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happy Laughing Man Incident day

Started watching Midsomer Murders from the start & am really enjoying it. It's very charming and funny (for a police procedural). A different kind of fantasy than what I'm used to. Is it a "cozy mystery"? Maybe, I'm not sure.

Was very happy to see Angela Pleasence in the third episode.

Completed Painkiller (video game, 2004) tonight. It was... OK. Very edgy (of course).

Movement and combat were really fun, environments were beautiful but mostly linear, story was goofy and forgettable. Music was good (though it took me a while to like it). Boss gimmicks could have been explained better.

Seems like a game that might be more fun in short bursts. (Or maybe multiplayer, CPL 2005 style).

Playing (& maybe finishing) the old FPS game Painkiller again tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

I'm continuing the FPS game Painkiller (2004) tonight over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen. Starting with episode 3 level 1 "Train Station".

I'm starting a playthrough of Painkiller (the 2004 FPS game made by People Can Fly) in a few minutes over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen.

I've completed about half of this game before & have been meaning to finish it for years.

First step: figure out how the monsters work, second step: teach the monsters to pick up and use items on the map. (Step two might be asking too much.)

I've spent the last few days working through & partially rewriting the Quake 1 monster code. It's not super complicated stuff but I've never studied anything like it before so it's all new to me.

Streaming #quake1 for a bit today over at https://twitch.tv/andreaen .

I've refactored / re-written a lot of the QuakeC game code recently so I'm going to test that by running through the standard id1 maps (and maybe some of Than's Deathmatch Dimension).

Everybody wake up there's a new power_of_heavy_metal #quake3 Defrag video

Watched Brother (2000, dir. Takeshi Kitano) today. First watch (& my first Kitano too). A gangster (played by Kitano) is exiled to America and starts his own crime family in L.A. .

A whole bunch of recognizable actors in this - Omar Epps of course, also James Shigeta, Tetsuya Watari, and Pat Morita (for a single shot). Score by Joe Hisaishi! A lot of abrupt, fast violence. Everybody's doomed from the beginning. Really enjoyed the ending.

I remember seeing this on the shelf at my local video store when it was new. Happy to have finally picked it up & taken it home (so to speak).

Ooh. there's a new free release from Skee Mask:

Track 2 is tasty. 8 seems good too.

Happy New Ear everybody

I guess this is my version of an end-of-year media wrap-up. I often forget to log things so my lists are spotty / incomplete. Still a fun exercise though.

I didn't read many books this year but I did watch a few movies and a little TV:

https://djcev.com/memory/Log/MoviesAndTV2023/

I try to keep lists like this for books, movies/TV, and music purchases, even if I don't have anything interesting to say. (Stale takes, bad opinions, etc.).

41 now. Another year done and ready to be filed away.