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Dec. 9th, 2022 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveLong post ahoy
Good news mum is feeling mostly better. She’s not hobbling around as much and she’s only using the walking stick for extra support when we walk Naryu. The bad side! She’s incredibly stubborn as always. The other day she said that her leg was tired and I had to remind her that it was likely due, at least in part, due to her deciding to mop the kitchen and bathroom in the morning before I came down. I just don’t understand why she’d do something that requires her to stand while her leg is like it has been.
Sigh.
I had been intending to watch Resident Evil Welcome To Racoon City again around Halloween but I didn’t because of everything. So I intended to watch it this week. Many things delayed it, tiredness, streams, but the worst was a few nights ago. I was all set to watch it, I’d put the disc in, got my Doritos ready and was all set to boot it up. Then Naryu came down and wanted to be let out, so off I go to do it… and Leia comes running to go out too. I manage to stop her (because it was after 11pm) and I scooped her up in my arms to hold her until Naryu came in. She was fine to start with but then as soon as I shut the door she growled and swiped at my face, catching my nose (hard enough to knock my glasses off). The cut hurt and bled a lot and its position (right next to where my glasses sit) meant I spent the night with them off.
So instead I watched it Wednesday night (after going to get mum’s meds and some things in the morning). Welcome To Racoon City is a more accurate adaption of the games then the other films (more on those later) and Chris and Leon both look hot (and yeah Leon doesn’t look like game Leon but it works somehow, also it’s funny seeing Luther from TUA as Wesker). I think the main flaw with it to me is that it smushes both Resident Evil (the mansion) and Resident Evil 2 (Leon and Claire’s stories) together and it probably would have been better if one of them was expanded to its own thing. (Including the mansion definitely felt like including it for the sake of it).
But like I said when I first saw it, I really enjoyed it. I loved that they set it in the late 90’s (the music slaps) and how genuinely creepy parts were. (And that the incest twins got a cameo for absolutely no reason and no relevance.) I hope they do a follow up, I just hope if they do they give the graphics a boost (some of the stuff is amazing, some of it…. Less so). I know I had other thoughts too most likely but I forgot them.
Of course thinking about Resident Evil makes me think about the Alice films and… sigh. I did enjoy them, especially the first two, but holy fuck were they so incredibly inconsistent. And then the last one… which completely fucked things up by making links that weren’t there and trying to make out like everything was planned when it was very much clear in every other film it wasn’t. I’ve not seen the other films since then I’m so disappointed by it.
Sigh.
As a cleanser before the rest of the post here is a clip from Foolish’s recent stream. I
He was putting up decorations in his streaming room so I thought ‘oh this is going to be wholesome and nice’ oh boy. Apparently the instructions for the tree said he should stroke the branches to fluff them, which of course the himbo did and yeah. The people in call made fun of him at first, then Bad of all people said he should do it leading to the first clip. I was honestly laughing so hard because… it’s insane. Good times.
And speaking of streamers I think I missed two from the streamer post so I’ll have to add them this weekend.
Set It Off’s Cody made a post in his discord last night and I thought it was just gonna be a general thing, but instead it seems the discord is closing indefinitely which is… odd. The discord was started when he was streaming, which he hasn’t done since touring (much like Maxx) so it seems he’s not doing that either for awhile at least. It seems odd cause it came out of nowhere and I wonder if Maxx will do the same. (I’ve never been active in the discords, mostly only joining so I had info if they did stream) it’s kinda sad though.
So last night I started the Who Ray run with Planet Of Giants. (I almost made this it’s own thing but eh). Planet is a but of an oddity because it’s 3 parts long (usually episodes are even numbered lengths and in this era that’s usually 2, 4 or 6). It was meant to be 4 eps long but was edited down to 3 before broadcast. There’s an option to watch reconstructions to make it 4 eps, which I did watch, but honestly it just took me out of it so much because the voices were so wrong and they kept using the same close up of the actor’s faces. (Although the making of the reconstructions did kinda explain why there was no making of feature for the ep: virtually everyone involved has passed other that the actors for Susan and Ian)
The ep itself is a pretty good one, with the tardis materialising but in miniature (for reasons) and I liked that it has a strong environmental messaging. But also it kinda felt like how the Dalek story on season 22. This is because there’s two threads with the ep’s main villain, a corrupt corporate executive trying to release a pesticide even though he’s had warnings it’s dangerous (because money) and the tardis team don’t interact at all. He’s bought it justice at the end, but that would have happened regardless of if they were there or not (in large part due to a switchboard lady with good hearing).
It’s a shame there’s no Behind the sofa for it (inexplicably) so the only new special feature is an interview with the guy that plays Ian (wise to do that because he’s one of the oldest surviving people around) which I might watch tonight because those things tend to be an hour+ long (but are real interesting)
Game awards was last night and honestly? I can only remember that there’s gonna be a Hades 2 (and that the show was insanely long as always and for what? There wasn’t even a Zelda trailer)
Today I’m hoping to finish a fic (albeit not the one I was expecting to), but ugh I have to go to town and I’m not keen on that, especially cause my tummy felt a bit odd this morning.
