For some reason I fell into the videogame youtube shitpost scene and it makes me forget my woes but it also keeps me awake at night so I wake up shitty and tired. Of course it's DMC5. Of course. Watched a shitpost and then a comedic summary vid that inflicted all kinds of pain on me for laughing too hard. Didn't fully understand the memes at the time but after some research... what is with the memes of this game! Ngl the music slaps hard tho, haven't been this pumped since Y0, even though it's a different type of hype. Its more metal than rock or techno but it gets your blood pumping and you always want for seconds. I may be an ambient/synth kind of person but give me a good techno mix and I'm motivated (geddit, it's a DMC meme- never mind) I have the RGG franchise to thank for my varied taste in music.
If I actually played the DMC franchise no doubt I would fucking bawl my eyes out at Dante and Vergil because siblings!!! My weakness!!!! But I'm not so one can only imagine the pain it would inflict. Never been good with hack n' slash anyways so I'm content to just watch gameplay vids.
FFXIV still hanging on a thread because I have plans to start Mirror's Edge Catalyst soon and replay the original Mirror's Edge for the 3916145 time. Levelling is getting tiring but I managed to get shit done, at least on 2 classes and currently working on the 4th which is not a tank. The game is cool but it made me feel bad about myself for the past month so I should stop to recover. I swear this is why I don't play MMOs...
The newest Fantastic Beasts movie is out and boy! My expectations for the movie were low but holy fuck! I might have just lost my last fuck. At least the last movie had some 'beasts' but this? This is just Divorce Settlement The Movie. Not that it's a bad divorce settlement movie (I've seen worse) but it would have worked better as it's own thing and not in Fantastic Beasts. It's literally all subtitle and no main title. Of course Tina only shows up in the last 1% but I wouldn't be this upset if they had even a semblance of the main title in the film. Did they run out of budget for CGI animals? Where all the beasts at? Gods fucking dammit I want to be disappointed but the divorce settlement plot got me. Also they cast Mads Mikkelsen as the new Grindelwald, now that's what I call an actual charismatic man who can and will steal yo gurl (or guy). Mads Mikkelsen with Jude Law? I'm starting to believe.
The fun part of this whole series of movies is the fact that it happens earlier in the timeline so anyone who read the books and supplementary material knows the end, my parents being not one of them. So when they started talking about Grindelwald being elected I was like "Nah, didn't happen, would've been catastrophic if it did." Dumbledore is gay? "Yeah author mentioned it somewhere before this was a thing, moving on." Mom also mistook Credence for young Snape because of his new hairstyle LMFAO Why did Queenie support Grindelwald? "Well, that's because- (goes on a long tangent about muggle-wizard relationship laws at the time and the differences between the UK and USA), you get it?" They don't.
Hate to contribute to Rowling's relevance but in the end I'm weak and cannot let go of this movie franchise (specifically FB) only because the OTP is in there and I need to see it to fruition. Best case scenario, she doesn't botch it. Doesn't really matter if she does mess it up anyways because this is the internet and fan content creators don't care. Catch me buying the screenplay just for the scene of Newt and Tina in the last 3 minutes or so of the movie. I will do that for the OTP, I am that deranged.
All in all, a meh movie, especially within the franchise. The first one is the gold standard and it's all downhill from there. Divorce settlement subplot? Pretty cool if it didn't take the spotlight of the main title! What will the next one be like I wonder...
