Ahhh... Brother Ardu. The accidental love interest of my actual player character, Leif. And the existing Icewind Dale Ranger who wasn't in Icewind Dale during the campaign. He also didn't show up in the group shot for that reason, but got his own post.
Honestly, his makeover was mostly the horns and a slight muting of the colour scheme. Plus some very drastic guyliner and freckles. It's funny looking back on the previous post where I talk about what I thought the relationship was between Leif and Ardu, and the fact that having been separated for two or more years and just having that realisation slam into Leif at a certain point. That they'd both been dancing around the idea of being a couple of an unspecified amount of time before that, and after everything Leif had been through, he had no more time for that.
Anyway...
Whoever put this order in for Summer 2: Electric Boogaloo needs to get a refund immediately. Supposedly the issue is that high pressure systems that should be moving through and bringing colder weather along behind them are... getting stuck... for some reason. Not a fan. This shit should have been going on in mid March, not late April. I want long pants and getting cozy... I don't want this.
Soup this week... yeah, I still made soup, even though the weather is not soup orientated at all... chicken noodle. So basically chicken soup, but I've taken to adding broken up spaghetti to it, gives you those big thick noodles rather than the little titchy ones you usually get in chicken noodle. Strong recommend.
This week's Mini Media Reviews...
Marlowe is... an exercise in wasted potential. You have actual Raymond Chandler novels you could have based this one. Instead you base it on somebody copying his style. So we're already at an interpretation of an interpretation. I have to assume the novel this is based on was bad. Because this is just bad. By the time the movie is wrapping up I was like "wait, that's it, that's the whole story?". It just plods along without really every rising above workmanlike.
Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins... is a serviceable action movie. I don't really care about any of the GI Joe of it all, it's literally the least interesting part. But as a generic action movie, this kinda slaps.
Now... it's time to be controversial yet brave once again. I finally got around to watching The Mighty Nein, the animated series very, very, very loosely based on Critical Role's second season, and, without doubt, the best of the Critical Role campaigns. The series is... bad. Well, kinda. For someone who loves the campaign, it's bad. I fully understand that, especially in the beginning, M9 were really just bumbling along and accidentally getting involved in things without meaning to. Which doesn't make for great narrative television. So they've basically reimagined the entire foundation of the show. Characters arcs are showing up in the first season that don't show up until much later in the series. But the first season of the show is 8 episodes and takes in the first 13 episodes of the campaign. Which is... insane. If Amazon is just throwing money at them, they're still going to have to cull major story arcs in order to not have this thing run for 30 seasons.
But the end of the eight episodes, I just ended up mad at the show. The animation is beautiful, of course, much more anime themed than Vox Machina. But the story is just... not what I want.
I've also been playing a lot of Red Dead Redemption 2. But, not really the actual story. I don't much care about the story right now. I'm busy doing the things I want to do. Which mostly revolves around hunting right now.
And occasionally trying to squeeze my horse, full of perfect quality hides, between two other horse riders on a very narrow trail, clipping one of the horses, being launched off my horse over the two riders, getting up, having them start to shoot me, hearing cougar growl offscreen and then having a cougar literally launch themself at my face, and then die... not from the cougar but from being shot in the head.
The game looked me dead in the eye and went "fuck your whole deal".
Friday Night DnD was good... we managed to softshoe, sidestep or otherwise obfuscate our way through a few encounters (by design) thanks to some smart thinking on my part, not to toot my own insane goblin horn or anything. Wow, that's a sentence that doesn't make any sense out of context.
Anyway...
So... today was cancelled on account of public holiday. I went and did a mini shop on Friday to get me through today, and Ma is coming down tomorrow morning to do the actual shopping.
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