got the morbs?

listening

this is off a 1998 album of bond theme remixes. most of them are not very interesting, except for this one which does remix the theme and the (very good) score from the film. composer john barry was a huge influence on pixar's the incredibles and was pixar's first choice, but declined because "he did not wish to duplicate the sound of his older work". fair! valid!

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reading (article)

as a survey-taker and market-research-board-participant for fun money, i was already half convinced that it's all bullshit and could not possibly result in actionable data but was happy to take their money. well.

Because recruiting subjects to meet the requirements for certain projects could be challenging, the company’s founders soon came up with a scheme to generate fabricated data for the clients, according to prosecutors. Employees and their friends and family members would sometimes take the surveys themselves for payment, or they would recruit bogus survey participants from the United States, Serbia, India and Brazil, who they dubbed “ants.” Court records indicate that legitimate survey data were often mixed with their “ant farm” data — a process they dubbed “scrambling the eggs.” 

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reading (book)

"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me." Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.

karen memory by elizabeth bear (my beloved) is a 2015 steampunk romp set in seattle. there IS an airship and there is a submersible. it is exactly whatever you're thinking of when you hear "steampunk novel set in gold rush seattle". sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and the heart wanted a fun easy silly canonically bisexual romp this weekend.

big on sex work is work, big on women without the vote navigating politics, some deftly handled bits where karen has to unpack her own bigotry and assumptions. if we still made steampunk movies this would have a lot of elements of a revisionist western.

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watching

confining myself to ad-free platforms (kanopy, yewchube) and physical media bc it is still an election year in tx and i enjoy not being blasted with transphobia and xenophobia every ad break.

watched on her majesty's secret service (1969, dir. Hunt). this is the favorite bond movie of one of my favorite video game professionals (rob zacny) and i get it. this is a top tier dad movie. a great comfort movie to have on while you fall asleep upright on the couch on sunday afternoon. got really mad about how my dvd copy did NOT!!!! have english subtitles but DID have french and spanish??? and then sort of laughed at myself bc the dialogue has never mattered not once in a james bond film.

this is a really, really pretty travel film. i had some climate despair bc i don't think this is a movie you could make today. not enough snow in the entire world.

lazenby is so classically handsome in this movie it almost makes up for the fact that he does not know what to do with his face not once not ever. diana rigg on the other hand is a joy to watch as always. she has so much to do and has so much fun in this one, she is my favorite bond girl so far

i do like how everyone involved said "we don't want to do another gadget film" but compensated by including silly goose behavior like: villain losing a live grenade in the bottom of a bobsled as he is frantically trying to bobsled away from bond. henchman being turned into a fine pink mist bc he fell under a snow-clearing machine. a chicken allergy being cured by hypnosis.

and then i watched the man with the golden gun (1974, dir. hamilton) bc it's the other bond movie i have on dvd. it is going right back to the thrift. the less said about this the better. not a good martial arts film. not a good comedy. not a good bond film. the best parts are whenever christopher lee is on screen chewing the scenery and the very tense stalk-hunt-kill sequence in a carnival funhouse. however, the entire time we were in the funhouse i was thinking "i wish i was watching the opening of return of sabata".

like. why put a slide whistle over one of the sickest car stunts ever

the only other bit i liked was the MI6 headquarters on a half-sunken ocean liner, which made for very fun dutch angle sets. now if only we used that for some sort of interesting thematic statement

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playing

gigantohumongous update in genshin tomorrow so i'm going to be insufferable about it for a bit.

still in fo3 while we wait. not as good as the "theoretical degree in physics" line but it did get a sensible chuckle out of me.

got reilly's rangers off the hotel roof. forgot about the stupid fucking terminal entries where she's dithering about sleeping with one of the rangers. this is extremely 2008 video game writing.

fucking around near the top of the map, donovan reillysrangers zoomed by, chased by three super mutants, and got got before i could help him. according to reddit this is one of the random encounters you can roll??? and if he makes it he says how he used the geomapper to track you down????

really the goal of rescuing the rangers was getting fancy combat armor so i could put charon in better armor. he was in enclave power armor bc he kept fucking dying and we kept coming across lone enclave soldiers. side note i don't think you should be able to use the repair skill to fix up power armor! i think you should have to take it to the brotherhood! or the enclave! why would a vaultie know this!!!

also ran across paradise falls. also also found the temple of the union. so i do have to clean out paradise falls and the lincoln memorial so my guys can be safer.

