tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961alias_sqbralias_sqbralias_sqbr2021-05-26T08:05:07Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:845297Media consumed by my ravenous maw, May 20212021-05-26T08:03:30Z2021-05-26T08:05:07Zpublic0Hither, Page, Miss Not So Sidekick, Lonely Girl ni Sakaraeai, Subnautica Below Zero, Grim Tales 2, Cooking with Pride, A Thousand Autumns, Yes No and Maybe (has a content note for consent issues)<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/845297.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=845297" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:640245Things! Now, with Podcasts!2017-02-04T14:47:24Z2017-02-04T14:48:25Zpublic6<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/640245.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=640245" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:618954Things consumed: Colonoscopy edition!2016-06-30T17:03:14Z2016-06-30T17:03:14Zpublic4Which is to say, I was VERY WOOZY for some of these.<br /> <br />Games (mostly from the currently ongoing steam sale): <br /><br />Scribblenauts Unlimited (windows only): Solve people's problems by creating/editing objects. Fun, but you play as a guy saving his sister, and everytime you finish a level you gain another sibling as a possible avatar and ALL FORTY OF THEM are male. I checked! WHY NOT MAKE HALF OF THEM GIRLS. OR EVEN ONE OF THEM. They're not even compulsory so dude players wouldn't have to play as a girl, but girl players could! This annoys me so much I have stopped playing. IT'S SO UNNECCESARILY SEXIST. (Non binary/ungendered characters would also be good but if they can't manage <em>girls</em>)<br /><br />Grim Legends: the Forsaken Bride: a Hidden object game from Artifex Mundi, only just started. Graphics are a bit uncanny valley but it's a nicely immersive Olde Worlde village setting. So far you're a woman rescuing your sister.<br /><br />Higurashi When They Cry: Stalled on this completely. It's not bad, I just find it hard to keep up momentum with kinetic novels (like a visual novel but with no real choices)<br /><br />Message Quest: a puzzle game about a lazy messenger in a fantasy world trying to avoid doing his quest. Has occasional simple turn based combat and I got stuck on a battle, but was enjoying it until then and will use a walkthrough to get past it at some point. Has some things that made me :/ about gender but is ultimately good hearted. It's a bit weird having to poke a lazy character who "just wants to sleep" when you have cfs, but he really is just lazy.<br /><br />Audiosurf 2: Crashed on both windows and Mac :/<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/618954.html#cutid1">Books, manga, anime</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=618954" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:609179Stuff I've been consuming2016-03-15T16:14:11Z2016-03-15T16:14:11Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/609179.html#cutid1">Games, books, tv</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=609179" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:606325Things distracting me from having a cold2016-02-05T06:24:00Z2016-02-05T06:25:57Zpublic4As always, bear in mind that my standard go way down when I'm sick.<br /><br />Books:<br /><br /><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Merry_Shannon_Sword_of_the_Guardian?id=93wpCQAAQBAJ&hl=en">Sword of the Guardian</a> by Merry Shannon (On sale right now!) This is basically a cheesy, tropey 90s-esque eurofantasy romance... with lesbians! AND I LOVED IT. Stoic, protective, crossdressing butch bodyguard and feisty, headstrong princess yesss. Many of the tropes are questionable-if-iddy (eg there's a bunch of dub con kisses that "don't count") to outright unfortunate ("swarthy barbarians", really?) and it is SUPER earnest but the ratio of cheese I enjoyed to cheese I didn't worked for me. nb the cover art whitewashes the bodyguard, who has a dark olive complexion which is a bit exoticised.<br /><br />Apparently the sequel is about the buxom lesbian chambermaid, SOUNDS GOOD.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/606325.html#cutid1">Books! Games! Movies, even!</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=606325" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:603500Things I have played and read recently!2015-12-31T13:47:42Z2015-12-31T14:09:41Zpublic0Including a bunch of very cheap games still on sale on Steam, unless the sale is done.<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/603500.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=603500" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:601943Things I have watched, played, and read2015-12-09T16:58:20Z2015-12-09T16:58:20Zpublic2<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/601943.html#cutid1">Books, games, and a Coursera course</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=601943" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:601158Books, tv, and games2015-11-19T15:14:37Z2015-11-19T15:14:37Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/601158.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=601158" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:598949Things which are not Cam2015-10-17T13:56:39Z2015-10-17T14:00:44Zpublic4Cam was away so I had a bunch of time to fill!