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Slashdot Asks: What Movies, TV Shows, and Games Have You Enjoyed of Late? 134

Posted by msmash from the weekend-list dept.
What are some titles -- movies, TV shows, or any console video games -- that have helped you stay calm in recent months? (No need to limit the listing to recently releases.)
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Slashdot Asks: What Movies, TV Shows, and Games Have You Enjoyed of Late?

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  • Taskmaster (Score:3)

    by omnichad ( 1198475 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:08PM (#60326977) Homepage

    Taskmaster: It's a UK show, but all the full episodes are on Youtube. Humor is what we need right now.

  • "The Boys": super dark and explores "what if the 'good' superheroes were a bunch of cynical assholes"

    "The Last Kingdom": decent historic fantasy

    "You": real creepy love story / drama

    "The Haunting of Hill House": well done single season horror show

    • +1 on The Boys. The past several years have been around making super heroes 'darker' but really that just meant brooding, complicated etc. The Boys does a good job with the idea that super heroes would be affected by the same hubris and personality defects that afflicts celebrities and others who are 'adored' by the masses. In my mind it's a good reflection of how politicians and corporate leaders who get this and wield power turn bad.

      Also Elisabeth Shue is in it.

    • I love the boys. It is very now about superheroâ(TM)s. Good Omens was hilarious. I just finished Russian Doll which was better than I expected. If you havenâ(TM)t bing Santa Clarita do it now.

  • Doom Patrol, KSP, SOMA, HL2:Update ... (Score:3)

    by williamyf ( 227051 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:12PM (#60327001)

    Obligatory XKCD about my gaming habits:

    https://xkcd.com/606/ [xkcd.com]

    • It would work well for movies as well. It would have stopped me from watching some really bad movies as overtime we have 2020 vision on how well such a movie aged.

      Toy Story 1 The CGI is outdated but the movie looks good. And the story kept my interest.
      Star Wars Episode II attach of the clones. More modern CGI but looks like crap (The movie was rough to go threw, like sand it sucked everywhere)

    • This is forced on us now. Playing Detroit:Become Human, a game released 2 years ago as a PS4 exclusive which finally came to PC only to be an exclusive at the bloody Epic games store (because they insisted about bringing the worst feature of consoles to PC). Anyway thankfully on April the exclusivity to Fortnite store ended and I finally got to enjoy the game 2 years after release.

  • Fiction or non-fiction? (Score:3)

    by JoshuaZ ( 1134087 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:13PM (#60327005) Homepage
    The She-Ra reboot was really well done and surprisingly fun. The plot was good, the characters were funny, and the character development was also great. I recently watched "Warrior Nun" and "The Old Guard"" but both of those felt a bit derivative. In terms of non-fiction, I've been binging on Grady Hillhouse's Practical Engineering youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/gradyhillhouse [youtube.com] which has been really educational. I'm not an engineer, but I've always had some level of interest in the topic, and he does a really good job of explaining things, and makes it really clear how incredibly tough actual engineering is.

    • I have found that these new Reboots from Netflix such as She-Ra and Vol-tron are well done. While doing homage to the 1980's show but updated to modern sensibilities and created a better story arch.

      While yea we will get some people having a fit because there may be more diversity or every character model isn't a copy and paste from a supermodel with different hair

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      There is a restored copy of Ulysses 31 on YouTube and it holds up quite well.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by cusco ( 717999 )

      Never watched She-Ra (new or old version), but I'm pleasantly surprised to be enjoying 'Warrior Nun'.

      The new season of 'The Protector' is as bad as Season 3 was, if my wife wasn't watching it I wouldn't bother.

      We don't normally watch TV during the day at all, but Rosa has started turning the 'Moving Art' series on Sunday mornings while I'm making breakfast, and we watch a couple of episodes before walking the dogs. Really a pleasant and relaxing way to start the day.

  • Palm Springs (Score:3)

    by Guillermito ( 187510 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:13PM (#60327007) Homepage
    Palm Springs. Genuinely funny time loop romantic comedy. A worthy modern take on Groundhog Day.
  • Most TV I watch is kid stuff these days. When I get some time to watch something of my choosing, I find myself watching YouTube videos. A few of note:

    Matthias Wandel [youtube.com] is a former RIM engineer who created a YouTube channel devoted to his unique style of carpentry. Really interesting stuff.

