Wandering Adventure Party

started watching DuckTales Season 1 E2"Take an idea. Make it your own."The "Glomgold Industries Employee Training Video" perfectly sets the tone for Flintheart Glomgold. In a series full of hammy villains, he is quite possibly the hammiest. His insane, over-the-top portrayal steals every scene he appears in.While Glomgold in DuckTales (1987) was a dark mirror of Scrooge - what Scrooge might have become without his ethics and his family - Glomgold (2017) is a copycat of Scrooge - someone who tries to outdo him in every way and replace him just because of his personal vendetta. And this over-the-top approach to retaliating for every slight, real or imaginary, is what makes him so fun to watch.

"This is the Spear of Selene all over again!""I was not responsible for the Spear of Selene!"What seems like some ordinary crisis banter turns out to be foreshadowing for the central mystery of this season of DuckTales.—DuckTales Season 1 Episode 1

started watching DuckTales Season 1 E1I really like this portrayal of Donald Duck as a loving family father (adopted). I mean, he is still very recognizably Donald Duck, but it is always clear just how much he loves the triplets - even when they are testing his boundaries. He even tries to get a job as an accountant so that he can provide for the boys, which strongly contrasts with his overall slacker mentality - which is still there, but he has his priorities mostly straight. At this stage of the show he is still very overprotective, but he will gradually get over it.And he certainly has hidden depths - in their very first on-screen interaction, he tricks Scrooge McDuck!

finished watching DuckTales This series was taken from us too soon.

wants to watch DuckTales This series was taken from us too soon.

started playing Horizon Forbidden West My current favorite when I want to play something relaxing. So lush. So beautiful. I am on my second playthrough, heading towards a certain oligarch's tomb - but I am in no rush.My playstyle continues to be as someone who tries to snipe at things from a long distance, although I try not to overdo it because I don't want to run out of resources - Volatile Sludge isn't so common that it would allow me to be wasteful with it. I haven't really engaged with the expanded melee system - as far as I am concerned, if someone charges me in melee I want to get *away* from them.I miss the tripwire mazes I could plant in the first game, but I can see why they toned it down. On the other hand, overriding machines is no longer as useful - for one thing you need to hunt a lot of resources to fix Corrupted Machine Overrides, and for another there are so many Apex machines around that finding normal machines to override becomes tricky.Still, I am looking forward to how the third games play out - both in terms of story and in terms of mechanics.

finished playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ...it's probably for the best that I was unable to get this game to work under Windows 11. I've been distracted by this game for far too much time already.

finished watching Four Seasons In Rural Sicily I watched this as my first-ever Italian-language movie, in order to improve my language skills.

finished playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Special Edition The video game I have spent more time with than any other. It is showing its age these days, but no doubt I will visit it again some day.In fact, I am contemplating a "Let's Play #Skyrim with a Folklorist" stream on #PeerTube ...