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Ortega has grown on me even though she is apparently superhuman after surviving a mortal wound earlier in the series.

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Yes, I don't mind her as a character but it annoys me every time she shows up now because they gave her a big death scene and then plot armored her out of it because they wanted to have it both ways.

I wish the writers on this show would stop trying to inject so much comedy. It's weak and there's way too much of it.

Still waiting for his second book to be published, about having cancer.

If you haven't read his autobiography from the 1980s, I recommend it.

Never really listened to his music but I liked Moonwalker as a kid, both the movie and the arcade game. I still like that arcade game.

An all-time favorite. And the stories about the making of it are also very entertaining.

I was looking forward to this as soon as I heard it was written by Donald Westlake. Glad I got to see it in the theater. BR is hit-and-miss on non-English films.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Westlake

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They put on a good show in Baton Rouge 25 years ago. It was a small venue (Spanish Moon).

The endless enemies were the weakest part of Silent Hill f, detracting from the atmosphere. I heard they actually reduced the number, a while after I'd finished the game.

But despite that I thought it was an interesting story and had nice tension.

I hope they did a good job with that Fatal Frame remake that's about to come out.

It's been free with PS Plus for months now, if you happen to have that.

They did a good job with it, and the new Silent Hill f is also very good.

There were a lot of good releases, though not as many as in 2024. To name a few:

Death Stranding 2
Expedition 33
Monster Train 2
Once upon a Katamari
Öoo
Sektori
Silent Hill f
Split Fiction
World of Goo 2

One of his most interesting soundtracks is The Long Goodbye. You hear the same theme in different styles in different scenes.

The movie is good, too. Crime drama.

The Long Goodbye