    Essential Craftsman [youtube.com] is a brilliant carpenter that shares is secrets from 40 years of building things.

    AvE [youtube.com] is an eccentric Canadian engineer who makes videos about reverse engineering various products. Warning: adult

    • Cody's Lab
      Hydraulic Press Channel
      History Guy
      Electroboom
      Practical Engineering

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by Pascoea ( 968200 )
        The Engineering Guy is my latest favorite. Technology Connections is amusing as well.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        Lazy Game Reviews (LGR)
        Technology Connections
        Food Wishes
        The 8 Bit Guy
        AVE
        Adrian's Digital Basement
        Andreas Spiess
        Lindsay Ellis
        John Ward
        Philosophy Tube
        Modern vintage Gamer
        SDG Electronics
        Retro Man Cave
        Jessy Gender

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by jonwil ( 467024 )

      So many awesome YouTube channels out there that I watch:
      Vinwiki (amazing stories about cars and car guys)
      BosnianBill and LockPickingLawyer (channels about lock picking, I particularly love the way these guys show just how CRAP many locks are and tell you what locks are actually worth buying)
      Technology Connections (talks about technology and how it works and why things are the way they are)
      EEVBlog (awesome channel for anyone into electronics)
      Lawful Masses (great channel that discusses interesting or notewort

    • Photo Genius [youtube.com] - Welcome to Photo Genius. On this channel I share tips, tricks, tutorials and gear reviews to help you get more from your digital camera and be a better photographer.

      Nigel Danson [youtube.com] - I am passionate about landscape photography and the great outdoors. Follow my adventures taking beautiful landscapes in the UK and US. My aim is to inspire with Landscape photography tips and techniques.

      Bob Ross The Joy of Painting [youtube.com] - The official YouTube channel of "The Joy of Painting" and Bob Ross. Watch and pain

  • Thanx for not asking. I've been enjoying the Fred Saberhagen Sherlock Holmes/Dracula series as well as the Mary Trump book.

    Both good reads about fictional personas.

  • I'm not a gamer, or it's Belote/Tarot...

    Latest movie I really liked is Ready Player One, latest series I watched are Downtown Abbey, The Witcher, and The Watchmen.I must say The Watchmen serie is a masterpiece, I liked the comics last century, loved the movie, and love the serie.

    • If you really liked the Ready Player One movie, you'd like the book even better. They sort of had to ruin the movie, because otherwise they'd have to license so much old IP that it would have doubled or tripled the cost of the movie. The nostalgia factor is a bit off when they had to leave out so much.

      • If you really liked the Ready Player One movie, you'd like the book even better. They sort of had to ruin the movie, because otherwise they'd have to license so much old IP that it would have doubled or tripled the cost of the movie. The nostalgia factor is a bit off when they had to leave out so much.

        Ready Player Two (the book) is available for pre-order in November.

      • The alternative title is References: The movie.

  • Brand confusion (Score:5, Funny)

    by The New Guy 2.0 ( 3497907 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:17PM (#60327031)

    In Soviet Russia, this feature would have been Ask Slashdot.

  • Palm Springs (Score:3)

    by MikeDataLink ( 536925 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:18PM (#60327041) Homepage Journal

    That was hilarious and thought provoking from beginning to end.

    (And Cristin Miloti is as cute as can be too.)

  • As per the title, I'm slowly making my way through the various Star Trek series on Netflix (although I haven't watched TOS yet). Watched all of Longmire recently as well. I'm also playing Satisfactory while I watch TV shows, which is a sweet keep-me-busy title. But most of the time, it's iRacing. And programming.

  • Paw Patrol (Score:4, Funny)

    by CubicleZombie ( 2590497 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:20PM (#60327055)

    I have three little kids. I haven't watched an adult TV show in 8 years. Or slept. Or bathed in the last 5 days. Or brushed my teeth in several. Ugh.

    • I hear ya. Lots of PJ Masks for me. They recently started to watch My Little Pony, which isn't bad. Lot's of Anime influence.

      When we don't watch something that's exclusively for kids, we find ourselves watching a lot of HGTV and Food Network as it's mostly child appropriate.

    • Phineas and Ferb on Disney+ is *outstanding* It's actually enjoyable by adults. It's creative team worked on early Simpsons and Family Guy episodes, and Rocko's Modern Life.

      Also great, also on Disney+, is Gravity Falls. Total cult show, it's X-Files for kids, with a perfect, cohesive two-season story arc. Heck, as a story, it was executed light-years better than the X-Files, which didn't know where to go after a few seasons. My kids don't read comic books, but they demanded the graphic novels when the show

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by crow ( 16139 )

      I so hear you. We were doing fine with our one kid, but then just after we settled into the lockdown, DCF called and gave us two more (we're foster parents). Now my wife is essentially a full-time teacher, and our house is full of chaos.

      One of the first things we did was sign up for Disney+. Unfortunately the Marvel movies and Star Wars shows aren't appropriate for the kids, but we managed to watch the Mandalorian after the kids were asleep.

      I got to go back to work for one afternoon this month to get all

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by MagicMike ( 7992 )

        Kudos to you, that's a big investment of heart right there.

        If you haven't tried Kipo and the age of Wonderbeasts it's great for the whole family. On Netflix

        Some of the Studio Ghibli stuff can go young (Totoro?)

        Good luck!

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by crow ( 16139 )

          Thanks.

          Kipo look fascinating, and I've been thinking of doing some of the Ghibli stuff. We really try to keep the TV time to a minimum, much as it's tempting to put something on and leave them watching it while we enjoy some peace and quiet in another room.

  • The original Twilight Zone series, "The Old Man in the Cave" (S5E7).

    One I'd like to track down but recall far too little about is a live play that ran on NET/PBS probably in the 1960's about a future society in which everyone worked from home on some sort of terminals. It would be interesting to compare its take with where we are now.

  • YT

    Bedos Leather Works
    https://www.youtube.com/channe... [youtube.com]

    Abom79
    https://www.youtube.com/user/A... [youtube.com]

    Normally I'd puke for for watching something like this but this guy seems ok with a descent attitude towards his employoees at least from the way he talked on some of his episodes

    Producer Michael
    https://www.youtube.com/channe... [youtube.com]

    Awesome Aus 4x4 show Ronny Dahl
    https://www.youtube.com/user/R... [youtube.com]

    Movies/Shows Netflix and Amazon are fucking boring and already have most of what I like to watch on DVD or several TB o

    • Bedo's! What a surprise! For many years they were in a hole-in-the-wall storefront, keeping soles and heels on my dress shoes. Lately I've been to them with a ski jacket whose hook&loop wrist adjuster tore away from its rubber backing piece. Great work, reasonable prices, lots of options available. And I love their location (see Google Maps). An old occupation (shoemakers) in an old home, sandwiched in between hi-rises. What a hoot!

      Now I've got to go check out their YouTube page and see how they

  • Last week-end I enjoyed watching Blade Runner 2049. It is a very beautiful movie and is very respectful of the original.

    And in the past few months I've been playing Fallout: A Tale Of Two Wastelands with several others mods. It's been very entertaining really hours of fun. Kudos to the developpers of TTW.

    Not very new but I liked that a lot.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by cusco ( 717999 )

      Re-watched '2001-A Space Odyssey' not long ago, and ended up seriously depressed. When the book was written that was a not-unreasonable guess of what life would be like at the turn of the century. Then we let the conservatives take over . . .

  • Norsemen/Vikingane (Score:4, Informative)

    by nightflameauto ( 6607976 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:38PM (#60327145)

    Depending on where you are in the world it's either Norsemen or Vikingane. It's an historical parody somewhat in the vein of Vikings or The Last Kingdom, except populated by lovable idiots with the odd moment of idiot savant level brilliance. Hilariously well acted with serious subtexts and super dry humor punctuated here or there with outright stupidity.

    If you're into game shows, there's "Don't" and "Ultimate Tag."

    "Ultimate Tag" is what you'd think. Tag in an arena with amateurs going up against professionals. There's some truly brutal aspects of the game for what's essentially a flag football spin on tag. They sometimes only show highlights from a competition, but it's still a fun show to watch.

