Arc Raiders Reveal Trailer | Game Awards 2021

This looks like a blast. As I tweeted earlier, I'm definitely loving the 1980's vibe.

 

Homeworld 3 - Gameplay First Look Trailer

Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist [Official Version]

I never get tired of watching this short. That prose. Sagan's soothing voice. Makes me think of KSR's Mars Trilogy, or his 2312 novel. Makes you hopeful for the future. That someday we'll make it off this pale blue dot and head for the stars...

 

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One) – First Look

@CrazyKinux's Weekly Speedlinking for December 4th, 2021

The last time I did a Speedlinking post, was February 2011 - almost 12 years ago. At the time, these lists we're practically only focused on EVE Online and anything that had to do with it. 
These days, most of my sharing activity happens on @CrazyKinux, over on Twitter @CrazyKinux on Bluesky. But I've found that that platform is best suited to archive links to news, trailers, and articles that catch my interest. This is where speedlinking comes in.

VFX Artists React to DUNE Bad & Great CGi

Trailer: Halo Infinite- Official Launch Trailer

Trailer: "Encounter" (2022)

Hooked on "Sweet Tooth"

It's been some time since I've watched a series where the whole family got into it. I first started watching "Sweet Tooth" by myself mid-afternoon yesterday in our family room. A third into the first episode, my eldest came down to make herself a late lunch. Next thing I knew she was sitting down with me on the sofa to watch it. She was asking questions and completely captivated. Next, our youngest came up from downstairs where he had been playing Minecraft with a classmate. 'What is this?" he quickly asked as he was closing the basement door. 

By the end of the day my daughter and I had watched 3 episodes and even the better-half was curious to start watching the series after seeing the intro in the first episode.

I've read somewhere that the actual books on which this is based are a bit darker, and I can easily see how and why. But the Netflix series has just the right amount of humour, wonder and post-apocalyptic horror.

And this family has found something wonderful to watch together.

    

Mass Effect Legendary Trailer vs Originals Side By Side Comparison

Very much looking forward to the release of the legendary edition. 

 

Too Many Games, Too Little Time

 

Back in late January, I ran a poll on my Twitter profile asking if other gamers out there add the same pattern of buy tons of games, most of which we'd never finish. 

Turns out I wasn't alone in this behaviour. I can't speak for all of us, but I can tell you that the "collector's bug" is definitely at play in my case. If a sequel - or sequels - to a game I own show up on some Steam sale, I will for sure have an itch to scratch and will likely but those games. Will I actually start playing them immediately, or soon after purchasing them? Most likely not. But there's a good chance I'll pick them up and run through them some time in the future.

And it is with most games I purchase these days. I picked up Frostpunk and Cities Skylines months, if not years ago, and only recently started playing. 

A new beginning...

Paul Chadeisson's "Air Carrier Facility" - via ArtStation

 A long time ago, in a far away blogging world, there was a well versed blogger within a very active blogging community. But the years passed, and the blogging stopped. The community withered and went its separate ways, spreading the word of the Blog. And then a small flame started burning again...

I've been toying with the idea of rekindling this blog so many times in the past few years it's become a pathetic yearly ritual. The Holidays would roll in, work life would come to a stop for a couple of weeks, family activities would slow down and I would find myself with this desire to put digital pen to digital page again. I'd write a post or two, and then life would take its normal course and time would slip through my hands. This blog would again become a quiet, desolate corner of the blogger kingdom.

I had failed to leverage the power of Habits.