, lets you play the Prologue and most of the first planet: Also English version of the above trailer:

The release date was always April 5th here in Denmark due to Easter holidays on Thursday and Friday (movies usually premier on Thursdays here). You don't have days off due to Easter in UK?

When you first start the game, it kind of aggressively wants you to start an online subscription and it makes it seem that if you don't, you won't be able to play the game at all - selecting cancel then just tells you that you can't see friends' high-scores etc. and starts the game. That wasn't so user-friendly. Other than that, it's a good game. Nothing great but it's fun to play for an hour or two, and do that three or four times and you are finished... I'm about halfway through with about 3 hours on the clock. Haven't touched the multiplayer-games yet, though.

Seems like Bandai Namco acknowledges the bad state of the game: https://www.abyssalchronicles.com/news/bandai-namco-addresses-issues-about-tales-of-symphonia-remastereds-nintendo-switch-edition

I got the game yesterday and am about halfway through world 2. It's actually quite fun and fast. Not hard but is a bit more difficult than I expected at first. My son tried it this morning. He had the Magalor helping system on which prevents you from falling down and doubles your health. With that, he was able to complete some levels completely on his own. He's 5. He found it really fun.

Good lord that is crazy stupid...

Yeah, there's plenty of those sites and apps out there but I couldn't find anything. Until I asked ChatGPT about it and it pointed me to Nintendo Developer Portal. So I signed up there but still haven't found the endpoints to use. So I asked the support and am waiting for an answer.

DLC for Scarlet and Violet is probably a given... exciting to see what they would add.

Fur Squadron is releasing on eShop on March 17th. Does look a bit familiar, though...

True but there's something wrong when the post-credits are what make a movie matter... https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/02/20/ant-man-quantumanias-post-credit-scenes-are-more-important-to-the-mcu-than-the-whole-movie/

Is there an official API to the eShop? To extract games and in particular sales data by code?

I didn't expect it to be hilarious just to be the same level of funny as other Marvel movies. It wasn't. At all. But that's fine, that's not why I watch this stuff, but the story and setting was just not interesting, there was no character development, and And yes, I know about quantum physics but there was nothing wonky about the physics in the quantum realm. I just think the whole thing is a bit too weird - quantum level universes don't feel natural but that's on me. I just really don't enjoy how the physics work with Ant-Man and it throws me out of the movie. Again, that's on me. I even think this was worse than Captain Marvel which was completely mediocre and didn't matter at all.

Oh, thought it was a series. Now I'm much more inclined to watch it. Shame it's on Apple+, though.

New sale this week, with some good titles: Lasts until February 26th.

Watched Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania yesterday. It was terrible, and Kang and MODOK were the only uplifting things about it. It just made no sense at all, the story progressed at a weird pace, and Ant-Man was basically completely useless. Everything that happened just felt so convenient and artificially timed. And it wasn't even funny, I literally only laughed when MODOK appeared. Basically no jokes at all and the ones that were there fell short. So wait for streaming premiere, don't waste the money. I had a hard time believing in the premise for the movie. The quantum realm is just a major WTF, and the physics is just wonky - I know I shouldn't complain about physics in a superhero movie but I just dislike that it's not coherent - when Ant-Man is big, he is heavy and strong, when he is small, he is light.... where does his mass come from / go?