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 * 2024  [29/29]                                                       :@blog:
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 ** Dune: Part 1 
 I'd like to call myself a Dune fan, but I am not.
 I have finished my Dune adventure on /Heretics/ and only now am I planning to finish the saga[fn:witcher]
@@ -109,97 +101,7 @@ This strangely works with how believable everything is.
 All flying ships have this strange physics, which I have hard time explaining.
 They are not like you X-Wings, but they fit the world.
 
-** DONE Patlabor: The Movie (1989)
-CLOSED: [2024-04-11 Thu 21:01]
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-:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: patlabor-the-movie
-:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract The proto-GITS is still very nice!
-:EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: img-c
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-There was a time when /Patlabor/ was an established name.
-It was huge, it had /Mamoru Oshii/.
-Now, sadly, it's mostly forgotten.
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-/Patlabor: The Movie/ is the first from the universe.
-I'll cover the following two soon, as this is my rewatch after decades.
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-The story takes place in the distant future of 1999.
-Manual labor is aided by Labors, huge exoskeletons.
-Tokyo is undergoing a huge project, where old suburbs are demolished and artificial island are created on the coast.
-Some Labors are going berserk, destroying everything on their paths despite being unmanned.
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-Sucide is painless...
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-...It brings on many changes
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-Let's start with the visual feast.
-The movie looks stunning!
-Yes, later movies from IG top what we see here, and sometimes the faces may look weird.
-It's not perfect.
-But if we would simply tell ourselves that this style of animations is the peak and let's just try to maintain the quality, I'd be more than happy.
-The way this 35-year-old movie looks is a testament to the power of manual drawings.
-The design, the camera work, the coloring - I loved every second.
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-Another cute thing I've noticed: /The Movie/ is an Oshii-type of movie.
-It came in this short period, where /anime/ was treating western culture as something alien and cool.
-We're seeing this in Jin-Roh, Evangelion, GITS, and many others.
-Here we've got the Bible.
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-For a mecha anime, we've got a lot of people talking in different rooms
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-But this also shows the biggest problem of /Patlabor: The Movie/: it is shallow.
-On surface level, we've got everything one could ever want: Unabomber-style genius on a quest to stop progress at all cost.
-We're seeing how /old/ is discarded in the name of progress.
-We've also got a huge computer system which is maintained without deep understanding of how it works.
-Basically, 1999 is like 2024.
-But none of this is really developed.
-The main characters never stop and think, that maybe the world is not going the best route?
-Eiichi Hoba, the aforementioned Unabomber, is just a plot device: the viewer is also never confronted with his viewpoint.
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-As it stands, /The Movie's/ story is disjointed:
-on one side we've got the real and interesting question.
-On the other, no one looks for answers and just accepts the risks of unconstrained growth.
-But maybe this was the point?
-We're seeing the same today: the world is ending, and most people are racing to be the last one to shut down the lights.
-It is scary how believable this is.
-Even the main threat is solved by a software rollback...
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-/Patlabor: The Movie/ is good on its own, but it suffers from being the proto Ghost in the Shell.
-It's not near as good, nor is it as good as its sequel.
-But taking it at face value is really solid.
-I had huge fun rewatching it, but left unsatisfied for sophisticated sociopsychological treat Oshii is known for.
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-My rating is 3.75/10
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-Hav I mentioned thast this movie looks stunning?
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-S-T-U-N-I-N-G
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-It always amazes me how many anime shows older guys in their undergarments.
-I get, that Japan gets extremely hot during summer, but is it real that frequent?
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-One of many GITS-style scenes.
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 ** DONE OpenBSD 7.5 released
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-** DONE Andrzej Sapkowski's Time of Contempt
-CLOSED: [2024-03-24 Sun 22:27]
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-:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: andrzej-sapkowskis-time-of-contempt
-:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract Saga continues
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-It's a stain of my honor - I am a Pole, but I've never read The Saga.
-It's not that I've never read any of The Witcher, but somehow I always stopped after the short stories.
-Last year I've decided to finally fix this.
-I am a proud nerd for crying out loud!
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-The classic cover
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-/Time of Contempt/ is the second part of The Witcher Saga, but it's also the 4th book about Geralt and his world.
-Let's ignore the short stories for a second and let's talk about this book in context of The Saga.
-Here it suffers from being the middle child: Andrzej is developing the characters and story, but it lacks a impactful begging and an end.
-I haven't felt like that after finishing the /Blood of Elves,/ as it had a /begging/ and the ending was emotional.
-Geralt reunited with Ciri.
-The story is clearly not over, but we have a kind of closure.
-We know she is safe and ready for what's coming next.
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-Here?
-Here we have no beginning as it follows the last book.
-It was to be expected.
