columbologist

good morning. fascism has been defeated in several countries. in other news, all of the cartoon characters have died at once.

Out for the evening to see Shitfaced Shakespeare. Juliet broke into the theatre attic, nicked a monkey puppet from another play, brought it into the balcony scene, told Romeo to fuck off and started making out with it until the director had to take it off her

they hacked the switch 2 time to "switch 2" doing a 360 and walk away.

another extremely disappointing ending for Mass Effect

Watched the 28 Days Later 4K release. They did it: they made it look Not Completely Awful. Like, it's obviously not razor-sharp but it's not Motorola Razr sharp any more and you can actually see shit in nearly all the scenes

tfw u find the souls of lords within the flame :)

Another visit from that detective yesterday. He has a wonderful imagination, but as always there's one thing he hasn't considered. If he comes around again tonight I'll just politely inform him that he really is becoming a nuisance. Then I'll be able to have my dinner party tomorrow evening in peace

I *beg* your fucking pardon?

Busy day at work. Barely even had time to make the Collapse out of blu-tack

John Tired

Finished Townfall this evening with Sam. I have a lot of the same criticisms other people have had, but it's still some of the best Silent Hill in ages. It's a bit too derivative of Silent Hill 2 in places (that's Pyramid Head, bro), but it's a solid revisit rather than pale imitation.

God, this is good. There are bits of it that don't quite hit for me, but that *pause*. The slow fade of expression into the distant stare. You can *feel* the abyss suddenly yawn open inside his mind.

Got to the part in Townfall where Terry O'Quinn does a Silent Hill Die Hard, just running around annihilating bitches with a shotgun. An unexpectedly delightful change of pace

INSIDE THE WRITER'S STUDIO: a short selection from the comments i left on the first draft of my old attempted novel

gonna have to fully blag this pathfinder session lads

hello diary. it's the Queen

Walking home at night through the fog after spending the evening playing Silent Hill with Sam. Good thing I have no traumas or mental conditions. The monsters are all just giving me high fives

finally getting around to playing Shadow of the Erdtree. pretty good so far. it is insane that you have to beat one of the hardest optional bosses in the main game to access it. wild confidence in the market

third attempt, baby. get cillit banged you mouldy bint

folks, i can report that this movie I'd never heard of until a couple of hours ago is absolutely jaw-dropping. watch it at your earliest convenience

ah, good, they've made firefox look different. that's what i wanted. and rather than match my computer's non-distracting, low-key dark grey colour theme, they've successfully guessed that i want this one app to be *intensely* purple.

Saw the new Resident Evil. Great fun. My favourite bit is where the guy checked the hospital map, plotted a route through the maternity ward, and the entire cinema made an "oh, no" noise in unison

He imposed Shania Law

one of the first things I did on learning that you can dial numbers on Townfall's phones was try to call Live And Kicking

It's really refreshing seeing shitey normal working class life depicted like this in a game, and a Silent Hill game no less. Pebble-dashed council flats, three-bar fires, Post Office counters, concrete shopping precincts. This must be how posh people felt playing Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

The other nice surprise about Townfall is that Terry O'Quinn is in it. I had no idea beforehand and was trying to place the voice (thought it might be Tobin Bell for a second) and then the opening credits played and it's John Locke :)

just backed the *hell* out of this. a TTRPG designed to run survival horror campaigns in the Resident Evil/Silent Hill mould. my exact perfect thing. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/o...

me: wow, geordi, you sure are some blind ghost with clothes geordi:

Finished the RE3 remake tonight with Sam. I hated it when it first came out but every time I revisit it I come a little further around to it. It's not a good version of the original, but once you get past that it's a fun, pacy little action movie. It's short but that means it never loses momentum.