-

making

listening

this is off a 1998 album of bond theme remixes. most of them are not very interesting, except for this one which does remix the theme and the (very good) score from the film. composer john barry was a huge influence on pixar's the incredibles and was pixar's first choice, but declined because "he did not wish to duplicate the sound of his older work". fair! valid!

-

reading (article)

as a survey-taker and market-research-board-participant for fun money, i was already half convinced that it's all bullshit and could not possibly result in actionable data but was happy to take their money. well.

Because recruiting subjects to meet the requirements for certain projects could be challenging, the company’s founders soon came up with a scheme to generate fabricated data for the clients, according to prosecutors. Employees and their friends and family members would sometimes take the surveys themselves for payment, or they would recruit bogus survey participants from the United States, Serbia, India and Brazil, who they dubbed “ants.” Court records indicate that legitimate survey data were often mixed with their “ant farm” data — a process they dubbed “scrambling the eggs.” 

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reading (book)

"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me." Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.

karen memory by elizabeth bear (my beloved) is a 2015 steampunk romp set in seattle. there IS an airship and there is a submersible. it is exactly whatever you're thinking of when you hear "steampunk novel set in gold rush seattle". sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and the heart wanted a fun easy silly canonically bisexual romp this weekend.

big on sex work is work, big on women without the vote navigating politics, some deftly handled bits where karen has to unpack her own bigotry and assumptions. if we still made steampunk movies this would have a lot of elements of a revisionist western.

-

watching

confining myself to ad-free platforms (kanopy, yewchube) and physical media bc it is still an election year in tx and i enjoy not being blasted with transphobia and xenophobia every ad break.

watched on her majesty's secret service (1969, dir. Hunt). this is the favorite bond movie of one of my favorite video game professionals (rob zacny) and i get it. this is a top tier dad movie. a great comfort movie to have on while you fall asleep upright on the couch on sunday afternoon. got really mad about how my dvd copy did NOT!!!! have english subtitles but DID have french and spanish??? and then sort of laughed at myself bc the dialogue has never mattered not once in a james bond film.

this is a really, really pretty travel film. i had some climate despair bc i don't think this is a movie you could make today. not enough snow in the entire world.

lazenby is so classically handsome in this movie it almost makes up for the fact that he does not know what to do with his face not once not ever. diana rigg on the other hand is a joy to watch as always. she has so much to do and has so much fun in this one, she is my favorite bond girl so far

i do like how everyone involved said "we don't want to do another gadget film" but compensated by including silly goose behavior like: villain losing a live grenade in the bottom of a bobsled as he is frantically trying to bobsled away from bond. henchman being turned into a fine pink mist bc he fell under a snow-clearing machine. a chicken allergy being cured by hypnosis.

and then i watched the man with the golden gun (1974, dir. hamilton) bc it's the other bond movie i have on dvd. it is going right back to the thrift. the less said about this the better. not a good martial arts film. not a good comedy. not a good bond film. the best parts are whenever christopher lee is on screen chewing the scenery and the very tense stalk-hunt-kill sequence in a carnival funhouse. however, the entire time we were in the funhouse i was thinking "i wish i was watching the opening of return of sabata".

like. why put a slide whistle over one of the sickest car stunts ever

the only other bit i liked was the MI6 headquarters on a half-sunken ocean liner, which made for very fun dutch angle sets. now if only we used that for some sort of interesting thematic statement

-

playing

gigantohumongous update in genshin tomorrow so i'm going to be insufferable about it for a bit.

still in fo3 while we wait. not as good as the "theoretical degree in physics" line but it did get a sensible chuckle out of me.

got reilly's rangers off the hotel roof. forgot about the stupid fucking terminal entries where she's dithering about sleeping with one of the rangers. this is extremely 2008 video game writing.

fucking around near the top of the map, donovan reillysrangers zoomed by, chased by three super mutants, and got got before i could help him. according to reddit this is one of the random encounters you can roll??? and if he makes it he says how he used the geomapper to track you down????

really the goal of rescuing the rangers was getting fancy combat armor so i could put charon in better armor. he was in enclave power armor bc he kept fucking dying and we kept coming across lone enclave soldiers. side note i don't think you should be able to use the repair skill to fix up power armor! i think you should have to take it to the brotherhood! or the enclave! why would a vaultie know this!!!

also ran across paradise falls. also also found the temple of the union. so i do have to clean out paradise falls and the lincoln memorial so my guys can be safer.