-But I fail to notice anything new created here.
-Yes, we've got /amazing/ development of Ciri (I can't wait what how her blood heritage will screw over everyone), but nothing more.
-It just moves from scene to scene[fn:st], not spending any meaningful time anywhere.
-After 300 pages of this, it ends with Ciri joining some random group.
-I guess I will get to know them in /Baptism of Fire/, but I am not yet there.
-Are they good?
-Are they cool?
-Who the hell they even are?
-For me it was a huge let down.
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-But the biggest thing missing in The Saga is humour.
-Both, /Sword of Destiny/ and /Last Wish/ were hilarious.
-It was not on Pratchett's level of humor, but Geralt was amazing when it came to deadpan.
-Moreover, I have no idea how well it translated to other languages, as it was based on Polish humour, but:
-the books were written for Polish reader who was expected to know /Szewczyk Dratewka,/ and therefore the way Geralt dealt with dragon was a funny refernce.
-But this aspect is now completely missingm[fn:enemy-mine], but it was what made the short stories for me.
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-The biggest problem for me however was the fact I saw two seasons of The Witcher TV Series[fn:netflix].
-It was terrible and had nothing to do with the book (luckily for me!), but the TV versions of Ciri and Yennefer were irritating at best.
-Their book counterparts are not like that - Ciri is extremely cool and Yen is, well, not so bad - but the visual image is etched in my brain.
-I finally start to have a separate personnas for them, but it was difficult.
-Yes, to some extent Netflix ruined the books for me.
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-I was never a fan of /fantasy/, as I always preferred /SciFi/.
-Give me a blaster or give me death[fn:rand]!
-If I found /Time of Contempt/ as a random book, I would not care for the rest of the series.
-It was ok, but nothing to write home about.
-Sapkowski has a great style and I very much want more, but he has not told anything interesting here.
-I will continue reading The Witcher, but mostly because it *is* The Witcher.
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-I liked reading /Blood of Elves/ much more.
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-I give it 3.5/5.
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-[fn:rand] If you get the refence know, that I am no longer that type of a person.
-[fn:enemy-mine] We've got *huge* reference to /Enemy Mine/ in the single best part of the book, but it's not funny at all.
-Sad, scary - sure; but not funny. Just like the movie.
-[fn:st] ... /No one had a chance to interrupt/.
-/It was really quite hypnotic/.
-[fn:netflix] And not an episode more.
-It was already too much.
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 ** DONE Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"
 CLOSED: [2024-03-15 Fri 16:25]
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 (the photos are dark, I noticed.
 Next year I'll try to learn proper exposure.)
-** DONE Persona 5: Strikers
-CLOSED: [2024-03-08 Fri 21:24]
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-:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: abstract A short review of SciFi classic 
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-/Persona 5/ took me close to a year... I think.
-It was a gigantic game with unbelievable amount of dialogue.
-It was also game I deeply enjoyed, despite not particularly liking anything about.
-The story was ok, the gameplay was ok, the RPG element was ok, the dating was ok.
-But, somehow, authors managed to join that into one freaking nice experience.
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-/Persona 5: Strikers/ is none of those things.
-It's a linear button masher with characters I like.
-But it has /none/ of the good elements of /P5/.
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-First, it's not an jRPG anymore.
-When fight starts, you are presented with dozens of enemies you need to fight in real time.
-Half of the time, I had no idea what was going on.
-Fights, for me, are terrible.
-Enemies were everywhere, and I had no /chance/ to control the battlefield.
-Lots of annoyances and finger pain, but no enjoyment.
-Just running into random spots, bashing melee attacks and checking for weakness from time to time.
-I play on easy and was tired of that very quickly, I can't imagine having any actual problems with this system you have no enjoyment with.
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-Guess the only way here is to shut my brain down, as it's useless in all this chaos.
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-The real-world activities are almost none-existent.
-I loved how the Phantom Thieves bonded and became friends.
-None of this here.
-You've got some dialogue, but no payoff.
-There is some stat related to bonding, but we all know each other.
-In P5 the single best part was learning about each other and seeing how their lives improve.
-None of that is here.
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-Dating?
-None.
-And my chosen love interest from /P5/ doesn't even show up!
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-Extracurricular activities are limited to finding stuff on maps.
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-Getting to know Tokyo?
-Nope. Every few hours we move to a new city.
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-Story? Well, I gave up before it started.
-After 10 hours, midway through the third jail I gave up.
-I had to guard Futaba /again/ and after a moment became so frustrated and bored, that I stopped playing.
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-I give 2/5 for those 10 hours.
-Maybe it gets better later on, but I don't care enough.
-I dropped the game and will never return.
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 ** DONE Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) 
 CLOSED: [2024-03-03 Sun 16:52]
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