I didn’t think I’d post again so soon, but it’s been a busy week and I want to ramble about things.
- I really liked Backrooms! I’m going to make a separate post at some point with my thoughts.
- At the beginning of the year, I had a small goal to make my first risograph print. I went into the city in late January for a risography workshop where I got a lot of helpful info and… I still haven’t actually done the damn thing. I’m a little worried about wasting money on it or being unhappy with the results, but I’ve got to start somewhere. The local printer I’m interested in only does CMYK printing, which is a little disappointing, but their pricing is good and it’s the most environmentally friendly option.
- I was working on an article with my thoughts on Deathloop (I loved it), but then I was reminded that Arkane Studios is owned by ZeniMax, which is owned by Xbox, which is owned by Microsoft, making it part of the BDS boycott, so sadly I will not be posting any more about it until the boycott is over. It was nice to see that Arkane’s union spoke up about the boycott, though.
- Idk maybe I will do Art Fight……… I don’t kneeoww. If I do want to do it I need to get my shit together
- Fortune’s Weave announcement on Tuesday (more thoughts below). I have really mixed feelings on it. I’m interested in seeing what they do with it, but I won’t be buying it. I think the way Nintendo treated and continues to treat Gary Bowser is unnecessarily cruel and I do not want to give them any more of my money. If it ends up being a good game, I may watch someone else play it or play it an alternative way.
- June 12th…… Frankelda day is coming……
Fortune’s Weave Thoughts
I’m nervous that IntSys is going to ignore some of the lore they’ve already established for the sake of making a more marketable game. There’s been a lot of debate around the timeline since this reveal, and whether this game is a prequel, a sequel, or something else (like an alternate timeline). This was seemingly settled when the game was revealed to take place 300ish years after the events of Three Houses, but other fans were also quick to point out that Fódlan and Dagda may have different calendars (Fódlan canonically had a calendar reset in the past). There also may be some time travel involved? It’s all still very ambiguous at this point.
Oh yeah, the game was also revealed to take place in Dagda?? I don’t have any qualms with that and I think it will be a net positive for the lore to have a game set outside of Fódlan for the first time, but it was still unexpected to me. I’d reeeeally been hoping to see pre-Adrestia Fódlan, and I thought that the city the game takes place in had some resemblance to Enbarr. Anyway, I just hope they don’t contradict anything they’ve already established in the lore. So far, the Fódlan canon (I guess it doesn’t make sense to call it that any more, since Dagda is a separate country/continent) has been contained to just two games about the same characters and time period, and fans don’t even agree on the canon between those two games.
Links
- Live-action Look Back adaptation trailer!
- An older link I’d bookmarked and recently remembered: this amazing short story about a woman faking a pregnancy after her boyfriend of 7 years cheated and subsequently left her. I love characters like this and was absorbed in this story when I first read it.
- New trailer for gen ATLAS, the next game from Fumito Ueda (the Shadow of the Colossus dev)!! But he said this may be his last game :(
- Serenes Forest Fortune’s Weave trailer rundown
- Reading manga in print instead of digital improves memory recall time. I mostly read digital though…
- Ariel Ries shared their process for writing comic scripts
- I don’t Know If We Need All These Remakes, Guys. (We don’t)
- I liked this interview with Tiffany Muller from End Citizens United. The data on campaign contributions is bleak, but I like how optimistic Muller is that US Americans and elected officials will push back.
