...and more progress made on the ol' entertainment backlog! Just polished off what I was looking to accomplish in Borderlands 2, more or less, and I rather enjoyed it, for the most part. Mind you, I did start from a previous save that was a fair ways into the main story... one of the advantages of shooters, it's not like you generally have to relearn a whole lot of controls or anything to do reasonably well in them. If you haven't played any of this series of games, Borderlands 2 is a decent place to jump in. Also, if you're a D&D player, and you ever had any doubt about how terrifying a Mimic can be, the "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep" DLC is definitely worth a go... or, you know, look it up on YouTube. Sadly, that's what I had to do to see the ending on that DLC, since I hit a bug where the game was demanding "all players must be present" to continue, even though I was playing single-player... and considering the game's been out since 2012, a game-stopping bug like that being present is simply sad.
So, yeah, that's it for Borderlands 2. I might have stuck it out a bit longer without that bug, but probably not. I could move on to the "pre-sequel" game they released later on, but I never really did care for the low-gravity, low-atmosphere mechanics involved in that game, so next looks to be giving Diablo III another go... it will at least be interesting to see how it feels after having played Path of Exile.
Games aside, I also finally got around to watching The World's End. I caught it in a 3-pack Blu-Ray disc set along with Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, both of which I quite enjoyed. As I recall, when The World's End came out, initial reaction was that it was okay, but nowhere near as good as the other two films. I'm going to guess that a lot of those people either didn't care for the ending, or got the main twist in the story spoiled for them before they hit the theater. I went in blind, found the first part of the film to be as cringe-worthy as intended, and was caught entirely off-guard by the twist that shapes the rest of the film, so I rather enjoyed it... not the best ending, but try not to let perfect be the enemy of good, or something like that.
Next on the watchables list? Well, I did get gifted a copy of Parasite that I could watch, and I'm sure I will at some point... but, frankly, I'm still rather in a "light entertainment" sort of mood, so, fair odds, I'll be subscribing to Disney+ before long. At the very least, I've got the last Star Wars film, the last Avengers film, and one or two oddities that should be caught up on, and what better time than now?
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