Capital Reviews

Ironcast [game] I FEEL LIKE AT SOME POINT AN EVOLUTIONARY SPLIT HAPPENED, WHERE THERE WAS A GENRE OF LIKE, MATCH 3/SOLITAIRE/PIXEL HUNT/ETC GAMES MADE WITH VICTORIAN ENGLAND STYLING THAT WERE NOT MADE FOR 'GAMERS" AND GET NO ATTENTION FROM TRADITIONAL GAMERS (READ: THESE ARE GAMES MADE FOR WOMEN) AND WHEN THE SPLIT HAPPENED THEY WERE KINDA BAD GAMES, BUT LIKE 20 YEARS LATER THERE IS THIS WEIRD THING WHERE THERE IS A BUNCH OF WEIRDLY GOOD GAMES LIKE THAT THAT SEEM TO NOT EXIST ANYWHERE IN LIKE, 'THE CONVERSATION' ABOUT GAMES. AND LIKE, THIS GAME ISN'T PERFECT, IT'S JUST A TILE MATCHING GAME WHERE YOU FIGHT ROBOTS IN STEAM PUNK ENGLAND, BUT LIKE, IT'S WEIRDLY SO MUCH MORE BETTER THAN IT FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS TO BE.  PS. ON THE OTHER HAND IT'S A WEIRD ROUGE LIKE WHERE EVERY RUN TAKES LIKE 3 HOURS AND IS FAIRLY HARD, I ENDED UP BUYING THE DLC JUST BECAUSE THE DLC CHARACTERS ARE STRONGER AND I WAS PLAYING THIS GAME OBSESSIVELY TRYING TO JUST FINISH IT ONCE, BU...

 Sing 2 [movie] I FEEL LIKE THIS MOVIE REALLY RUBBED ME THE WRONG WAY.  I TOLD MY NEICE IT WAS A MOVIE FOR "TRASHY KIDS" AND I CAN NOT BACK UP THIS CLAIM BUT IT FEELS TRUE. (I LIKE THAT EVERYONE GOT A SPECIES APPROPRIATE DATE BUT THE GORILLA'S SPECIES WAS 'BRITISH') PS. WHY DID THEY KEEP BERATING THEM FROM BEING FROM A SMALL TOWN? THEY WERE IN FANTASY ANIMAL LA IN THE FIRST MOVIE. 

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge [book] THERE KINDA ISN'T MUCH TO THIS, IT'S A SHORT STORY SPLIT IN SEVEN PARTS AND A FRAMING STORY SO EVERY PART IS VERY BRIEF BUT IT KINDA HIT ME HARDER THAN I EXPECTED. SPECIFICALLY THE PART HUNDREDS OF YEARS IN THE FUTURE WHERE THEY ARE ON A SAFARI TO SEE SOME VERY LAME ANIMALS, IN A WORLD ANIMALS ARE ALMOST GONE. IT WAS CLEARLY MEANT TO BE THE MOST COMEDIC PART WITH THEIR FUSSY AIR CONDITIONED SAFARI TO SEE MOSTLY NORMAL ANIMALS, AND ISN'T ANY SORT OF SUPER PROFOUND IDEA, BUT SOME REASON IT MADE ME VERY SAD.  PS. (THAT REASON IS DEFINITELY BECAUSE I WAS LISTENING TO THE "SOURDOIRE VALLEY SONG" ON LOOP AS I READ THIS.)

 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania [movies] THIS WASN'T TERRIBLE, NOT NEARLY AS BAD AS REVIEWS MADE IT SEEM. UT  REALLY DOES SEEM LIKE THEY MADE LIKE 5 MOVIES THEN JUST MASHED SCENES TOGETHER AT RANDOM. SO MANY PLOT POINTS SEEMED BASED ON "I KNEW THIS ALL ALONG BUT I NEVER TOLD YOU TILL NOW" I ALMOST WAS THINKING THE TWIST WAS GOING TO BE THE TIME TRAVEL BASED VILLAIN WAS CAUSING IN UNIVERSE RETCONS. THE PROGRESSION OF LIKE 4 MOVIES SHOWING THE QUANTUM REALM ONE WAY, THEN GOING "ACTUALLY I WAS IN STAR WARS THE WHOLE TIME AND KNEW EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD PERSONALLY" THEN HALF WAY THROUGH THE MOVIE BEING "ACTUALLY I WAS IN A WEIRD DESERTED ROCK THE WHOLE TIME" AND ALL THE WEIRD "ACTUALLY I HAVE A SUIT NOW, ACTUALLY I CAN GROW TOO". ON THE OTHER HAND THE TWIST THAT QUANTUMANIA CONTAINS THE WORDS ANT MAN IS PRETTY LOL PS. THE WORST RETCON WAS MODAK NO LONGER BEING FROM MAINE. 

The Quarry [book, audiobook] I DID 'TWO BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR" AS "FIRST AND LAST BOOK BY AN AUTHOR", WHICH WOULD BE A GOOD CATEGORY. IT'S ESPECIALLY INTERESTING HERE, AS IAN BANKS WROTE ALMOST ENTIRELY EXTREMELY BIG SCALE POST SINGULARITY SCI-FI STUFF THROUGH HIS CAREER BUT HIS FIRST AND LAST BOOK ARE BOTH SIMILAR IN THAT THEY ARE JUST FOLLOWING A VERY SMART TEEN WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES (WASP FACTORY: CARTOONISH EDGE LORD PSYCHOPATH/THIS: A TEEN WITH REALISTIC HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM) WALKING AROUND A SECLUDED RURAL HOUSE WITH THEIR BAD DAD. IT'S SAD THOUGH, THE DAD IN THIS IS DYING OF CANCER AND IAN BANKS FOUND OUT HE WAS DYING OF CANCER AND THE DAD IS SO IMPOSSIBLY BITTER IT OVERSHADOWS A LOT OF THE STORY, WHICH FEELS LIKE AUTHOR SELF INSERT. IN GENERAL THOUGH IT'S SO FUNNY HOW MUCH THIS STORY LINE WOULD BE SOMETHING YOU'D EXPECT AT A LOCAL THEATER PLAY MORE THAN MOST OF WHAT HE WROTE WHICH WAS LIKE, A BILLION SPACESHIPS BRAIN DOWNLOAD TEN TRI...

 Citizen Sleeper [game] THERE ISN'T A TON TO THIS GAME, BUT IT'S REALLY GOOD. THE GAMEPLAY IS JUST SOME BASIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, THE STORY IS NOTHING YOU HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE, BUT IT'S EASY TO GET STUPER INTO THIS. ALL THE LITTLE CHOICES *FELT* *SUPER IMPORTANT* PS. I REALLY LIKE THE ENDING I GOT. I GOT LEM OFF THE SHIP, I TOLD BLISS TO LEAVE THEN I UPLOADED MYSELF INTO A MUSHROOM FOREVER. 

 Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods [anime, movie] I HAD ALREADY SEEN A GOOD AMOUNT OF THIS AND ALSO WATCHED A BUNCH OF 'SUPER' BUT MAN, THIS MOVIE IS WHY DRAGON BALL IS GOOD. LIKE THERE IS NOT ONE SECOND WHERE THEY TRY TO MAKE BERUS NOT STUPID AS HELL. LIKE THERE IS NO LEAD UP WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE COOL OR SCARY THEN THEY SOFTEN IT, THEY JUST SHOW HIM AS A DUMBASS FROM SECOND ONE AND LIKE 90% OF THE MOVIE IS JUST EVERYONE HANGING OUT AT A PARTY  PS. MY WIFE!