Red right hand
This whole sequence at the end of chapter one was great.
Another great Kojima moment.
I meant to save the video footage but completely forgot to hit the save video before putting the PS5 into rest mode. 😭
Towards the Former Geophysics Research Lab
After that first giant BT fight, which took me about five attempts to kill, the sun came out and showed off just how stunning this game looks.
Trying to listen to Supertramp albums on YouTube Music — some of my favourite ever albums — and half the songs are unavailable.
Most likely this is down to some stupid fucking copyright issue that only occurs to certain songs or somet.
You can see from the screenshots below that half the songs — arguably the best ones — are greyed out unavailable.
This is why music streaming — aka renting — cannot be relied upon.
Buy your favourite albums and keep the physical copies for yourself.
Wall of Photos
Setting off on the next chapter in the world of Death Stranding.
It’s hard to find time in my day to day helping to raise a 2 year old and a 2 month old.
But I’m sort of thinking that it will help me to take my time overall with the game. Really focus in on every delivery.
Let’s get walking.
The Flies are re-grouping
It’s warm.
Really fecking warm.
The kind of warm that when you take your t-shirt off, you get that really uncomfortable heat surrounding your head as you take the t-shirt off over your head.
It’s also the kind of warmth that throws up the signs outside of every open window — “Flies, inside this way”.
I managed to destroy the previous wave with one of those electrified tennis rackets that shock and kill the flies.
Then the weather cooled.
But now the heat has returned. And with it, the second battalion of airborne pests.
So now I wander the halls* of my home like Negan, looking for fly skulls to bash in.
So if you hear the sound of electric shocks and/or cupboards being hit with cheap plastic, don’t worry. It’s just me working the perimeter.
Enjoy the weather.
Hmm. Seems that when my posts appear in fediverse, I am hit with that Ddos effect off all connected instances requesting my page at the same time.
This may only be for posts with images attached so I’m going to try and switch to using a plugin to offload my media on to Digital Ocean spaces.
Will report back.
For a Few Dollars More
As I said the other day, I was about 30 minutes into For a Few Dollars More.
Well now I’ve finished it.
Wow.
I loved it even more than A Fistful of Dollars.
It had a bigger scale, and featured the excellent Lee Van Cleef.
The man with no name and Van Cleef are both competing Bounty Hunters, both in search of a villainous gang leader with a big price on his head.
After an excellent display of skill between the two of them in the dead of night, they decide to join forces to get their hands on the gang leader and the other members — all with varying prices on their heads.
What follows is an unfolding story that keeps its secret right till the end — right before one of the best film endings I’ve ever experienced.
The ending isn’t huge and flashy. But the way it reveals its secret, followed by the music cue as a showdown begins, is just incredible.
It elevated the already enjoyable film into one that instantly became one of my favourites.
Now at the time of writing I am 30 minutes into The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I have more memories of this one than the previous two, but I’m looking forward to the rest of it with my new-found appreciation for the western genre.