<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/598949.html#cutid1">games, books, anime</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=598949" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:592385Games and game-ish2015-08-17T15:23:53Z2015-08-17T15:41:01Zpublic6Anime:<br />Diabolik Lovers (ep 1): So since I'm making a dating sim about vampires it made sense to watch the anime adaptation of <em>the</em> Dating Sim About Vampires. But as expected it was really not my thing: it's all creepy vampire dudes stockholm syndroming the sweet protagonist. At one point a sexy evil lady vampire showed up briefly but I looked up spoilers and that plot does not go anywhere I'd enjoy. Still, it was interesting as research, and now I'll know more context when people talk about it. <br /><br />Games:<br /><br />Monument Valley: fantastic, beautiful, understated little phone puzzle game. You are a little girl wandering minimalist fantasy landscapes with Escher-esque topology that uses forced perspective in very creative ways. I found it fairly easy, there are a few minor timing puzzles I didn't always like. It reminded me a lot of Journey. <br /><br />Descent (Dragon Age Inquisition DLC): really not worth $25, but otherwise moderately entertaining Deep Roads story. Focused very much on two not very interesting DLC-only NPCs with basically no other background characters and nothing for the companions to say or do. Some mildly interesting environments and dwarf related worldbuilding, but the (level adjusted) fights were difficult and dragged on and on, making the fun bits feel stretched out. Sidequests were dull as dishwater. <br /><br />Cute Demon Crashers: Cute free sex positive dating (well, friends with benefits) sim. A college girl gets to know 3 incubi and a succubus and possibly has sex with one. Strong emphasis on consent and fluffy happiness: you can say no at any time and there are no bad endings. I did the f/f path and it was endearing but a bit too sex focussed for me (which I knew it would be but THE ART WAS TOO CUTE) The demons are all aromantic, it's the fantasy of the perfect calm, knowledgeable, non judgemental older partner with no expectations who wants nothing for themselves but to make you happy. Which is not really my thing (I prefer pining losers haha) but is certainly a contrast to the Diabolik Lovers style love interest. <br /><br />Dark Parables: Ballad of Rapunzel: Servicable continuation of this series of fairy tale themed hidden object games. <br /><br />Love Chronicles: Salvation: really quite terrible hidden object game. I didn't mind the previous games in the series but this is set in a demon underworld and is just ugly and unpleasant, and the puzzles aren't much fun.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=592385" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:588873Games! (and things which are not games)2015-07-09T08:13:27Z2015-07-09T09:59:20Zpublic7Books:<br />A Season for Scandal by Stephanie Laurens: marriage of convenience regency romance I was enjoying until the Evil Irish Villain got a bit too irritating, will go back to it eventually.<br /><br />Anime:<br />Tsurimita: cheerful and deeply confusing story about teenage boys in a seaside town where one of them is...a fish? Or an alien? Or something?? I only got through the first episode, I may watch more when I don't mind being confused. The main character seems to have some sort of magical anxiety disorder (EDIT: apparently not magical) <br /><br />Games:<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/588873.html#cutid1">Read more...</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=588873" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:586219Yaoi feels and setting things on fire2015-06-11T16:35:32Z2015-06-11T16:47:32Zpublic4<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/586219.html#cutid1">Books, anime, games</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=586219" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:582002Consumed!2015-05-17T09:58:00Z2015-05-17T09:58:00Zpublic11Books: <br /><br />Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho: I finished this a while ago but forgot to say. Overall really fantastic short fantasy stories from a Chinese Malaysian point of view, with a light touch and lots of empathy and optimism. The author's notes are really interesting too. The one story I kind of regret reading was the one with a self harm warning, it did unpleasant things to my brain. <br /><br />Bitterblue by Kristen Cashore: Just started this. It's the sequel to Graceling, following the little girl who gets rescued in that book. It starts when she's still trapped and I'm glad I've already seen her escape because wow is it an unpleasant situation. <br /><br />Games:<br /><br />Dreampath: the Two Kingdoms: incredibly fluffy hidden object game where you, a princess, solve puzzles with your talking cat companion to get help from a dragon to save your sick sister. Not very deep or especially well made but I enjoyed it.<br /><br />Mystery Trackers: The Void: The first Hidden Object game I've played where I seriously considered stopping just because it was so annoying. The games themselves are fine, but it's ugly and silly and meanspirited. I get that it's horror/mystery, and maybe that's just not my genre with these games, but it was really unpleasant and I didn't like <em>anyone</em>, even the victims or the detective, and it wallowed in ableism.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=582002" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2009-09-23:447961:579010Things I have flopped in front of recently2015-04-26T02:55:23Z2015-05-17T09:59:13Zpublic0<span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">( </b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://alias-sqbr.dreamwidth.org/579010.html#cutid1">Books, movie, tv, anime, games</a></b><b class="cut-close"> )</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=alias_sqbr&ditemid=579010" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments