Spider-Man: No Way Home (No Spoilers)

Between the latest release of Marvel Spider-Man movies, for some odd reason I got the notion of Spider-

Man being in a some far away world or dimension. And at the time I assumed it was due to the snap that happens in Avengers: Infinity War. 

Spider-Man: Far From Home seemed to be the ideal candidate, but no. It was just a trip to Europe, a rite of passage for any middle class, and higher, North American college student. The premise was meagre at best and didn't seem to offer anything except a side quest far far from anything worthwhile.

Neither that nor this latest release - Spider-Man: No Way Home - has our titular hero far from anything in the standalone series. Just far from unambiguous and inspiring titling.

Also with the recent Disney imbued Marvel releases being completely lackluster and insipid 2nd tier movies - I'm looking at you Shang-Chi and Eternals - I wondered if this would be good. 

Being the first movie I've seen in a cinema (or cinema in the thee-yatre if yer British arrr matey) since Thanos' Snap, er I mean Covid-19 took the world stage, this still carries the traits of Marvel movies from the golden era. By golden ear I mean just the last decade or so since the first Iron Man.

It's not bombastic, instead has beautifully choreographed, visually gorgeous action scenes, mixed with a the subtle and well spliced comedic interludes that only Marvel seems to be able to execute flawlessly. Except for Captain Marvel, that was a train running on asphalt. 

And to top it all off, it pays homage to the originals. A magnanimous tribute, a reconciliation of iterations, an existentialist untangling. Emotionally provoking, this movie (Britsh: film-picture with sound) signals that Marvel franchise is still cable of producing stellar movies, not just in terms of box office numbers but also of pure entertainment. Mostly because Sony owns the rights and somewhat allowed Marvel to step away from the white glove clutches of the House of Mouse from dropping another dud.

"GO WATCH IT"

- Martin Scorsese

Don't worry, Spider-Man: No Way Home did the thing with the Spider-Man Meme

Kirsten Dunst Teases Possible Spider-Man Return After Tobey Maguire's Comeback

Andrew Garfield Reveals Only People He Felt Bad Lying About No Way Home To

MacBook Air (M1 2020) Unboxing

 I was starting to wonder why I still have this blog up and running, apart from the fact it doesn't cost anything. It was supposed to be a low maintenance, and almost consistently update repo from my thoughts and musings. It's devolved from that somewhat in the last year or two and I also missed blogging for one year entirely - 2015. So with that it's kinda fallen by the wayside of a long standing blog. If it hadn't been for that one year lapse (I'd like to thank the academy, my non value adding job, part-time college I signed up for due that the aforementioned job and life for that one).

But anyway here is something I suppose is a short update - I got a Macbook Air, yes that's right, probably the No.1 hater of almost anything Apple has gotten a MacBook Air. In no short part due to the amazing M1 chips that were released about a year ago and also the fact that I needed something lightweight (which it's not quite) and powerful on the go. This one has that power and a battery life to drool over in spades.

So with much further ado, cue the unboxing video while I play and learn with this coy beast:

Making Games in Unity3D for 21 days

So what do you do when you want to try and learn something? Everyone who's ever tried to learn anything in the modern world of instant information can probably relate to tutorial hell or half baked attempts to get off the ground, let alone finish something. 

What is often disgregarded in the modern world is that unlike instant access to anything and everything online, acquiring skills and building something worthwhile is not instant - by any stretch of the imagination.

Sure through technologies such as game engines, more people are able to create things which previously would've required degrees in computing and/or physics, maths etcetera. But even so there requires a certain personal discipline and culmination of skills in various facets which are needed to craft something worthwhile.

What's required is always what's been required for anything that's built that's worthwhile - focus, persistence and dedication. The 99% perspiration that will produce the 1% nugget of inspired, fruitful, well polished art.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege | Can I Play?

Always wanted to get back into the fps gaming sphere. Well this isn't precisely a fps, it's more of a military, strategic shooter? Go figs. Here's me trying it out for the first time. Not as bad in hindsight when looking at the video mind you. Actually felt entirely out of place while trying it out and the controls and felt heavy and laboured.

Text based incremental browser games

Text based incremental browser games. Incremental games are genre of games which are purely text driven which requires input and constant action from the player to survive and plot the course of the narrative.

This is a collection of incremental games which are purely text based. No filler, minimalist yet atmospherically involving game at its finest.



Here are the games if you want to try them out:
Chickens - http://gamehelp16.github.io/chickens/
Swarmsim - https://www.swarmsim.com/#/tab/larva
Kittens Game - https://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/
A Dark Room - http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
Drowning - http://game.notch.net/drowning/#

So I tried restoring a water damaged MDF table

Check out what happens on my attempt at a MDF table that has water damage.

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