    "Don't" is Adam Scott hosting a show where you win money for "not" doing things. As narrated by Deadpool. Or Ryan Reynolds. As if there's a difference. The narration makes the show even when the challenges aren't great. Though there are some terrific and funny challenges too. My favorite is "Don't Drink." They have the contestant eat progressively hotter food items and offer them progressively cooler drinks. Oh, and they're under a heat lamp the whole time. Another favorite is "Don't Move." Standing behind a plexiglass shield with a helmet covered in needles poking into balloons. Then Adam Scott uses a sling to toss various items at your face. Like a whole ham. Or a watermelon. All while Reynolds drying comments about how the family is going to need therapy after this, or somebody's going to need a timeout. Or some type of narrated product placement.

  • Up to NCIS season 9
    Only two episodes of LOT season 5 left
    Plus lots of YouTube videos about lathe and milling

  • I thought it was a wildlife doc but I was very wrong.

  • A profound modern theatrical interpretation of one of the United States most important founding fathers.

  • All more or less binged. All but GLT, Nichijou and Madoka Side Story are re-watches.

    Because fuck reality:

    Girls' Last Tour (this is utterly heartbreaking, do not go there if you're the depressive type..)
    Gurren Lagann (has taken on new meaning since pandemic / riots)
    Cardcaptor Sakura (the original)
    Helpful Fox Senko-San
    Panty and Stocking
    Umamusume
    Kancolle
    Garupan
    Miritari! (this one's so wrong it's double right...)
    Madoka Magica Side Story
    Mitsudomoe
    Nekopara
    Nichijou
    Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase

    Because the latest 2 gens ha

    • I avoided the news through most of April and May, but one day I was returning from the store and saw a Black Lives Matter protest in my neighborhood. I started to watch the news again because it started to become relevant to my daily life.

  • Back To The Future - because I wish I could.

  • Warrior Nun and The Order. The former is rather slow to ramp up, but gets interesting about halfway through the season, while The Order gets fun rather quickly.

  • I'm not a fan of basketball and not from Chicago, but it was very well done. Very. What is it like to be the very best?

    And Gravity Falls on Disney+. Good for kids and adults ("Avenge me!"- watched Red Dawn three times on the 4th of July, as usual).

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by cusco ( 717999 )

      Which 'Red Dawn'? The 2012 remake was unintentionally hilarious as North Korea (really!) invaded and occupied the west coast of the US. How does a screenplay like that sound like a good idea to anyone involved?

  • First film is Colossus (2016) starring Anne Hathaway about a woman that discovers she has an amazing connection with a godzilla-esque monster that has been terrorizing Seoul Korea. Second film is Ingrid Goes West (2017) about a woman who becomes a social media stalker. Third film is Inherent Vice (2014) which is based on a Thomas Pynchon novel of the same name starring Joaquin Phoenix. If you enjoy conspiracy theories this will pull you right in. The extra movie is a recent title that is currently popul
  • It probably knows more about me than what myself, my spouse and my shrink know put together.

  • I sort of watched it in passing during its live run. Now we watch an episode every night over dinner. A show that people here would enjoy is Halt And Catch Fire. Anyone in tech in the 1980s would know how terrifying a dozen IBM lawyers paying you a visit would be. It captures the look and feel of the early 80s and ends in the early 90s with the birth of the web and search engines. The story is more about the people though and how connections are made.

  • If you haven't seen it, you should watch it. On Netflix.

  • I'm a sucker for Margaret Atwood's wordsmithing: such a great writer to start with. I'm about halfway through the series now. They've added more material in, but Margaret is a consulting producer and it's all consistent with the book. Scary, excellent series during these times.

    The Crown: I'm waiting for the next season to show up. If you've enjoyed the recent movies on British royalty, you'll probably love this.

    Black Mirror. Twilight Zone updated to the 21st century.

    • Great time to read MaddAdam

    • I use to love Charlie Brooker's review shows, but I never really got into Black Mirror. I can't quite put my finger on it but it all felt a bit uninspired and blah. I'd rather watch old Twilight Zones.

      Maybe they got better, but the first series just bored me.

  • Very good character driven sci fi with interesting, consistent and logical time travel.

  • ... very calming. Highly recommended as a videogame if you're stressed out. You can travel the milkyway and most players are pretty laid back. Many don't fight that much, just go exploring. Runs on all platforms and the legendary edition comes at 20 Euros or something.

    • Agree with this. I just got back into Elite after over coming my rocket league addiction. Elite has definitely not just held its own, its got better in the intervening years - fighters and multi-crew are both awesome additions. The only reason I fell out of it before is just because you need to devote some time to it - you can't drop in for 20 minutes.

      Even after all these years I still love coming into dock. It just looks and feels right and gives me a smile every time.

  • Was (am) a big fan of the "modern" Fallout games (3, New Vegas, 4. 76 is still TBD) but recently picked up RDR2. That game is amazingly addictive, and worth every bit of praise that's been heaped on it.

  • If you haven't seen it yet (I'm a late-comer), "The Expanse" on Amazon is really good. It's about a time a few hundred years in the future when humans are struggling to deal with the divisions between those who live on Earth, Mars, and the "Belters" who live on asteroids or space stations, and how they all deal with an emerging alien presence. I'm just starting season 4 and so far it has been excellent. The writing and production are high-quality and the best part is that it doesn't make you feel miserabl

  • Games
     Angels Fall First
    No Mans Sky (VR)
    Sins of a Solar Empire is still the best "just a few more minutes, oh shit it's 3:00am" game I've ever played!
    Trying to get into Elite Dangerous but a lot of work and my desk needs cleaning for the HOTAS

    Video
    The Expanse
    Mr. Robot
    Bosch
    Daredevil -> Punisher

    Movies
    Akira Battle Angel (great CGI/live action blend)
    1917 (fantastic film!)
    Shindler's List (coming soon to a peaceful protest near you!)

    • I started off playing Elite on my PC with HOTAS and it is great, but my PC back then wasn't great so I got it on PS4 when it came out. Now I have a better PC/bigger monitor, but it works well enough on a standard PS4 controller that it never feels worth the extra effort to hook the HOTAS back up to the PC. Especially since you can't carry over your character between systems.

  • I've played all the main games, but this was a breath of fresh air: a world that felt more alive than ever, and afterwards I felt I had gained a deeper understanding of life in (moderately) ancient Egypt. The Discovery Tour was also brilliant.

    And you could finally jump down. Was that really so hard, Ubisoft? ;-)

    I also greatly enjoyed The Return of the Obra Dinn.

  • I'm finally watching The X-Files. (Score:3)

    by pecosdave ( 536896 ) on Friday July 24, 2020 @04:39PM (#60327601) Homepage Journal

    I in high-school in a shit hole town without Fox when the show premiered, and I had a job when the shit-hole got Fox. I graduated and had a full-time job later, so I really never watched it when it was current other than a couple of random episodes by happenstance. I'm very slow to get through it now, I pretty much have to watch it alone, which is difficult as a father of three, my wife doesn't want the little ones anywhere near when it's on and she hates it, so it's basically when she's out of town visiting people while I'm working, or some other rare occasion that I get to catch up.

    My review - it's cheesier than I expected. I expected some cheese, but not such a thick layer. It sets up to take itself seriously, then they do something goofy like they did with the roach episode where they made it look like a roach crawled across the TV screen. They seem to do a pretty good job developing characters, then they occasionally devote and episode to going out of character, like getting a tattoo and banging a stranger - or a vampire. Skinner is married to a succubus in the cannon of the show - that needs to be revisited - it might be and I haven't gotten there yet, or they may have just dropped it.

    Also - R. Lee Ermey makes a guest appearance - GOOD, awesome, love that guy!
    They kill him off in the pre-opener scene. Seriously? You totally could have dedicated an episode to this guy, he needed more lines!

    Also, I'm in season three or four right now. Seriously -Sculley can drop some of the skepticism now. You've been pregnant with alien offspring, had a chip implanted, lost time, met with all sorts of ghost, goblins, and demons - it's about time you believe in some of your first hand experiences, leaving her cautiously skeptical would be fine, but after humping an X-File personally she should be a little more open to believing some of this crap.

  • I really don't like depending on internet connectivity. That lets out almost ALL more recent games.

  • These are the movies I suggest to pretty much anyone. I get asked for recommendations a lot, so I have this list handy. These are in no particular order. I've had to add the hyphens to get around an odd filter slashdot is enforcing (too few characters per line.)
    -----1) Harold and Maude
    -----2) Amélie
    -----3) American History X
    -----4) The Shawshank Redemption
    -----5) Almost Famous
    -----6) The Room (watch with open-minded friends)
    -----7) Office Space
    -----8) Waiting...
    -----9) The Truman Show
    -----10
    • Wow. Lots of overlap with my tastes, esp. Amélie. If I may round up to 80...

      ---73) The Lion in Winter
      ---74) Interstellar
      ---75) A Man for All Seasons
      ---76) MP's The Meaning of Life
      ---77) 2010
      ---78) The Fifth Element
      ---79) The Bourne Trilogy
      ---80) The Matrix

  • I do single player campaigns, no multiplayer. This quarantine was a great opportunity to play some good old games. Gameplay is usually excellent and the requirements are very easy on my hardware. I've been playing Quake 4, Halo (Reach, 1,2), Battlezone Redux (both BZ1 and TRO), XIII and others. It's been good to learn, and sometimes relive, them.

    Btw, GOG.com has great prices and sales which makes most of these games really affordable.

  • Its running on Prime Video as an ImdbTV offering. Its "free with commercials", but the commercial period is no longer than 90 seconds, shorter in some cases, and not frequent enough to be unbearable.

  • FYI, "Caddyshack" just turned 40.

  • An RPG set in a pseudo-eastern-European mildly steam-punky island nation, were your main goal, besides the murder you're supposed to solve, is to figure out why you're such a fuckup of a detective that you drank yourself into amnesia and managed to lose your badge and gun.

    Also, there's drugs, and political theory, personality traits that each have their own unique voice, and the visuals and soundtrack are pretty great too.

  • Games (Score:2)

    by pruss ( 246395 )

    - Skyrim (PC)
    - Dragon Age: Origins (PC)
    - Comix Zone (Sega Genesis)

  • Snowpeircer on Netflix has been great.
    And the Command & Conquer Remaster has been amazing (both to play and to mess around with and mod)

  • No TV. No Movies, really. That backlog just gets worse every year.

    I was watching a number of different family-friendly streamers like the Hermitcraft players.

    Then one of them did a stream on a little odd game called "Ark: Survival Evolved" that was running a free edition for Windows users who willing download the Epic store app.

    Unfortunately this game as a native Linux version on Steam. Normally I use this barrier to entry to preserve my free time and sanity. And it supports single player offline m

  • I'm playing a lot of Roll for the Galaxy on boardgamearena.com. When I feel like something with more long-term value, there's projecteuler.net, but I'm at the point now where advancing requires considerable thought to find the right insights.

  • To avoid the boredom of the lockdowns, I do a lot of ZOOM karaoke. My principal site is HOM-A-OKE which is a Facebook group. The host, Scotty, is a really cool guy and a friend of mine

    My two bits

  • I've been watching a lot of WWII movies as a reminder of our shared history and what a raging CF things have become today. Watching these men and women accomplish what they did contrasted with the "safe space" crowd makes me want to vomit. Saving Private Ryan, Dunkirk, 1917, Greyhound, and some of the classics like The Dirty Dozen, etc. etc.

    That and the John Wick trilogy. Completely brainless, but well done double-tappin' fun.

  • My wife, and to some extent I, have been watching classic TV reruns. Perry Mason. Matlock. T. J. Hooker (Captain Kirk the beat cop! B-) ).

    TV for the last several decades has been sliding into political correctness and has fetched up into woke-ism. This makes it not just non-entertaining but actually sickening. So why bother watching anything current or recent?

  • 2 streaming series stood out for me.

    Mythic Quest on Apple TV+ - very funny sitcom about a dysfunctional game development studio. Of note that hallway the series is an unrelated standalone episode about the friction between creativity and commerce; and also that they did an absolutely brilliant extra lockdown episode, filmed via video conferences from the actors' homes.

    Crash-landing on you, on Netflix: impossibly romantic Korean comedy drama about a rich girl who, due to a freak storm during a paragl

  • Signus: The Artefact Wars [github.com] - Czech clone of the old Battle Isle series. The game was originally released in 1998 and the original creators have open-sourced it so now I'm porting it to modern system. Currently playable on Linux and BSD though there may be some bugs. No Windows support yet. Beware: The original English translation was crap and I've retranslated only unit descriptions so far.

    Waterworks [newgrounds.com] - a medieval water tycoon game.

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