Good news mum is feeling mostly better. She’s not hobbling around as much and she’s only using the walking stick for extra support when we walk Naryu. The bad side! She’s incredibly stubborn as always. The other day she said that her leg was tired and I had to remind her that it was likely due, at least in part, due to her deciding to mop the kitchen and bathroom in the morning before I came down. I just don’t understand why she’d do something that requires her to stand while her leg is like it has been.
Sigh.
I had been intending to watch Resident Evil Welcome To Racoon City again around Halloween but I didn’t because of everything. So I intended to watch it this week. Many things delayed it, tiredness, streams, but the worst was a few nights ago. I was all set to watch it, I’d put the disc in, got my Doritos ready and was all set to boot it up. Then Naryu came down and wanted to be let out, so off I go to do it… and Leia comes running to go out too. I manage to stop her (because it was after 11pm) and I scooped her up in my arms to hold her until Naryu came in. She was fine to start with but then as soon as I shut the door she growled and swiped at my face, catching my nose (hard enough to knock my glasses off). The cut hurt and bled a lot and its position (right next to where my glasses sit) meant I spent the night with them off.
So instead I watched it Wednesday night (after going to get mum’s meds and some things in the morning). Welcome To Racoon City is a more accurate adaption of the games then the other films (more on those later) and Chris and Leon both look hot (and yeah Leon doesn’t look like game Leon but it works somehow, also it’s funny seeing Luther from TUA as Wesker). I think the main flaw with it to me is that it smushes both Resident Evil (the mansion) and Resident Evil 2 (Leon and Claire’s stories) together and it probably would have been better if one of them was expanded to its own thing. (Including the mansion definitely felt like including it for the sake of it).
But like I said when I first saw it, I really enjoyed it. I loved that they set it in the late 90’s (the music slaps) and how genuinely creepy parts were. (And that the incest twins got a cameo for absolutely no reason and no relevance.) I hope they do a follow up, I just hope if they do they give the graphics a boost (some of the stuff is amazing, some of it…. Less so). I know I had other thoughts too most likely but I forgot them.
Of course thinking about Resident Evil makes me think about the Alice films and… sigh. I did enjoy them, especially the first two, but holy fuck were they so incredibly inconsistent. And then the last one… which completely fucked things up by making links that weren’t there and trying to make out like everything was planned when it was very much clear in every other film it wasn’t. I’ve not seen the other films since then I’m so disappointed by it.
Sigh.
As a cleanser before the rest of the post here is a clip from Foolish’s recent stream. I
He was putting up decorations in his streaming room so I thought ‘oh this is going to be wholesome and nice’ oh boy. Apparently the instructions for the tree said he should stroke the branches to fluff them, which of course the himbo did and yeah. The people in call made fun of him at first, then Bad of all people said he should do it leading to the first clip. I was honestly laughing so hard because… it’s insane. Good times.
And speaking of streamers I think I missed two from the streamer post so I’ll have to add them this weekend.
Set It Off’s Cody made a post in his discord last night and I thought it was just gonna be a general thing, but instead it seems the discord is closing indefinitely which is… odd. The discord was started when he was streaming, which he hasn’t done since touring (much like Maxx) so it seems he’s not doing that either for awhile at least. It seems odd cause it came out of nowhere and I wonder if Maxx will do the same. (I’ve never been active in the discords, mostly only joining so I had info if they did stream) it’s kinda sad though.
So last night I started the Who Ray run with Planet Of Giants. (I almost made this it’s own thing but eh). Planet is a but of an oddity because it’s 3 parts long (usually episodes are even numbered lengths and in this era that’s usually 2, 4 or 6). It was meant to be 4 eps long but was edited down to 3 before broadcast. There’s an option to watch reconstructions to make it 4 eps, which I did watch, but honestly it just took me out of it so much because the voices were so wrong and they kept using the same close up of the actor’s faces. (Although the making of the reconstructions did kinda explain why there was no making of feature for the ep: virtually everyone involved has passed other that the actors for Susan and Ian)
The ep itself is a pretty good one, with the tardis materialising but in miniature (for reasons) and I liked that it has a strong environmental messaging. But also it kinda felt like how the Dalek story on season 22. This is because there’s two threads with the ep’s main villain, a corrupt corporate executive trying to release a pesticide even though he’s had warnings it’s dangerous (because money) and the tardis team don’t interact at all. He’s bought it justice at the end, but that would have happened regardless of if they were there or not (in large part due to a switchboard lady with good hearing).
It’s a shame there’s no Behind the sofa for it (inexplicably) so the only new special feature is an interview with the guy that plays Ian (wise to do that because he’s one of the oldest surviving people around) which I might watch tonight because those things tend to be an hour+ long (but are real interesting)
Game awards was last night and honestly? I can only remember that there’s gonna be a Hades 2 (and that the show was insanely long as always and for what? There wasn’t even a Zelda trailer)
Today I’m hoping to finish a fic (albeit not the one I was expecting to), but ugh I have to go to town and I’m not keen on that, especially cause my tummy felt a bit odd this morning.