-

making

listening

this is off a 1998 album of bond theme remixes. most of them are not very interesting, except for this one which does remix the theme and the (very good) score from the film. composer john barry was a huge influence on pixar's the incredibles and was pixar's first choice, but declined because "he did not wish to duplicate the sound of his older work". fair! valid!

-

reading (article)

as a survey-taker and market-research-board-participant for fun money, i was already half convinced that it's all bullshit and could not possibly result in actionable data but was happy to take their money. well.

Because recruiting subjects to meet the requirements for certain projects could be challenging, the company’s founders soon came up with a scheme to generate fabricated data for the clients, according to prosecutors. Employees and their friends and family members would sometimes take the surveys themselves for payment, or they would recruit bogus survey participants from the United States, Serbia, India and Brazil, who they dubbed “ants.” Court records indicate that legitimate survey data were often mixed with their “ant farm” data — a process they dubbed “scrambling the eggs.” 

-

reading (book)

"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me." Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.

karen memory by elizabeth bear (my beloved) is a 2015 steampunk romp set in seattle. there IS an airship and there is a submersible. it is exactly whatever you're thinking of when you hear "steampunk novel set in gold rush seattle". sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and the heart wanted a fun easy silly canonically bisexual romp this weekend.

big on sex work is work, big on women without the vote navigating politics, some deftly handled bits where karen has to unpack her own bigotry and assumptions. if we still made steampunk movies this would have a lot of elements of a revisionist western.

-

watching

confining myself to ad-free platforms (kanopy, yewchube) and physical media bc it is still an election year in tx and i enjoy not being blasted with transphobia and xenophobia every ad break.

watched on her majesty's secret service (1969, dir. Hunt). this is the favorite bond movie of one of my favorite video game professionals (rob zacny) and i get it. this is a top tier dad movie. a great comfort movie to have on while you fall asleep upright on the couch on sunday afternoon. got really mad about how my dvd copy did NOT!!!! have english subtitles but DID have french and spanish??? and then sort of laughed at myself bc the dialogue has never mattered not once in a james bond film.

this is a really, really pretty travel film. i had some climate despair bc i don't think this is a movie you could make today. not enough snow in the entire world.

lazenby is so classically handsome in this movie it almost makes up for the fact that he does not know what to do with his face not once not ever. diana rigg on the other hand is a joy to watch as always. she has so much to do and has so much fun in this one, she is my favorite bond girl so far

i do like how everyone involved said "we don't want to do another gadget film" but compensated by including silly goose behavior like: villain losing a live grenade in the bottom of a bobsled as he is frantically trying to bobsled away from bond. henchman being turned into a fine pink mist bc he fell under a snow-clearing machine. a chicken allergy being cured by hypnosis.

and then i watched the man with the golden gun (1974, dir. hamilton) bc it's the other bond movie i have on dvd. it is going right back to the thrift. the less said about this the better. not a good martial arts film. not a good comedy. not a good bond film. the best parts are whenever christopher lee is on screen chewing the scenery and the very tense stalk-hunt-kill sequence in a carnival funhouse. however, the entire time we were in the funhouse i was thinking "i wish i was watching the opening of return of sabata".

like. why put a slide whistle over one of the sickest car stunts ever

the only other bit i liked was the MI6 headquarters on a half-sunken ocean liner, which made for very fun dutch angle sets. now if only we used that for some sort of interesting thematic statement

-

playing

gigantohumongous update in genshin tomorrow so i'm going to be insufferable about it for a bit.

still in fo3 while we wait. not as good as the "theoretical degree in physics" line but it did get a sensible chuckle out of me.

got reilly's rangers off the hotel roof. forgot about the stupid fucking terminal entries where she's dithering about sleeping with one of the rangers. this is extremely 2008 video game writing.

fucking around near the top of the map, donovan reillysrangers zoomed by, chased by three super mutants, and got got before i could help him. according to reddit this is one of the random encounters you can roll??? and if he makes it he says how he used the geomapper to track you down????

really the goal of rescuing the rangers was getting fancy combat armor so i could put charon in better armor. he was in enclave power armor bc he kept fucking dying and we kept coming across lone enclave soldiers. side note i don't think you should be able to use the repair skill to fix up power armor! i think you should have to take it to the brotherhood! or the enclave! why would a vaultie know this!!!

also ran across paradise falls. also also found the temple of the union. so i do have to clean out paradise falls and the lincoln memorial so my guys can be safer.

