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Apr. 28th, 2019 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI have a conundrum: I've decided I'm not going to go see Avengers: Endgame pretty solidly. Only hearing about a really good character moment for a character I liked even might change my mind, and even then I don't think it would. But what should I do about spoilers? I'm going to hear them eventually, and just not understand them, so should I watch one of the many spoilereviews out on the internet at the moment, or just wait for facts to trickle to me, and not even know if they are facts, just an AU scene someone's put together out of gifs on Tumblr? Decisions, decisions.
I got Days Gone on Friday. The reviews came out on Thursday and some of them were a bit middling, so I was a little disheartened, but so far I'm really enjoying it. Possibly because my expectations were lowered a little because of the reviews, but we'll never know. I can see where some of the criticism is coming from, and I experienced a little jank today - and also the one in-depth talk I saw by someone who wasn't impressed by it involved them saying "about 20 hours in, I realised I wasn't enjoying it". So...maybe I will stop enjoying it 20 hours in? I don't know. I'm enjoying it for now. And the long weekend was an amazingly good decision. I enjoyed it.
Another good thing was that yesterday, I got a call at about 9am from the Game store in Leeds, about the Borderlands 3 Diamond Loot Box edition I'd registered my interest in. Apparently they'd been given one more, and my name was on top of the list, so they were offering it to me, but I had to go in THAT DAY to put a deposit down, or they'd give it to someone else. So I had to go into Leeds, which wasn't great, and the deposit was super expensive - because the box itself is super expensive - but I have pre-ordered one now and I'm getting one unless I change my mind, and I'm very happy.
A less pleasant thing is that while I was waiting for my train to work on Thursday, I had to listen to a guy on the platform opposite us call his girlfriend (I think?), a "fucking little bitch", and yell at her, and tell her she was crazy and should go to a psychiatrist to get her head sorted out, and yell fucking this and fucking that every five minutes, and kick the side of the platform's train shelter. I stared at him, because what the fuck, and as far as I could tell everyone else was pretending it wasn't happening. He saw me, and looked away, and stopped briefly, and then said something very quietly, and she said something very quietly back, and then he started yelling about how if she wanted to say something, have the "bollocks" to say it louder, and he'd called her a 'little bitch' 20 minutes ago and she should get over it, and he'd only 'broken it' because she'd told him sometimes she deliberately does things to wind him up, and how all the things he does are because of her. And it was horrific. And she just sat there very quietly and tightly, scrolling through her phone. And there was nothing much anyone could do about it. I hope she leaves him. Very soon.
But my dad saw a fox in our cul-de-sac the other night, apparently. And that was very nice.
I got Days Gone on Friday. The reviews came out on Thursday and some of them were a bit middling, so I was a little disheartened, but so far I'm really enjoying it. Possibly because my expectations were lowered a little because of the reviews, but we'll never know. I can see where some of the criticism is coming from, and I experienced a little jank today - and also the one in-depth talk I saw by someone who wasn't impressed by it involved them saying "about 20 hours in, I realised I wasn't enjoying it". So...maybe I will stop enjoying it 20 hours in? I don't know. I'm enjoying it for now. And the long weekend was an amazingly good decision. I enjoyed it.
Another good thing was that yesterday, I got a call at about 9am from the Game store in Leeds, about the Borderlands 3 Diamond Loot Box edition I'd registered my interest in. Apparently they'd been given one more, and my name was on top of the list, so they were offering it to me, but I had to go in THAT DAY to put a deposit down, or they'd give it to someone else. So I had to go into Leeds, which wasn't great, and the deposit was super expensive - because the box itself is super expensive - but I have pre-ordered one now and I'm getting one unless I change my mind, and I'm very happy.
A less pleasant thing is that while I was waiting for my train to work on Thursday, I had to listen to a guy on the platform opposite us call his girlfriend (I think?), a "fucking little bitch", and yell at her, and tell her she was crazy and should go to a psychiatrist to get her head sorted out, and yell fucking this and fucking that every five minutes, and kick the side of the platform's train shelter. I stared at him, because what the fuck, and as far as I could tell everyone else was pretending it wasn't happening. He saw me, and looked away, and stopped briefly, and then said something very quietly, and she said something very quietly back, and then he started yelling about how if she wanted to say something, have the "bollocks" to say it louder, and he'd called her a 'little bitch' 20 minutes ago and she should get over it, and he'd only 'broken it' because she'd told him sometimes she deliberately does things to wind him up, and how all the things he does are because of her. And it was horrific. And she just sat there very quietly and tightly, scrolling through her phone. And there was nothing much anyone could do about it. I hope she leaves him. Very soon.
But my dad saw a fox in our cul-de-sac the other night, apparently. And that was very nice.
