Queens Gambit - 90%

• Almost felt like it was based on a true story
• Lots of good moments and lines
• Difficult times in the orphanage 
• Lots of good actors, Anya Taylor Joy, and the cowboy chess player
• Beth Harmon has a lot of casual sex.. practically any one will do, no consequences..
• Ending felt a bit too fairy tail
• Rekindled the intrigue of Chess!

Hundred-Foot Journey - 75%

• Painfully predictable and slow moving
• Silly romance with some nod to cooking on the side
• Very few comedic moments
• Felt shallow
• Where did all Papa's money come from? They are poor in India, then ride a beat up car to France and have money to do whatever they want. 
• Cheesy
• Not my kind of movie but I appreciate that others may like it

Christmas Chronicles 2 - 21%

 

Whew this was a bad movie! 

• Better than the first... 
• Stupid kid, never get in a golf-cart with a stranger
• Reindeer and elves are poorly animated 
• Perversion of what the Star of Bethlehem is and what it stands for
• Stupid plot

Do yourself a favor and do not watch!

Mulan - 50%

Worst so far of the Disney remakes. 

So much propaganda... 

Where is my Eddie Murphy??
 

Blacklist S7 - 50%

The worst season of Blacklist to date... 

Didn't care for Alina Park at all

So many terrible episodes... 

• 3 - Aram and his affair... I can't stand his character
• 4 - Cooper's past
• 6 - Artificial Intelligence spawning consciousness
• 7 - Stupidest of them all! Pregnant men
• 15 - Dumb gun manufacture 
• 16 - Ressler and his brother
• 19 - Should have just given up on this season, COVID got them so they did half animated 

All the others weren't much better.

Hunter X Hunter S5 - 1000%

Whew, so much happened! So many episodes!

• Had to switch over to subtitled mid way through which was cool but I missed the voice of Cheetu
• Kite was a cool character, not a big fan of the reincarnation ant thing but whatever
• Neferpitou was the most amazing character
• Killua finally pulling the pin out was crazy! 
• So many amazing scenes!
• Killua saying that he could see how strong Morel and Netero were when he saw them
• Wolfin aging with fear
• Gon going crazy on Pitou
• Lightning speed Killua
• Post credit scene with the king on episode 135 moved me to tears 
• Netero's fight was beyond amazing
• Morel was cool with his smoke
• Shaiapouf was my least favorite 
• The king's character and Komugi was so fun and all the Gungi! Wish it was a real game!
• Watched on Crunchyroll 

 I would gladly watch the whole thing over again if I had someone to watch with!

Hunter X Hunter S4 - 100%

• Biscuit is pretty cool
• Gon learns his signature move - rock paper scissors 
• Killua gets his electric abilities
• The dodgeball / sports challenge felt a little out of place on a video game island
• Nailed the trope of being stuck in a video game anime
• Hisoka teamed up with them, doing a great job of being in the middle
• Such a great friend relationship between Gon and Killua
• Dub was perfect

Had to watch on HBO Max because Netflix didn't have it yet

This is one of the best anime I have ever seen!

 

Satisfactory Modded

 

I enjoy watching ImKibitz! Good voice and good play throughs. 

• Was about 9 hours into my best start location play and didn't like how it was going...
• So I started over with modded at the best start location
• Smart Foundations mod is amazing!
• Mk++ mod is amazing!
• Refined Power mod is nice
• Perma day is amazing! and sad... 
• Inventory Slots 50+.. Like it and sad too. 
• Hyper boosters is amazing! and sad too...
• Sad because they feel like they broke designed aspect of the game that I hated. 

Satisfactory Best Start

 

Watched the above video and decided to give the ideal start location a whirl. 

• Started playing again to mess around with the 3.5 new pipes and bounce pads.
• Got bored just before getting to hyper tubes... So never really messed with the new stuff.
• Played for like 9 hours. 
• Even still this is like the best game ever!

POE Bladefall Chieftain- 98%

 

Bladefall / Blade Blast Chieftain was very solid. Good clear, good single, good survivability. 

Endless delv was a lot of fun level 1 to level 75. The last 5 levels was slow. It would be super slow and boring pushing past that. 

Wish they would have thrown a crafting table in but it was fine. 

Getting a 5 or 6 link seems pretty much impossible in Endless delv.

Only took 5 hours to get to level 75! Wish the main game was more that pace.

Got the Night Fall body armor out of the mystery box reward! First body armor I own. Looks good!

POE BV Assassin - 90%

Messed up a bit... Played this build on the mayhem event and figured I could do as I normally did, start SSF and then switch over later.. Well turns out, switching out of SSF is not permitted in mayhem. I was already too far in to give up and start over so I kept pushing. 

Just about gave up because I didn't have a way to convert the remaining 50% Avatar of Fire. I ended up having to path all the way down to Weapon Fire Damage and Magmatic Strikes to get 40%. Cheap items could have taken care of this but that is the fun of SSF. 

Made it all the way to lvl 80 which got me in the running I wanted. 

Blade Vortex was pretty solid and smooth. Good Clear and boss DPS poor survivability. 

Mayhem was fun. Wish they added other stuff like more tower defense league