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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • Hadn’t played any of these games until recently; picked up the remastered series on sale, and spent months playing through Yakuza 0. Really enjoyed the setting, the characters, the drama, the humorous substories and fun little minigames.

    I finally decided to stop hitting the batting cages and move on to Kiwami, which I’ve just started. Loving it so far, although Majima seems to have gone quite mad in the intervening years. Looking forward to a long career of singing karaoke, racing RC cars, and swinging motorcycles around.


  • Wasn’t aware of it until now. Big LotR fan from way back. Thought they did a great job with the LotR film trilogy, and The Hobbit films were abominable. Haven’t seen any of Rings of Power, because I suspect I’d hate it.

    I have fond memories of the '77 animated Hobbit movie, as well as the (admittedly uneven) '78 Ralph Bakshi LotR film.

    Not a big anime fan in general; in my opinion, animated films and television depend even more on good writing than live action does, and most animated material (anime or otherwise) has terrible writing.

    All that (unnecessary context nobody asked for) aside, this looks interesting to me, and I might watch it at some point. It probably helps that I haven’t been overexposed to common anime tropes that might put off others.





  • Baba was probably the worst contestant they’ve ever had. I was hoping to warm up to him over the course of the series, but he brought precious little to the table. Jack was fine—a bit disappointing in light of how obviously excited Alex was to have finally got him on. Loved the other three, top marks for them!

    Wasn’t a huge fan of the pub quiz. Loved the goose, and all of Andy’s prize tasks. Found Alex’s blatant efforts to tilt things Jack’s way kind of off-putting. Ignoring Baba’s obvious running in the maze task was disappointing. Glad Andy won, look forward to seeing him on CoC.