Chatterbox Thursday

I'll have a fiver on the World please.

Wordle 495 4/6*

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Meh

Welcome to your life
There's no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you

Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Faceless wants to rule the world

Signalling problems. Trains into town cancelled. On a bus that seems to be going round the houses due to roadworks and the like.

They're shoving up a lot of flats on the edge of Govanhill & Gorbals. Christ.

Games. AC Vikings. Sneaking about Monasteries assassinating the Saxon and their terrible double denim combo.

TV. Started White Lotus S1.

Morning,

Last Night.

I was in an odd mood last night so decided to fire up 'Stellaris' which I had downloaded a year or 2 ago. After 3 hours of setting up and tending to my empire not very much had happened, it seems to be a boring government simulator, which was fine.
The end.

By Sandy

Or waking up curious to being mounted.

More fracking chorz, all that I want (is another baby... NOOOOOOO, where did that come from) to do is go back to sleep, but no chance...  I didn't want a tattoo, but if I was going to have one...



Gamez: same as usual, but I am pretty much locked onto a win in one turn based NP2 game and making a nuisance of myself in a move an hour game. The former is becoming a chore as changing the orders for ca. 150 carriers takes an hour and a half. But the real annoying thing is that my allies are not bothering to transfer tech until the last couple of hours of the 18h turn - with one guy that's 3 a.m.)

Games
Not so much

OTTM
Not so much

Books
I finished Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris. I enjoyed it a lot, despite not being a 17th century puritan regicide.


Films
Watching terrible films so you don't have to
I watched Exorcist II The Heretic and Exorcist III Legion. I had never seen either.

Spoilers

Exorcist II is properly terrifying.
A real shocker of a film.
It's ok for the first hour. A rehash of the first film, but with Richard Burton playing Max Von Sydow and with no possessed girl.
The second half of the film breaks down badly. There is some offensively exotic stuff set in Ethiopia and some not great special effects.

The most horrifying bit of the film is the psychiatrist's office. It is properly strange. 

Four stars.

Exorcisit III
(more spoilers)
I watched this straight after.
It s an odd cross between Zodiac and The Exorcist.
I don't think the fundamental concept worked for the film 
Which is that the Gemini killer was executed at the same moment Father Karrius died in the first film having exorcised Regan.
The demon transferred the soul of the serial killer to Fr K who spent 15 years in an asylum rebuilding his brain. 
Then does all sorts of ritual murders in Washington
It was mildly creepy in places, but mostly risisble.

Four Stars

Neither film in captures the malevolent atmosphere of the first film in any meaningful way. 

I have not yet watched Exorcist The Beginning or Dominion. They have a strong* reputation. I am hoping to enjoy them. I also have Rec 3&4. The first two Rec films were excellent. Proper malevolent shockers with a strong hint of The Exorcist about them.



*strong. Not good.

Wordle 495 3/6

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'ning.
coffee? 

I watched the first episode of Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities on Netflix. It had Tim Blake Nelson in it and was basically a horror version of Storage Hunters. 4 stars.