-

making

listening

this is off a 1998 album of bond theme remixes. most of them are not very interesting, except for this one which does remix the theme and the (very good) score from the film. composer john barry was a huge influence on pixar's the incredibles and was pixar's first choice, but declined because "he did not wish to duplicate the sound of his older work". fair! valid!

-

reading (article)

as a survey-taker and market-research-board-participant for fun money, i was already half convinced that it's all bullshit and could not possibly result in actionable data but was happy to take their money. well.

Because recruiting subjects to meet the requirements for certain projects could be challenging, the company’s founders soon came up with a scheme to generate fabricated data for the clients, according to prosecutors. Employees and their friends and family members would sometimes take the surveys themselves for payment, or they would recruit bogus survey participants from the United States, Serbia, India and Brazil, who they dubbed “ants.” Court records indicate that legitimate survey data were often mixed with their “ant farm” data — a process they dubbed “scrambling the eggs.” 

-

reading (book)

"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me." Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.

karen memory by elizabeth bear (my beloved) is a 2015 steampunk romp set in seattle. there IS an airship and there is a submersible. it is exactly whatever you're thinking of when you hear "steampunk novel set in gold rush seattle". sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and the heart wanted a fun easy silly canonically bisexual romp this weekend.

big on sex work is work, big on women without the vote navigating politics, some deftly handled bits where karen has to unpack her own bigotry and assumptions. if we still made steampunk movies this would have a lot of elements of a revisionist western.

-

watching

confining myself to ad-free platforms (kanopy, yewchube) and physical media bc it is still an election year in tx and i enjoy not being blasted with transphobia and xenophobia every ad break.

watched on her majesty's secret service (1969, dir. Hunt). this is the favorite bond movie of one of my favorite video game professionals (rob zacny) and i get it. this is a top tier dad movie. a great comfort movie to have on while you fall asleep upright on the couch on sunday afternoon. got really mad about how my dvd copy did NOT!!!! have english subtitles but DID have french and spanish??? and then sort of laughed at myself bc the dialogue has never mattered not once in a james bond film.

this is a really, really pretty travel film. i had some climate despair bc i don't think this is a movie you could make today. not enough snow in the entire world.

lazenby is so classically handsome in this movie it almost makes up for the fact that he does not know what to do with his face not once not ever. diana rigg on the other hand is a joy to watch as always. she has so much to do and has so much fun in this one, she is my favorite bond girl so far

i do like how everyone involved said "we don't want to do another gadget film" but compensated by including silly goose behavior like: villain losing a live grenade in the bottom of a bobsled as he is frantically trying to bobsled away from bond. henchman being turned into a fine pink mist bc he fell under a snow-clearing machine. a chicken allergy being cured by hypnosis.

and then i watched the man with the golden gun (1974, dir. hamilton) bc it's the other bond movie i have on dvd. it is going right back to the thrift. the less said about this the better. not a good martial arts film. not a good comedy. not a good bond film. the best parts are whenever christopher lee is on screen chewing the scenery and the very tense stalk-hunt-kill sequence in a carnival funhouse. however, the entire time we were in the funhouse i was thinking "i wish i was watching the opening of return of sabata".

like. why put a slide whistle over one of the sickest car stunts ever

the only other bit i liked was the MI6 headquarters on a half-sunken ocean liner, which made for very fun dutch angle sets. now if only we used that for some sort of interesting thematic statement

-

playing

gigantohumongous update in genshin tomorrow so i'm going to be insufferable about it for a bit.

still in fo3 while we wait. not as good as the "theoretical degree in physics" line but it did get a sensible chuckle out of me.

got reilly's rangers off the hotel roof. forgot about the stupid fucking terminal entries where she's dithering about sleeping with one of the rangers. this is extremely 2008 video game writing.

fucking around near the top of the map, donovan reillysrangers zoomed by, chased by three super mutants, and got got before i could help him. according to reddit this is one of the random encounters you can roll??? and if he makes it he says how he used the geomapper to track you down????

really the goal of rescuing the rangers was getting fancy combat armor so i could put charon in better armor. he was in enclave power armor bc he kept fucking dying and we kept coming across lone enclave soldiers. side note i don't think you should be able to use the repair skill to fix up power armor! i think you should have to take it to the brotherhood! or the enclave! why would a vaultie know this!!!

also ran across paradise falls. also also found the temple of the union. so i do have to clean out paradise falls and the lincoln memorial so my guys can be safer.

