The Ogre Battle series calls to you.
I'll go one further: I've never liked GTA.
Most of that is a mismatch of the series to my tastes in games. It just takes a lot for me to like open-world games, and GTA has never hit the mark.
The other small part is just my preteen self being resentful that GTA3 was the game that brought all my classmates into the hobby, instead of a game that I actually liked.
He got one way of doing Bond: the superhero in a tuxedo. I like that version when it really works (Live and Let Die), and I at least find it entertaining when it becomes too undignified (Octopussy). The worst I'll say about Moore is that he probably should have exited the series one movie earlier, if only for the ick factor of his age vs the female leads.
I think the other way of doing Bond properly is to make him a suave, devil-may-care sociopath, like Craig in Casino Royale. This is closer to the way he is in the books. But there's always the danger of losing all levity and veering into grimdark, and then you end up with something like the wounded dog Bond from No Time to Die.
My favourite Bond is actually Brosnan, whom I think had the best of both worlds: absolutely ludicrous plots and villains, but also a dangerous edge. He was the first Bond to actually look like he had been given more than cursory training with firearms.
I'll generally prefer silly James Bond over boring or depressing James Bond.
"The card says Moops"
I'm really hoping that legislation will be in place to curb this sort of thing by the time my kids are old enough to want to watch sports. I'm not thrilled at the prospect of those ads marinating in their young brains, and I don't relish the thought of trying to explain to a credulous 8-year-old that we can't win millions of dollars betting on hockey games.
Hoping is different than expecting, unfortunately.
I've read a good portion of it in English. It's a good read if you like historical dramas. It's about a Bosnian village called Višegrad. In the 16th century, the Ottoman Sultan has the titular bridge built there to connect two parts of his empire. The book follows the residents of the village as the construction and then continued operation of that bridge shapes their lives over the centuries, all the way up to the start of WW1.
It's not character-centric, because it covers such a huge time period, but it's still great if you have any interest in the history of that part of the world.
You can also visit the bridge itself if you have some time to spend in Bosnia. I've not been there yet, but I imagine it's more impressive than the street corner in Sarajevo where Franz Ferdinand was shot, which I have been to and can confirm is very underwhelming.
They've moved on to generating images and videos with ShartGPT now.
This is the image Meta AI is currently using to advertise their video generation function on the Google Play Store.
I started with the Eisenhorn omnibus, followed by Ravenor. Currently I'm nearing the end of Gaunt's Ghosts (I think). I'm not sure where I'm going after that.
Cowboy Bebop. Not even the Netflix adaptation (which I haven't seen), but the original. I got told by so many people that it was the best anime series ever, but I just couldn't connect with it.
I'd maybe say it's because I prefer more optimistic stories, but then I started reading Warhammer 40k books last year, so maybe I just have trash tastes.
I feel like this has been going on for several versions now. My setting for Default sort for comments is Top, but when I open a post, the sorting method appears to be Hot instead. The image in the post shows what a typical post looks like for me when I open it.
I hesitate to call this a bug right now, as last time I had a problem like this it was user error, so I'm not discounting some conflicting setting that I've overlooked.
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