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Don’t Dream It’s Over
Feb. 16th, 2023 04:28 amKansas City won the Super Bowl in a similar fashion to the conference championship win - a last-minute field goal. I’m happy enough with the outcome - my fandom is ultimately pretty casual, but I like the Chiefs well enough and I think Andy Reid’s a good coach on and off the field, and the Eagles fan base is terrible, so yeah, good for the Chiefs. Also, KC barbecue over cheesesteaks any day of the week.
Since the S&W doesn’t get enough use, I bought it a little friend - a compact Taurus, also in .40S&W. It feels a tiny bit rougher than the bigger pistol, and lord knows it feels different in my octave-and-a-half hands, but the first hundred rounds fed and fired just fine.
Patiently waiting for Free League and Goodman to acknowledge a couple of demo game reports. I’m not in any kind of hurry - I still haven’t sent a sell list to Noble Knight or boxed up a couple shelves’ worth of books for Half-Price Books. Going to be a good-sized purge again.
Well, heck, let’s dive into this. There’s a Harry Potter game out, and it’s causing quite the stirs, plural. First, it seems to be not very good, but it’s getting high numerical review scores because reviewers don’t want to get blackballed by studios. Then, there’s JK Rowling’s broad spectrum awfulness, and boy-howdy is there plenty of that to go around.
I’ve never really gotten the Potter fandom. I was in my mid-20s when the first book was published in the US, finishing my undergrad degree, and not much interested in the kid-lit that a lot of my peers were getting into. I tried the first book a few years later, and tossed it aside after a hundred pages. Could not give a damn about any of the characters, and that’s the kiss of death for me as a reader. The near-virulence of the fanbase turned me off, too. Say you haven’t read their tomes, and they look at you like you’ve grown a spare head or something. And FFS, if you’re a grown-ass adult and you still call someone a “muggle” or WTFever, just, ugh.
Good thing there’s no shortage of other things to read, watch, and play.
Since the S&W doesn’t get enough use, I bought it a little friend - a compact Taurus, also in .40S&W. It feels a tiny bit rougher than the bigger pistol, and lord knows it feels different in my octave-and-a-half hands, but the first hundred rounds fed and fired just fine.
Patiently waiting for Free League and Goodman to acknowledge a couple of demo game reports. I’m not in any kind of hurry - I still haven’t sent a sell list to Noble Knight or boxed up a couple shelves’ worth of books for Half-Price Books. Going to be a good-sized purge again.
Well, heck, let’s dive into this. There’s a Harry Potter game out, and it’s causing quite the stirs, plural. First, it seems to be not very good, but it’s getting high numerical review scores because reviewers don’t want to get blackballed by studios. Then, there’s JK Rowling’s broad spectrum awfulness, and boy-howdy is there plenty of that to go around.
I’ve never really gotten the Potter fandom. I was in my mid-20s when the first book was published in the US, finishing my undergrad degree, and not much interested in the kid-lit that a lot of my peers were getting into. I tried the first book a few years later, and tossed it aside after a hundred pages. Could not give a damn about any of the characters, and that’s the kiss of death for me as a reader. The near-virulence of the fanbase turned me off, too. Say you haven’t read their tomes, and they look at you like you’ve grown a spare head or something. And FFS, if you’re a grown-ass adult and you still call someone a “muggle” or WTFever, just, ugh.
Good thing there’s no shortage of other things to read, watch, and play.