-

making

listening

this is off a 1998 album of bond theme remixes. most of them are not very interesting, except for this one which does remix the theme and the (very good) score from the film. composer john barry was a huge influence on pixar's the incredibles and was pixar's first choice, but declined because "he did not wish to duplicate the sound of his older work". fair! valid!

-

reading (article)

as a survey-taker and market-research-board-participant for fun money, i was already half convinced that it's all bullshit and could not possibly result in actionable data but was happy to take their money. well.

Because recruiting subjects to meet the requirements for certain projects could be challenging, the company’s founders soon came up with a scheme to generate fabricated data for the clients, according to prosecutors. Employees and their friends and family members would sometimes take the surveys themselves for payment, or they would recruit bogus survey participants from the United States, Serbia, India and Brazil, who they dubbed “ants.” Court records indicate that legitimate survey data were often mixed with their “ant farm” data — a process they dubbed “scrambling the eggs.” 

-

reading (book)

"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me." Set in the late 19th century—when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house—a resourceful group—and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, begging sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap—a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.

karen memory by elizabeth bear (my beloved) is a 2015 steampunk romp set in seattle. there IS an airship and there is a submersible. it is exactly whatever you're thinking of when you hear "steampunk novel set in gold rush seattle". sometimes the heart wants what the heart wants, and the heart wanted a fun easy silly canonically bisexual romp this weekend.

big on sex work is work, big on women without the vote navigating politics, some deftly handled bits where karen has to unpack her own bigotry and assumptions. if we still made steampunk movies this would have a lot of elements of a revisionist western.

-

watching

confining myself to ad-free platforms (kanopy, yewchube) and physical media bc it is still an election year in tx and i enjoy not being blasted with transphobia and xenophobia every ad break.

watched on her majesty's secret service (1969, dir. Hunt). this is the favorite bond movie of one of my favorite video game professionals (rob zacny) and i get it. this is a top tier dad movie. a great comfort movie to have on while you fall asleep upright on the couch on sunday afternoon. got really mad about how my dvd copy did NOT!!!! have english subtitles but DID have french and spanish??? and then sort of laughed at myself bc the dialogue has never mattered not once in a james bond film.

this is a really, really pretty travel film. i had some climate despair bc i don't think this is a movie you could make today. not enough snow in the entire world.

lazenby is so classically handsome in this movie it almost makes up for the fact that he does not know what to do with his face not once not ever. diana rigg on the other hand is a joy to watch as always. she has so much to do and has so much fun in this one, she is my favorite bond girl so far

i do like how everyone involved said "we don't want to do another gadget film" but compensated by including silly goose behavior like: villain losing a live grenade in the bottom of a bobsled as he is frantically trying to bobsled away from bond. henchman being turned into a fine pink mist bc he fell under a snow-clearing machine. a chicken allergy being cured by hypnosis.

and then i watched the man with the golden gun (1974, dir. hamilton) bc it's the other bond movie i have on dvd. it is going right back to the thrift. the less said about this the better. not a good martial arts film. not a good comedy. not a good bond film. the best parts are whenever christopher lee is on screen chewing the scenery and the very tense stalk-hunt-kill sequence in a carnival funhouse. however, the entire time we were in the funhouse i was thinking "i wish i was watching the opening of return of sabata".

like. why put a slide whistle over one of the sickest car stunts ever

the only other bit i liked was the MI6 headquarters on a half-sunken ocean liner, which made for very fun dutch angle sets. now if only we used that for some sort of interesting thematic statement

-

playing

gigantohumongous update in genshin tomorrow so i'm going to be insufferable about it for a bit.

still in fo3 while we wait. not as good as the "theoretical degree in physics" line but it did get a sensible chuckle out of me.

got reilly's rangers off the hotel roof. forgot about the stupid fucking terminal entries where she's dithering about sleeping with one of the rangers. this is extremely 2008 video game writing.

fucking around near the top of the map, donovan reillysrangers zoomed by, chased by three super mutants, and got got before i could help him. according to reddit this is one of the random encounters you can roll??? and if he makes it he says how he used the geomapper to track you down????

really the goal of rescuing the rangers was getting fancy combat armor so i could put charon in better armor. he was in enclave power armor bc he kept fucking dying and we kept coming across lone enclave soldiers. side note i don't think you should be able to use the repair skill to fix up power armor! i think you should have to take it to the brotherhood! or the enclave! why would a vaultie know this!!!

also ran across paradise falls. also also found the temple of the union. so i do have to clean out paradise falls and the lincoln memorial so my guys can be safer.

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